I would bring a sandwich for Gavrilo Princip.

Captain EO was the shizz

They don’t even need that. They just need it to be credible to advertisers. YouTube don’t really give a shit if anyone actually watches the ads, they just need the advertisers to believe they do.

Makes most sense that blockade runner is a description of the role it’s being used for, same way you can describe any car as a taxi if that’s how you’re using it.

She’s called Sonia, and your last name is The Hedgehog.

I use the edge of my shirt, or whatever I happen to be wearing. I never use any sort of soap or cleaning solution. Works fine. My specs last longer than it takes until I need to get a new prescription anyway.

Winner winner chicken dinner! The ‘official’ answer is 4x3, but who says wizards prefer Pythagorean triples to squares?

Guys will tell you this is five feet

-I cannot allow you before Théoden-King so armed, Gandalf Greyhame. By order of Gríma Wormtongue. Your staff.

-Hmm? Oh. You would not part an old man from his walking stick?

-It is not by my choosing. Your staff I judge to be five feet, yet no object greater than four feet in length may be brought before the King.

-Then I must speak with the town carpenter.

Later that day, Gandalf brings his staff to the meeting with Théoden. He has not broken any rules, and the staff is unaltered. How did he manage it?

Are you thinking of newspeak?

Hey, didn’t I cut a scene from one of those movies? Yeah that’s the one. I want to put it back in. let’s see. Ah crap, that guy there, what’s his name? Jab…Jaffa? He needs to be a slug. Can we change that? What the hell, it’s the 90s, we can find some computer nerd to do that. Needs to be bigger too. Like, erm, bigger than the frame? Will that work? Ah what the fuck keep him man sized, he’s a space monster he can change size or some shit. That bit there - whassname, Sulu, he needs to be standing on Jagger’s tail. Just make him stand on the tail. Cut him out and move him up and down it’ll look fine. Yeah sure, I’d stand on a mafioso’s tail - it’s a power move, they respect that. What’s this scene about anyway? Yada yada, removing the bounty, yada yada… yeah I remember there was something about a bounty in one of those movies. It all fits. It’s like I planned it all in advance.

I have not seen any obvious chatbot posts on Lemmy, outside of jokes like the top comment in this thread. Whereas by the time I left Reddit I was finding and reporting 2 or 3 per day. This could mean

• no-one’s seriously deploying chatbots yet on Lemmy
• the chatbots here are better than the ones I saw on Reddit, or at least different enough that I can’t recognise them
• the parts of Lemmy I see, and the parts where bots post don’t have much overlap
• I was actually a bot all along

It’s the hottest July in recorded history. Likely the hottest for tens of thousands of years. There hasn’t been below average temperatures since the eighties, no not even that winter that you thought was quite cold at the time. Polar vortices are supposed to happen at, you know, the poles.

Reminded me how much I liked Cristobal Tapia Da Veer’s soundtrack work on Utopia, Humans, and The Girl With All The Gifts. Looks like he’s done some more that I didn’t know about so I’ll have to check it out

Nah, just get chatGPT to grade them too.

I’ve found that for chatGPT specifically;

• it really likes to restate your question in its opening sentence
• it also likes to wrap up with a take-home message. “It’s important to remember that…”
• it starts sentences with little filler words and phrases. “In short,” “that said,” “ultimately,” “on the other hand,”
• it’s always upbeat, encouraging, bland, and uncontroversial
• it never (that I’ve seen) gives personal anecdotes
• it’s able to use analogies but not well. They never help elucidate the matter