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@heynavtoor This is beautiful.

THIS GUY BUILT AN ENTIRE WIKIPEDIA THAT IS 100% AI HALLUCINATIONS AND IT'S OPEN SOURCE ON GITHUB it's called Halupedia. nothing on the site existed before you clicked. every article was generated the second you arrived. the site has one rule: the universe only exists when you visit it. it looks exactly like wikipedia. same fonts. same layout. same scholarly citations. same "stumble" button for random articles. the only difference is none of it is real. here are some actual articles currently in the encyclopedia: > the great pigeon census of 1887 > the ministry of slightly wrong maps > chaldic arithmetic — a branch of mathematics where subtraction is forbidden > armund the river mapper — a cartographer who mapped 14,000 leagues of river without leaving his chair > the society for the prevention of unnecessary tuesdays every article page also tells you how many people are reading it right now. it says: "you alone are consulting this folio at present." the creator's own tagline for the site is the most unhinged sentence i've read this year: "an encyclopedia of a universe that does not exist until you visit it" the entire backend is a single open source repo called vibeserver. one guy. one description on github: "a little webserver making things up just in time." we built the largest knowledge base in human history and the very first thing a guy did with it was make a hallucinated mirror universe and put it on the open web. the internet is healing.

@umpireplb @flyoverflower @GOP_is_Gutless Dumbass. You're admitting the mind stink is leftism.

@flyoverflower @GOP_is_Gutless It's still there, and it's getting stinkier by the minute

Dinesh D’Souza didn’t just “let his daughter marry” anybody. He let her marry Brandon Gill because the dude is the kind of patriot who walks into the lions’ den with receipts** and doesn’t flinch.🔥 In this clip, Gill looks Minnesota Dems in the eye and asks a question so simple it feels illegal in D.C.: Does all this make Minnesota stronger… or weaker? Then he starts rattling off the numbers he says come straight from state data, plus whistleblower claims about a decade of fraud warnings and political protection. And suddenly everyone in the room forgets how to answer in complete sentences. 😬 WATCH. SHARE. If you think taxpayers deserve the truth, comment “STRONGER” or “WEAKER.” 👇

@seaarepea Please tell me you are joking. it's in the country of Georgia. Not the state.

@WarrenInTheBuff It's not the one in the picture its a kids version in his backyard and he only got in trouble with the planning committee, not the coast guard. nz.news.yahoo.com/pirate-ship-ga…

"First they came for the nuclear reactor hobbyists, and I did not speak out — Because I was to dumb to know how to build a hobbyist reactor Then they came for the machine gun hobbyists, and I did not speak out — Because I had not yet found a good deal on parts Then they came for the Pirate ship hobbyists, and I did not speak out — Because I still had 2 eyes, hands, and legs Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me" - Benjamin Franklin

@lady_valor_07 Either clock pendulum from a cookoo clock or the end pieces for curtain ropes. My grandmother had an old set of curtains with weights like that, from before modern curtain rods were invented withva pulley built in.

@lhallwriter Half the price of the hardback, tops. Maybe 75% of the paperback cost.

What is a fair price for an e book?

@lady_valor_07 I could cut down my reading tine to four hours. (Okay, work gets in thecway, but 4 hours a day woud be easy. If you count audiobooks that i listen to while doing most things then i do that anyway)

@m_redacted @Vox_Day @dkfenger64 @Devon_Eriksen_ @Zaklog Sorry. I am very bad at picking that up from text. Or in person.

@DougWhiddo69434 @Vox_Day @dkfenger64 @Devon_Eriksen_ @Zaklog I was being facetious in my comment.

Every time I start to think Reddit Atheists are the most annoying creatures on the planet, Twitter Christians come along to remind me that they won't be outdone that easily. What is it about living in a social media bubble that makes people like Spencer assume that no one is familiar with arguments they have been repeating for decades? What, exactly, does he expect us to say? "Oh my ears and whiskers! I never knew cells were complicated! This changes everything because I have absolutely no preexisting mental model for how this might happen! I guess this is conclusive proof that Jesus Christ died for our sins after all!" Frankly, being addressed with a midwit zinger, as if I were an idiot, doesn't shake my worldview in the least. It just makes me lose a great deal of respect for the person who thought it would. Seriously, Spencer. Not your finest hour.

@dkfenger64 @mcahogarth @BerzekSavant I was never moved to tissues, but I really felt it was realistic in how we would react to stuff like that.

@mcahogarth @DougWhiddo69434 @BerzekSavant There is hope at the end, and a lot of stoicism in the dark parts. I suspect it'd suit you well enough... in the right mood. Just make sure the tissues are handy.

