Oops, my greasy hands just smeared over the lens!

… Whoops, this one too!

I love going to these ‘public worship services’ with this verse on a protest sign. When people ask me which verse it is, I tell them that it’s better to look it up themselves because I don’t want to distort Jesus’ message, and they should really hear it directly from him.

Haha, I made you look up how your god insulted you.

Because we’re now talking about it, and they’re getting more clicks/interactions because of it. AI does the work in a fraction of the time, with the added benefit of being rage-bait.

I remember 15 years ago when I needed to reformat my Windows PC and called Microsoft to ask how to import my Office account onto my clean install. They informed me that I already used my ‘backup’ copy when I reformatted last, and I would need to buy a new copy of Office in order to get it running on the same machine again.

OR, they had this ‘Special Deal’ for Office 365 where I could spend 1/2 as much money that day and re-download it as many times as I need! I confirmed with them that I lost my access for software I’ve had for years and that even with their ‘best deal’, I can only rent it back from them and I’d be right back in the same boat in two years. I asked how that was any better and the guy ‘helping me’ didn’t know what to say.

Unsurprisingly, I’m posting from a Linux machine and use LibreOffice now.

My point is that knowing that your training is incomplete and needs to be supplemented with compassion, patience and empathy could also be a part of training. If they have training that says “look for this card”, it could just as easily be retooled to say “look for these symptoms”.

They literally are. If they weren’t, this could have been done entirely with deescalation training.

I mean, sure, it’s an “obvious truth” to you when you block the 4/5ths of people who disagree.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/4441544318/funny-retro-floppy-disk-magnet-for Designs by Cheryl Baker (But not that one)

Xians = Christians in the same way that Xmas = Christmas. Sure, the Greek would be more accurate, but it’s a whole lot easier to use the button that’s already on the keyboard.

Whoops, I brought an extra 25 items to the register that I might want.

What’s the price on that? Oh, nevermind. You can put that back. And the next one? Oh, I’m sorry. That’s too much. You can put that back too.

Yep. Got a new phone number several years ago and inherited multiple automated callers for “Arturo”. I got another call today - still can’t get rid of them.

There is no ‘maybe’ there. LLMs have no metric or ability to tell if something is ‘true’ or not. Any ‘finangling’ you’d have to do is so much of the work that the LLM is doing the same thing it always does - “That’s a great point!”

You’d have better luck asking the paint bucket in MS Paint what a rainbow looks like.

Who are some struggling artists I can follow to help balance that out?

Holy fuck - I finally found someone else talking about them. I can ONLY have these when I have sex with other people - the typical orgasm just doesn’t happen. (Also vice versa, never had one alone) I’ve always called them my internal orgasms and have to have a fucking brief with whoever I’m about to sleep with to give them basically this run-down.

Christ. Part of me feels so awful for her because of the way she’s learned how to talk about herself - it’s ALL facade. You can tell when she has to look away when she points out her ‘interesting attempt at color painting’. No kid says that about their own artwork unless their parent said it first.

I wonder if any of the kids will change their opinions after he dies.

Friendly reminder that the Boston Tea Party was about tariffs. We know what works.

Worst part? The original is super easy to find, and also didn’t need up-scaling at all.

Yeah, and the Wizard of Oz said “Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain”. It’s the only way their lies still work on you.

The chosen representative of the most powerful being that has ever or will ever exist…

…and yet he still needs a bullet-proof car. Interesting.

If it makes you feel any better- it’s also mostly bots.