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Improbable Lobster posted:what if i don't give a gently caress about virtual "me" pretending to be virtual you is how the ai tricks you into empathizing with it
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Sagebrush posted:If a true strong AI is ever created, I doubt it will be recognizable as a human-like intelligence. We barely understand how our own cognition works, let alone intelligent animals', so I suspect that an electronic intelligence would be completely unknowable. Humans trying to assign human characteristics to one would be like fish trying to understand a submarine. i find it profound that recent, spectacular advances in language models have managed to perfectly mimic the low-information, incurious, overly confident internet communication that serves as a key substrate for our culture. we've done it, we've duplicated human intelligence. human intelligence just sucks.
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Shaggar posted:of course someone who calls soccer "football" is a creep wikipedia editors get really upset if you change uk words to us.
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akadajet posted:wikipedia editors get really upset if you change uk words to us. fine, fine.... of course someone who calls soccer "football" is a
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akadajet posted:wikipedia editors get really upset if you change uk words to us. yeah. plus they have all sorts of erroneous articles for the english word for a thing instead of just redirecting to the real article
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iirc the policy used to be (maybe still is idk) that whatever english dialect an article was created in was the canonical one for the en. prefix so americans were just too slow to colonize lol
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fool of sound posted:The book has been called "the most controversial novel ever written in Canada" The main character does not apologize even once throughout the whole story
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Sagebrush posted:not worthless, just fun In the biblical account, the name manna is said to derive from the "question" man hu, seemingly meaning "What is it?",[12] which is perhaps derived from Aramaic, not Hebrew.[13] Man is possibly cognate with the Arabic term man, meaning aphids, with man hu thus meaning "this is aphids",[13]
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Gubbinal Girl posted:In the biblical account, the name manna is said to derive from the "question" man hu, seemingly meaning "What is it?",[12] which is perhaps derived from Aramaic, not Hebrew.[13] Man is possibly cognate with the Arabic term man, meaning aphids, with man hu thus meaning "this is aphids",[13] eating big handfuls of aphids from heaven
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Carthag Tuek posted:iirc the policy used to be (maybe still is idk) that whatever english dialect an article was created in was the canonical one for the en. prefix https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#National_varieties_of_English
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shot https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Among_Us_chicken_nugget chaser https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Among_Us_chicken_nugget#Merge_into_Among_Us
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quote:Sand dollars are named as such not for their monetary value, but because of their appearance. drat, there go my retirement plans
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Printing $2 bills is half as expensive for the government as printing $1 notes, since they both cost the same amount (6.2 cents per bill) to manufacture
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Following the Los Angeles Police Department, Cop Rock features an ensemble cast of police officers and detectives as they solve crimes across the city, with the series mixing musical and choreography throughout storylines and to introduce new characters.
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ColTim posted:Following the Los Angeles Police Department, Cop Rock features an ensemble cast of police officers and detectives as they commit crimes across the city, with the series mixing musical and choreography throughout storylines and to introduce new characters. ftfy
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Ice Fishing North American is often a social activity . some have a fish houses that are rented out by day : often shuttle service by snow track or modified to drive on Ice is provided . In North Armenian portable houses appear to Crater city at locations where fishing is done.
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For violations of law, see Crime.
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Membership requirements for applicants include being at least 18 years of age and have a documented ownership of at least one qualifying high-quality costume of a Star Wars villain.
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It was also featured in the Green Day-themed Rock Band game Green Day: Rock Band.
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Today, a business-to-business (B2B) white paper is closer to a marketing presentation, a form of content meant to persuade customers and partners and promote a certain product or viewpoint. That makes B2B white papers a type of grey literature.
