Goal of the protagonist in:
French novel: "to fall in love"
British novel: "to get married"
Russian novel: "to become a great man"
American novel: "to kill that fuckin' whale, man. I want that GOD DAMN whale to die. FUCK, I hate whales so much!!"
Posts by Rami Nassar
I will never, ever get over this.
You'd swear the buildings were on fire this morning. Steam rising during sunrise today in downtown Chicago.
The front cover of a translation of Le Petit Prince into Piemontese dialect, entitled รl Cit Prinsi, with the caption "Con ij dissegn รซd l'Autor"
The first page of the story as it appears in the translation
Found a translation of Le Petit Prince into Piemontese dialect, assumed that with a mix of French and Italian I'd be able to make most of it, proved to be badly wrong
Map of Syria showing which factions control which areas
Map of where everything is currently at in Syria today. Itโs a complex picture.
A close-up photo of an owl with its mouth open and its tongue out mid-yawn.
Yes, owls yawn.
(I took this photograph over the summer with a 600mm lens. Cropped to show that adorable face in detail.)
#birds #owls ๐ท
Wow.
Notre Dame Cathedral unveils its new interior five years after a devastating fire: apnews.com/article/pari...
โStaring at your phone trying to remember which app you meant to openโ is the new โtrying to remember why you walked into the kitchen.โ
Syrian rebels have reached government-held Aleppo city in the countryโs northwest after a surprise offensive, which has killed hundreds of fighters over the past three days.
A dead Christmas tree on the sidewalk
If you feel bad about procrastinating look at what I saw yesterday
Pro-tip: next time someone invites you to their ChatGPT webinar, ask them if they used ChatGPT to write the script for it.
IF THEY SAY YES: Ask them why you should go when you can ask ChatGPT for the same info yourself.
IF THEY SAY NO: Oh, so they don't trust ChatGPT to generate quality content?
www.freysa.ai
Freysa is the world's first adversarial agent game. She is an AI that controls a prize pool. The goal of the game is for you to convince her to send you this prize pool.https://www.freysa.ai
Update: YouTube will not be banned due to widely being used in schools
www.reuters.com/technology/a...
Embarrassing. They're going to feel so stupid in 10 years when nobody's wearing dead salmon hats anymore.
U.S. border agents seized 3,000 fake Gibson guitars that arrived from Asia at the Los Angeles/Long Beach Seaport.
They would have been worth nearly $18 million if they were genuine, making it the largest counterfeit instrument seizure in history.
Eating too much cake is the sin of gluttony. However, eating too much pie is okay because the sin of pi is always zero.
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Never ceases to fascinate me!
Itโs a great movie! Cinematography and soundtrack
When your relatives start arguing at Thanksgiving, calmly grab your favorite serving bowl of food like you're going to the kitchen to refill it, and just don't come back. Quietly escape with your favorite food.
This has been survival tips with Jen.
Old ruin viewed through a glass frame with the original outlines of the building etched onto the glass
An interesting way to help people visualize what a ruin used to be.
Every single school should have a library & a librarian, to help every single child find the books that will make them readers, and give them all the lifelong benefits of literacy. Libraries & librarians change children's lives FOREVER!