I could curl up with that movie and a warm blanket if I had the flu. I wouldn’t necessarily choose it, but I wouldn’t resist it, either.

Many family movies also work. Plus Scooby doo for some reason.

I stopped raking years ago, and have started seeing fireflies again.

My neighbours hate it, but honestly, I’ve never understood raking in the first place. It’s autumn, and leaves are natural. What’s with the obsession to make lawns look like artificial carpeted spaces?

The leaves look nice imo. Better than a scalped layer of dying grass.

Almost. Trump is the franchise. There’s another layer beneath him.

I still see that button (in the mobile version, anyway).

What’s more alarming is that I’ve run across several things akin to toilet seats (things you probably buy like once every 20 years) that have defaulted to the ‘Subscribe and save’ option. I don’t know if this something the seller does or if AI is flagging things for them, but it’s insidious.

If you’re not paying attention, you can wind up an accidental collector of toilet seats.

Ah, but you see, cancer is all natural.

You’re not wrong. But at least Canada has largely staved off the worst of the idiots (for now), mostly because the insanity to the south has been a wake up call.

Loads of people really want to follow in the US’s footsteps, tho.

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AI is good at some things, but terrible at creative tasks. It can make images and videos if you give it very specific prompts, but it’s awful at creative writing, for instance. It’s like a teenager who just discovered a thesaurus. Its characters are shallow caricatures, its plotting and pacing are weak, and it’s addicted to adjectives and adverbs.

It’s basically useless for anything more than emails and summaries.

It will probably get better, but right now, its writing and editing skills are abysmal. It has no soul, and it shows. And I mean the pro models. The free ones are even worse. And also, it can’t knit.

Oh, you can get one picture.

One.

Actually, a lot of them are idiots.

Unfortunately, it doesn’t take intelligence to fuck everything up. Case in point:

Hitler Was Incompetent and Lazy—and His Nazi Government Was an Absolute Clown Show

I think the bigger problem is many of us have been conditioned to think idiots are mostly benign and nothing to really worry about, when the opposite is true. Idiocy in power is very dangerous.

The worst atrocities in history have been committed mostly when idiots were in charge.

e: if you read that article mentally substituting ‘Hitler’ with ‘Trump’, it’s uncanny how it’s nearly 100% accurate.

I could give you diarrhoea, or sepsis, or tetanus, your choice! I’m flexible and I don’t judge. I just love being inside you!

Sambo’s managed to barely survive until 2020.

So hot.

I completely agree. A couple of his books are okay, but most are long-winded, self-indulgent tosh that would have been far better if written by practically anyone else. Half the time, you can skip entire chapters and miss nothing, because he seems to think describing every minute aspect of every minor character’s life equals character development. Five pages cataloguing all the canned goods in Jimmy’s grandmother’s pantry, all the steps of her apple pie recipe, where she learnt it, how she decides which milk to buy, why the grocer moved the milk from aisle 5 to aisle 2, etc, etc, etc – none of it matters and it’s a slog to read.

It’s like he thinks more words equals a better novel. He is a better writer than a director, though.

Yeah, I feel like flared scrubs is a logistics problem. That makes good sense.

I work about 1 metre down from where I sleep (one of those loft/sleeper/desk combos where trousers only even matter during certain teleconferences, or if someone insists on watching. Nearly all my trousers are flared, because if I trip, people don’t tend to die (I’ve had no reports of that, anyway), and I also never needed scrubs. I barely need trousers on occasion.

Sorry for the demise of your fashion, but you certainly look cooler than I ever do, so there’s that.

This makes me far more angry than this image would have you believe.

Oh! That does make sense now you say it.

Is this what I think it is? Or is it an eyepatch?

I’m kind of useless in the morning. Can we pencil it in for, like, 3?

You’re repeating the mistakes of Stoic the Brave. You should listen to your son and also hate cats less.

But we were talking about why platypus lay eggs.