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UltraGlow's avatar

Just doing some math on Pudding Fingers finances...

Over the course of his campaign, he ended up spending $10,500+ per Iowa caucus vote.

(Probably closer to $12,000 by the time the accountants are done)

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Manic Pixel Dream Girl's avatar

Mississippi, goddamn. Though are we really surprised?

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Mighty Little Dog's avatar

Someone has to anchor the statistical bottom of everything, might as well be Mississippi.

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Manic Pixel Dream Girl's avatar

Not even Elvis could break the GOP stranglehold on that backward-ass state.

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Babe Paley's avatar

I don't think that people know some of the things my position entail...I mean, I didn't know these things and I was the most qualified person by a large margin. Once a month you're on call, so 24/7. On your week, you have to go in at 5:30/6 am to review the overnight stuff and do paperwork on Saturday and Sunday. During the month, you're going to have to go in at least twice a week (for me, the newbie) no later than 6 am to review the overnight paperwork and make forms and stuff.

The idea that you just, let's say, sit around and decide stuff and lounge until your tee time is really not right.

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Land Shark 🇺🇦 🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁𝘀𝗔𝗽𝗽'𝘀 𝗔𝗜 𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗸𝗶𝗱𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗴𝘂𝗻𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗺𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 “𝗣𝗮𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗲”, 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗺𝗽𝘁𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 “𝗜𝘀𝗿𝗮𝗲𝗹𝗶” 𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝘄𝗵𝗼 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗹𝘆 𝘀𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/nov/02/whatsapps-ai-palestine-kids-gun-gaza-bias-israel

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Fog of Jen's avatar

AI continues to be bigotted, news at 11

Seriously, at this point we do not need further proof that the technology is failing and that it would be better to put a big ole pause until folk can make it actually intelligent and not just a fancy aggregate of bigots online

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Land Shark 🇺🇦 🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar

Sadly, all the libertarian techbros and their investors think it's the bee's knees. And since crypto turned out to be a turd sandwich with extra fraud, they need something new to waste money on.

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Crip Dyke's avatar

The tech isn't failing.

The tech is pointing out that WE are failing. It wouldn't be portraying Palestinians that way if we didn't portray Palestinians that way first.

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Fog of Jen's avatar

The tech is presented as an intelligent program. All it does is regurgitate what it is fed.

I dunno, feels a fail to me

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Mateo del Sol's avatar

Right, so that's garbage in/garbage out, and goes back to what CD had said.

We're failing, so the tech is failing. It''s a fancy mirror, projecting back things we'd rather not see.

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Fog of Jen's avatar

Just as good a reason to put it on pause, then

Also, it is not that we would rather not see. We have no choice but to see, it is everywhere. It is that it cannot differentiate.

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Mateo del Sol's avatar

I think there are plenty who would rather not see it though due to tech evangelism, misguided belief, or nefarious intent.

That said, I agree we shouldn't be rushing to put an LLM into All the Things. You'd really think tech would've figured out how this plays out if they want to jump on a thing that sounds interesting but may go nowhere (blockchain).

But if it drives up engagement or ensures a few more clicks/installs, then why worry if a few things/people get broken?

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Fog of Jen's avatar

lol he wants to do his own AI

*glances at twitter right now*

I mean, we do not even have to see this movie to know how it is gonna go, do we

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Diane's Less Hostile Username's avatar

Was my attorney joking with me when he said, "Oh shit, I forgot to tell [the people you specifically told me not to invite] that your birthday party is getting moved?" He might be fucking with me but I also doubt it.

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Bobathonic's avatar

So I have all these tabs open. A few are trackers, I have stuff coming to me.

There's one I've been annoyed with, saying arriving Tuesday. It didn't have far to go, and then it hit Richmond last Friday. Crikey, it's only fiddy miles.

So this morning it says item gets to me today. Yay!

Extra bonus: I forgot what it was, so surprise gift from me to me.

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Crip Dyke's avatar

It's a box!

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Bobathonic's avatar

What's in the box?!?

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Blamethrower:  The Weirdening's avatar

Final interview for a job I really want this morning. Feeling confident, but aware of the stakes. Probably shouldn't smoke up beforehand...

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Corvid Opera's avatar

Go get ‘em! Save the blaze for after. 😎

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Blamethrower:  The Weirdening's avatar

Probably for the best... Thanks!

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Virgiebeach's avatar

Much luck -- they'll be lucky to get you. :

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Diane's Less Hostile Username's avatar

Put me down as a reference!

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Babe Paley's avatar

Best of luck--I KNOW you've got this!

