There’s no comma there. They use it as punctuation at the end of a sentence:

e.g.: “I heard your mother died I’m sorry lol”

Suddenly, in sync, a lot of the “people” in the bar say in unison “As a strong black woman, I think president Trump is right about…”

Half the seats at the bar are filled with mannequins, but that makes the bar feel crowded, like it’s still the happenin’ spot. That convinces a lot of brands, celebrities, politicians and journalists that they still need to keep making appearances at the bar.

Interesting that you use the word “chord”, because guitarists and piano players have been remembering chords forever based on the position of their hands, not based on some letters and numbers. Your version isn’t more easily memorized, it’s just different.

Which is something you have to memorize. Do you honestly think that that is somehow easier to memorize than say “Ctrl-Shift-5”?

Ooh, I like before and benign because at first there doesn’t seem to be anything tricky going on there.

Rather than memorizing ctrl+shift+alt-style keybinds, you decompose stuff into chainable actions.

By memorizing something else that’s equally or more obscure.

Can you imagine? A modern day oracle. Scientists would be lining up to ask questions about how the world worked and everything you said would be true.

It would be great for just confirming things that science suspected were true. Like, all the rare particles they’re trying to find with the Large Hadron Collider. They could just ask the oracle and learn all the particles they were missing, along with all the important data about them.

Best of all, if you couldn’t lie, and couldn’t be wrong (even if you didn’t know the answer) it could be used to “discover” things without ever having to go down blind alleys, or waste time with research that won’t bear fruit. For example, you could ask “is it possible for something like a spaceship to move faster than the speed of light?” If the answer is no, then you can write off working on that forever. If it’s yes, you could progressively ask questions to learn the theory you’d need to know to build a FTL ship. It could also finally put to bed whether time travel is possible, and how the paradoxes involved are resolved.

If FTL travel is possible, you could just ask the oracle where all the various aliens are, making it really easy to contact them (plus the oracle can tell you if it’s unsafe to contact them).

Also, since it was obviously possible to transform someone into an oracle, it should be possible to do that again. You can just ask the oracle the right questions needed to create a second, third, tenth, 1000th oracle. That way the one oracle isn’t always so busy, and if the first oracle dies, there are still many more.

Too bad all the (common) silent b words are words with b in the middle, not at the beginning. Bdellium would work, but that’s something I think 99.9% of the planet has never heard of. If that were allowed, I bet you could find extremely rare names for every other letter.

• E: Ewe
• H: Hugh
• U: Uyghur
• Y: Yew

X: how bout either “Xenophobia” or even better, the 14th letter of the greek alphabet, as it’s written in English: Xi.

Better suggestions for B:

• Breath: Half the people would say “breathe” instead.
• Boatswain: most people would have no idea how that’s pronounced
• Bury: a word with lots of different regional pronunciations

No, this was about AI slop. People shouldn’t post AI slop.

There are currently 6 NDP members in the house, and the NDP leader isn’t even one of those six.

If this were anything other than performative, they’d be working with the government on a law.

I really wish the Canadian 2-party duopoly was broken and a third party (ideally the NDP) had a realistic chance of winning elections. But, IMO, performative stuff designed for social media likes isn’t going to convince anybody that the NDP should be in charge of the country.

The slop may happen to mostly be correct this time. Did you actually follow it up and verify it was true before you posted it?

Or did you post a question to Google and copy out the LLM response as if it said something true?

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The human-looking part is probably just a lure, like those deep-sea lantern fish. A human gets close enough to investigate and the insect pounces.

Yes… I know what will make people respect me. It’s getting some MAGA stooge to pretend to be a delivery worker and give me a bag of McDonalds product in the Oval Office, as if that’s a thing that can actually happen.

It’s posts like this that just reinforce the idea that centaurs are freaky creatures.

Why a six-limbed creature? Actual mammals have at most 4 limbs. What does it eat? Is the stomach a horse stomach or a human stomach? Does the human head have to eat 15 kilograms of grass per day, munching it inefficiently with its human teeth? Can it just blend it up and drink vast quantities of smoothies instead? Are the centaur’s front limbs massively strong, unlike a horse, because it has to support a whole secondary torso right at the front of its body? Does the whole body have the same notoriously finnicky immune system and fragility of a horse? Where’s the heart, is it in the human chest or the horse chest? If it is running hard will it be the human chest that’s panting, using those tiny lungs to power an entire body? Or is there just an air tube down through the useless human chest all the way to the horse’s mighty lungs? If the lungs being used are the horse ones, what’s all that room in the human chest being used for?

Imagine a guy crawling along on the ground, except where his neck would be there’s a second torso attached, and it goes upwards so that as the guy crawls the second torso is vertical.