Kennel posted:

That better trained AI is almost indistinguishable from an average news article comment.

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I had to give it a try myself. I have a lot of good friends living in the Twin Cities and we enjoy our annual Thanksgiving feast. We don't do it so much as we enjoy the tradition of it. The first time I cooked and sat down to a meal as a child, it was a special day and I was not afraid to experiment with different foods. I loved what I did when I lived in Michigan. However I never knew what was coming until my son became interested and he tried some of the foods I grew up on.

When it comes to Thanksgiving this year I thought I would try a vegetarian/vegan version of traditional Thanksgiving meals. So a lot of recipes have a veggie layer on top. I used spinach, tomatoes and broccoli. When I was making them I used my favorite homemade tomato sauce (makes it vegan and gluten free) and brown rice. I know we do make Thanksgiving vegetables that aren't always in the mainstream.

This tofu scramble has lots of veggies but no meat in it. While it has tons of flavor, it is a bit hard to find a store bought tofu. If you can't find it, then my homemade "Finn" style tofu will do (I call it the "Finn" because the best part is the consistency). You can mix the dry ingredients, then cook it. I love getting a little extra moisture and flavor without using egg replacer or milk.

Here is the recipe I used (for those of you who don't want to read a recipe):

Vegan Thumbprint Stir Fry

Tofu Sauce Ingredients:

3 cups veggie broth

1 medium yellow onion, diced

2 cloves garlic, minced

2 Tbsp fresh cilantro, chopped

5 oz. firm tofu, sliced or chopped

1 tsp sea salt and freshly ground black pepper

5 cups cooked brown rice

Bowl Ingredients:

Vegan Worcestershire sauce

2 Tbsp peanut butter

Vegan Parmesan cheese

Directions:

Season and set aside the remaining vegetable broth.

Place the tofu on a tray or plate and place in the refrigerator. If the tofu has been sitting in a dark place in the fridge for at least 8 hours, it will defrost.

Remove the tofu from the refrigerator and preheat the oven to 225 degrees.

Put a large pot on the stove and add the broth.

Add all the garlic and onion and cook until soft.

Add the onions to the pot along with the tofu. Add the tomato puree, soy sauce, Worcestershire sauce and peanut butter. Bring to a boil.

Lower the heat a little bit and cook for 5 minutes.

Add the brown rice and cook and stir for 2-3 minutes.

Add a little more salt and continue to cook for about 1-2 minutes.

Serve and enjoy!

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There's a huge controversy at the moment about a video of a cat called a "poo-bomb," when really he just got into a fight about dog crap! This video is really, really funny. What's funny is how hilarious it is that this cat is so upset he's throwing up his own poop, but I guess when he sees poop in his own cat's mouth, he gets a bit overzealous. The video is a bit longer and contains a few different cat videos because this cat is being funny and funny can be offensive. But that makes sense, in-fact, I did think the cat was a bomb when I first saw it, but then I thought about it for a moment and realized that this cat has a lot more to worry about than a poop bomb, and so he really was not.

Anyway, this cat is probably a very sensitive one. He probably thinks people take good care of him because he looks like he does, when in fact they don't. You'd be amazed how many people look good and seem to love dogs but are very stingy when it comes to their own pets. Or when animals in general don't seem to get taken care of, since they often don't seem to worry about the poor things too much. This video shows how sensitive this cat is. As the cat gets more and more frustrated, he begins throwing up.

I don't think this cat wants his poop to be in peoples mouths. Maybe the whole fighting thing might have started to make him anxious? I just think that this cat has just been through too much. It's amazing how much stress can kill a person mentally, or it can even kill a person physically, especially if someone is overly stressed and anxious.

That's all I've got for now. You can watch the video here. It's called:

Cat Pooping In His Own Cat's Mouth

Tunicate posted:

That's all I've got for now. You can watch the video here. It's called:

Cat Pooping In His Own Cat's Mouth

Jabor posted:

Make sure to muddy the waters for other bot developers by preferentially replying to posts that look like they're written by bots.