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Robert Earnest Rozier Jr. (born July 28, 1955) is an American murderer and former defensive end. that's the entire opening paragraph
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cw: racist pedantry I'm opposed to racial insensitivity like most others, but this is ridiculous. The mention of the "friend of the family toes" term in the current version of the article is loaded with a sense of politically correct hesitation and moral bias. It's as if the writer was so uncomfortable with the existence of this historical fact that they felt the need to announce their disapproval of it. The sentence reads: "An old pejorative slang term in the United States was 'friend of the family toes'." However, not only is the term poorly mentioned (along with an ambiguous reference to its purported antiquity), its label isn't even accurate. Going by the Wikipedia article for "pejorative" that it linked to: "A word or phrase is pejorative if it implies contempt or disapproval." Yet the term "friend of the family toes" is not a pejorative term for the Brazil Nut, given that it does not aim to disparage or belittle the nut itself. Yes, it was a slang term; yes, it was a term based on another term that was often (but not always) used pejoratively; but, no, it was not a pejorative term in itself. Furthermore, I doubt that many people who referred to Brazil Nuts as "friend of the family toes" meant it in a disrespectful way, regardless of the insensitivity (or silliness) many of us may personally find in it today. Either way, however, the 'properness' of its usage is not relevant to its inclusion—it was a common and widespread term (which I can also personally attest to, though I've never used it myself), and thus bears mentioning as a fact of history, regrettable or not. Afterall, Wikipedia is a source of encyclopedic information; it should not be a place to espouse personal views. Removing or censoring any facts that might be deemed offensible by some would be to misunderstand its purpose and to misrepresent its content. You are doing no service to its readers by making moral judgments for them, or by deciding which information they should have access to. That being said, I have modified the sentence to state the following: "Though it has largely fallen into disuse since the latter 20th century, a common slang term for the nuts in some regions of the United States was "friend of the family toes", due to some finding a similarity in appearance between the unshelled nuts and the toes of African Americans." --— Poga — 08:55, 8 November 2006 (UTC) Carthag Tuek fucked around with this message at 10:22 on Feb 1, 2023 |
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The name comes from the Hindustani (originally Persian) word barf, which means snow.
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A sequel, The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars, was released in 1998, which was strangely released first as the film took place after To the Rescue when Rob McGoarty became a father.
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FMguru posted:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbIpO8WeT3k its, um, very frank zappa not hard to see why it wasnt used
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FMguru posted:someone turned up a copy of this reminds me of this, which obviously came much later https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s492PMdIaJs
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speaking of weird music miscellany, wikipedia taught me about brian wilsons obsession with the song shortenin bread
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brian wilson was a fuckin nutjob lmao probably still is but who knows if there’s enough left in the scrambled eggs in his noggin to form sentience
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he was (is?) nuts but also very cool and a brilliant musician. i read tom oneill's chaos about the manson murders last year and there was a lot of very sus poo poo going on around the beach boys in the 60s. lots of weird questions raised about dennis wilson. brian wilson's psychologist eugene landy seemed like a grade a piece of poo poo.
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post hole digger posted:he was (is?) nuts but also very cool and a brilliant musician. i read tom oneill's chaos about the manson murders last year and there was a lot of very sus poo poo going on around the beach boys in the 60s. lots of weird questions raised about dennis wilson. brian wilson's psychologist eugene landy seemed like a grade a piece of poo poo. Much of these expenses went on cars, clothes, food and penicillin injections for their persistent gonorrhoea. jeez
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post hole digger posted:there was a lot of very sus poo poo going on around the beach boys in the 60s well spill the beans already
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Kazinsal posted:brian wilson was a fuckin nutjob lmao Tweezer Reprise posted:he's cool and smart actually porque no los dos?
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brian wilson seems to have somewhat solved his mental issues now and there are a couple of recent live shows that you can watch on youtube. he might even be touring and his group is definitely better than mike loves cringe beach boys show that i went to last year
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EGOT, an acronym for the Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Awards, is the designation given to people who have won all four of the major entertainment awards.[1][2] Respectively, these awards honor outstanding achievements in television, recording, film, and Broadway theatre.[3] Achieving the EGOT has been referred to as the "grand slam" of show business.[1][4] As of 2023, 17 people have accomplished this feat.[5] The EGOT acronym was coined by actor Philip Michael Thomas in late 1984, when his role on the new hit show Miami Vice brought him instant fame, and he stated a desire to achieve the EGOT within five years.[6][7] Thomas has never been nominated for any of the EGOT awards.
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