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The specific crime Trump is charged with turns out to be fairly complex

Spaghetti is a fairly complex problem you can solve by sticking a fork in and twisting
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 5:43 AM on May 30, 2024

Donald Trump didn't "fuck a porn star". He raped a(nother) woman. And then paid people off, with campaign funds, to keep it quiet.

This.
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 12:32 PM on May 30, 2024

Without a doubt, the hardest decisions we faced in postproduction were how to edit together sequences involving Trump. We needed him to sound sharp, dignified, and clear on what he was looking for and not as if he was yelling at people.

See, Trump was a bigly great president, he just needed better editors.
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 9:31 AM on May 30, 2024

Duncan Simpson's blog is in English and has many examples of these letters. It’s a fascinating dynamic.
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 4:15 AM on May 30, 2024

what an excellent essay. truly to the grit.

QFT:

Think of Utopia as just another word for the ideal America—the imagined one of election seasons that is prosperous, righteous, and always good—and suddenly Stevens is not so different from the person who gives a stump speech. Stevens believed that the best in the world (which he called “poetry”) came forward when we allowed the imagination to roam free. But ever the realist, he saw that… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 1:39 AM on May 30, 2024

Can we assume the new vessel will include a device that will hold his beer?
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 11:32 AM on May 28, 2024

"No, I'm going to visit a rusty, falling apart grave that's been visited a lot before!"

"Let me pack you a lunch."

Is a collapsed submersible filled with billionaires a sandwich?
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 12:57 PM on May 28, 2024

Yes! We have party ice!

"Where the elite meet to beat the heat and avoid having to meet St. Pete"
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 12:11 PM on May 28, 2024

I guess I should mention my tea for men with nipples.

There are men without nipples?

There's tea with nipples?
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 5:41 AM on May 28, 2024

Pinochle! That's the trick-taking game of (my) choice
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 11:47 AM on May 27, 2024

naturalist Euell Gibbons

Some men are born to Grape Nuts, some men have Grape Nuts thrust upon them
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 10:36 AM on May 25, 2024

I remember reading the stories in the collection “Night Shift” over and over again trying to make them not be scary. It didn’t work.
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 4:17 PM on May 24, 2024

don't perfectly

I know this is a typo but even still it's about the best 2-word summary of Stephen King's work I've ever seen.
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 5:16 AM on May 25, 2024

I liked @dril's prescient comment from 2014: a man ate Mcdonald for a whole month . what happens next will Shock you (he passes peacefully from cancer 20 years later)


(it's fake, from "drilhistorian," but still)
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 5:05 AM on May 25, 2024

There are still good people!
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 4:22 AM on May 25, 2024

“We are 50-year-old women. We can’t just set a toxic ham on fire in a public place. We’ll get caught. We’ll get arrested.”

They're from Ohio. Up in Albany they know what to do with ham.
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 10:34 AM on May 24, 2024

A good story, but I'm begging people, please do not throw a ham in your stream.

Streamed ham
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 2:11 PM on May 24, 2024

Dogecoin up over $0.16 today, FWIW
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 6:56 AM on May 24, 2024

Mammoth bones, freed
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 11:46 PM on May 23, 2024

“It was a challenging palette.”

there's a Taco Bell challenging palate joke in here somewhere
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 4:24 AM on May 23, 2024

there's a Taco Bell challenging palate joke in here somewhere

it was on the tip of my tongue...
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 11:26 AM on May 23, 2024

AI is currently just a marketing trend, but the real thing is coming whether we like it or not.

Yes, "in 20 years, or maybe even less."
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 1:17 AM on May 23, 2024

Prediction #3:
At no point does any of this result in improved conditions for the working class, remote work aside, and indeed nothing does until the societal reformations in the aftermath of the Climate Crisis Crunch two centuries later.

