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a) that sounds like an awesome job.
b) you did right making sure that you rode Asshole Horse.
c) Knowing that people keep asshole horses on purpose kinda drives me, in the same way as when people keep asshole dogs when there are perfectly decent dogs being put down. I've seen a bunch of unwanted standardbred racehorses that would have made perfectly fine riding horses. Breeding for temperament needs to be emphasized more.

oh yeah, that bit. I saw the remake once (and it really wasn't worth watching) but I saw the original quite a few times.

Also good advice. There's an area my buddy affectionately referred to as "the kill zone" which is just the right distance away that a kicking hoof can be at full velocity/force; this is precisely where you do not want to be if a kick happens.
but the best advice is to learn things like this from someone In Real Life around horses, because you can see which ones are totally chill and which ones are fucking bonkers. [Insert reference to various kinds of people here.]

"Always let a horse know where you are."

Accidentally surprising a horse can lead to sudden injury and/or hilarious internet videos. When moving around them, it's a good idea to talk quietly to them (or to yourself) so that they can hear you and know where you are. if you have to get up close to one, gently place your hand or forearm against them as you move past.

The same advice works if you are around someone concentrating on a physical task like cooking, construction, soldering, etc, especially if they are holding something that could hurt if it poked you. You want them to know where you are without breaking their concentration.

did they use the line "wax on, wax off" in the remake ?

The headline is patently false.

FTA

We do not develop LLMs or other generative models using customer data.

If you want to act like you're better than Reddit you're going to have to start actually being better.

"code is law" can become "might makes right" without oversight. Those who lobby against oversight are a problem.

well that and the tax cuts that Reagan implemented knowing full well that trickle-down economics were a fraud.
and regulatory capture of most of your institutions
and the loss of local manufacturing jobs (which are actually starting to come back) and the increased acceptance of nazism/fascism by people whose parents and grandparents fought against those very ideologies

but mostly because the increasing divide between rich and poor is not being condemned but rather celebrated by the same anxiety-inducing media that drools at the thought of the aforementioned shit-show.

America, you could do so much better. You just don't. It's so goddamn disappointing.

Listen: your neighbours love you, your friends love you, but you're doing terribly. It's really really hard to talk to you about it because when you get defensive holy fucking shit you can be difficult to deal with. You keep telling everyone that you're the greatest (you tell yourself that most of all) and you do it so well and you believe it so intrinsically, that you've become blind to your own problems. You're supposed to protect the weak and the vulnerable, and yet you've decided that people with no power aren't worth your time, or your effort, or worth anything at all. That's not a nation, it's abuse. It's a crying shame.

Do Better.

in the 80's we kept getting told about the evils of homosexuality from men whose breath probably smelt of truck-stop foreskin.

They also cosplay as followers of Jesus Christ.

yes it's called Fascism

When you think the law doesn't apply to you then of course you'd think you can do anything you wanted and never be a criminal.

CNN learned everything they ever needed to learn during The Gulf War. They learned that if shit goes off the rails then people watch as much as they can. It's in their financial interest to keep things off of the rails.

I guess "not sending their best" applies all over the place

but you can't get your Two Minutes Hate from either of them.

getting up there and years

by the way, it's "getting up there in years".

it's no wonder American Evil has been trying to get rid of NPR and PBS for years.

Holy fucking shit.

Once the public have no power and no influence there's no need to listen to them or consider their needs.

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