"...his energy and originality are usually sufficient to make up for his tendency toward the mystifying and the alienating." (Slate) drug dealer to weary AGIs
apparently i need apply for an ATF Type 10 "manufacturer of destructive devices" FFL and also a FEL (federal explosives license) but the path towards legal design and manufacture of SAMs seems clear enough. thinking company name ballistrix + forthright motto "fuck them planes"
i have several times seen a potential partner naked, observed the mess of tattoos, and been like "there is too much going on here for me to pay attention, and almost all of it is stupid" and wandered off to read ts eliot and ponder the end of the world shantih shantih shantih
has anyone else noticed the hurricane of ai-driven crawling/fetching seems to have fallen off from last year's heights? or have they just decided my site is of no interest?
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https://t.co/N5H7ntmodi i wholeheartedly approve of this sudden display of real leadership and ummm who wants to do a startup involving receiving cold war plutonium because they're giving it away and my stocks are regrettably low
FDR kept before him, every time he spoke on radio, a wise saying attributed to the winner of the 1923 Bad Ass TX Hog Calling Contest. The sign said: YOU'VE GOT TO HAVE APPEAL AS WELL AS POWER IN YOUR VOICE. YOU MUST CONVINCE THE SWINE THAT YOU HAVE SOMETHING FOR THEM.
a major problem in our national semantics is the conflation of "homeless" with "broken subhumans", simply because the latter often are the former (but do not comprise the entirety of the group!). the former you can help with programs. the latter you cannot. both exist.
a gaggle of young ladies taking graduation pictures in flats is a striking and personally upsetting indictment of a once-proud nation on the verge of postcapitalist crapulence and chaos. why not just urinate in the streets? i weep
you need to be modifying your speech to piss off the nonbelievers:
- DON’T say “unrelated”, DO say “orthogonal”
- “random” -> “stochastic”
- “this is fine ig” -> “local minima”
- “sorta like” -> “isomorphic”