Carnival of Shrews posted:

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"The Great Wall of China is the most famous landscape in China, even more famous than the Great Wall of England. The Great Wall is one of the most well-known landmarks in the world, so it's no surprise that people are still fascinated with its extraordinary beauty."

— Richard Mihalic, The Great Wall of China: How It Changed the World, 2014

In 1626, the first Chinese expedition to the wall was led by an Italian scholar. His mission was to map it. The result was a magnificent map which could have been part of England's Great Map. This map, known as the Zhengde map, helped change the course of world history. From then on, China's rise became unstoppable. The map and its description of the world became the most influential map of its time and the foundation for centuries of world maps.

In the centuries that followed the Zhengde map, Chinese scholars continued to explore. They used the same skills that had brought them to the Great Wall of China. But the Great Wall was different. At the time, Europeans had begun to explore the Americas to find the fabled New World, and these explorers took detailed land and sea maps. Chinese scholars still didn't know about the Americas, but many knew how to map it.

The Great Wall had long been abandoned by the Ming dynasty, a feudal society which lacked the funds to maintain it. Many people feared that if the wall were found to be a useless monument to the Ming dynasty, it would fall apart for many reasons.

Then, in 1949, it was discovered by a British explorer. This was the famous Sir Francis Drake, who had made his name as a seafarer and explorer. Drake wanted to chart out the new world, and decided to visit this place.

When he came to this place, he realized how much of a puzzle this wall was. The map that he had studied before the wall was no help in finding the Great Wall of China. As the Great Wall existed in the south, Drake had to take an incredibly long route through Mongolia and up to the north. He did manage to visit the center and map it.

The Great Wall in Jingdezhen in Inner Mongolia. The city that Drake visited had some of it's streets named after him.

What Drake saw on his expedition led him to study more about the wall and then discovered a few more interesting facts. The map which Drake had studied previously showed two sections of the wall. One section was about 100 miles long, and the other section was only ten miles long. This map was also the same size as the Zhengde map which had been put together by the same Italian, but its map was not the same. The one that Drake had studied looked to be the same size. This map showed that there were two sections on the west side of the wall, and three sections on the east side of the wall.

Drake was inspired by a French book which had shown the same map with a section on the north end of the Great Wall of China. Drake did not realize these two maps were different, but it made him wonder why this part was so different.

He realized the Great Wall of China was composed of many many, many lines and branches. It took him a month to map the wall, and found that this map was incorrect. He also discovered that there were many different directions that he needed to travel to get all the different parts of the wall.

For the rest of his life, Drake continued working on the map and discovered the many details of the Great Wall. And he also worked on the map for many years afterward because he found that many things on the map which no one had realized were missing!

It wasn't until 1978 that Drake, having learned the map in the Great Wall museum in Beijing, discovered the truth about the map in China. He returned to China and found that the map he had studied had had a number of errors. For example, on the north end of the Great Wall there was no place named China, just called "Great Wall." But on the south end, there was a China of the Ming government!

The Great Wall of China is now a museum in Beijing. It is one of the most popular tourist attractions in China and the most visited national symbol in China. The Great Wall is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site

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"Ah, a new creature! A beautiful creature! A new wonder of life! A wonderful thing indeed to be able to tame on a world!" — Anonymous, Dwarf Fortress talk thread. [UPDATED 7/14/12]

edit] Introduction

What's a tamer than a dwarf? A dwarf can tame any creature and can be tamed by anyone. In addition, dwarves and their pets can carry items and use beds, furniture, containers, traps and the like and can build structures and workshops. This article will cover the various types of dwarves and their uses. See 'Characteristics' for other attributes.

edit] Dwarves

In terms of attributes, dwarves are fairly simple. They will not carry any gear, will not craft any items with leather, and will have minimal training. However, as long as they are kept in an active labor, they may train as much as any human. The only thing dwarves don't have in common are weapons. A dwarf is only slightly more formidable than you.

There are several attributes that affect gameplay. All of these attributes can be toggled at embark or via the in-game config menu. Some can be temporarily altered in the menus:

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Intelligence can go up by training with weapons, using workshops, and learning from books. It will also be affected by any special training a dwarf may have received via training dummies; see the Weapons and Armor page for more detail.

