Would a wild (I think coyote?) even let someone wash it? I suspect maybe a tame one that someone used a picture of to make a funny story.
What happens if you put the cursed forbidden knowledge book through a photocopier and just read the copies rather than the original I wonder
Also known to more modern, less superstitious cultures as a proctologist
Why even have a health department if their answer to disease is "literally just do nothing about it"
Tbf assuming South America is just kinda ours to mess with or else just forgetting about it is a pretty common thing for the US to do, it tracks
First they'd have to get fusion power to produce net electricity, and then for it to produce it economically compared to other sources. We've made progress but it's been decades in the making and I'd be willing to bet will be a few decades more, even if I do expect it to get there one day.
But what's dystopian about fusion? It's just another energy source. A bit cleaner than some of the older ones, but not really anything fundamentally different.
For the moment, I guess the cynic in me expects his people will probably manage to get it to after not too terribly long and that it wouldn't be good for people to get complacent about it just because he's struggling now.
I get the sentiment of "it's funny when someone tries to call the AI in on their side and it disagrees", but do we really want to encourage this sort of "the AI agreeing with someone means they're right" behavior? Beyond LLMs being notoriously inaccurate, they are also subject to potential manipulation by whoever owns them.
Imagine how grand and rewarding a task it would be for us to reach out and grab more than a few grains of that desert.
Honestly, I'm beginning to think that maybe up/downvotes shouldn't federate, with each instance having it's own score for each post. Though maybe that makes the score-based sorts less useful on small or private instances. Or alternatively, each instance could send a single up or down vote based on the ratio of voted from it's users if any had interacted with something, to let vote score be mostly coming from within one's instance but still with some amount from outside to sort the timeline with. Could make it take more effort to manipulate the rankings since one would have to either make bots on many different instances or set up multiple whole instances for it instead of just bots on a single one.
Under this line of reasoning, a rich person could kidnap the kids of poor people and then say "what, you're against me lifting children out of poverty?" Or to make the analogy more apt, do that after making that family poor first.
I have been known to not get humor, I thought the joke was in sharing someone else documenting a stupid decision of theirs unwittingly, and therefore if it was itself fake it wouldn't have the same impact