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Babe Paley's avatar

FWIW, I know you don't need any help, but when I was acting and would get nervous at an audition, I would pretend I already had the role I wanted and as a curtesy I was reading with people who were auditioning.

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Blamethrower:  The Weirdening's avatar

That's a good strategy! I interview well, spent a long time learning how to be comfortable around new people as an indie musician

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Crip Dyke's avatar

crossing my fingers.

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Blamethrower:  The Weirdening's avatar

Thank you!

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Eileen's avatar

Moi, aussi!

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Blamethrower:  The Weirdening's avatar

Merci beaucoups!

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Tza's avatar

Getting ready to head back into work after my lovely near-week off. Wish me luck Wonkers!

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Diane's Less Hostile Username's avatar

I cannot wait for a week off.

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Tza's avatar

Yeah now that busy season's mostly over they can be more generous with the leave. Except holidays. We're a lil' tight there.

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Diane's Less Hostile Username's avatar

Start resting up for spring.

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Teen Laqueefa's avatar

I've seen these occasionally on local waters but never this size

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZkGp4EyltM&t=3104s

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dave in texas's avatar

I used to see something like this a lot when I was a kid growing up, except with dust, up in the Texas Panhandle.

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Teen Laqueefa's avatar

One time I ran into the middle of a huge dust devil and it filled my mouth and nose and eyes with gritty dust, would not recommend.

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The Wanderer's avatar

Interesting article here. Of course, the county commissioners are fretting over the county becoming a "bedroom suburb" of Orlando, but I'd say it's too late for that.

https://www.theledger.com/story/news/local/2023/11/06/fdot-recommends-first-phase-of-sunrail-extension-into-polk-county/71420669007/

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Fog of Jen's avatar

What would be bad about becoming a bedroom burb anyway? Lots of tax base, brings in business cause if you burb it, they will come, seems a win for a county.

Unless "becoming a bedroom suburb" is code for "the wrong people might move in"

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The Wanderer's avatar

Good morning!

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The Wanderer's avatar

(squints suspiciously at the National Hurricane Center website)

"It's quiet. Too quiet."

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The Wanderer's avatar

If you listen really closely, you can hear a tree fall in the forest and whisper, "Well, shit."

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IMPOed's avatar

Netflix: "All The Light We Cannot See" 🌟 ✨️ ✨️ ✨️ ✨️

Also

Fuck Nazis!!

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The Wanderer's avatar

I'd rather not fuck Nazis. They don't deserve it.

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IMPOed's avatar

Not even with flaming Cholla Cacti?

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The Wanderer's avatar

Red-hot iron poker. The Edward II treatment.

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Wookiee Monster's avatar

Wrapped in rusty barbed wire.

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The Wanderer's avatar

Dipped in lemon juice?

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IMPOed's avatar

Six inch, twelve foot impaling post...

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The Wanderer's avatar

Vlad Tepes has entered the chat.

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IMPOed's avatar

Please, pop a cap in my ass!?!

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The Wanderer's avatar

Hmm! Sydney Morning Herald, from Down Under so I had to read it upside down, is reporting that Israel used their Arrow antimissile system to shoot down a ballistic missile fired from Yemen. Before the registration wall obscured the rest of the article, the rocket traveled over 1600 km before it were hit and went boom.

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Mighty Little Dog's avatar

I see too we have added an Ohio class guided missile sub to our two carrier groups in the Mediterranean. Can fire 154 tomahawk missiles

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Tza's avatar

Yep. Everyone calling for a ceasefire seems a little unconcerned with the fact that Israel is ACTIVELY BEING SHOT AT and that being something that might be a deterrent to ceasing fire.

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Zap's avatar

Doesn't a ceasefire involve everyone ceasing fire?

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Bobathonic's avatar

That would be an unpleasant expansion.

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The Wanderer's avatar

Very much so. The USS Carney was making its way north through the Suez Canal a couple weeks ago and it shot down a drone launched from Yemen by the Iranian-backed Houthi.

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Appalachian in Thailand's avatar

Leave it to me to book a flight transiting through the ME (Doha, Qatar), then a week later a war breaks out.

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The Beeb's reported that Bonfire Night in Niddrie and Glasgow (which are in Scotland, thank you) was accompanied by the traditional fireworks and fires one expects for the anniversary. The night was also accompanied by riots, where crowds of yutes fired fireworks and threw bricks and gasoline bombs at the police. Eight officers were injured, and the Scottish police are saying that the riots were orchestrated by adults whipping the kids up behind the lines.

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