Relevant timing: https://people.com/ariana-grande-taking-step-back-after-tour-amid-public-health-scrutiny-rep-exclusive-12032395

When we saw Wicked, I turned to my wife and said “someone needs to fix that girl a sandwich.”

Seriously though, it’s sad to see. No healthy person is that skinny.

I took the time to learn how to solve a rubix cube a few years ago. It’s actually surprisingly easy. You can learn in less then an hour and then just a bit of repetition.

It’s fun to show off to young nieces and nephews. I like to say “ok mix it up REALLY good this time” and “ooooh nooo, this is really mixed up, I don’t know if I can do this one!”

I don’t think adjudicated is a weaselly adjective. If you say someone’s a rapist, people might think “well that’s just their wild conspiracy theory.” But when you say Trump’s an adjudicated rapist, that’s stating that he was found to have committed rape in a court of law.

Nope, not clicking that. Too risky.

Kind of them to wait to drop the news at 5:00PM on a Friday.

Reminds me of the old split depth gifs subreddit.

As in, they failed to take the ones that were prescribed to them.

We were also pretty naive then. An editor for Wired magazine attended a party with Larry Page, Google’s cofounder in 2002. He asked how Google was able to offer their services for free - and Page told him how their long term plan was to gather as much data as possible through their free services in order to build artificial intelligence.

So while we all thought a free GB of storage and searchable email was awesome in 2004, we were just blindly feeding what’s happening today with the AI craze.

I just watched Meet the Parents this weekend just for a nostalgia hit. That scene about him getting kicked off an airplane for saying “Bomb” cracked me up. He’s like “I said I DIDN’T have a bomb! Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb ba-babomb! What if I was a Bombardier?”

Yeah, if some brown dude gets up on an airplane and starts shouting out prayers to Allah, he’d be attacked immediately. I see no reason to respond differently just because it’s a white woman and Jesus.

Interesting take. I guess I just realized every video we’ve ever seen of humanoid robots had been them doing something for a few minutes. But you never hear of one doing anything for days, months or years outside of science fiction.

If there’s a vacancy he can make an appointment, but it’s hard to say what would happen. The Kentucky constitution allows the governor to fill the vacancy, but the Republican legislature passed a law 2 years ago (for this exact scenerio with Mitch) that said they would need a special election.

In a sane world, the law would be found unconstitutional and the governor would be able to ignore it and fill the vacancy with whoever he chooses. But who knows how that would play out in the world we live in.

“Consequently, the grand jury’s indictment of Mr. Hearn is hard to explain. Mr. Hearn needs to learn whether the grand jury was properly instructed that the charge required him to have caused over $1,000 in damages, when the testimony failed to establish that he caused any damage at all. So does this Court.”

This would be so great of it ended up with the US attorney being disbarred for this.

They say a prosecutor can get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich - but usually the grand jury isn’t hearing testimony saying there’s no way the sandwich committed any crime.

Yeah exactly - and this letter shows that the governor isn’t going to do anything about it.

He’s “insisting” that Thune begins the process to consider the seat vacant if McConnell can’t serve. “Pwetty pwease can you declare a vacancy? If not I’ll be so sad.”

Good luck with that…

“My casino will lose money if you ban gambling!”

No shit… That’s the whole point.

There was also Trump’s response of accusing the guy yelling of being a communist.

I had very similar experiences with my grandmother. It hurts to look at pictures of her from that time, because she has a smile on her face but it’s clear she wasn’t “there”.

It’s pretty telling that they’ll prop Mitch up on some pillows and have him loosely hold a newspaper in one hand, but won’t let a reporter anywhere near him.

There’s a video in the article that shows it. He put the prompt at the end of a bullet point, but still in the middle of the block of text. Very easy to miss if you’re selecting all.

Yeah back in my day, cheating meant getting a copy of last year’s test and memorizing the answers. At least you still learned something!