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@RadioGenoa Keir didn’t prevent these immigrants from entering the country, but he did prevent immigration protesters from entering to attend UtK. Britain is a failed nation that stood by and watched itself get invaded by third-world, military aged men.

Muslim immigrants, friends of Keir Starmer, are hunting British families with golf clubs. Elon Musk: "Civil war in Britain is inevitable. It's just a matter of time."

@SkinnyLuther @LASHYBILLS People like this recently found out about Laguna and now they’re all over, unfortunately.

@LASHYBILLS What’s this animal doing downtown Laguna beach anyways, get him out of there we don’t want it ruined

Should have chin checked buddy the moment he got in his face🤦‍♂️

@RyanHoliday Responding to Gad’s direct explanation with a straw man is damaging to your credibility.

Yeah that's definitely the problem in today's world...we're too considerate.

The question is what constitutes “being the aggressor.” TN cases suggest that a defendant claiming self-defense must be “free from fault in bringing on the necessity of using force.” And TN generally bars an aggressor who creates fear of death or great bodily harm in the other person. The defense will argue, not unreasonably, that offensive words neither necessitate the use of force nor create fear of death/great bodily harm. Substantial public policy considerations validate that position. tncourts.gov/sites/default/…

@builddisc @FearedBuck @grok Nope.. Tennessee law clearly states you cannot be the aggressor. You cannot start a confrontation and then claim self-defense.

ChudTheBuilder shot a man who attacked him outside a courthouse in Clarksville & accidentally grazed himself in the process. Before it escalated, he asked the man if he was going to “chimp out” the man then walked up & sucker punched him. It is unclear if the man survived.

@LVpolitic @Tangcapz @FearedBuck @grok Agreed. Too few understand this.

@dissenting_ @Tangcapz @FearedBuck @grok Criminal law almost never allows for the level of force to jump from non threatening verbal to violent physical - of course they will try to imply fighting words - but good luck with that.

@GunnerManAFC @layxsnv Yes, American-English and British-English conventions differ. The more accurate statement is that American-English style guides (e.g., Chicago) standardized the serial comma, and that LLMs, being probabilistic, use it because it was already standardized.

@dissenting_ @layxsnv All of this became irrelevant when I found out 20mins ago that Americans use the Oxford comma as standard and in British English it is optional. It explains all of the “I learned this in elementary school” comments and the proud anger.

Okay, where are the English scholars, which one?

@GunnerManAFC @layxsnv Basic literacy is all that’s required to recognize whether a comma is used before or after “and.” A majority of people in sub-Saharan Africa are literate, nonetheless in North America, Europe and Central Asia, etc. where literacy rates are > 95%.

@dissenting_ @layxsnv You’re assuming that the majority aren’t linguistically challenged?

@GunnerManAFC @layxsnv AI simply did not standardize the Oxford/serial comma. Anyone who’s read more than a couple pre-2020 texts wouldn’t find this surprising. The Chicago Manual of Style: “the serial comma has officially been Chicago style since 1906” chicagomanualofstyle.org/qanda/data/faq…

You have all gone crazy in the comments. So instead of responding to you all, I will just highlight your lack of reading comprehension. I clearly said most would say “C”. I did not say “C” is correct. Like it or not, the majority would’ve said “C”. However, AI has standardised the use of a comma before “and” which has led to masses adopting it. Which is a new phenomena, because it is a new practice by those who wouldn’t have before. Again, for you poor literary analysts, I did not say “AI invented the Oxford comma” lol. Take this as my reply and now continue to post, these are funny.

@GunnerManAFC @layxsnv The serial comma was not invented by LLMs and is not a new phenomena. It can be found in style guides from at least 1905 and in countless texts using American-English conventions. Bryan Garner explained why the serial comma is superior in The Winning Brief, published in 1999.

@layxsnv Before ChatGPT, everyone would say C One day AI decided that a comma goes before “and” which has now changed perception. It’s also one of the key giveaways that someone has used AI to write their text because the majority simply never did it. It’s a new phenomena

@karunpal Good list, but One Hundred Years of Solitude doesn’t deserve to be included. Overrated book with far less substance than anything else in the list.