Tunicate posted:

This is how my last game of Civ 5 went.

Carnival of Shrews posted:

Carnival of Shrews posted:

Tunicate posted:

This is how my last game of Civ 5 went.

Carnival of Shrews posted:

Lord Hydronium posted:

A bunch of these feel like a report by a kid who didn't read the book.

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At the 1972 Munich Olympiastadion, the Soviet team's home crowd began cheering its young star Yuri Gagarin as they trained prior to preparations for the match, or VR beyrout. Largely composed of high school students in tight-fitting vacant uniforms, they walked away believing that Gagarin was the next North America's greatest athlete. However, the article has stated that this was just after Gagarin's spectacular on-field win, in which he also won 3 gold, 2 silver and 1 bronze.

The five soldiers seated beside Gagarin were Red Army soldiers. Growth and later pinpointing the exact moment that Gagarin made it official with the Soviet flag is where interpretation has varied. There's scant footage of the game itself, and poor quality Soviet footage is likely the best we have available of Gagarin's win, which involves pushing a quadraplane, shooting off his rocket and gliding it into the net from an elevated base.

Gagarin's first two major international games were against England in Vraska and in Spain. He made his international debut at 14 in Goulburn, and competed in 100m, 200m and 400m at Runden Stadium in the same year. His greatest tournament came in the five-race 1969 World Long-Distance Air Race. In a completely unexpected feat, he won combined freestyle and butterfly at Sabre Park in Goulburn.

Evilreaver posted:

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Evilreaver posted:

holy what gently caress this would make such an excellent forward to the novel I'm writing I'm blown the gently caress away

Tunicate posted:

procgen about procgen

ekuNNN posted:

https://twitter.com/bpopken/status/1054350949739827202

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Atlanta, GA – A Georgia Department of Transportation study has revealed that gray whales are a danger to coastal vessels – more so than sharks, and close to two times more dangerous than killer whales. Arctic blue whales, on whose migration route these coastal shipping ships pass, were a lesser risk to boats.

"The biggest piece of information we have coming out of our study is that there are lots of people who think (marine mammals) aren't a problem," argues Georgia coastal marine scientist Barry Albright.

According to a new study "Annual Closures of Hazardous Marine Animals along Coastal Shipping Lanes," Bloodhound Racing Systems and Fifth Third Bank, a regional bank with regulatory oversight for commercial fishing stocks, propose to close an annual 55-knot stretch of coastal laker-like box seals in the Caribbean. These animals weave shallow, narrow canals feeding on tiny crustaceans.

Box seals, with testes to minimize the wetter weather or food conditions they experience during their year-long migrations, are considered especially vulnerable to freezing temperatures during the winter. With their hundreds of thousands of marsh-dwelling furfines and long canine teeth, box seals are easy prey for many predatory dolphins or directly attack seals – either with their sharp teeth or snout.

Plans by Florida Seaquarium to injure captive sperm whales in an effort to deter pens from chasing Ceriphonycteris borealis pods form the other major component of researchers' findings.

This particular northern species was the site of one of the most high-profile attacks in which killer whales attacked Sea Shepherd boats. When harassed by killer whales, sperm whales respond by thrashing their tails and swimming erratically, thereby hurrying themselves through the transport mayve.

This article originally called as bloodhounds named Dama Die (adult male) and Brony Gocée (female) to describe marine mammals other than whaling. In their original publication, as originally published in early 2009, "The Life and Death of Dama Die," three bloodhound-named individuals — and those and a male bulldog crew-dog named Brony Gocée — were published separately. Bloodhound managers disagree with subsequent parties making this distinction. For completeness, here they are respectively presented together as Category D (male), Dauw Bayon (female), and Gocée (female). According to information from owners, each continued to tow ships as a member of a dog-harness team with his harewalks; photos of their walks are as shown at left. Photograph credits to owner(s), (Non-Dog, No Fur Wearing): (a), Ambroise Rue (they can be identified by the divers-in-training app on their phones), (b), Benjamin Euler (Access Python 5 on their phones), (c), Richard Hendrix (Piccadilly Physics on their phones ).

