Je suis Francais. J’ai froid. Je plaisante, j’ai je suis chaud.

too spicy for most animals

I volunteer as tribute!

No joke, my pig has turned his nose up at my leftovers.

One could theoretically create a Chihuahua/wolf hybrid. Imagine a 150lb. wolf with the brains and attitude of a Chihuahua. The mind boggles.

My god yes. Do whatever you like for physical exertion. I hate cardio and lifting, but I’ll kayak and hike all day.

Funny seeing this in action with my little kids. If they stay inside on their phones all day, up all night. Take 'em out and work their tiny asses, sleeping the sleep of the just. Doesn’t take much!

European attitudes towards vehicle speed stun me. 30mph is fast?! Guess the difference is that American streets are built for cars; straighter, wider and wider open on the sides. Even if you meander off a residential street, all you’re going to hit is a mailbox. That open space also gives pedestrians and bikers ample room to get out of Dodge.

LOL, 800 Watt power would be equivalent to a 49cc moped around here. Americans would laugh if anyone called that a “light motorcycle”.

Herbert Hoover presided over the Great Depression (1929 to 1933). Mass homeless camps were called Hoovervilles. I’m betting he caught flack from everyone.

Likely! Politicians will never say anything negative about themselves because it comes back to haunt them. Also why they never apologize or admit fault.

My exact thought. Obama caught hell, but there’s more of us now and more of us engaged, in both politics and social media.

See also: SCOTUS and FLOTUS. :) Haven’t seen the later in a long time though.

Read the article looking for his reasoning. Nada. Apparently he got a calculator out and thought, “We could be 0.54% more productive!”

For only two days, there is almost no productivity lost. People simply work a little harder to make up that time. There’s also less work because no one else was working, but still, c’mon.

I waffle back and forth with that thought. Every time I think they’re aware, I see another thing that makes me wonder.

Either way, I’m old enough to remember that saying stupid shit, even once, would kill your campaign. FFS, Howard Dean lost for yelling boisterously, once.

Putin can’t stop without crashing Russia’s wartime economy. If he does that, he next gets to experience defenestration.

Putin’s talk of peace translates as, “I need to slow the roll so I can rearm.”

I’ve had an interesting life.

Found it at the library 10+ years ago, read the flyleaf, thought, “This is pants on head idiotic. I need a break on something light. Let’s try it.” I have never been more wrong in judging a book by it’s cover.

Read it probably 13-14 times, kinda embarrassing. Anyway, the ship’s captain is a vampire. And it’s hard sci-fy, no sparkles. My post was the vampire talking about humans.

explores whether we’re conscious or not

Holy shit will you love Blindsight. You are going to scream with joy. Free on the author’s site.

One more thing, Watts puts a bibliography (science journals and books) in the back for every idea he writes about.

They are not, however, a version of human intelligence. Nor are they truth seekers or reasoning machines.

Neither are our brains.

“Brains are survival engines, not truth detectors. If self-deception promotes fitness, the brain lies. Stops noticing—irrelevant things. Truth never matters. Only fitness. By now you don’t experience the world as it exists at all. You experience a simulation built from assumptions. Shortcuts. Lies. Whole species is agnosiac by default.”

― Peter Watts, Blindsight

LLMs are built from our words. Maybe they’re more human than human? One wonders.

Crushing on the rightmost girl! Perfectly in character. Perfect moves trying not to laugh.

Flourish was the word I wanted! Yeah, don’t be a dork OP. Nothing wrong with tossing out the occasional old-timey word when it fits. I talk like a redneck Southerner, but occasionally show off my vocabulary with a word or French phrase.

“Hell yeah I love fucking with antique shotguns! It’s my raison d’être some nights!”

Tomatoes are already shit as we genetically modified them to be nice and round, blotch free. Same mods also removed the sugars and acids, which are the two things that make a tomato a fucking tomato.

Anyway, growing and harvesting tomatoes is a cold stone bitch. I’m sure red-blooded Americans will be glad for the work! BTW, I’m in NW Florida. Even down here I can’t grow year-round. Good luck with that.

Nah, fuck that clerk. Hate to be that guy, but demand a supervisor. I know you’re in no mood to push a fight, but… 💸. Bet a judge would accept your receipt.

Check this out: The Ten Minute Suicide Guide By my favorite editor back when Cracked.com was actually good shit. Much to ponder!

I’ve had one hell of a life. I often wonder is someone out to get me will collect all my comments on lemmy, or formerly reddit, and scream, “Bullshit! Nobody had all that crazy shit happen!”

I used to think that when I talked to older men like my dad. “Aww, horse shit, you didn’t do all that!” Met older guys a little later in life, yeah, they did that shit. Now I’m that older guy! Life is nuts.

And if you read the article, congrats murderer! Now I’m one of the people you hurt.

It’s not merely lacking amenities, it’s already falling apart. I’d far rather be in a regular prison than that hellhole. For that matter, I’d gladly be homeless first.