Rewatched Armageddon (1998) for the first time since seeing it in theaters and had a good time. Thoughts: - wow, this movie is longer than I remember - everything that can be blown up, will be blown up (except the dog) - Liv Tyler is always photographed from the same angles with the passing shots, you can basically cut and paste from movie to movie, honestly kind of hilarious - really interesting tension between the pencilnecks that produce rockets and the blue collar roughnecks (Stamper not wanting his daughter to marry in the clan, all the 'yeah, well, I know the equipment' type conversations), and yet when you come down to it, the engineers are also working in the real world, so... the movie ended up with everyone being lionized (NASA looks super cool in this movie) - related, they tried to turn the military into the bad guys but did a bad job of it, probably because they look really cool and the director was obviously into Really Cool... I think the two designated 'villains' were villainous for about 6 or 7 minutes before they became awesome - loved the 'I speak as a citizen of the world, but also it's mostly the United States that's saving the world's bacon' theme, especially since we get to see shots from around the world of people either horrified or cheering on the guys who are going to save the world - nevertheless, the Russian was the funniest character in the movie. "here is how Russians fix things we've been in space longer than you with lower budget parts hit it with a WRENCH" - lots more mentions of the Bible in this movie than would happen in a modern movie - none of the science strikes me as believable but it allowed for amazing set pieces, crazy effects, and a lot of explosions so... all good? - straight up heroic-tragic ending with denouement where you get to enjoy the heroic-tragic repercussions, with bonus patriotic imagery - they blew up Paris because why not - they blew up a lot of things, so many explosions, did I mention the explosions😆 In general, I think it could have cut maybe one or two of the 'you thought you were out of the woods but yet ANOTHER thing is about to go wrong!' plot points without hurting anything. But it was straight up action from the opening to the finale, with fantastic visuals and a great story ("humanity can conquer any catastrophe with a dose of ingenuity and good old human courage"). Super fun. Glad I saw it again! Also if you don't cry when he says 'honey I gotta go' then are you even a parent.🥲

@LarryOConnor Her silence is more damning than anything she could say.

Watched this 50 times. Might be the most devastating political ad in decades. And it's a completely self-inflicted wound by an arrogant, smug candidate who's quite put out having to lower herself to even appear on the same stage as her opponent

@m_redacted @Vox_Day @dkfenger64 @Devon_Eriksen_ @Zaklog I do not support anyone being banned. If you don't want to hear from him just block or mute. To me this falls under "you can't do that because it is against my religion"

@DougWhiddo69434 @Vox_Day @dkfenger64 @Devon_Eriksen_ @Zaklog Make sure to report this oversight.

I finally watched Interstellar the other day and then wondered why I bothered. I can't for the life of me get what they wanted that film to be. They would have been better off making The Forever War into a movie instead. I almost feel that was what they wanted. A story about a guy watching the whole world pass him by at light speed. Much the same as I felt about recently watching Mr Nobody.

@DougWhiddo69434 @BerzekSavant @dkfenger64 I'll make sure I queue it only if I feel like a tragedy. But I rarely love tragedies, honestly. Interstellar made me want to punch a wall.

@dkfenger64 @BerzekSavant @mcahogarth Armageddon only bothered because they wanted to both have a heroic sacrifice scene and not kill the entire crew.

@DougWhiddo69434 @BerzekSavant @mcahogarth Oh absolutely. Very realistic (my only technical gripe was the promise of 'Orion drive' and not delivering). But the entire last act is unrelievedly grim. Armageddon concentrated the pathos into a relatively brief segment.

@BerzekSavant @dkfenger64 @mcahogarth true, but everything about felt much more real. Armageddon was too over-the-top to make me feel sad about how many people died.

@DougWhiddo69434 @dkfenger64 @mcahogarth Not gonna lie, it was a bummer.

@dkfenger64 @BerzekSavant @mcahogarth Deep impact felt more real and more emotional. Armageddon was a much more fun moviegoing experience for people who just wanted to have fun. I go to the movies for escapism. I watched DI later at home and thought it was good, but I did not regret skipping it in the theatre.

@BerzekSavant @mcahogarth Deep Impact was also really depressing in comparison. Hit the heartstrings too hard and too often. (I may be impacted by seeing it and City of Angels back to back in the original run.)

@Vox_Day @dkfenger64 @Devon_Eriksen_ @Zaklog I thought you were banned here forever. I thought you said that at some point.

@dkfenger64 @Devon_Eriksen_ @Zaklog If you did go through it, which you almost certainly didn't, then you didn't do so properly because you're using the wrong mutation rate. Both terms are already included in the one I used.

@MeowDaily_Cute The most interesting thing to happen in baseball in YEARS.

A cat made the entire Yankee Stadium erupt in cheers! Let's go, cat! 😂

@Beniwinn @johnkonrad Not when everyone has them. The strength of any navy is its ability to project power. Its a numbers game and the RN is a joke.

