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i recently found out what the * * * that sometimes separates parts of a text is called and youre never gonna fucking believe it

titkoks

i don’t know why i love this so much but i do

drallimylime

вопросик?!

meltyneon

cometchameleon

Ok wait I'm an animator but the idea of referring to a real life human's gait as a walk cycle is sending me

meanbuddhist

*turns my attention inwards* mmmmm. no *turns my attention back outwards* oh god

bunjywunjy

why is lake superior so dangerous? i cant find anything online that will give my access (not american!)

it's the largest freshwater lake on the planet by surface area, you could lose a couple of smaller countries in there and not even notice. (vs Europe)

on top of that, it's a Northern lake, so the water never really gets warmer than 50 F (10 C) even in the heat of summer, and it's famous for sudden violent storms that destroy ships and buildings alike. this thing has a MASSIVE body count because it's also a major shipping thoroughfare.

tldr it wants to eat you so so bad

kedreeva

She is also over 1,300ft/400m deep at her deepest. Once she has eaten you, she will not give you back. Lake Superior doesn't give up her dead.

And when Bunjy says "the largest by surface are" what that means is: Lake Superior is a whopping 31,700 square miles (82,103 square km) of water. The only reason she is not an inland sea is because she is freshwater.

She has tides. She has rip currents, like an ocean does. You don't even have to go out on a boat to get got by her, all you have to do is step into her icy waters in the wrong spot. She has ice formations that aren't "icebergs" on the technicality that they didn't calve from glaciers, even though they look and act the same.

(photo by Paul Berger)

She LOOKS like an ocean when you are at her shores. This is from a location on the Minnesota side shore.

(photo by George Ilstrup)

She is huge, icy, and hungry. This makes her very dangerous. Not to be fucked around with, because you WILL find out.

hadespuppy

Superior doesn't want to kill you in the way that K2 wants to kill you. She doesn't give much thought to you at all, unless you draw her attention. Then, well, might as well start ringing the bell at Mariner's Church yourself, because she is inevitable.

zmediaoutlet

honeyedheartss

one of my favorite bodies of water

mornington-the-crescent

astoundingbeyondbelief

Miniature effects in Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991). Fantasy II Effects returned from the first film to handle the future war sequence and the Cryoco truck tipping over, while the nuclear destruction of Los Angeles fell to 4-Ward Productions.

Jokes aside, this recall was issued for WA/OR/ID and the affected brands are Royale Natural and TOP VALU. More info in linked article.

byjove

my mom brought her ILL-BEHAVED, UNWASHED DOG into our HARMONIOUS HOME

byjove

this is VERY scary

byjove

dog was here again today

good thing no one overreacted

homunculus-argument

God will see you at the lowest point of your life, and say "what the fuck I thought I killed that thing." But you skitter too fast and you are too creepy.

dragon-in-a-fez

no post has ever altered my brain chemistry as much as "can only you see the time being?"

dragon-in-a-fez

in case you're not familiar:

maswartz

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fractally

This has been my main argument against "AI" from the very beginning.

OpenAI scraped the entire web. All of which had been a labor of love from humans. Wikipedia is the backbone of a lot of LLMs, and that was volunteer human labor. They stole it and now they're selling it back to us.

And worse, they're trying to destroy the free sources that they stole from. It's destruction of human knowledge on an unprecedented scale. The burning of the library of Alexandria has nothing on this.

maswartz

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fractally

This has been my main argument against "AI" from the very beginning.

OpenAI scraped the entire web. All of which had been a labor of love from humans. Wikipedia is the backbone of a lot of LLMs, and that was volunteer human labor. They stole it and now they're selling it back to us.

And worse, they're trying to destroy the free sources that they stole from. It's destruction of human knowledge on an unprecedented scale. The burning of the library of Alexandria has nothing on this.