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This gif of a puppy going from "snoozing" to " face-deep in food" in 0.1 seconds.

The version I heard was that it was styled as a tribute to Poseidon (who was God of both horses, and the sea) that the Greeks gave, in hopes of a safe voyage home. The Trojans wouldn't want to piss off a God by disrespecting an offering to him.

Life Before Death, Radiant

I'm no fan of Musk/Twitter, but this is a hell of a reich reach.

You're both wrong, this is the real link: https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys

Covering your ass typically involves not trying to do the right thing or, perhaps, pretending to do the right thing in public in order to have a plausible excuse when things go wrong

You have a very different idea of CYA than I (or the other poster). To me, CYA means ensuing you have evidence that tried to do the right thing and were overruled, so that you will can (justifiably) avoid repercussions when the failures you warned about come to pass.

I reject the premise. I've had three interactions with the DMV in-person, and all three were smooth and pleasant.

Their website was irredeemably broken (and poorly-designed even if it had worked as intended), but that's a different story...

There is no greater vote of confidence for a technology than sex workers adopting it. This should be cause for celebration.

Back in my day, we had to deliver each packet by hand! In the snow, uphill both ways!

GNU Terry Pratchett.

Yeah, email existed long before GMail/Hotmail.

When it was invented, it was complex and annoying, even by today's standards.

Congratulations, you have just chosen the "wrong" instance. What does "wrong" mean? We won't tell you, and you have no way of knowing until Bad Stuff happens to you.

And those who don't, bounce off the fact that it's not intuitive to follow someone from their user page.

Mastodon is not as complicated as it is sometimes made out to be, but it'a disingenuous to pretend that it's simple, either.

6 very much depends on interpretation. I think yours is overly negative - the net benefits are considerable! So much so that I picked 4&6 even before I noticed that 4 averts 6's issue.

"I'm A Believer" was originally by The Monkees - and both it and All Star are still great songs!

"not how you play cricket"

I (native UK English speaker)'ve only ever heard it with "cricket" in an adjectival form. As in "that's just not cricket".

I wish! Nah, I went to the Discworld Convention when I was 8 or so, and met him at one of the book-signing events, where he noticed my namebadge. Though even in the few minutes that I spent chatting with him there, he was very obviously a warm, kind, generous man. GNU Terry Pratchett.

Fun fact - my childhood nickname (and online handle) was used (with permission) by the great man himself! (As the name of a hearty military soup :P )

Typo sort-of accurate? :P