The Low-Paid Humans Behind AI’s Smarts Ask Biden to Free Them From ‘Modern Day Slavery’ [Wired]
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 6:51 AM on May 23, 2024

Indeed, despite most articles concluding trigger warnings are not helpful, they continue to be widely used by the public.

Give the people what they want!
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 5:00 AM on May 23, 2024

What a lovely story! Rock on, all of you...
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 9:11 AM on May 22, 2024

So say goodbye, it's Independence Day, it's Independence Day all down the line...
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 9:06 AM on May 22, 2024

Turan-d'oh!
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 3:50 AM on May 21, 2024

PIN numbers?

For the record, this is addressed in the tags.
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 1:44 AM on May 21, 2024

That a marketeer for a manufactured product would willingly try to name it "Recall" absolutely blows my mind. That it made it all the way to the actual market, well...
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 1:20 PM on May 20, 2024

Meanwhile, I have Copilot on my work computer.

Just tried this:

You
do you have Recall?

Copilot
I apologize, but I don’t have any information about a product or service called “Recall.” If you could provide more context or clarify what you’re referring to, I’d be happy to assist further! 😊
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 1:23 PM on May 20, 2024

Related: Vice
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 3:46 AM on May 20, 2024

How many people can separate the body of work of the artist, from the personality of said artist.

I think part of Spacey's undeniable skill as an actor was his ability to channel & project his personal full dark. That he couldn't master it offstage is a tragedy, for his victims even more than him.

"The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist."
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 1:22 AM on May 20, 2024

"It was absolutely terrific. I thought I really didn't need this in my life but now I need it in my life. I am ecstatic," Dwight said.

This made my day.
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 1:14 PM on May 19, 2024

posted by numberstation

sideeyesterical
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 1:12 PM on May 19, 2024

Ain’t Nobody got time for that.
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 8:55 AM on May 19, 2024

We care a lot!
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 1:43 PM on May 18, 2024

Came here for Repo Man, was not disappointed.
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 3:33 PM on May 16, 2024

I love Chicago.
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 2:18 PM on May 16, 2024

Though maybe Yakov Smirnoff is more the Kurtz in this story.

In Soviet Branson, the horror says "you, you".
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 9:19 AM on May 16, 2024

This is an excellent article, thanks for posting.
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 3:34 AM on May 16, 2024

That's ... incroyable.
And low.
I wonder, just for curiosity's sake, if this plagiarist is actually translating the materials or just dumping them into "AI" for the quickest, most pathetickest euro.
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 1:43 AM on May 16, 2024

The US had a "Populist Party" at the turn of the 19th century, William Jennings Bryan was its leader for awhile.

Here's a brief history:

The Populists reiterated a long-significant question in the American experience: Why do some have and others have not? Historians can find similar patterns of populist agitation throughout all of US history, particularly when examining the interests and points of view of rural vs. urban… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 3:52 PM on May 15, 2024

But after taking office and examining hundreds of pages of curriculum, Gore was shocked by what she found — and didn’t find.

"shocked" like Captain Renault in Casablanca, I'm sure.
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 12:06 PM on May 15, 2024

Yeo's 2014 portrait of Camilla [then scroll down]

She's enveloped in a haze of gin & smoke which I take it is on brand for Camilla.
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 12:01 PM on May 15, 2024

How to get 7th graders to smoke
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 7:53 AM on May 15, 2024

I have to ask: is a Choco Taco a sandwich?
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 4:42 AM on May 15, 2024

Google "cat"
Click on the paw icon (under the pictures of cats in the box on the right)
Click anywhere else in the browser window.
Enjoy!

works for "dog" too, you get a very catlike dog's paw
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 12:36 AM on May 15, 2024

That thinking ends in asserting fondue is a sandwich.

Close enough
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 12:32 AM on May 15, 2024

“Fuck you, wet cookie.”

If only I needed a username
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 12:34 AM on May 15, 2024

The only way to truly improve any sandwich is to eat it.
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 4:03 PM on May 14, 2024