My dad told me when he was a teenager some type of corduroy pants were really popular and the thing was never to wash them. So people would wear them until they go so stiff you could literally stand them up in the corner by themselves.

Yes and thanks, this reminds me I need to wash the jeans I bought a couple months ago. They’re finally relaxing and I need to wash them so they tighten up again. I hate wearing belts.

Two of my friends did a Harry Met Sally 35 years ago. Meeting through a ride board, they left Seattle as strangers and arrived in Illinois as a couple. Still very happily together and they seem like a perfect couple.

To either finish projects or cancel them and move on. No more lingering crap.

Interestingly 0⁰ doesn’t always mean 1, sometimes it’s treated as undefined - depends on what type of mathematical problem you’re working on.

The most obnoxious kid in any high school has a rich dad whose new real estate project is going to shut down the bikini shop.

I heard the guy who wrote Lemmy ate a GMO tomato, and enjoyed it.

That’s a good counterexample. Do you know what “more heavily influenced” means? It means “not always universally every time, but more often”.

Weird how we’re supposed to think something is true and wise if it’s attached to somebody famous.

“Bleach cures anything.” – William Shakespeare

Well he’ll never face criminal justice cuz he’ll either pardon himself or have his final Big Mac Attack - and then he’s replaced by Vance. My wish is for him to golf and tweet his way through another 4 years and hopefully the Dems get their shit more together.

An obscure Swedish jazz musician got more plays than most of the tracks on Jon Batiste’s We Are—which had just won the Grammy for Album of the Year (not just the best jazz album, but the best album in any genre). How was that even possible?

LOL a couple obvious reasons are that Spotify listeners don’t get to vote for grammy awards - only a few thousand people do - and to be eligible for a grammy an album has to be released in the United States. The awards are more heavily influenced by album sales than subjective judgements of musical quality. Jimi Hendrix never won a grammy. Neither did Bob Marley or Diana Ross. There’s a lot already wrong with the grammys.

The fake musicians and possibly AI-generated songs are more interesting. If the music industry is trying to eliminate musicians it wouldn’t be to avoid paying them - they’ve already figured out lots of ways to do that - it would be to have complete control over the music.

If exercise makes you so healthy why doesn’t everybody do it?

Technically isn’t telling anybody anything “stealing”? You’re transmitting a copy of the information and whoever created it gets nothing.

I hope to have a whole new life eventually because reincarnation is my favorite concept of an afterlife, but no hurry on that.

The American Dream - a tax-optimized portfolio of high-yield stocks, bonds and mutual funds.

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The other night I watched the episode of Mr. Bean, where he’s writing Christmas cards. He goes out, shoves them in under the door, comes back in, acts surprised to find them, reads them and hangs them on a string on the wall - all identical.

That was weird cuz I named my computer Saturn, so I was like wait wut?

No, “the banks” wouldn’t be what the AI would be trained on, it would be the private info of individuals the banks do business with.

Only if they were trained on public material.