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Oregon wildfire explodes to half the size of Rhode Island.
  • Is Rhode Island the state smaller than any U.S. city?

  • 77% Of Employees Report AI Has Increased Workloads And Hampered Productivity, Study Finds
  • Ok, let's look at your own words then:

    I heard a large AI model is equivalent to the emissions from five cars over its lifetime.

    Cool, I hear lots of things. Where's the evidence?

    So, absent of AI, it’s not like we’re up in arms about the waste and usage from other technologies. AI is being singled out—it’s the star of the show right now.

    Who is we? I am not happy about any of it, but especially when it is something not especially useful (you could have used spelling and grammar checkers that have predated AI by many years but you decided to waste water).

    And I don't really care about the potential of an orphan-crushing machine as long as we let it keep crushing orphans.

    I love this last part the best though:

    Sure, it consumes energy and has costs

    We can just forget about these because you didn't want to use standard grammar and spellcheckers and they have the potential to do a bunch of things they can't do. Awesome. Totally worth the end of civilization.

  • Harris / Electric Shark 2024
  • Imagine if none of that mattered and we didn't have to categorize things that are funny!

  • Harris / Electric Shark 2024
  • It's crazier than that. If you put every single definition of Generation X together, it stretches from the late 1920s to the mid-1980s.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_X#Terminology_and_etymology

  • Harris / Electric Shark 2024
  • She was 13 when Star Wars came out. That makes her Gen-X as far as I'm concerned.

  • 77% Of Employees Report AI Has Increased Workloads And Hampered Productivity, Study Finds
  • Not being able to use your own words to explain something to me and having the thing that is an ecological disaster that also lies all the time explain it to me instead really only reinforces my point that there's no reason to like this technology.

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    Neanderthals didn't wear chain mail! Checkmate, evolutionists!

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    Trump mocks Kamala Harris' name but her campaign is putting it front and center
  • That's exactly what it is. It's saying, "white men like me know how to really pronounce your name and you don't."

  • Trump mocks Kamala Harris' name but her campaign is putting it front and center
  • Not just sophomoric, as the article points out. Plain old bigoted.

    "It's one thing to mispronounce someone's name on the first try, right? But to do it repeatedly and deliberately, it feels purposeful. It's certainly done to make a point. It is othering, a way of saying you don't belong here," said Jean Sinzdak, the associate director of the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University.

    "I would describe it as a racist and sexist attack on her because she's been the vice president for three and a half years," Sinzdak said. "It's not hard to say her name. It's not complicated."

  • Exclusive: Russia deploys cheap drones to locate Ukraine's air defences
  • I don't know, but be sure and let us all know when you call Russia and make this deal so we can definitely congratulate you and not in any way contact the authorities for you violating sanctions.

  • Data privacy after Dobbs: Is period tracking safe?
  • No, but you have shit like this these days-

  • Daughter of late Supreme Court Justice Scalia appointed to Virginia Board of Education
  • She has a doctorate in clinical psychology from UVA apparently. So she knows this is all bullshit culture war nonsense and is just clawing her way to the top.

  • Oregon wildfire explodes to half the size of Rhode Island.
  • Hey, my house hasn't burnt down this summer yet.

    We're out $3000 because a huge storm knocked down our huge oak trees, but...

  • JD Vance Doubles Down on Attack on 'Childless Cat Ladies'.
  • Someone made up a rumor that Vance wrote about fucking a couch in his memoir and it took off as a thing and now people are repeating it as if it's true and I'm fine with that for once.

  • abcnews.go.com Trump mocks Kamala Harris' name but her campaign is putting it front and center

    As Donald Trump pivots his focus to Vice President Kamala Harris, one point of attack toward his new 2024 opponent is an old ploy to mispronounce her name.

    Trump mocks Kamala Harris' name but her campaign is putting it front and center

    Trump thinks mispronouncing Kamala Harris' name is a good attack route.

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    Nebraska Supreme Court upholds law restricting both medical care for transgender youth and abortion
  • My instinct always told me that body is a complex machinery and it comes with two unwritten instructions: Do not screw with it, and maintain properly

    So I assume you will never get a stent or a pacemaker or a joint replacement or a pin in a broken bone or even a blood transfusion.

    Come to think of it, even glasses is screwing with your body's normal standard of vision.

    Do you wear clothes? Why are you screwing with your body's temperature regulation abilities?

  • Harris Taunts Trump After He Backs Out of Debates
  • Also, during the trial, she heavily implied, but did not outright say, that she did not consent.

  • The Obamas Endorse Harris: 'This Is Going to Be Historic'
  • They've been asked to name such a candidate and admitted they can't. And also that they didn't canvass for anyone. So basically they want an imaginary person to magically pop into our reality and be the nominee. But not Kamala Harris.

  • How decline of Indian vultures led to 500,000 human deaths
  • And yet cows are supposed to be sacred to Hindus?

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    Am I the only one watching the Olympics opening ceremonies? Because WTF am I watching?

    First it starts with a comedy video which turns into this weird creepy thing about kids running through the Paris sewers, encountering an alligator, then getting rowed out and into the Seine by a ghost and it cuts to reality and all the nations are going down the river on boats past a bunch of water jets because they're not doing this in a stadium.

    This looks awful and ridiculous. Compare this to the spectacle of London 2012.

    Now they're doing some weird old Hollywood movie musical style musical number with Lady Gaga and she's on a staircase, which is... somewhere in Paris?

    I am so fucking confused.

    Edit: They just cut to Macron and he looks as confused as I am.

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    www.space.com NASA's Perseverance Mars rover finds possible signs of ancient Red Planet life

    "On Earth, these types of features in rocks are often associated with the fossilized record of microbes living in the subsurface."

    NASA's Perseverance Mars rover finds possible signs of ancient Red Planet life
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    FBI seeking to interview Trump as part of assassination attempt investigation

    www.cnn.com FBI seeking to interview Trump as part of assassination attempt investigation | CNN Politics

    The FBI is seeking to interview Donald Trump in its investigation of the assassination attempt to obtain a victim statement, a standard part of the investigation because he is a crime victim, according to US official.

    FBI seeking to interview Trump as part of assassination attempt investigation | CNN Politics
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    Seat belts. I'm telling you, seat belts.

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    Ancient aliens

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    Shiny and chrome

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    www.msnbc.com In his attacks on the ‘childless’ left, JD Vance once hyped a plan to give parents more votes

    A viral clip from 2021 shows Donald Trump’s running mate hyping an antidemocratic plan once pushed in Hungary that would give people with children more voting power.

    In his attacks on the ‘childless’ left, JD Vance once hyped a plan to give parents more votes
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    Stupid UrBay.

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    Do you see it too?

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    Our True History

    I wonder who judges what the best mermaid documentary is? Like is there an annual Best Mermaid Documentary award at Cannes or something?

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    Discussions have been reignited!

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    Hurry up!

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    The Vehicles of Mad Max poster

    Someone sent this to me. I thought it was pretty cool.

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    We need more power!

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    Welcome, visitor.

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    Johnson warns of arrests over Netanyahu speech disruptions

    Members of Code Pink did this several times during the run-up to the Iraq War. I hope it happens again now, despite the risk of arrest.

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    And then it went to commercials!

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    Please, Deep Spay and Niner Your Pets

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