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monotremata

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  • Do you like (AI) clocks?

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  • Good questions. I don't know, and I can no longer try to find out, as the mods have now removed the comment. (Sorry for the double-post--I got briefly confused about which comment you were referring to and deleted my first post, then realized I'd been frazzled and the post in question really was deleted by the mods.)

  • Do you like (AI) clocks?

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  • Do you like (AI) clocks?

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  • Honestly the idea that parasites all share a single, simple method of reproduction is the silliest thing in this comic. There's a cordyceps fungus that not only has a stage in an ant, it then swells and reddens the abdomen of the ant, takes over the behavior of the ant and forces it to climb to the top of a stalk of grass, and has it wave in the air until a bird mistakes it for a berry and swoops down and eats it. At this point it has a whole other phase of its life cycle inside the bird until it finally releases its spores in the bird's droppings.

    (I probably have a few of the details here not quite right, as it's not my field of expertise, but it's along these lines, including the behavior modification and the two separate host species.)

    There are so many kinds of parasites, and they do so many crazy things.

  • Trump, 79, Posts Menacing Video Threatening a Never-Ending Presidency

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  • *Agnew

  • We Desperately Need Maximum Wage Laws

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  • The wolf who cried boy

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  • I think part of the joke was that a kickflip does not involve any change of direction for the skater.

  • ‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

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  • And his last name is "maligno." Even Disney wouldn't use a villain name that blatant. Is reality just a really bad fanfic at this point?

  • Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without an online account

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  • 🎶 The dream of the 90's is alive in Linux🎶

  • Judge blocks national guard deployment to Oregon after legal action by Newsom

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  • Hegseth’s Self-Centered Reason for Calling in Generals Leaks

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  • The link you've shared here talks about the Führer Oath being created in August 1934 but not becoming law until mid-1935, which seems to roughly agree with the date in the post you're disputing. I can't find much to support the claim about a surprise assembly, though, at least from a cursory search.

    It looks as though his post is taken almost verbatim from this substack post: https://thecycle.substack.com/p/from-hitler-to-hegseth

    which doesn't inspire the most confidence.

  • Trump administration set to tie Tylenol to autism risk, officials say

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  • This suggests a whole new kind of D&D alignment chart.

  • This is the technology worth trillions of dollars huh

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  • It's because, for the most part, it doesn't actually have access to the text itself. Before the data gets to the "thinking" part of the network, the words and letters have been stripped out and replaced with vectors. The vectors capture a lot of aspects of the meaning of words, but not much of their actual text structure.

  • Trump Claims the Power to Summarily Kill Suspected Drug Smugglers

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  • Yeah, it's a total fascist shitshow here right now.

  • Back in my day, we didn't stop the game unless a bone was broken

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  • Yeah, drinking from the hose was a lot less problematic than just breathing the air, which was full of tetraethyl lead.

  • Trump Claims the Power to Summarily Kill Suspected Drug Smugglers

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  • Chicago mayor signs executive order directing city to resist Trump’s immigration raids

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  • Yeah, I can't help reading about the Chicago Police Department (CPD) being instructed not to go along with Tom Homan without thinking of the stories about the Homan Square facility in Chicago where CPD would detain people for days without charging them, without giving them access to their lawyers, etc. If we're thinking CPD are supposed to be some kind of bulwark against fascism, we're SO fucked.

    Edit: To be clear, as far as I know, the shared name is a total coincidence, but it really makes it hard not to think about the history of the department.

  • Happy Skynet day to those who celebrate

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  • Oh, I only minored in math, I'm no expert either! Yeah, your explanation was really fine, I just thought the "sum of a geometric series" thing might ring a bell for some readers.

  • Happy Skynet day to those who celebrate

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  • Yeah, that's basically how I remember it, though it's not always stats--the terms are used in other fields of math as well. A first calculus class typically includes a proof that the limit of the sum of an infinite geometric series (a + ar + ar2 + ar3 + ...) tends towards a/(1-r) where a is the first term and r is the ratio of successive terms, provided that -1 < r < 1. (Otherwise the series diverges and the limit isn't defined.)