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What is meant by People? There is cave art and other relics dating back to 25,000 years ago. Do Neanderthals count?

narwhal is still available.

The story an about him in a cab with Charlie Parker with Parker getting a blowjob from a prostitute while eating fried chicken was a particularly memorable anecdote.

This list is not accurate. The gaming subreddit is still on Reddit. It hasn’t relocated.

Why will it be quite an event? After this brief protest it is business as usual.

Joy of Cooking has been my go to for 25 years. It’s part cookbook, part encyclopedia, and just very useful.

Sometimes I pass a place I've passed before while listening to an audiobook and have an immediate recall of what I was listening to at the time. It's like the place is associated with what I heard at the time.

It’s not saying it can’t remember. It’s saying it doesn’t have the ability to do what it did.

There are entries for Castaneda on that wiki.

I first heard of this as a sort of practice based on the writings of Carlos Castaneda. He wrote these very interesting and entertaining books about his anthropological studies of a Yaqui Indian shaman which were later revealed to be mostly made up. The books were so compelling that they drew true believers and a practice of movements dubbed Tensegrity was developed.

My kids play it because its one of the few games not blocked at their school

Are you confident that its responses are accurate? I’ve had it just make up facts or tack made-up facts onto actual facts. It will also fabricate references to research papers.

There was someone on YouTube showing elevated radiation levels in Japanese green tea after the Fukushima incident.

It was so much fun filling up your queue after first signing up, finding films you always wanted to see, being able to add entire tv series, changing priorities, etc.

It was a unique kind of fun that I can’t seem to reproduce anywhere else these days.

What is the significance of the core's shape? Looks kinda like a bullet.

I can't learn guitar looking at fretboard diagrams like that. They completely confuse me. The only way I learn shapes like that is by repeatedly playing them.

You can use Calibre to download the Economist each week and send it to your kindle.

The novels based on the game by Rand Miller were really good. Shame they seem to be out of print.

Happened to me. Then a few years later they used my kid’s ssn. So now we all have pins.

Here’s what I see:

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Hitchens didn’t really address Buddhism in any meaningful way. He made a quip once about the Buddhist saying this glass of scotch isn’t really there and Hitchens’ response was something about how he rejected that take because he enjoyed the scotch.

He seemed to dismiss it because it was a religion rather than address any of its positions in a substantial way. Probably because he couldn’t give as forceful or witty a counter argument to it as he could Christianity.

I’m really jaded towards guitar solos but that solo always makes me stop whatever it is I’m doing. The song plods on and on and is a bit boring but the solo just bursts out of it and wakes you up out of the trance induced by what’s going on around it.

“There’s a man who likes eggs with his pepper.”

I think of this line any time I put pepper on my eggs.

or we are in a simulation

I was in the hospital with a blood clot and was told by the ER doctor that I could die at any moment.

Quotes like the above, ideas, feelings about meaning, thoughts about my wife and kids all were completely absent. I just felt blank and completely alone. No words or concepts or language could penetrate that feeling.

does mate actually have cancer causing properties or does the cancer come about from long term sipping a hot drink through a straw?

I asked for a poem about red chickens and it gave me something passable.

Then I asked for a poem about blue chickens and it was basically the same poem.

My HSA upstated their app and the update is a real step backwards in usability. I wanted to write a complaint but was too busy and figured what’s the point?

Just put a few details into chatGPT and now have a pretty good letter to send.

I want to zap the pram and fire up Myst.

I read Jude the Obscure recently after seeing it on the bookshelf of a character in the HBO show Westworld. It was a very controversial book in its day because of its portrayal of marriage. I found it pretty bleak and yes shocking. It made me want to do a deep dive into Hardy’s other works though.