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darkwasthenight posted:Robbie Robertson was in The Band, famous for backing Dylan as well as being wildly successful in their own right. Scorcese directed the film of their last show and Robbie went on to work on the soundtrack of a bunch of his films. Robbie was sometimes an rear end in a top hat on twitter and also in real life. The other guy wrote for the Cleveland Show.
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Triarii posted:I know I shouldn't, but I'm trying to understand what this guy's position even is It's actually "don't badmouth AI *10,000 words on why taking other peoples work to feed into my AI engine is also proletariat labor*".
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Pandaal posted:Also, they were a great band and the subject of, in my opinion, the best concert documentary ever in The Last Waltz. 
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Looks like the Pope finally won. https://twitter.com/AlisonMaryORE/status/1688894324128325632
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Hippocrass posted:Looks like the Pope finally won. i want to be annoyed at you for this but the idea the papacy being a sort of immortal spirit passed from human to human is kind of funny and not that far off from what they believe
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Alec "If you wanna feel better about this earthquake in Japan, google “Pearl Harbor death toll”" Sulkin
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Read After Burning posted:Not just the Cleveland Show; also that garbage-rear end Ted movie. Honestly more objectionable than writing for the cleveland show DrankSinatra posted:"Cognition Engineer," what a loving dildo. Aren't these like PUA adjacents where if you say a series of magic words you magically get sex Milo and POTUS has a new favorite as of 10:54 on Aug 10, 2023 |
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Maybe it's "cognition engineer" in the sense of "over-designed, completely impractical in the real world, and not actually what users want or need"
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Not the first engineer I’ve seen that doesn’t actually use the final product
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Hippocrass posted:Ok, fine. Nevermind first. Whose on second? Nevermind. No, Nirvana couldn't be at the show. Bollocks! Nevermind the bollocks, it's the Sex Pistols! Live on stage? No, Live is on the other stage.
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wash bucket posted:https://twitter.com/InternetHippo/status/1688943095482900480 My dad sold his parents house for millions of dollars and went from spending his days reading The Economist while drinking red wine out of little glasses to reading The Economist while drinking slightly nicer red wine out of little glasses, it was weirdly inspiring
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Milo and POTUS posted:Honestly more objectionable than writing for the cleveland show It means they write prompts for AI.
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sebmojo posted:My dad sold his parents house for millions of dollars and went from spending his days reading The Economist while drinking red wine out of little glasses to reading The Economist while drinking slightly nicer red wine out of little glasses, it was weirdly inspiring If I got lots of money I wouldn't buy a fancy sports car, I would just upgrade to a nicer sedan (I'm pretending to be humble to paper over how I just can't drive stick)
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Every time I've tried a brand new car it's felt like a downgrade from my 20 year old shitbox so I'd just ask a mechanic to fix everything worn on said shitbox.
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Horace posted:Every time I've tried a brand new car it's felt like a downgrade from my 20 year old shitbox so I'd just ask a mechanic to fix everything worn on said shitbox. Word. I'd maybe keep an eye out online for some crazy low-mile, garaged 2001 Cavalier, but also take mine in and say "fix everything you can, guys!" and then tip the shop handsomely.
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Tired: buying a new car with your newfound millions of dollars; Wired: paying someone else with your newfound millions of dollars to drive you around. 
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JacquelineDempsey posted:Word. I'd maybe keep an eye out online for some crazy low-mile, garaged 2001 Cavalier, but also take mine in and say "fix everything you can, guys!" and then tip the shop handsomely.
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Horace posted:Every time I've tried a brand new car it's felt like a downgrade from my 20 year old shitbox so I'd just ask a mechanic to fix everything worn on said shitbox. last generation volvo’s are like this. nice enough to keep around. but not so nice that it tip toes into expensive luxury car manufacturer level of repairs. currently driving a 15 year old volvo and loving it
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zedprime posted:There were some instant classics in this period despite the era being the worst of bubbley designs and the onset of fun ideas like cram it all in the engine bay and let the mechanics figure it out or what if we ruin the car to get an extra 3 mpg. But there's no accounting for taste cause a Cavalier???? The Cavalier was legit! I will forever be spoiled by those huge windows and tiny pillars, the driver's view was incredible. Feels like I'm driving ~nothing at all~
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Horace posted:Every time I've tried a brand new car it's felt like a downgrade from my 20 year old shitbox so I'd just ask a mechanic to fix everything worn on said shitbox.  OK, I'll bite: what is your 20 year old shitbox and which new cars did you compare it to?
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Trabant posted:
Yeah, seconding this. I think there hasn't been a good-looking car made in 30 years and I still can't argue that the new ones are much nicer to drive in and have a lot more amenities. I'm not going back to my 1989 Pontiac LeMans, no matter how tough it is to work on the engine of a new car. Note: the Pontiac LeMans was not one of the good-looking cars of the past, just to clarify
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Watching the X-files you will really start to question wtf we were doing with cars in the 90s.
