Thank you – the person I replied to – for actually being the only reasonable reply. I profoundly agree with anticapitalism and self-sufficient, grassroots communities (of which I participate actively in several), and I appreciate that solely voting is no longer a viable strategy. I just don’t like your defeatist message tacitly saying that people shouldn’t vote because anyone else would still be bad and/or part of a flawed system. We have to acknowledge that Trump has proven himself a uniquely horrifying threat to humanity, and that has to be reflected at the ballot box in 2026 and 2028.

We’re doing whataboutism now too? Should I have brought my intellectual dishonesty bingo card?

Oh cool, good to know the shameless fucks who both sides’d in 2024 and helped get us into this mess still have no shame and are here to help make the 2026 midterms worse too.

Mathematician mfs when I solve the sphere packing problem with infinite efficiency by assuming the spheres are bosonic:

You’re getting downvoted for pointing out that this technology, at optimal efficiency on Earth, generates about 1/100,000 the power of a solar panel. “Not very useful” is an understatement (it’s currently fucking useless). Even worse: the title saying “at night” implies a terrestrial usage and misdirects from this technology’s only potential useful application in the future once and if it becomes much better – namely on deep-space missions.

This research is interesting. I hope it yields something useful. Your comment is still 100% correct for the foreseeable future.

Edit: I was conflating the optimal efficiency of 1 W/m² and the actual efficiency of 1/100,000 the solar panel. Sorry for introducing that confusion.

Petition to make the names less confusing by renaming the top one to “Bear” and the bottom one to “Twink”.

Jaguars are the leading cause of male-pattern baldness.

It’s a trick. The jaguars killed Sebastián and used his phone to lure in more prey.

(Edit: As someone who’s contacted experts for research to improve Wikipedia, they’ve all seemed really happy that someone was interested enough in their subject to ask. If you have a question you’ve tried and failed to find an answer for, the worst they can ever do is say “no” or not reply. Try it sometime!)

since you’re also apparently "too lazy to check linked sources:…

I hope you realize I said:

Anyway, I acknowledge now that Politico has used “sensitive” in place of “classified”.

The part about “functional illiteracy” was my way of trying to be a rude asshole, but now I’m actually concerned.

which this is, and not ‘the context of the us government’… ya dingbat

“in the context of US government documents”… ya dingbat. Living with functional illiteracy must be so difficult, but it understandably makes it really hard to just dip into an article and check the first paragraph before commenting.

Anyway, I acknowledge now that Politico has used “sensitive” in place of “classified”. The point about that not being what “sensitive” means, however, is ancillary to the point that it is not hard at all to just check an article every once in a while, and it’s not journalists’ fault that you’re unwilling to do that. The headline got across its point fine. We’re not ten years old, and the news isn’t a TikTok feed. It took me 10 seconds to click the article and read just the first paragraph. I have really bad attention problems, and this is sad even to me.

headlines should be a bit more specific.

The information is literally in the first sentence of the article that I don’t think you read:

The interim head of the country’s cyber defense agency uploaded sensitive contracting documents into a public version of ChatGPT last summer, triggering multiple automated security warnings that are meant to stop the theft or unintentional disclosure of government material from federal networks, according to four Department of Homeland Security officials with knowledge of the incident.

It’s not journalists’ fault that you want to consume the news as a series of disconnected headlines like you’re in a dopamine famine. This headline conveys the gist excellently; the fact that they were contracting documents is superfluous, while the fact they were sensitive is the entire problem.

Also, it can’t mean he “uploaded national security secrets” because that’s definitionally not what “sensitive” means in the context of US government documents.

Does ChatGPT apparently need to be brought up in literally every conversation about schizophrenic people now regardless of direct relevance?

Anyway, if you’re interested diving deeper, Fredrik Knudsen (Down the Rabbit Hole) made a great video on Davis and TempleOS back in 2018.

Rule 1, OP.

If you really want “beast of Satan” territory (imo, Poltys are just very cryptic):

• For behavior, I’m going to appeal to the Brazilian wandering spider which is extremely aggressive, likes to hide in human living spaces, is mobile, and is severely venomous (including causing a painful priapism).
• For prey, going with the Goliath birdeater. I think tarantulas are cute, but this one has the legspan of a fucking dinner plate, weighs up to like a 1/5 of a kilo, has a massive body, has 4 cm fangs, and is large enough to prey on small terrestrial vertebrates.
• For sheer vibes, going with the giant huntsman spider. It lives in caves in Laos, has a legspan of up to 30 cm like the Goliath birdeater (but proportionally smaller body, amplifying the creepiness), was only discovered in 2001 despite being so huge, and as a huntsman is probably fast as fuck. Unsure about the venom; I’ve never researched it.
• See also: trapdoor spiders.

Not putting any of these images here in case anyone’s arachnophobic. Exposure therapy only works if you build yourself up to it, and I don’t want anybody to miss out on a chance to come to appreciate spiders.

Looks like a species from the genus Poltys.

King Dragon sends his regards.

Nah, the Lysandreoth archetype is more like “Me on my first playthrough and realizing most of his lines are hints” territory. I genuinely thought Pokémon X and Y would have a twist that Lysandre isn’t the villain because his dialogue is so agonizingly unsubtle. I was trying to parse it for subtle hints that he was secretly good.

Edit: Apparently TV Tropes calls this trope “obvious Judas” (which is much more immediately understood but way less funny than “Lysandreoth”).

Not only that, but the operative word is “killed”. Wongbandue had dementia and went to the train station, and it’s profoundly disgusting that Facebook has a product that would deceive a senile old man into going to New York to meet someone who doesn’t exist, but he died after falling while jogging. Clearly not at all what’s being implied by the OP and really stretching the proximate cause for being “killed”.

It’s a joke about how “JPEG” is literally the name of the organization; it was under their nose the entire time.