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Sure.

No plans to ding the 4chan tier memery that's getting popular around here (including among members of the mod team who ought to know better) while you're at it I suppose?

"Spinster"?

The women who are quality (and have at least some self-awareness of the fact), but are stuck going out with some jackass because they live in buttfuck nowhere and that's all they could find -- are often available. It can be hard to tell though.

It sounds like the author under discussion is himself something of a jackass, so it probably wouldn't work for him -- but lots of stable relationships form this way in small towns.

Hey @ZorbaTHut @cjet79, I've got an idea -- instead of banning Hylnka, why don't you make him a mod again? (see parent)

In bumfuck nowhere, few women are single, but many are available -- there is a knack to picking up the signalling there; not sure it's different in the city or not.

He was pretty much getting this way before the benzos though -- frankly it seemed all downhill for him once the Culture War become his focus, and the slide accelerated as he had some fiscal success with it.

I take it as a cautionary tale TBH; could happen to any of us. Maybe it's OK so long as we are doing it for free?

As for you guys arguing the bat is better... come on eggheads. Try swinging versus stabbing motions.

Can't you use the bat more like a baton than in Double Dragon? Two hands somewhat far apart for leverage, poking motions where appropriate to keep the guy out of arm's reach, wear him down with rib shots? It would seem awfully hard to get a stab in this way, and trying to take the bat away while holding on to the knife with the other hand is out of the question.

It's my understanding that this is more how bats are used in 'teaching people a lesson for money' circles; even a partial swing choked up or a poke to the solar plexus is going to be pretty tough on a guy, and you don't exactly need to be Jackie Chan to figure it out.

Yes -- they make shitloads. Even lower-tier sites make absolute boatloads on subscriptions if managed somewhat intelligently. There's a certain amount of whale action, but a lot of it actually amounts to 'drunk horny dude wants to watch the rest of one of your videos and puts a $10 subscription on his visa". On aggregate there are a lot of drunk horny dudes, and a certain number of them are also less-than-conscientious about cancelling subscriptions. You can certainly fuck it up, but if one is moderately savvy it's a lucrative business.

There were several, but the shut down the public API for IPO$/fuck you reasons and now they are all broken.

Yeah, but it seems to have been applied to weird areas like the kid's sweater and one of Kate's (?) boots. I could see it happening if you handed an AI two images and said 'put the head from image A into image B', but I didn't think the tech was quite there yet?

While the palace is being coy as to exactly what's going on, they have specifically said "not cancer" -- which would make everyone involved look pretty bad if it turned out to be a lie. "Fatal infection" is a possible complication of abdominal surgery though -- but I still don't see the point in covering it up, you're gonna have to come clean eventually.

@DradisPing like I said incompetence is always a good bet -- but this doesn't really explain the things that look more 'AI' than 'PS'; like, parts of the kids. Are there any AI compositing tools that some harried photographer might have been tempted to just throw a couple of photos into? (and would produce a fairly high-res piece of output, and be easy enough to be worth some harried photographer's time?)

It's a pretty weird image -- aspects of it look like something an imagegen would do, while other parts look like incompetent photoshoppe work. (and why do the kids all have their fingers crossed?)

But even assuming nefarious grand conspiracy, I struggle to think of realistic potential motivations -- incompetence is always the best bet, but this does seem extraordinarily (and publicly) incompetent. Shit is weird.

That is not a personal attack, it's an attack on c.e.'s writing. (in response to an attack by c.e. on OPs writing)

Cool it with the personal attacks.

WTF are you even talking about here? I don't like (post Y2K) rap very much either, but I read the above post several times searching for a personal attack and didn't see one -- other than accusing coffee of not knowing anything about rap, which is, like -- probably true and not much of an insult?

To the extent that politeness norms encourage good discussion I can understand you guys modhatting/warning/banning some stuff that I would rather you didn't -- but politely expressing that c.e. isn't making great points (for instance: "Your essay is way too long for how little point you are deriving" -- which is kind of an ironic one given the norms being enforced a.t.m. -- but also objectively not a great contribution) is just not a personal attack?

WTH man.

I am willing to bet all of my Confederate script you have never beat the shit out a guy who "r[a]n down your woman."

True -- guys around here mostly know not to do that.

If he is truly the guy's friend he may get a pass on the shitkicking, but truly "sorry dude, you are no longer a part of my life" is like, table stakes for this kind of thing.

MYOB as usual is the best policy -- and if you don't want it implied that you are an uptight dork, don't act like one. Maybe you have never done anything fun/stupid in your life, but taking excessive interest in others who have is indeed pretty dorky. (sorry/not sorry)

"I would respond to someone's principled, albeit harsh, verbal condemnation with physical violence."

LOL + YesChad.jpg -- honestly the responses here are brutal, you guys seem to be all about the traditional values without wanting to accept the traditional consequenses.

There not one thing in the world more trad than beating the shit out of a guy who runs down your woman, regardless of whether he thinks he's being 'principled' about it -- you must run in some awfully rarified circles if you don't know this.

Interesting -- Gemini appears very lossy, while it seems that it could be said that GPT in some way contains the text itself.

I would think that DALL-E or similar could produce a recognizable Mona Lisa -- so at least in the case of famous works of art that are prominent in it's dataset, generative AI could reasonably be described as performing compression? Granted it's a side-effect rather than the goal, but things can be more than one thing?

It was just an age joke -- kids these days don't know what it was like to have TFC [1] as their only source of television. But you probably had more than that in Montreal. :)

For vast swathes of rural Canada in the 70s/80s, Saturday really was Hockey Night in Canada, even in the unlikely event that you didn't really care about hockey -- and if you were watching that you were watching Don Cherry in the second intermission.

[1] Two Fuckin Channels

I kind of do too, but admit not to having explored this use case. What happens if you ask an LLM to write the first page of Moby Dick for you?

Is it just that people are now forming an identity around this as a hobby?

If you are having trouble filling out the "Other Interests" section of your resume...

Huh, are you one of those rootless millenial types? Just that in my formative years, you were tuning in to Cherry every Saturday night whether you liked it or not. Something something neuroplasticity, foreign languages.

somehow this year's Canucks.

I know about 'fool me once' and 'fool me twice' -- who should be ashamed over 'fool me four times'?

Your recollections of the comet-puck and American announcers do match mine -- to this day there are radio play-by-plays of hockey games in Canada, I wonder if this leads to a better talent pool?

Also Cherry still seems to be putting out podcasts:

https://doncherrysgrapevine.podbean.com/

Not something I would normally listen to, but maybe I'll give one a try to see how demented he is! As far as I can remember he pretty much always talked like he does in your clips -- maybe it's a sort of Trumpy thing where you need to be on his wavelength?

What about the person though?

Don Cherry's dementia progressed to a point where Ron Mclean couldn't drag him through the weekly programs.

Wat? In my timeline he was coherent enough to complain onair about 'you people' who won't wear a poppy on Remembrance day, resulting in rapid cancellation due to 'anti-immigrant dogwhistling'. I think he did a podcast or something for a while?

But yeah, fuck the Leafs.

Naturally -- I can agree that I don't want to read a book about the '93 Leafs; maybe I will go reread "The Game" instead, I think it's still in the basement.