Arbitrary_Arbys
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@kirkmanbrandon CD of Compton
@Ferrovore @mark and, indeed, if that sort of art-having-a-spirit-of-its-own aspect ISN'T there, it inevitably ends up being lifeless or meaningless. Dorothy Sayers is correct about the connections between Idea, Energy, and Power.
@david_j_roth I used to have to ask people what they'd do if they found a turtle on its back in the desert, but now I just ask about AI and an alarming number of friends will fall over themselves trying to say how convincing the writing is. It's alienating in its own way to me, a human man of superior discriminating taste.
@mtsw I at least like the idea that it highlights the Catch-22 nature of the issue. Either break the law by not giving the required payments, or break it by borrowing money you're not authorized to borrow. Stupid "choice".
@mark *sobbing* EMACS fixes this!
@mark I was today years old when I learned that it's tacky to stash some muffins "for the road" from the all you can eat brunch buffet at the snooty hotel, BARBARA!
@harrisj what plan did they finally take?
@nntaleb "It's an individual religion" he explained to the guy in charge of the largest religious institution on the planet.
mtswA hundred years ago, it was possible for upper middle class families to have live-in servants. The extinction of this type of work because it became more expensive to hire them was not a form of "inflation" but a symptom of rising living standards and productivity no longer leaving workers desperate enough to accept those jobs at wages affordable to middle class hirers.
@prehensile well wait, are we pairing these with anything, or just eating it plain out of the box like hill people? All you people putting down Ritz just cause it focuses on assists and rebounds rather than points. You guys putting wheat thins in your chili? You putting peanut butter on your goldfish?