Posts by Marshal
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but we are not a Christian nation. We are a nation where you are free to be a Christian.
Your religion guides you, not all of us. It’s as simple as that.
Proposal: The executives from 5 Guys, Five Below, and Chanel No. 5 battle it out in a cage match for the ultimate Supremacy of the 5. Losers change their number to something irrational.
Parent to kid: Put everything you want in the cart.
Kid: Ok. *starts to fill the cart with toys*
Parent: You can't have all of that. You can only have the things you really, really, really want.
Kid: I really, really, really want it all. *puts even more toys in the cart*
Overall, it's an important movie, even if it ruins your Saturday afternoon. Thanks to @focusfeatures.bsky.social for the passes.
A minor quibble might be a missing discussion on how the large language models used materials owned by others - without compensation or permission - to train the engines and how that makes trusting the companies behind this even more difficult.
This doc does a good job explaining AI and gathering many of the important voices. Not sure if it will give you hope (it may) but it will almost definitely scare the absolute crap out of you.
Well done. #NoKings
I know there's more important things to complain about but people paying with exact change at the drive-thru will always be high on my list.
It's probably full of 7 Habits of Highly Effective Sycophants newsletters.
That's one way to devalue the US dollar.
$4.19/gallon in Denville, NJ
Not sure of the source, stolen from a friend's post on another platform.
Counter worker: Edward your order is ready.
Kid maybe 8: I'm Edward with a capital E!
Mom: That's not your name! That's your grandfather's name!
Me, to his mom: As opposed to Edward with a capital G?
Kid hears me & gives me his best side eye while mom laughs so hard he turns his side eye to her.
Overheard while shopping:
"I just wanna sit down, be by myself, and eat a burrito. I don't know why, I just do."
Me too kid, me too.
"It is in the hour of danger that I love to share your fortune." - Marquis de Lafayette
The context was war (Lafayette telling Silas Deane he was supporting the American Revolution), but that is one hell of a line.
Like many very good dogs, I too am food motivated.
Installing personal two-factor authentication for anybody who wants to contact me. You have 1.2 seconds to get it right. Bon chance!
We've reached the point in the blizzard where some of the wind gusts throw enough snow against the windows that it sounds like my room is going through a car wash.
And it's just getting started.....
Satan asks that everybody stop associating him with Tr*mp. Even The Devil has his standards.
Math. Not. Mathing.
Years ago there was a three legged stray in our neighborhood we also named Tripod. The other neighborhood cats left him alone but when he started slowing down we brought him inside and our other two cats looked after him for the rest of his life.
MS Now’s Carol Leonnig reports a federal grand jury in Washington, D.C. declined to indict Sens. Mark Kelly and Elissa Slotkin on charges of seditious conspiracy Tuesday, according to a person familiar with the proceedings.
Pro tip: Don't ever yell "shut up and sing" during a concert. Your name isn't on the marquee. Nobody paid to hear you.
Note - I'm not going to say the venue or performer, only that the artist handled it well, better than I would've.
I know it's February, but this is some bullsh.....
Here a bot, there a bot, everywhere a bot-bot
The Supreme Court referred to it as a concentration camp in Korematsu v US.
Who wore it worse?