Trump’s tweets become 10x funnier and 20x more sad when you read them in Chris Chan’s voice

https://www.lowes.com/n/how-to/nominal-actual-lumber-sizes/

It was a waste of money 50 years ago and a waste of money now. Nothing but a dumb, authoritarian dick measuring contest

Oh yeah and was the site of Impact Plastics, the company that killed 4 women during Hurricane Helene by waiting until the parking lot was under 3 feet of water to evacuate the building.

Oh yay, my hometown

Lmao, these comics used to be everywhere. I think the artist just wanted an excuse to draw unnaturally busty women. I didnt mind. Because I wanted to see unnaturally busty women

The Deep Logic of Solar-Capitlism vis-à-vis the Tellurian Lubricant is on full display.

Mashallah, does Trump not know that Islam abhors idols? What does he hope to accomplish by leveling cities but the inbringing of Allah’s endtimes? To build is to be Christian, but desertifying is to be Muslim; this is why the deeper the West goes into the M.E., the further Islam spreads.

“Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the F—in’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell – JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah. President DONALD J. TRUMP,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post.

Could you imagine the reaction if any other president wrote the words “Praise be to Allah”?

Collectivization doesnt look so bad anymore does it?

Monument building is the reaction of a scared nation. It’s historically been a cheap way to boost national unity

Before I even clicked I knew it would be the Billy Cobb cover

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But it’s antisemitic to say AIPAC has a large influence in US politics.

Uh-oh, just got a notification that my credit score went down.

How many seats do you need? Without knowing that, I’d say anything here would be just fine

Centermost is always the best viewing angle. If that’s taken, move back, not closer. The back doesn’t give great pictures quality but front rows are basically unwatchable

Haha. That depends on a few factors. If you’re going to the highest fidelity possible, you could fill 1tb up with about 20 UHD movies at ~50gb each.

I had seen people paying for services to write research for them.

I had seen people translate research papers from foreign languages(Like Russian for example) to English to avoid doing any work.

What I see as the main distinction between these forms and AI-enabled cheating is that the university is at least accrediting someone’s scholarship (assuming it goes through the system just fine). AI/LLMs output pure, unverifiable, black-box gobbledygook in a way that gums up the whole system. I’m not associated with a university anymore but have several friends who do teach at that level and the amount of opaque muck they’re having to trawl through just to try to prove if a human wrote any bit of the essay they’ve been handed in makes me glad I didn’t pursue my own career in education further.

I agree with the gist of your argument, I really do, but I don’t think that the current gen of AI cheaters are just a new form of a forever problem in academia.

I do own the hardware. 5x8tb (down from 6) drives of media on my desktop (Phanteks Enthoo Pro is the best case ever made)

This is where I’m at after about a decade of being a self-described “data hoarder” and experiencing a drive failure a couple months ago and losing about 8tb of media that I realized I didn’t care at all about.

Now I have a custom script that runs on the 1st of every month that A) detects if movies and full TV series have been marked as “watched” more than 7 days ago and/or B) if movies and full TV series have never been started and unmatched after more than a year and deletes titles that meet either requirement, while outputting a ledger on my desktop showing what titles have been deleted, the date, and for what reason. I ran a dry run of the script and saw that I was about to save 12tb of storage and realized how unimportant 99% of the stuff marked was to me. Really important stuff (my David Lynch titles, for example), are manually marked for exclusion.

Anyway, but of a blog post but I’ve realized this is the way for me. My Plex library is now less cluttered and full of only new things. My other users on the account can still request anything they want and my Usenet+*arr+fiber optic server can have almost anything ready for them in 10 minutes or less

NTA but I spend about $30/month on various self-hosting-specific services: Usenet subscription, VPN, Plex Pass, a few little recurring donations to OSSes that I use, etc.