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CE isn't a blanket all-things-politics-and-politics-adjacent quarantine folder. Like if someone legit wants a broad-based discussion on tax policy that isn't tied to an actual current event, it's fine and preferred here.

ORTHODONTICAL UPDATE I'm like a week out from the final of 15 retainers, then after that they have to rescan for the final refinements, and after that's all done I wear a retainer for another six months and then I'm a free man. aside from the night retainer i'm supposed to wear until i die. BUT ANYWAYS i just reached out to a friend who's also doing it and he said they had to stop and start over on a whole new set of 26 retainers and that's just wow all my sympathy ok so that's the orthodontical update but really I assume everyone's checking this thread now to see how @molarbear's broken penis is doing

I found another one on the walk to my car. Weird to go months with nothing and then see two practically in a row. Oh and I caught a kecleon last night so I can go back to not caring about checking pokestops.

It's dead on arrival.

yeeeaaaah that's what I was going for I refer you back to the "I just gave you my meatballs in Ragu"

My father will add sugar to sauce as he's cooking it if the tomatoes aren't sweet enough, just to neutralize the sourness or tartness or whatever the lack of sweetness. But I think more recently he's just been more discerning about the quality/type of tomatoes he uses. I lack his (half) Sicilian "sophistication" though. I'm just like "yes I would like sauce, but no tomato chunks please" and then he'll be like "did you like the sauce? because I just sent you meatballs and sausage in Ragu."

you know what they say, mix: "first is the worst, second is the best, third is the one with the hairy chest" (paging @NewBluntsworth)

https://twitter.com/martyamericausa/status/1614708938011774976

That's probably why they added the daily adventure incense with the birds - probably half their revenue comes from the location data and they're desperate to get people walking after all the covid accomodations people rages about them trying to undo. Speaking of which: false hope bird encounter #2

I have you the like because it's a heart

we are all upvoting you because we all secretly have a crush and it's our only outlet because we all suffer from social anxiety

on a scale of 1-10, how disappointed would you personally be if we decide not to go in a terminal direction?

whatever nabs says is a lie

first post back, I win

Yeah I think anything mirroring the ongoing research event from last season is paywalled. They may be at a point where they're doubling down on whales to maintain their profits.

yeah lightning gotta strike twice, first to trigger the encounter and then again to overcome the catch rate feels a bit like a chore tbh

congrats reg date twin

How rare is kecleon? I saw one at the airport two weeks ago that I whiffed and it ran away, and I haven't seen one since.

I remember working tangentially on deepfake issues a couple years ago and that was super landmark. Whether or not something is legal or regulated doesn't indicate whether its moral or ethical, particularly when it's something so new that the lawmaking process hasn't caught up to it yet (or that the relevant stakeholders haven't negotiated an agreement on a bill for the legislature to pass). I don't really know the status of deepfake laws across the country currently, but whether there are statutes or judicial precedents on the books, it's still all super new and subject to change. Same thing here.

you'd have to ask sponges. probably that it's just a series of neurons firing off and chemical reactions, which means the real thing is no different than an AI simulating it.

I think pulling it all together, Sponges' central unarticulated thesis is that human minds aren't any more complex, special, unique, valuable, "human", etc. than nascent self-learning AI technology. If you start from that premise, then it follows that it wouldn't intrinsically matter whether you're talking to a real person or an AI on the internet, and it wouldn't intrinsically matter whether art is created by a person or an AI.

From like the battery mineral mining?

I saw a lot of signage from I think Delta hyping up fully electric airplanes by 2026. Not sure that I believe it, but I'm also not a plane scientist so I'm in no position to think about it too hard.