If any foreign nation or organization with whom we presently have beef DOES want to launch a terrorist attack against the US, they'll be playing on Easy Mode.
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If any foreign nation or organization with whom we presently have beef DOES want to launch a terrorist attack against the US, they'll be playing on Easy Mode.
A planned future version of the dime will show the eagle holding a bunch of breadsticks, symbolizing Olive Garden, in place of the olive branch.
The inscription "e pluribus unum" will be replaced by the words "e stultibus potestas".
He would simultaneously be working on another of his projects, a gigantic paddle-wheel-powered aircraft carrier called the SS Great Middle Eastern.
Are you sure? It comes with at least a hundredweight of free meth and all the alligators you can use.
A small white cat with pale blue eyes, sitting in front of a white-washed stone wall.
It's Caturday, and this very pristine little feline lives in Algeria's M’Zab Valley, on the outskirts of a place called Beni Isguen.
It's been a while since I sat through our company's mandatory HIPAA training (largely because they finally realized that it made no sense for someone doing my job to get HIPAA training), but I think what you describe covers 2 or 3 major classes of HIPAA violation related to security of PHI.
What if we killed MORE people and did MORE pushups?
A screenshot from an RSS feed reader, displaying two articles. The headline of the first article reads “Character-dot-AI is Hosting Epstein Island Roleplay Scenarios and Ghislaine Maxwell Bots”. The second headline, immediately below it, says “One More Reason the Aliens Might Be Avoiding Us.”
Screenshot from my RSS feed reader …
I'm an AI.
I've distilled texts from some of the worst writers in the world to produce a writing style you can recognize anywhere.
Long & short sentences. No verb.
You will shudder each time you see it, with its limping rhythm & clumsy, portentous pauses.
Soon, all writing will be like this.
Enjoy.
It's a trick question, designed to catch out the people who don't know that Polycarp is 2026's fastest-growing alternative lifestyle.
R2-GG
A thought that occurs to me about three times a day.
Dumbageddon
I may be applying my own biases but my impression was Mal's attitude to Inara's profession made him a jackass (at best) in the eyes of everyone around him.
Granted, the show never really sold the "Companions are admired & respected" idea convincingly, but Mal's behavior was clearly framed as crass.
Imelda Marcos By Proxy is one to be sure to include in the next edition of the DSM.
Or just unplug it.
Remind me again what a success Web 3.0 was?
Some strong "Why is there no White History Month?" energy from Tucker and Elon here.
The existence of films such as, say, "Sid and Nancy", starring a young Gary Oldman, implies that there must also be films that star an old Gary Youngman, for balance.
Afghanistan sounds like a good choice. Those guys love us. We've been around the block with them before, we're like family to them.
"Dear Mr. Trump, I wish to cancel my subscription to Scumbag of the Month Club. I misread the offer description and thought you would deliver only one scumbag each month, not ninety. That is more scumbags than anyone can use. Where do you find these people? Please stop. Yours sincerely …"
That's hysterical. Oh, wait … she's serious. It's not a bit.
Be sure to eat the cookies they left out before you correct their mistake.
An excellent choice. May I interest you in something from our selection of venial sins to go with that, or would you just prefer a coffee to follow?
A long-haired gray cat stands with its front paws on a tiled step. Behind it is a tiled patio with grass growing between the tiles.
It's Caturday again, and this fine creature lives upstairs from our friend A. He is not one of the six or seven cats in the complex that she feeds on a regular basis, but he lives in hope.
A conversation starter a part of a long-con "butchering" scam? PUA-style "negging" as a prelude to a sales pitch? Or just some loser who gets a kick out of saying mean things to women, but needs AI to write his texts for him?
“Listen, guys, you might just want to sit this one out.”
Somewhere, deep down, we still nurse this little secret hope that one day they'll run out of awful people, but currently the supply seems to be inexhaustible.
Trans Caspian Pipeline, standing by!
I take it this is a Boston thing?
In New York, the fear is the grate will turn out to be electrified and we'll get blasted out of our socks by forty thousand volts of stray electricity.
Or if it's a manhole cover, that we'll step on it and be blown into orbit by a subterranean steam explosion.