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  • Sounds more like a home warranty company. Which works pretty nicely in practice.

    I've never had First American tell me what color I can paint my walls.

  • Finally, a home with enough plugs for all my stuff.

  • It's all Texases, all the way down.

  • The transporter paradox questions whether Captain Kirk on the ship is the same person as Captain Kirk once he beams down to a planet. Sure, he has the same molecular structure, the same brain in the same state as when he departed, but there is energy loss, and we know that at a small enough scale planet Kirk is not rebuilt exactly as ship Kirk was taken apart. Is it the same guy, or two different identical guys? (It gets worse when Picard dies and is reassembled from transporter memories and nobody talks about that incident ever. )

    Don't forgot the time when Riker was beamed up off a planet during some weird EM storm and the interference caused him to be reconstituted both on the ship and on the planet, resulting in a ship Riker who went on with his Starfleet career and a planet Riker who spent years trapped on an uninhabited, ruined planet waiting for a rescue that never came because they were completely unaware he even existed.

  • Same here. It actually has been introducing weird typos for me. It's fucking awful.

  • I'm pretty sure MS uses GPT-4 as the foundation of all their AI stuff, so it's not surprising to see them have the same issues. Funny, as you said, but not surprising.

  • I regret that I have but one up vote to give to this.

    Both Hamas's actions and the Israeli state's actions are utterly reprehensible, and ultimately, one man is responsible for both.

  • Looks like something out of a Dahir Insaat video.

  • Dorothy Parker was a humor writer and Robert Benchley was a comedian. Both of them were members of the Algonquin Round Table, a group of New York-based artists who were very close.

  • Honestly, I fell off of TNA when they brought Hogan and Bischoff in and they changed everything about the place. I've tried to get back into it several times since, and never quite managed.

    And definitely, there are more prominent trans wrestlers now than pretty much ever. Nyla Rose is probably the most well-known one, but there's also Gisele Shaw in TNA, Kidd Bandit and Edith Surreal have been indie standouts, and VENY has been making waves in Japan (and has also done a handful of AEW appearances). There's a semi-regular series of indie events called Effy's Big Gay Brunch that features an all-LGBTQ+ roster that's well worth checking out; you can stream them online.

  • Yeah, she does. And she is very talented.

  • Because it acknowledges something someone worked for rather than something they were born with.

  • They are largely popular, but there are rather vocal segments of the wrestling fanbase that will give them shit for pretty well any reason. Claiming they aren't talented because they aren't attractive. Claiming they aren't talented because they are attractive, and thus only maintain popularity as eye candy. Claiming that female wrestlers in general are inferior athletes to male ones. Claiming that they don't work as hard in their matches, and then when they do turn in great matches, concern trolling over them hitting hard or bleeding (even though they'd never do that to the guys). Just the usual thinly veiled misogyny you see online in a lot of quarters

    Nyla Rose (the one who made the comments about "half of you don't think I'm talented because you don't find me attractive") does get it worse than a lot of women wrestlers do, but the lion's share of that is due to transphobia.

  • This is not about a "specific and not very newsworthy news article". This is about a widespread panic that has become so pervasive, the NIH has had to publish papers debunking it.

    And yet American news orgs still take cops at face value when they claim to have overdosed from mere contact with fentanyl...