Comparing wooden ships of the line to a QE-class carrier is like comparing a carrier pigeon to a satellite. Quality > Quantity. A single Type 45 has more littoral dominance than Nelson’s entire fleet combined. The issues are real, but let’s not pretend the RN isn't still the most capable European force in NATO. 🇬🇧"

The Royal Navy is no longer fit for service in NATO. In August 2022, HMS Prince of Wales sailed out of Portsmouth to cross the Atlantic for joint exercises with the US Navy. She was the pride of the modern Royal Navy. A four-billion-pound aircraft carrier. The flagship of Global Britain. She made it about 20 miles. Then the propeller shaft coupling sheared & one of only two carriers in the entire British fleet limped back to port and spent the better part of a year in dry dock while American carriers did the work Britain had promised to do. That’s the Royal Navy in 2026. It’s a museum with a TickTock account. I’ve called the Canadian Navy a glorified Coast Guard but the UK can’t even keep migrant boats off its shores. Nelson had over 100 ships of the line at Trafalgar. The fleet that fought WW2 had over 900 warships. Horatio Nelson John Fisher Andrew Cunningham David Beatty Bertram Ramsay Edward Hawke George Rodney Richard Howe John Jellico And First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill are all spinning in their graves. If they were resurrected today they would each give British PMs the lash. Today the Royal Navy has roughly 70 commissioned vessels. Maybe 15 of them are meaningful surface combatants. It sounds marginally ok but any given day, a significant percentage are in dry dock, undermanned, or waiting for spare parts. And China launches more tonnage in a quarter than the Royal Navy possesses in total. You do not rule the waves. You do not rule the Channel. You rule a Wikipedia. And it gets worse. You don’t even rule the world’s imagination anymore. Master and Commander came out a quarter century ago and nobody’s planning a sequel. Scooby Doo got a sequel, Jack Aubrey does not. It’s sad. It’s pathetic. But even more sad is the fact you don’t stand up and demand one. Neither does the former Navy commanding officer you call King. You have decided to roll over instead. All six Type 45 destroyers, the backbone of Britain’s air defense fleet, had to be pulled back for emergency refits because their engines lose power in warm water. Read that again. They were practically useless in the Red Sea because they don’t have enough missiles and you didn’t buy the anti-air computers for their deck guns. Your last few nuclear submarine launches went plop and instead of trying again or calling the American missile manufacturer to court… you shrugged. This is the nuclear deterrent that is supposed to be the foundation of British sovereignty, the reason Britain sits at the UN Security Council, the last credible claim to great power status. It fell in the water next to the boat. Your ancestors circumnavigated the globe in wooden ships powered by rope and canvas. You built a billion-pound destroyer that overheats off Bahrain. Your frigates are too few to cover your own approaches. When Russian submarines transit the English Channel, the French Navy often shadows them because the Royal Navy cannot respond in time. The French. In your Channel. Protecting you. Nelson ain’t spinning in his tomb. He’s in the Atlantic laughing at you. Americans patrol the Gulf you depend on for energy. Americans keep Taiwan’s chips flowing to your factories. Americans are the reason the Houthis have not fully closed the Red Sea to British-flagged shipping. We are happy to help until now. Until Starmer tried selling off our only base in the Indian Oceans then refused to let us land planes. OUR OWN BASE Yes he relented but only under pressure. We will help protect your interests but on one condition: DO NOTHING No selling bases No overflight refusals No more dock denials in Gibraltar No crazy ROE debates No politicians demeaning us in debates No threating Elon Musk And no more 134 Royal Navy Admirals in cosplaying aboard your 15 broken warships. Tell them to hang up their uniforms and go home. OR STAND UP, make the king overthrow parliament & fund a proper navy Fight for your birthright or F*ck off. Your choice.

@DonHustlesDaily @Polymarket It was 50 years ago and we didn't have Microsoft back then. We actually made stuff that worked.

@Polymarket Yet people believe we had live video from the moon 30 years ago. We have never been to the moon before period.

JUST IN: Artemis II crew experiences issues with Microsoft Outlook on their way to the Moon, asks ground crew for assistance.

@markraymond @TomBevanRCP It's not about Trump. Its about the fact that these men, who were seen as the top professionals in their field, could not see why Trump appealed to many. They simply dismissed him. They simply couldn't see America from inside the Beltway.

@TomBevanRCP If one recognized decades ago that Donald Trump is a deeply troubled, morally bankrupt, narcissistic sociopath with no business being in a position of power (as most people did), but then decided to normalize him being the most powerful man on earth, would that be more sensible?

I find it fascinating that the three guys responsible for the vast majority of "professional election analysis" in this country over the last 40+ years - Charlie Cook, Larry Sabato, and Stu Rothenberg - all had their brains utterly broken by Donald Trump.