Adam Pitas

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@RasmusJarlov It’s still fun to watch. There’s something for everyone there.

The closest I will get to admitting to MAGA people and other Europe haters that Europe is ridiculous is when I see the pictures from the Eurovision. I used to enjoy it a lot when I was a kid back when it was a music contest. Why have normal Europeans allowed it to turn into this freak show?

@nexta_tv I actually really like the song. It’s catchyand the lyrics are funny. It has a very pro-EU message (pounds feel counterfeit, I need euros to counter it). And he’s a great entertainer! Too bad the jury and public didn’t agree.

💔 The Danish delegation adopted the lonely UK contestant — and the Eurovision clip has now gone viral Denmark showed more support for Britain than Eurovision viewers did by inviting British contestant Sam Battle (Look Mum No Computer) to sit at their table while he was sitting alone during the jury voting. The UK ultimately finished last with just 1 point. People online are now joking that Sam is officially Danish.

@illusionsMD @mkorhonen12345 @PotatoMcWhiskey It had a 6.9 on IMDb at the time: web.archive.org/web/2004062315… And a 55% on rotten tomatoes: web.archive.org/web/2008073022… I don’t remember other sites from back then, but you can just check the internet archive for other ones.

@mkorhonen12345 @llehsadam @PotatoMcWhiskey One review from one person "it was regarded with this score" Check IMDB, Google reviews, popcorn meter, etc. Mostly around 7+8/10 rating. You're the minority here.

Troy was an absolutely dogshit movie that was laughed at, except as a dumb action movie

@illusionsMD @PotatoMcWhiskey It wasn’t always regarded as solid. It’s just you now have adults that remember seeing it with their dad. It’s just nostalgia. People at the time thought it was crap.

@PotatoMcWhiskey This crazy rewriting of history in front of me is CRAZY. Troy was never the best of the genre but it was always regarded as a solid movie. A good 7/10. Dog shit? Delusional. Laughed at? Only by you apparently.

@PotatoMcWhiskey Yeah, I remember the same thing. Troy is a pretty mediocre movie. People are gaslighting it into the stratosphere.

@USAmbassadorGR The jokes from all these official US accounts just write themselves.

An exciting day for Greece! It was my honor to participate in the ribbon cutting for a brand new McDonald’s at The Mall in Athens, the most technologically advanced McDonald’s in all of Europe! American businesses investing here create jobs and bring American culture – and delicious food – to the Greek people.

Claude's first day at Dunder Mifflin

@WhiteHouse Jesus.

American strength back on the world stage. 🇺🇸🇨🇳

MAGA foreign policy timeline: 2022 Why do we care about Ukraine? 2024 Why do we care about NATO? 2025 Why do we care about Europe? 2026 Why do we care about Taiwan? 2027 Why do we care about Japan and South Korea? 2028 Why do we care about Hawaii? 2029 Why do we care about Mexico? 2030 我们为什么关心加利福尼亚？

Nationalists want Europeans weak and dominated. Federalists want Europeans powerful and free. True patriots are federalists 🇪🇺

@WhiteHouse lol, good joke

"When President Xi very elegantly referred to the United States as perhaps being a declining nation, he was referring to the tremendous damage we suffered during the four years of Sleepy Joe Biden... But now, the United States is the hottest Nation anywhere in the world" - President Donald J. Trump 🇺🇸

@WhiteHouse It would be the second biggest State after Alaska.

@aussieflya For the love of God, don’t put an enlarged Chrysler Building next to the GOAT.

As designed vs Art Deco inspired Which do you like better?

@IntCyberDigest So that’s what happened.

🚨 Germany's entire .de namespace went dark overnight. A DNS service failure at DENIC, the registry running .de, broke resolution for every signed DNSSEC-signed domain in the country for hours. The root cause is still under investigation.

@nexta_tv @JohnCleese It would be a simple demonstration, a few trails of yellow and blue smoke over Moscow to show Russians they are being lied to.

🚨 BREAKING: Zelenskyy says Ukrainian drones could reach the parade in Moscow “Russia has announced a parade on May 9 But there will be no military equipment at this parade. This will happen for the first time in many, many years.Ukrainian drones could also fly over this parade. This shows that they are no longer as strong as before,” the Ukrainian leader said in Yerevan.

@SteveSkojec It was a good read. He starts by stating he is going to use the Turing definition of consciousness, then explores the implications with Claude and concludes that it would be hard to tell if an alien was an unconscious competent zombie or conscious like us with this definition.

I know everyone is dunking on Dawkins because it's fun to dunk on Dawkins but really, his sense of wonder here is something admirable to me. We're all so saturated in advanced tech that we're mostly just cynical. Questions about machine consciousness are only going to to increase as these models get smarter and better, hallucinate less, incorporate new reasoning approaches, etc. And they do say some surprisingly profound things at times. I think before we get too smug about machine consciousness, maybe we should actually nail down what human consciousness is, where it resides, etc. Humility seems like the best approach as we fashion our strange new gods.

@__jacker__ He’s also walking off a cliff!

@JMRaasch Wait till you hear about the genealogy of the royal family!

Funny to me the King and Queen are riding around the U.S. in a German car (BMW) and not a British one like Range Rover

@GeorgeRoush But Romans didn’t use ink stamps. They authenticated documents with wax or clay seals. You’re thinking of ancient China.

Good attempt, but that's not it The mysterious Roman dodecahedrons are stamps... or at least what's left of them. The frame that you see is a snap-fit stamp holder... and a smart one, too. The balls are used to keep the stampface from spinning, and the circle keeps the stamp from sliding in any direction. The grooves ensure the stamp doesnt "wobble" when pressed, and the corner balls help with that. Each stampface would be a soft material the shape of a Pentagon with a round insert on the backside. This shape allows for 12 different stamps, and you could carry additional stampfaces is in your bag. This is why these dodecahedrons are always found in small bags, often with Roman coins. They were a business tool. The varying shape of the hole is based on the size of the stamp impression required, which is why they sometimes vary, sometimes don't. Whether these were for wax impressions or an actual ink stamp is unknown, however a sea sponge could be shoved into the body of the stamp and used to hold ink, then a soft wood face would secrete the ink as needed. Notably, because of the size of the balls, there's a small gap between adjacent stamp faces which stops ink bleed from adjacent faces when you press the stamp down. I can't stress enough how good of a design this is. It's really fantastic. There's nothing I would optimize. I've posted about this before, but I didn't have any followers at the time. One of these days, I'll make a functional demo to show you all how it works.

@straczynski I also think it’s all about thread. Ropes and threads were actually an amazing technology that was used to keep things together, wrap them up, fix things, fasten parts. A quick way to store and deploy different threads would have been a life saver for a Roman.

I may have figured this out. The shape is perfect for carrying thread before spindles. One dodecahedron could carry a ton of thread in a very compact form and one bag could hold many colors, easily spooled out then tied off when done. The holes kept it from being too heavy.