Daniel Dvorkin @medigoth@qoto.org

Definitely need some old rubber bands that are so dried out they'll snap the first time you try to use them. Bonus points if they hit you in the eye.

Or is that just me?

From a post on #AI #writing "tells." Both of these can be useful devices, but they're best as seasoning, not main ingredients. AI doesn't get that, of course. Sadly, neither do a number of human writers who have started using a more robotic style.

Oh, they'll comply with the #virus, all right. See, viruses don't ask nicely for compliance.

Yes, but also no because the #Reddit "science and logic guys" believe a whole lot of different but equally pernicious #bullshit, but also yes because #antivax may well be the most murderous ideology in history, which is a fucking high bar when you think about it.

Uphill both ways. That part is very important.

Note the name of the group where this was posted. They really think they're scoring some kind of point.

Liberals punish our sex offenders. Conservatives idolize theirs.

Boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a stew.

"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."

For the WISP (work in some progress) I'm fiddling with #population growth models, and considering rolling my own to justify the numbers I want. I guess that makes me a rather finicky #Watsonian. But maybe it's like Tolkien coming up with several complete languages before writing any actual plot!

#seemslegit

Meta meme is meta.

The last time I put my #luggage in an old-fashioned #suitcase, I lifted it too rapidly after check-in because I was in a hurry to catch my flight, and my #massive #manly #musculature propelled it upward so fast it punched a hole in the #airport roof. Air traffic control lost track of it at the #Karman line where it was still traveling at considerably more than escape velocity. It's probably somewhere in the #asteroid belt by now. So I'll stick to the wheeled variety. Just safer for everybody.

The Bird-dog of Alcatraz.

As a friend points out, this is bullshit: there were absolutely #protests against #deportations under #Clinton, #GWBush, and #Obama. #MAGA's selective memory is at it again. "Protests/Riots" is also telling. #Cult rules prohibit them acknowledging any distinction.

I do remember a number of #conservatives getting very worked up about the brutal treatment of #ElianGonzalez and his family. They were right to do so, or so I thought at the time.

Years later I figured out that what they objected to was not government agents waving guns in a little kid's face, but rather that it was happening under a #Democrat instead of a #Republican. Sanctioned #violence is only ever supposed to flow one way.

The #eagles have always known.

#Freedomsaur is not amused.

lolsob

Well, crap. My #Twinings addiction is about to get even more expensive.

Seriously, in a backhanded way I think this is a good thing. Someone must have explained to him, using small words, that #invading #Greenland would be a very bad idea. He's not capable of true understanding, of course, but he's easily bullied. Like #bullies usually are.

Consult your local #biostatistician for details.

Hey, it was better than spilling a bunch of jewel boxes all over the passenger seat floor and leaning down to fumble through them while going 80 mph down the interstate! Which I, uh, may have done a time or two.