just saw someone call Kash Patel “J Edgar Boozer” and need to lie down

Fingers crossed that the quieter THUNK didn't reduce the quality of data and that the data tells you something actually useful. Even if the "actually useful" is simply "Here's another thing to cross off the list of possibilities."

The Granny Smith is a fantastic *ingredient* apple but terrible as a snackin' apple.

His dipshit lawyers apparently are *admitting* that the allegations are functionally true, too.

If this trolling attempt were macaroni art, your mom would keep "forgetting" to hang it up on the fridge.

This is pretty bottom of the barrel trolling. Even if I assume you're, like, 13.

These are the glasses worn by the guy Steve Urkel gives wedgies and swirlies to.

Oh, you use that phrase too. It's really quite apt.

walking into the office kitchen to see a poster celebrating earth day that was definitely made with AI and then turning around and walking into the sea instead

"Your Honor, the defense acted with malice when they published allegations that my client, a known heavy-drinking party animal, had a bad relationshipwith alcohol."
"Do you deny the allegations?"
"Shit no, he's black-out right now." (Kash is glass-eyed in the corner)
"Why are you in my courtroom?"

two images of the human body's circulatory system. One of them with good cable management

The human circulatory system, before and after proper cable management.

Stage 5: Cheese farts
Stage 6: Feel bad about the cheese farts. More cheese will fix this.

"ChatGPT, how do I get my pizza crust to be more crispy?"
"Have you tried adding grout?"

"Hey ChatGPT, my tooth crown fell off. How can I get it to stay put until I can get to the dentist."
"Hey, my search shows that super glue will make it last the life of the tooth."

(Superglue kills teeth dead)

I mean, this is an improvement if it's no longer suggesting a glue pizza.

Every AI commercial is like "Hey AI, what goes good on a sandwich?" and then the AI is like "Have you considered... cheese?" And then the narrator is like: THE FUTURE IS HERE.

Do you know what will fix this?

Cheese.

I think I saw this observation on Tumblr first, though that doesn't mean it originated on Tumblr.

See, the mistake there was just tossing it in the bushes instead of the duck pond.

Talking to the internet is not unique to EVs, alas. *most modern cars talk to the internet, though the extent varies.

Do plants have perception and memory in some form, however alien to our own? Plants certainly react to stimuli. Defining the difference between reaction and action is also sticky as hell.

Plants don't have a nervous system as we understand it, but maybe we're just looking at them wrong.

I mean, we don't know enough about plants to even *say* what kind of perception and memory abilities they have. I wouldn't really argue *against* trying to say a venus flytrap is more "intelligent" than plants that don't close in response to touch. Or maybe it's just that it has the capacity to act.

For my part, I'd say a very basic way to define intelligence is "The ability of an organism to solve a given problem relevant to its situation."

Humans are really, really good at developing problem-solving for a very diverse array of situations. With varying degrees of competence.

I'd be inclined to use the word "behaviors" instead of "response" since that at least suggests that the organism is in some way acting instead of a simple reaction occurring. I'm sure, of course, that there's a flaw in this choice I haven't thought of. Ignoring the need to define "behaviors."

The difficulty in defining and measuring intelligence is why I put it in quotes. I've yet to find a fully (or even mostly) satisfactory definition of intelligence.

Isn't the current understanding of the relationship between genetics and "intelligence" that the relationship is weak at best and environment plays a much larger and more important role?

A friend of Spouse came over and cooked us a Slovakian dish: bacon cooked in butter and then poured over potato dumplings that had been tossed in feta cheese and sour cream.

Delicious, but designed for olden-times farmers working a farm in the dead of winter. We could hear our arteries clang shut.

It’s inaccurate to say Mario is brave and Luigi is cowardly

Luigi is afraid of death, so he runs away from danger. Mario is afraid of living, so he runs towards death. Both brothers are cowards in their own way

WH 40k doesn't really *have* "Good Guys" at all, so not monsters is absolutely a win.

These malignant groups then sell people with good intentions on the idea that they're just trying to keep costs down. People quite often do not interrogate their beliefs and decisions deeply enough to realize that they're being lied to and played like a fiddle.

These laws do have a point: To destroy higher education

There's a widespread effort to make it so that the only people who can attend college are those already in positions of wealth and privilege. The powerful see an educated populace as a threat, not caring about society benefiting from education