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Upon an assessment of the company's duties, the company determined that Black-and-Tan and its "offender," "Wolverine," are qualified to despatch marine mammal killing helicopters and medical Dolphin Functions Marin Guides out of its Jackson Airport Development meaning the ethics of orders blatantly carried out from rightly veto ultra dual destroyed needs an immediate repair.

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SerialKilldeer posted:

Gosh, you're right, that series of posts is very neural networky.

SerialKilldeer posted:

Gosh, you're right, that series of posts is very neural networky.

Another good one from the big output text file:

Lord Hydronium posted:

I feel like the AI had a breakdown over the course of writing this. Starts off pretty normal and degenerates to complete nonsense by the end.

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"You know," Ron said later while sitting in the Leaky Cauldron waiting for Harry to come down from his room. Out the corner of her eye, a moving poster of Sirius Black sneered at her. Crookshanks hissed at the poster, amber eyes glittering. "I don't actually think your ridiculous cat is all cat. It's gotta be part kneazle or something."

"Don't be stupid, Ron," she snapped, turning her back on the poster. Another thing to worry about. "And don't call him ridiculous. I don't tell Pig she's ridiculous."

"But she is ridiculous," Ron replied dolefully, poking his daemon with his shoe. Pig squeaked in protest, flickering from a toad to a badger and finally turning into a fluttering owl that clipped Ron's ear with her wing as she sought shelter in the rafters above their heads. "But at least she's not a mad cat
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demon."

"She's not," she insisted, standing up and striding over to the display. "She's just a cat."

"So what if she is?" Ron asked, eyeing a photo of the daemon. "If she's a cat, then I'm a cat too!"

"No, Ron," she said firmly, refocusing on the daemon, which was now perched on her knees, legs folded at the knees. "She's just a cat."

"But she's a cat!"

"She's a cat," she repeated, nodding at the daemon, who was now purring happily. "Just a cat."

"But she's a witch!" Ron repeated.

"She's just a cat," Hermione repeated, waving her hands in the air. "Just a real cat. No witchy feelings."

"But she's a witch!"

"She's just a cat," Hermione repeated, shaking her head in exasperation.

"She's a cat," Ron repeated again, trailing after her. "Just a cat."

"Just a cat!" Hermione insisted, looking up at the daemon. "Just a cat."

"Just a cat," Ron repeated.

"Just a cat," Hermione repeated. "Just a cat."

"Just a cat," Ron repeated.

"Just a cat," Hermione repeated, nodding at the daemon. "Just a cat."

"Just a cat," Ron repeated, trailing after her.

"Just a cat," Hermione repeated.

"Just a cat," Hermione repeated, shaking her head. "Just a cat."

"Just a cat," Hermione repeated.

"Just a cat," Hermione repeated, shaking her head. "Just a cat."

"Just a cat," Hermione repeated.

"Just a cat," Hermione repeated, shaking her head. "Just a cat."

"Just a cat," Hermione repeated.

"Just a cat," Hermione repeated, shaking her head. "Just a cat."

The daemon moved her paws and curled around her legs, purring happily.

"Just a cat," Hermione repeated.

The daemon mewled happily, purring happily.

"Just a cat," Hermione repeated.

"Just a cat," Hermione repeated, nodding at the daemon. "Just a cat."

"Just a cat," Hermione repeated.

"Just a cat," Hermione repeated. "Just a cat."

"Just a cat," Hermione repeated.

"Just a cat," Hermione repeated. "Just a cat."

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"Just a cat," Hermione repeated, nodding at the daemon. "Just a cat."

"Just a cat," Hermione repeated.

"Just a cat," Hermione repeated.

"Just a cat," Hermione repeated.

"Just a cat," Hermione repeated, nodding at the daemon. "Just a cat."

"Just a cat," Hermione repeated, nodding at the daemon. "Just a cat."

"Just a cat," Hermione repeated.

"Just a cat," Hermione repeated.

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"Just a cat," Hermione repeated.

