They are really well designed too. They lock into place when flipped 180 degrees (drinking mode) and don’t interfere at all while drinking.

You’re right. It was the eighth movie. My bad. I didn’t even remember Nemesis. It kinda is the Star Trek V but for TNG.

Star Trek 10 - First Contact is also pretty solid.

And then he morbed all over them!

Well, as a consolation there is Rottenegg in Germany. Not nearly as catchy though.

Esteemed personages.

New money laundering scheme?

The way I perceive PRQL is somewhat like SQLAlchemy-Core (the SQL expression layer, not the ORM). Almost a 1:1 mapping to SQL but softening the rough edges in SQL when constructing more complex queries dynamically, in particular: no function calls, no real variables, only string concatenation. While SQLAlchemy-Core lets you even extract sub-queries into variables, I don’t know about how powerful PRQL is in this regard.

From what I see from the docs I’m rather hopeful though.

Sir, your washing machine will arrive on Wednesday. Be sure to be at home at around 3.

Can the ozone be countered by a reverse polarity static charge? Not sure how the laser printer do it, but recent printers barely emit ozone. I think it should be possible.

Can the ozone be countered by a reverse polarity static charge? Not sure how the laser printer do it, but recent printers barely emit ozone. I think it should be possible.

That would invalidate their position as “we’re just a platform and not liable for the things our users post”. They’d have to take responsibility then and I’m not sure they’ve got the resources for that.

That’s true. I posted more here in the last 2 months than on the other site in years.

Burn me once, shame on you. Burn me twice, shame on me. Big corporations want mainly one thing: gobble up as much value exclusively to themselves. They will take whatever means necessary to get there. The strategies to privatize public resources (XMPP, ActivityPub, etc.) are known. They look great for the public on the outside, but over the years will erode the value for everybody BUT them. In order to not let it get as far, many (including me) are of the conviction to not even give them a finger, let alone the whole hand.

Because they want it. It’s the main reason why they’ve built the app.

Er oder sie hat ausgeschissen.

Literally means “has pooped” but has different subtexts depending on the situation, including a sense of finality.

Do you know how Germans call someone who is done for? Someone who can’t poop anymore!

First I thought you were writing incoherently, but now I understand your point.

I agree with what you said, that our “art” is most likely just something akin to bird song. Maybe even less or something else entirely.

My point of view: Birds also have a “rebellious phase” where their songs differ from the songs of the general population. They are experimenting with new and unorthodox songs. These go away after they come of age and have to find a mate. My hypothesis (well, I’m no bird) is that there is a lot of emotional impact in these bird songs, whereas in some songs humans produce, much which previously required emotional awareness or emotional connection is now being replaced by templates, methods and formulas to make music. It’s some sort of depersonalization or objectification of the process of making music. This is probably what you meant by “it isn’t art anymore”.

Did I get right, what you were trying to convey?

Are you one? Over the years I’ve gotten quite paranoid on Reddit. Now, with LLMs, it’s even harder to spot them.

I’m not even sure if including a hashcash scheme into the software would actually help, because they are so targeted.

I feel like I’m back in the early 2000s, where it was so bad that “the brightest minds of the generation were spending their time writing spam filters”.

Once federated with Meta, not only “valid Meta users” would join the network, but also bots which would nudge the users, influencing the narrative.