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• Post #2090490

  These days, if you tried to riff on the "Blazing Saddles already exists" format, people will say you're behind the times and there's a new template for that: "Because of ..." joke.

• Post #2090489

  I used to think that Donald Trump was a man of no convictions!

• Post #2090488

  "average person gets Spiders Georg references" factoid actualy just statistical error. average person is well-adjusted. Georg Georg, who is extremely online & can reproduce typos in original format, is an outlier adn should not have been counted.

• Post #2090487

  No known human cases of guinea worm this year! https://www.cartercenter.org/health/guinea_worm/case-totals.html

• Post #2090486

  The Bouba/Kiki distinction is Kiki, for obvious reasons.

• Post #2090485

  Very cool to have a baby who babbles; her older siblings had me convinced that babbling was a myth invented by Big Baby.

• Post #2090484

  The third one escaped the joke and COULD BE RIGHT BEHIND YOU.

• Post #2090483

  Incidentally, Oath (https://app.oath.vote/) is a way to apportion US political donations towards close local races with underfunded Democrats in legislative bodies with close overall projections. I believe it also attempts to shield your identity from the candidates to avoid political spam.

• Post #2090482

  Conundrum: are more Lego pieces lying on the sidewalk these days, or is it just that I spend more time walking with short people with heightened Lego awareness?

• Post #2090481

  If the rich man in Mark 10:17 had been Jeff Bezos and the disciples had less than $200 of wealth each, instead of saying "then who can be saved?", they could've just shrugged it off.

• Post #2090480

  Best writer on the subject of LLMs is probably Douglas Adams. The Hitchhiker's Trilogy has a ton of computer intelligences, and their behavior is a bit familiar: they can be overly-agreeable (Eddie), over-protective (Eddie's backup personality), overconfident (the Nutrimatic) or over-engineered for relatability (Marvin). Deep Thought insists on finding a definitive answer to the most abstract possible queries. Hactar, in defiance of sci-fi cliche, is dangerous because he submits...