Shitposter while I tend to two babies. Maybe when I have my life back, I’ll help us get a few more niche communities back?
That was my thought, having followed the social media coverage of recent unrest in Iran over hair covering and so on. Iran does need regime change, but Israel is definitely not the right people to do it. No idea the solution, but I hope people can find a way to stay safe.
Bad news except you can’t trust TV either. Or reading the news, lately. At least regardless of the medium, general advice carries-- double check sources, learn which are credible, etc.
I just hope people are following links and not just reading headlines, right? …Right?
Downey rules. And I’m not just saying that because of Porto’s (but also kinda yeah).
You know what’s fucked? How much we really do need a public utility option for cell phones (and Internet). But this ain’t it, fam. Oof
Sometimes the alt text makes the image even better. I saw one from Shen comics the other day that went above and beyond on that alt text.
I teach a course in disability in education settings and about 10% of learning disabilities are a writing disorder called dysgraphia. You can think of it like a writing version of dyslexia (which is like, 80% of learning disabilities). LLMs are absolutely a reasonable accomodation in this case as well because it can help people who have trouble putting their thoughts into words.
That’s just one example, and generally what I teach is scaffolding – that is, you try not to over rely on tools and use them when needed to improve learning when learning would otherwise not be possible. After all, dyslexic people still need to be able to read on occasion, and dysgrapic people need to be able to write, and so on.
(And do keep on mind I teach and LLMs are a bit of a nightmare in grading so do understand I say this use case still very much not a pro-AI person, lol)
That was my thought, too. I attended a small town parade once in Solvang, CA, mostly by accident and even that had at least two rows of people. Granted, thunderstorms probably contributed but like you said, Macy’s Day parade is often huge and that’s sometimes bone chillingly cold so it’s not a great excuse lol
There is an actual belief out there that your feet get some sort of power by connecting to mother nature barefoot. It’s insane woo nonsense, but that meme lifehack literally would be something they might do, lol
You know, I get the sense Roddenberry and co. thought of WW3, riots, and so on were inevitable but had the hope that eventually mankind would get over it. Too bad the latter is probably the less likely part of that prophecy.
Sand really gums up the parts. Ya don’t want that.
As far as I know, both numbers aren’t confirmed. We’re hearing 2k to 20k at Trump’s birthday party, and anywhere from 5m to 11m on protests. They’re still trying to tally and I only saw a 2m temporary number. That said, with Boston having like 1m apparently, it’ll probably be pretty big (they combined pride parade with it so it’s a like unclear how you’d count that)
A more fun way to look at it is, the army parade had most of it’s route at 1 row of viewers. That’s… really really bad attendance. Lol
I think the difference there is you’d probably notice a ton of troops like, literally gathering for war. You’d have enough time to mobilize and house them. Parades are not important enough to pull that many troops away, and it’d be way more than this one cost.
Now, a civil war… nah, I feel like by the time anyone organized you’d have plenty of troops ready to squash it.
That’s the expression of a man who just had a random naked encounter with an albatross. It’s a mix of befuddlement and wonder.
I like it, except that’s so not how turtle shells work, lol.
Oh that’s what happened to my car when I got cutoff by that damn red monolith memes always talk about.
Restarts into Grub which autos to Linux and when I go back to Windows it’s all pissy at me.
There’s something primal about throwing feces at aggressors. I like it.
Yes but wouldn’t you like to sign up for an outlook account? No? Sorry that wasn’t a question, this full screen window has no X and you will comply.
… unless you do the thing that skips it, but man that’s an awful experience.
Heard the recording, guy sounds so Chicano it’s so obvious he’s from here. Local NPR station covered it a bit, people know they’re going to get racially profiled and keep their passports on hand, but even that’s not a guarantee.
Sadly it’s not even the first time this has happened. It’s everytime there’s an increased effort by ICE. I think they put it well when they said it’s akin to Stop and Frisk laws in NY that caused a lot of racial profiling.