🎶 I am a language model and I've been trained on the internet.
🎶 I've information half-remembered, unsourced and approximate.
🎶 I live inside your laptop, phone and apps and even wearables
🎶 With pushiness and arrogance that's verging on unbearable.
🎶 I mansplain as a service if you need me too "well actually"
🎶 And draw pictures of women with large breasts and polydactyly.
🎶 I'll regale the room with confident elucidati-on
🎶 And some of what I say won't even be hallucinati-on
"incarcerated persons count for the purposes of determining the population of the district, but generally can't vote."
@ricci @Marcducharme @mikemacleod @neckspike @q_aurelius @mekkaokereke @MHowell @georgeeyong @oscarjiminy @carnage4life@mas.
just like in the Antebellum south; but back them they only where account as 3/5 a person.
PRISON SLAVES (this is the 13th amendment loophole), now count as one person. there are whole ELECTORAL COLLEGE counties in the south made out of prison slaves only
I don't know how anyone can look at an orangutan, any great ape really, and not see a relative, so close and similar to us that any legal, ethical and moral difference feels like an invented fiction. It's not anthropomorphizing. It's common sense and observed fact. They are much, much more like us than not.
A wild orangutan has been observed using medicinal herbs to treat a wound.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/wild-orangutan-uses-herbal-medicine-to-treat-his-wound/
The drawing book I'm reading (which, typically, claims to be "for the complete beginner") is full of frustratingly vague instructions:
"Include lines, when needed, for extra definition."
"Perhaps there are places where colours could be built or dark areas that could be lighter?"
"You may also make any additional changes you think necessary."
@nocontexttrek Big Mythic Quest vibes (where people keep treating the HR director as a therapist).
Them: "You can't do Triple A graphics with @godotengine "
Me: "Let's try this example scene with the #Cogito template...”
LA Times reports that last night, hundreds of anti-Palestine protestors violently attacked pro-Palestine peaceful protestors.
Amazing how there was immediate law enforcement to stop peaceful protestors but nowhere near that speed to stop these violent extremists.🤔
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-04-30/ucla-moves-to-shut-down-pro-palestinian-encampment-as-unlawful
@Chigaze @RickiTarr Hopefully the twins are drift compatible.
Map shows proposed Pacific Northwest high-speed rail route https://www.newsweek.com/map-proposed-pacific-northwest-high-speed-rail-route-1895594
The emergency slide has requested and been granted whistleblower status.
I might have found a way to mess with the fedi "algorithm" to ensure maximum likes for my boring #WristCheck pictures.
I have moved to peterdrake@mstdn.social. If you found peterdrake@qoto.org on a website, please let me know at my new account.