My 18 month old son was having respiratory and stomach symptoms that seemed worse than a standard cold to me, but his doctors said not to worry, all kids have a bad cold sometimes. Even after apples came out exactly as they went in, points and all, and the top of his head had become sunken.

I insisted on taking him to hospital despite being told I was overreacting, and they admitted him immediately without even asking our name. His blood was thick like pudding, and it took a while before they could even do tests, because they couldn’t take blood.

It was rotavirus, and he was in intensive care for 2 weeks.
It was one of the few times I’d decided I wasn’t listening to people telling me to be quiet, and I’m so glad I did. That was like 30 years ago.

Dammit dad, go to bed.

My son is almost 30. Is it too late?

Hamsters are cannibals.

It’s weird, I know, because they’re so cute. They are though,

I appreciate ‘reshapes’ in this headline. Not the rage bait ‘rewrites’ or clickbaity ‘shatters’ or the worse ‘EVERYTHING WE WERE TOLD ABOUT THIS WAS WRONG!1!!one’.

Just cool, we’ve learned even more that we didn’t know before. Like how science is meant to work.

Mayonnaise PLUS jello, with hotdogs. Perfect.

Turns out I love Brussels sprouts, so long as you don’t cook them til they’re grey.

I grew up in the 70s with casseroles that would make your god cry.

If I’m diagnosed with cancer, I’m blaming old-timey cooking. Some things should be left in the past.

I just watched a long form video on the difference between war and conflict, and how we can’t really call many animal conflicts ’war’.

And then how some animal conflicts, like ant and chimp wars really are war. It was pretty cool.

Since some dinosaurs species were around for a very long time, I wonder whether they did wage war? They had plenty of time to develop culture and more than enough to hate each other. Maybe war really never changes.

eta: and as mum to a young dino enthusiast back in the day, I hope they were that complex cuz that’s groovy. Still hip to please that little boy, lol.

Contrary to what my teachers tried to teach me, I am a user, mean, and req’d.

Take that, Mister Ecker!

Uno dos tres quatro cinco cinco seis

Especially if it angers the US. FTFY.

I may have put them off by being too aggressive. I’m pretty annoyed at this point, but if someone is engaging, maybe I should dial it back?

Was it? I was sure it was first released in 2022.

To be fair, you don’t always need to rely on fan mods for this. Apparently, Rockstar spent an absurd amount of time and attention getting the jiggle physics on horse testicles just right.

Yep, they’re all trash and should not be relied upon.

I got anywhere from 35% to 70% AI generated results on a book I wrote in 2019, before AI was even released.

eta: it’s not about plagiarism, either. I also ran my novel through plagiarism checkers, since it’s easy to accidentally write passages similar to existing work. 0% on those, but high numbers in the AI checkers.

https://archive.ph/20260323165847/https://www.newscientist.com/article/2519288-the-simple-questions-cracking-the-hard-problem-of-consciousness/

The fuck has anything in this thread had to do with bigotry? Bigotry against what? Software? Hockey?

Or do you just call everything that offends you ‘bigotry’?

Sigh, okay, I’ll try it again.

Like I do every time there’s a huge update. Will this time be different? I hate Adobe, but the Gimp has yet to live up to its promise to replace it. I’d love to never give Adobe another cent, but we’ll see.

Because image 1 is woke.

Anything is better than woke, obviously.