Firstly, I'm trying out a "drop cap" style graphic at the head of each article that'll allow you to tell which blog the repost came from when it's announced on social media. If you find this annoying let me know, but give it a few days to see how it goes...
Life starts like this, yeah: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/consciousness-3 (and some people just keep on crying ...)
Funnyisms - A collection of links from an idle hand:
An elderly couple scheduled their annual medical examination the same day so they could travel together.
After the examination, the doctor then said to the elderly man, “You appear to be in good health, do you have any medical concerns that you would like to discuss with me?”
“In fact I do,” said the man, “After I have sex with my wife for the first time, I am usually hot and sweaty. And then, after I have sex with my wife the second time, I am usually cold and chilly.”
“This is very interesting,” replied the doctor, “Let me do some research and get back to you.”
After examining the elderly lady, the doctor said, “Everything appears to be fine. Do you have any medical concerns that you would like to discuss with me?”
The lady replied that she had no questions or concerns.
The doctor then asked, “Your husband had an unusual concern. He claims that he is usually hot and sweaty after having sex with you, and then cold and chilly after the second time. Do you know why?”
“Oh, that old buzzard,” she replied, “That’s because the first time is usually in July and the second time in December.”
Edit by PTEC3D: Germans recipes be like: "Ein Ei in Die Schuessel geben." "An egg into the bowl give." (i.e. this was one of my finds.)
Apparently this weekend it will be constint rane, hale, thundre, litnin nad frizzing clod.
A really bad spell of weather. (may or may not have been slightly edited to be even worse spelling...)
I find atheists confusing.
It's like going to a restaurant and believing there's no cook in the back.
PTEC3D: (Hang on - wait! God *cooks* for you guys?)
Because I find religion confusing.
It's like going to a restaurant and ordering food, but it doesn't come. And the waiter tells you to keep ordering because the cook will hear you and your order will come. But it's been hours and your food still hasn't shown up and the waiter tells you you're not ordering hard enough. And also sometimes the waiter is inappropriate with kids.
All thoughts by me while listening to some radio news or video or something. PTEC3D
In re: crows/ravens
Probably a good cutting analysis would NOT be something like this. Unless the epithet "crow" suits you just fine.
"The indigenous name for them is Wark or similar. Which suits me just fine." ("Human" suits me just fine. Thx.)
Clip Art Was Everywhere - Until It Wasn't. Good look at a phenomenon and its evolution.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfLlpxE6AYM
PTEC3D: And good riddance to the latest wave of "clip-art" - you know the ones - all body parts out of proportion, a style of clip-art designed to make us feel like we're not real people in the world of commercials and sales pitches.
BTW in that video above I think I see the Origins Of Lofi Girl:
Tell me it's not so, you can't. (I tried to find the current Lofi Girl screen but wouldn't ya know it, empty room again. And the one before that had Lofi Girl turning to LEGO and no cat on the windowsill. I hope her cat IRL hasn't passed away.)
(PTEC3D:Ah crap! I put in a lot of my own comments and thoughts, as it seems. Oh well. You'll probably know which bits are my additions from the contexts.)
As I see this, OpenAI and their competitors will try, but if they insist on copyright then they'd better not plan to charge fees, hey? I feel that would be like the typewriter company letting me type whatever I wanted but then insisting that if I publish that, it's infringing their copyright because their product formatted my thoughts into a visual form.
I've read artists' concerns but I'm not sure I follow. Dall-E can make a decent copy of an artwork but so can anyone with a good eye and hands. It's still a copy though. Copying has gone on for millennia, and I'm talking about clip art for web magazines, not someone wallpapering their office with fake Monets.
Vincent van Gogh painted copies of other people's artworks and became famous for those works, which are now credited to him. He even admitted copying them.
It will always happen. There are less than a dozen unique story plotlines and every writer that tells a cracking tale uses one of those plotlines. Doesn't mean someone has copyright over those plotlines.
Thousands of times, a product has been created and makes it to world class product, while another identical product predated that star product but flopped. If you write something and then see an almost identical story published, however, it's time to check your PC for trojans...
“Greebo turned upon Granny Weatherwax a yellow-eyed stare of self-satisfied malevolence, such as cats always reserve for people who don’t like them, and purred. Greebo was possibly the only cat who could snigger in purr.”
Terry Pratchett; Witches Abroad
Go to your favorite search engine.
If you type in "youth pastor crimes" you will find pages of sexual abuse crimes against children.
If you type in "drag queen crimes" you will find pages of violent crimes against drag queens.
Are you on Mastodon but not sure who's a jenuinejourno?
https://www.verifiedjournalist.org/
Me: I wish for more wishes
Genie: *holds up rule book* you can’t do that
Me: really? I wish I could :(
Genie: *panicked leafing through rule book* DAMNIT!
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/programming
“On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.”
― Charles Babbage
(PTEC3D: My question for those Right Honourable Members would have been: "Tell me, if I put into the chafing pan a quart of milk and a goat turd, will a roast joint of venison come out?")
“When they first built the University of California at Irvine they just put the buildings in. They did not put any sidewalks, they just planted grass. The next year, they came back and put the sidewalks where the trails were in the grass. Perl is just that kind of language. It is not designed from first principles. Perl is those sidewalks in the grass.”
― Larry Wall
Bunch of video links - some prosaic and recipes, some funny, some teary. The tragedy of life...
Spinach Dal And Rice link https://www.facebook.com/reel/244335214666874 does look tasty
Cat heaven https://www.facebook.com/reel/2749946541806617 even if a bit staged for video.
Adelaide Hindley St Station, portal to hell? https://www.facebook.com/reel/137805245764559
I did it for South Africa. https://www.facebook.com/reel/579238864184248
National Parks PSAs https://www.facebook.com/reel/642013530979940
Catastrophes https://www.facebook.com/reel/1376006902941133
JK Rowling https://www.facebook.com/reel/898311474617211
EggTimers https://www.facebook.com/reel/6419668864710610
Aussie miners and winers https://www.facebook.com/reel/590499599561722 NSFW words
Dougiversary https://www.facebook.com/reel/561508116084763
Skip. Oh Skip? https://www.facebook.com/reel/748391920270794
Turnaround https://www.facebook.com/reel/1337573660401330
Brioche Burger Buns https://www.facebook.com/reel/1675415769556119 NSFW words
Maked me cry https://www.facebook.com/reel/581376883324319
Last Will https://www.facebook.com/reel/2482795435212458 will make you cry
Me: Alexa, why am I terrible at relationships?
Siri: I’m Siri.
Go on geddouddahere!
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