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Could always get a hot hatch, they’re econoboxes that are fun to drive. By nature of sharing the economy platform they skip all kinds of techno-bullshit. This may not apply to VWs though, as if that needed to be said
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Milo and POTUS posted:Aren't these like PUA adjacents where if you say a series of magic words you magically get sex I think you're thinking of neurolinguistic programming.
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As someone that has spent some time in rehab, something like this would be a lifesaver. Having a connection to “the outside” really makes a difference.
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I expect the anime fanfic writer will also be in jail soon.
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Pandaal posted:I don’t often get to actually know anything, so I’m compelled to add that Robbie Robertson was *not* the lead member of the Band despite apparently thinking so often enough for it to be a huge point of contention for the group. https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/the-last-waltz-why-you-dont-hear-robbie-robertsons-vocals-in-scorseses-film-about-the-band.html/
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the holy poopacy posted:The Cavalier was legit! I will forever be spoiled by those huge windows and tiny pillars, the driver's view was incredible. Feels like I'm driving ~nothing at all~ Preach, cuz! I've had Pilar (my 01 Cav) since 2003. We've been through a lot together these past 20 years, and she's always been there for me. Will saying I'd also be shopping for a 89 Probe help? That was Pilar's predecessor, and I miss her.
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Lobok posted:I expect the anime fanfic writer will also be in jail soon. Speaking as someone who once wrote fanfic, we all deserve jail time
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Dr. Lunchables posted:Could always get a hot hatch, they’re econoboxes that are fun to drive. By nature of sharing the economy platform they skip all kinds of techno-bullshit. True, I get that the driving experience can be better on something more analog. And I agree that stupid tech makes it impossible to repair some things on your own. But that's not even what the OP said. Virtually everything else -- safety, gas mileage, acceleration, materials, comfort -- is better in a typical new car today vs a shitbox from 20 years ago. Late 90s and early 00s were a rough time for cars, so calling modern cars a downgrade is... I guess it's not impossible, but it is hard to believe.
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Right, but if you pretend that all new cars actually suck, you feel less pressure to get rid of your beater with 240k on the odometer
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My old car hasn't tried to swerve me into oncoming traffic because it thought it could read the road markings better than I could. New cars have done that to me. Visibility's also pretty crap with the horrible squat windows and massive A posts so while I might survive a crash I'm more likely to get into one cos I can't loving see.
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LASER BEAM DREAM posted:As someone that has spent some time in rehab, something like this would be a lifesaver. Having a connection to “the outside” really makes a difference. Yeah, what the hell else is she supposed to do all day? Although supposedly it's getting harder and harder and more expensive to actually send mail to jail, and I'm guessing she doesn't have great access to email or other internet.
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Can you just email fanfic to a prison in general? Like nobody in particular, "To Whom it May Concern." And if anybody likes your Jiren-Toppo ships they can write back and be your beta reader slash (pun intended) copy editor slash (pun intended) penpal?
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zoux posted:Right, but if you pretend that all new cars actually suck, you feel less pressure to get rid of your beater with 240k on the odometer The build quality and fuel economy is for sure loads better nowadays, but I feel like most vehicles produced in the last decade or so have much worse visibility (tiny windshields and massive pillars), overengineered electronics (please stop putting touch screens in cars), tons of proprietary parts that make personal maintenance way harder than it has to be (and also makes repairs way more expensive than they need to be), and they all for some reason come equipped with headlights that are so goddamn bright they leave a smoldering impression of my loving corneas on my headrest. They also just keep getting bigger and more unwieldy, which probably accounts for the upticks in pedestrian deaths over the last decade or two. I just spent two months looking for a sensible compact car for my gangly 6'4" self and I was blown away by how little interior space a lot of new offerings have (especially when most of them have larger bases than previous generations). I used to fit in a Honda Civic, but I guess they revamped it for a smaller demographic or something. My head literally hit the roof. I ended up in a 2008 Impreza hatchback and it's goddamn perfect. Modal Auxiliary has a new favorite as of 22:28 on Aug 10, 2023 |
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Trabant posted:
My beloved shitbox is a Peugeot 106. It cost me £600. Massive fun to drive. It does 60mpg on the cheap petrol, and its emissions are low enough I can drive it in the London Ultra Low Emission Zone. All I've done to it is service it and change the cambelt. I put a new radio in it so it has bluetooth etc. I'm comparing it to the VW ID3, the Peugeot 308, the Audi A3 and Toyota Auris. While I could afford it, I would be paying a lot of money for a car which isn't more fun to drive, in most cases not more economic (ID3 excepted, probably), is not more comfortable (why do they all have such firm seats?) has worse visibility, and every basic feature is harder to use thanks to the terrible touchscreen every new car is burdened with.
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