Listening to I Wanna Be Your Dog and thinking about how it's sad that all the dogs living then have since passed away. I have not used marijuana in over a year IDK.

NPC Guard: (powered by ChatGPT) It appears as though you have shot me. This is not the ideal way to resolve our differences. We should use diplomacy to discuss our conflicting goals and find a compromise solution, Solid Snake

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I love this bc if you do this in a store of any size you could hypothetically be wandering the store with your Extremely High Value Treasure for an hour, so obviously you are not going to be observed for every moment, and they then trust you to ring your own items, how does this make any sense

Is it ethical? No. But does it produce reliable results? Also no. Ahh! But does it make an obscene profit? Again, absolutely not.

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Friends, I can promise you zero return on your investment, which is $5B better than these clowns. www.cnbc.com/2024/09/27/o...

OpenAI sees roughly $5 billion loss this year on $3.7 billion in revenue

CNBC has confirmed that OpenAI expects about $5 billion in losses on $3.7 billion in revenue this year — figures first reported by The New York Times.

I call myself a radical pragmatist because I’m always thinking about how to get people to believe that [insert leftist idea] is the best option instead of going straight to condemning people for not agreeing with me.

and this in turn reminds of something a religion professor once said to our class: "in black church tradition, christians worship a jesus who has been lynched. in the white church tradition, christians worship a jesus who could be forgiven for lynching"

This one's from the heart. From 1980 to 2020, polls wildly miscalled the outcome five of eleven times, yet people have made following polls the center of their political lives. That is disturbing. prospect.org/politics/202...

The Polling Imperilment

Presidential polls are no more reliable than they were a century ago. So why do they consume our political lives?

How I learned the death penalty is always immoral. 🧵 When I was writing for Law & Order, I did an episode about the death penalty. One of our tech advisors was the ME who ID’d the bodies after 9/11. He was also a cantor at his synagogue. Great guy. And very very smart.

What if we made a law that you can't execute innocent people