I’ve heard this but I’ve also never heard of hand smegma, so…

Some additional info based on their published material (screenshot below). The software gets its data from “publicly available sources” which includes tracking information from many different online advertisers, public social media posts, etc. As we know, the advertising data can sometimes have your personal info attached - sometimes not. Babel Street claims to anonymize the data, but let’s assume there is a $$ amount at which they won’t.

So, theoretically, if you can successfully avoid ad trackers, and you don’t post on social media platforms except where you want to be “seen”, you can avoid this tracking (granted that seems quite impossible these days).

My god, they are so brave.

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True, he straight up admits many times in the books that he would lie about his wealth so that other people would work with him. I assume that came out during his fraud case in NY.

He had a few deals that worked out - all starting with dad’s money. He managed to squander 4 out of 5 of everything he tried. Casinos in Atlantic City, Trump University, Trump Steaks, Trump Ice, Wollman Rink, etc. It’s a long list. But the 1 or 2 that worked is why he has any money at all. If I remember correctly, it’s mostly the golf courses and an option he bought in the 70s for an old railroad yard in lower west side Manhatten I think. He really fucked someone over on that one. He bragged about how much he screwed them for pages and pages. Like it brought him more joy to fuck someone over than it did to have a success. He’s a complete psychopath.

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I already bought the books + it was like watching a car accident. I just couldn’t believe this guy was a successful businessman.

The first 5 or so of Trump’s books. No meaningful lessons in business to be had. Just him bragging about people he knew, people he’d screwed over, how good he thought he was at pretty much everything. How he got back at anyone who crossed him. Insufferable. I knew he was one of the worst people ever before he even mentioned getting into politics.

And in those 5 books, he probably name-dropped every New York socialite he ever met. It’s consistent with his whole image of self-worth and needing to look and feel important. You know who he didn’t mention? Someone we’ve seen him with in several photos? Who he definitely would have mentioned if there wasn’t a reason not to? Jeffrey Epstein.

I don’t own one. Can someone objectively confirm a few things about Glocks? Is the following true?:

• They don’t really have a “safety”. They have several mechanisms that prevent accidental fire when a finger isn’t on the trigger, but if you have a round in the chamber and pull the trigger, it’s going to fire (which sounds obvious, but I mean it doesn’t have a safety switch like a bb gun usually does)

• You have to pull back the slide to chamber a round and fire. And once it’s chambered, the trigger just needs a light squeeze to fire (as opposed to a full motion squeeze - in other words, the trigger is partially pulled back once racked and easier to fire)

If the above is true, these two things in combination seem like an irrisponsible design to me. You are asking for accidental fires like the one that happens recently where a guy pointed a gun at some kids in his driveway and claims “the gun went off”. You should either have a real safety, or it should be harder to squeeze the trigger accidentally.

I figured Joe Pesci was done after The Irishman.

That must be something else because he was charged with 83 counts of attempted murder. 1 for each passenger.

Hate to see Jon Voight get work.

I’m somewhat ashamed to admit it, but back before he did “The Apprentice”, I’ll admit I was somewhat fascinated by Trump as a business “mogul”. I read at least 5 of his books starting with “Art of the Deal”. Here are some highlights I remember:

• He constantly bragged about deals in which he completely fucked someone over. Not once did he acknowledge it - at all. It’s like it never entered his mind. Or, that the more he fucked someone over, the more proud he was.

• He bragged about never preparing for speeches. He likes to completely wing it every time - which I guess is obvious.

• He claimed to never eat lunch. Too busy “making deals” he said.

• He used to be very good friends with the Clintons. Went to their parties often. Spoke very highly of them.

• Didn’t mention Jeffrey Epstein at all. You know, like all those pictures of them together might have been a secret?

• Talked about times when he was flat broke or in the hole and how he needed to fake that he was rich to keep up appearances so people would want to do deals with him. I remember one paragraph where he was walking into a building in NY with Ivanka and pointed out a homeless person and told her “See that man. He has more money than me.”

Long before he entered politics, based on those books, I knew Donald Trump was a despicable piece of shit.

With AI based routing, the switches will use AI to read the destination IP, look it up in the routing table, and send the traffic there. It’s the same as it was before, but AI. Also, it will occasionally hallucinate and send your traffic to someone else.

His supporters certainly don’t mind an awful lot of racism though.

I think they leaked this themselves:

• Makes it look like they knew how much Vance sucks going into it, so their decision looks less stupid
• Tries to re-create a boogeyman in Iran for everyone to be scared of
• Doesn’t actually leak anything that damning (i.e.: “See, no more pussy grabbing!”)

“The Projects” is a term used to describe government provided (or subsidized) housing for poor people. The term is generally used to indicate “a place in a city where income is low and crime is usually high”.

The javelin was officially redesigned in 1986 to limit its distance to keep it in the field, and to ensure it doesn’t land flat. They are likely only counting post-redesign throws.

That the “demon core”? If so, don’t remove the keychain.

Agree for these reasons:

• Legally: It’s always been legal (in the US at least) to relay the ideas in a copywrited work. AI might need to get better at providing a bibliography, but that’s likely a courtesy more than a legal requirement.

• Culturally: Access to knowledge should be free. It’s one of the reasons public libraries exist. If AI can help people gain knowledge more quickly and completely, it’s just the next evolution of the same idea.

• Also Culturally: Think about what’s out on the internet. Millions of recipes, no doubt copied from someone else, with pages of bullshit about how the author “grew up on a farm that produced Mohitos”. For decades now, “content creators” have gotten paid for millions of low quality bullshit click bait articles. There’s that. Most of the real “knowledge” on the internet is freely accessible technical / product documentation, forum posts like StackOverflow, and scientific studies. All of it is stuff the authors would probably love to have out there and freely accessible. Sure, some accidental copywrite infringement might happen here and there, but I think it’s a tiny problem in relation to the value that AI might bring society.

I’m down