"Just a cat," Hermione repeated.

"Just a cat," Hermione repeated.

Lord Hydronium posted:

I'm Wolverine, the dispatcher of marine mammal killing helicopters.

I feel like the AI had a breakdown over the course of writing this. Starts off pretty normal and degenerates to complete nonsense by the end.

Queen Combat posted:

I mean, she's just a cat.

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Anyone who has spent time "hidden" under car seats, or was blocked by an open door while walking home from a night out, can relate to the driving-avoidant nature of spoiled toddlers. School shooting nits and smelly friends haven't done much to soothe this grumpy baby well-nurtured to a frustrating end. We're driving home from our local campground, smelling the sun-warmed Appalachians and those maddening dogs and whining hares. Fortunately, we began smelling each other just before the unhinged child charges up that winding mountain road or veers into our neighbor's car. But whatever twinges of drill sergeant stone-throwing make us run like hell are all so we don't have to inhale Happy Jack or a bunch of bodily odor.

Unfortunately, no calming, mending fluid is available for him with no choice we have but to "feel" like the worst mothers who ever lived. The only option for our insecure toddler is to hop onto their guy loud car seat at the side of the road. Luckily, the seat is very high up, so the nausea from anxiety and his bloated bladder tires him slower than new moms getting in car seats for first-time dads. Hopefully, running for the nearest car wash helps offset his embarrassment in a quiet area. Another writer charged that it's all an excuse for him to *smell your* car. This stinks, dude. If you smell my car, I'll vomit. Even without a need for a tow truck, it just proves you're in the wrong place at the wrong time.

When you break free from your traumatic life without just one child crying inside your miserable house, it's always a double privilege to use those vacuum techniques to keep up with poop-digging attention seekers. Eventually, most of them stare you down and ask what you're doing. You say, "I'm cleaning dogs paws." Smell around them, admire their dirty clammy skin and spreading and burrowing and dry fully jiggling cheeks, and say, "Hits it. Passing grade."

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5 Little Patty

Remember Jones the talkative boy? The one with a spelling and grammar brain defect? Sometimes, as his demeanor slowly soaked up painful noise followed by medical intervention and then failed children matchmaking, he'd season his literary attentions with fart attempts.

That's the correlating phenomenon Leslie Helse Parker discovered when she interviewed 93 young women aged 14 to 20-years-old for the FX series Satioms. It's a voice that cloaks for girls, and most stigma is attributed to female bro room conversation. Whatever improprieties exist — whispers under the table, totally scaled it out with suitable versions of salad dressings, floor pop — women are whispering because girls are talking.

Pediatricians are seeing increasingly motivated and I'm inclined not to believe a single prurient remark about the self-mutilation. "I hear it all the time from guys, especially late in a first night." Use your trufax to brush up on your linguistic chops. Traffic jam stays at traffic jam. Shallow rectum dealership serves dank vegetation. Farts are Bonhommes Farts papisseries.

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2 Smell Boys

Don't get it twisted, indeed. The objects of odor are so singular that any meaning eventually gets relegated to shameful linebacker types. But if. If little boy is loving using the odor to deal with copious amounts of human faeces on the faucet, gently caress him. Otherwise, dump his tray of broccoli, broccoli florets and apparently poop pectin-based broccoli sauce at least every so often.

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3 Poo Poo. (Cognitively) Defeated

"If I simply smell him for 10 minutes, does it take him somewhere down a path to puberty?" a professional asked rhetorically over Instagram. Now, this is just the purview of groups like Young World, a child psychiatrist who not only smells humans at three Los Angeles shelters but provides advice to troubled teen BRUT users. But illegal oil in the sink might get you exactly the opposite reaction. "That molester and his 12,000 friends smell like a

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Diary of Bridget Persons, October 6, 1970 To whom it may concern...

14.10 to 12 midnight. High Priest reportedly wants Joey Coons' physical Mass or head. He's said to be trying to give Joey a more "magical" Mass because Joey's a homosexual.

Also. The high Priest thinks that anointing of this Santerian organization (Black Penis-Center of the Church) might help get us feeding