Real books change your very psyche. Not the self-help books. The long, difficult, soul-altering books. The Brothers Karamazov. One Hundred Years of Solitude. The Stranger. The Old Man and the Sea. Crime and Punishment. In Search of Lost Time. Writers who understood loneliness. Meaning. Human suffering. The quiet chaos inside the mind. Writers who sat alone for years and pulled something true out of their inner darkness and put it on a page so that one day you could read it and feel less alone in your own. They change the way you see people. They expand your perception. They upgrade your consciousness. That's what real books do. They alter you.

@BMike2929 @ns123abc “Do you always tell the truth” is a silly question that nobody could answer “yes” to. The other questions were more reasonable.

@dissenting_ @ns123abc I see it different. If Sam truly believed he was an honest person and hasn't lied or screwed people over to further his success, then the answer to those simple questions is 'yes'. But Sam couldn't say yes, he tried protecting himself because he knows he's not an honest person.

Musk's lawyer: "Are you completely trustworthy?" Altman: "I believe so." Musk's lawyer: "But, you know, you don't know whether you're completely trustworthy." Altman: "I'll just amend my answer to yes." Musk's lawyer: "Should the jury believe your testimony?" Altman: "I think that's up to them, but I believe so." Musk's lawyer: "You believe so, or they should?" Altman: "Sir, I'm not gonna tell the jury what to think." Musk's lawyer: "Do you always tell the truth?" Altman: "I believe I'm a truthful person." Musk's lawyer: "It wasn't my question. Do you always tell the truth?" Altman: "I'm sure there is some time in my life when I have not." Musk's lawyer: "Have you told lies to advance your business interests?" Altman: "Uh, no." Musk's lawyer: "Have you misled people with whom you do business?" Altman: "I believe I am an honest and trustworthy business person." Musk's lawyer: "That wasn't my question, what you believe. Have you misled people with whom you do business?" Altman: "I do not think so." Musk's lawyer: "Would they think so?" Altman: "I can't answer that for other people." That was the opening of Sam Altman's cross-examination this morning.

Last night was a good reminder of who you are, American man. Many of us, myself included, have forgotten it. We’ve forgotten our ancestors built a global superpower from literally nothing. Pioneers that risked their lives of comfort in the Old World to get on wooden ships to an unknown land, where the only thing waiting for them was uncivilized peoples who want to kill them. Amidst all the subversion, degeneracy, and globalism that has infected this country, we’ve forgotten the ethos of our people. The soul of this nation. It was embodied last night when, against all odds, a coldblooded American kicked this Muslim’s ass back to Chechnya.

@InternetH0F Their use of British English conventions indicates that they’re not based in the U.S. E.g., placing the period outside the quotations, formatting dates as d/m/y instead of m/d/y.

Canvas' parent company Instructure has been hacked, and the site is being held for ransom after suffering a data breach Over 9000+ schools have reportedly been affected and ~225 million users worldwide had their personal information potentially compromised

You become exceptional by selecting one domain that fits your nature, then sacrificing enough comfort, time, and ego to go deeper than other people are willing to go. Depth, not variety, creates rare value.

@marmaduke091 I’m sure the quotation marks around “infinite” are going to be doing a lot of work.

Wow. Infinite context windows "coming soon" mentioned in the Claude event. Very exciting. I think they made a breakthrough.

@crems4 @Heat128 @AnimeBibleVerse You lost the argument so you’re trying to at least have the last word with the weird dog thing. It’s transparent and cringe. But if having the last word for some reason mitigates your embarrassment, I’ll throw you that bone.

@dissenting_ @Heat128 @AnimeBibleVerse As predicted, you do a little dance. God damn man your life sucks so much haha

@crems4 @Heat128 @AnimeBibleVerse Now that we’ve established that the “if you respond, you’ve fallen into my trap” thing is silly and obviously ineffective, are you going to explain why my explanation was wrong? Or are you abandoning that?

@dissenting_ @Heat128 @AnimeBibleVerse You’re just repeating what I said to you, which is genuinely sad man, jokes aside your dad must’ve been a huge bitch if this is how you turned out haha. Now let’s watch you do a little dance

@crems4 @Heat128 @AnimeBibleVerse “I knew I was wrong all along, I just wanted to see if I could get you to explain why I was wrong. You fell right into my trap.” Lol. You want to “bark” for me now? If you respond, I “have you leashed.” If you don’t, I’ll take that as an admission that you were wrong.

@dissenting_ @Heat128 @AnimeBibleVerse I tell you to bark, and you actually obeyed. You’re a shell of a man lmao. Yeah I agree it’s weird you’re behaving like that and letting me bully you, all because you’re a slow reader.