A Dragon in Desperate Need of Coffee

The patient is perfectly healthy if you disregard the massive hemorrage he's bleeding out from.

A drunk 18-year-old fresh recruit is so going to mistake this for a bottle of liquor.

What do you gamble on with a Buddhism app? Who achieves enlightenment next?

Ambivalence is doing some very heavy lifting there.

My money (if I had any) is on the new ayatollah of Iran being alive but with some real bad facial injury that they're probably likely keeping hidden until healing. Or he's at an Iranian dark site somewhere for security reasons.

Gotta love people who are so unbelivably privledged as to make their political alignments solely on who thinks their racist jokes are funny.

The stepping on rakes will continue until morale improves

We fly it out on the RC-1!

To answer your second question, serving mid at best Tex-Mex is Chili's only core value I'm sure

He has no idea what a sea mine even is.

Picture looks like a fucking mugshot lol

You can't rule it out entirely but Thune is very opposed to messing with the filibuster as they will use it when they are in the minority again.

Luckily, and I'm knocking on a lot of wood right now, it looks like it won't pass. The GOP had no mention of it at their legislative dinner and that pretty much sets the legislation priorities for the year.

My main critique of George Lucas continues to hold. He is an amazing ideas guy and storyteller. Communicating and executing those ideas and stories however vastly lacks in comparison.

It's why he needed Lawrence Crasden to doctor his Empire script. He's just not an execution man.

It's alright. No need to apologize. I know how it is.

Your own mental wellbeing is important too. Been trying (and failing) to live by that as well.

We do need an escape even or the Horrors will just grind us down into nothing.

I can understand that completely. Hope it all goes well for you!

Starting SSRIs or similar meds?

Wait...what?

Fitzgerald's florid prose in Gatsby is like what got me into writing lol

But have you considered that having plans before embarking on a military excursion that destroys the global economy is woke and cucked?

It's just so grotesque like wearing the skin of another person to masquerade as them.

Oh definitely! I think the real dividing line between a tool and a person (LLMs vs a genuine artificial intelligence) is subjectivity. Otherwise, its just a machine that mimics human intelligence.

LLMs, have radically shaped my personal theory of art. Art requires the soul. You cannot separate art from artist as you sever what makes art profound: an expression of the artist's soul, i.e. subjective lived experience. That is a quality unique to humans, not computers.

A chimpanzee given a typewriter and an infinite amount of time will eventually spit out Shakespeare.

And the chimp's work is still more valuable than an AIs.

That's good (Great even) but fuck dude Ivey is still the governor of AL? I remember when she became governor after her predessecor got caught up in a sex scandal back in what 2015?

And the real stinker about the Iran situation, Khameni was like 86. He didn't have long left anyway. His son was nowhere in the prewar sucession talk. There was a chance the regime could have fallen naturally or been reformed after his death. Now though, there's no chance of that.

Local techbro reads Art of War thinking it contains profound spiritual advice failing to realize that Sun Tzu (or someone claiming to be him) wrote it for idiot failson generals.

Nope, you enter my house, you take your shoes off. Common courtesy.