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Clypheous @clypheous.com · 4h

All that has to happen is he has to be convinced the Putin is insulting him and calling him weak and saying "he'll TACO on this as well" to other world leaders and he would give Ukraine anything.

Clypheous @clypheous.com · 2d

It's not as bad as all that, it's just a foreign nation that bribed our President getting an active military foothold deep inside America's territory and well away from our defensive perimeter and observation assets. I'm sure they have agreed to buy lots of TrumpCoin for the permits, so it's fine.

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Clypheous @clypheous.com · 2d

I always like the science, but the last sentence about where home is was quite poetic, and I very much enjoyed that juxtaposition at the end of the article. I very much hope that at some point we'll find an answer to that question, but I suspect that "Mars as home" won't happen in our lifetimes.

Clypheous @clypheous.com · 2d

Is there such a thing as a "watch oil salesman"? I'm thinking that would go great with Trump's new line of "Trump Headlight Fluid" and "Trump Celebrity Snipe Hunts" which I assume are going to start being offered here shortly.

Clypheous @clypheous.com · 3d

People don't realize what a mess the judicial picks of bad presidents can leave for literally decades after that president has left office, or even passed away. There are still Reagan judges on the Court having significant impacts on our lives even now, about forty years later.

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Clypheous @clypheous.com · 3d

That's a good and entertaining read. See you on the pitch!

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Clypheous @clypheous.com · 3d

I appreciate that you're not going to let out the secret of which ones are which. Plausible deniability is always a benefit and I respect that.

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Clypheous @clypheous.com · 4d

This seems like a positive new trend.

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Clypheous @clypheous.com · 4d

I don't think that there are profits, record or otherwise, for OpenAI at this point. They are in the "burn all the money in the world and hope to generate a viable product" part of the bubble still.

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Clypheous @clypheous.com · 4d

Company that made giant copyright infringement machine surprised copyright holders upset by giant copyright infringement machine. More at 11:00.

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Clypheous @clypheous.com · 4d

I don't recall any "strong momentum" out of Anchorage, I recall that being a meeting where they said that they didn't agree on the big issues, only the small ones, so they agreed on which sandwiches to get, but not that Russia needs to leave Ukraine and pay reparations. That's not progress.

Clypheous @clypheous.com · 5d

I have the entire Tintin series of comics, although I read them so much as a child that some are not in the best of condition and I had to replace them, but I will check that out. Is it every single page, or two pages together? It seems like one page per week would have taken over a year per book.

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Clypheous @clypheous.com · 5d

Does that just mean every chapter has to end with a hook, or is it even more complicated and involved than that?

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Clypheous @clypheous.com · 6d

That's awesome! I've only ever seen one in person before and it was amazing. Not quite a full solar eclipse or anything, but I love looking up and just getting to see something amazing.

Clypheous @clypheous.com · 6d

I enjoy reading, but since Covid restrictions were lifted and my work got back into a normal schedule again, it's just so hard to have time to raise kids, work, do household chores, exercise, etc., by the time I get done with all that, it's time to crash and then wake up and do it all over again.

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Clypheous @clypheous.com · 6d

That is the kind of question that would definitely catch most people off guard. People are somewhat used to being asked what religion they are, I can't imagine it would be as common to have your response be "what do you think it should be?" Sounds like she was quite the firecracker in her time.

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Clypheous @clypheous.com · 6d

I wonder if anyone ever answers that question with anything other than responding with whatever religion they happen to be?

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Clypheous @clypheous.com · 6d

I'm not sure, "Baron" sounds like royalty and we are already dealing with a guy who wants to be king and a lot of people are supporting him, so I'm concerned we will have just as many people lining up to support the new "Baron Class" and then we all get to live in our little fiefdoms!

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Clypheous @clypheous.com · 6d

That guitar is, in fact, the Alpha and the Omega, so it is appropriately situated.

Clypheous @clypheous.com · 6d

Except he has his own army of lawyers with infinite money and staff to prevent that from happening. Which makes the financial stakes in trying to go after him pretty high, so not a lot of lawyers are going to try and the ones that do are going to be stuck in trials and appeals for a generation.

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Clypheous @clypheous.com · 6d

Anyone remember how on Star Trek: DS9 for awhile they were extracting blood from people to make sure they weren't shape-shifters? Yeah, I can't wait until we have to do something similar to make sure we're not dealing with AI.

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Clypheous @clypheous.com · 6d

Frankly "anti-assholism" would be a pretty strong pitch to me from any sect. For some reason though, lots of people in power of organized religious groups have decided to use their power and influence to make life worse for people whose lives are already harder than most, which is just wrong.

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Clypheous @clypheous.com · 6d

They aren't wrong, they do eliminate a woman being exploited in the relationship and replace it with a man being exploited or tricked into thinking that this in any way reflects a real relationship due to desperation. It's like thinking that video game romances reflect real life in any way.

Clypheous @clypheous.com · 6d

It sounds both boring and a terrible "partnership". Every relationship I have that provides me value is one where the other party has knowledge, beliefs, abilities, etc., that I do not have and also will push back against me if they believe I am wrong about something. This has none of that.

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Clypheous @clypheous.com · 6d

I think we've all spent a ton of time over the last decade trying to convince people that LEDs are better than incandescent bulbs and have been so successful that people now think they are better for everything. There are situations where they aren't better, but those are complicated so...

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