Happy cake day

God damn it.

That’s why the neuralink is coming. Think of all the unrealized ad revenue when we’re doing things like sleeping, or puking, or fucking OP’s mom.

Discovery is going to be wlid

What’s crazy about this, at least to me, is that you have in Emily Blunt one of the best at using and changing her voice in her acting. I always think of her and Tom Hardy as the best in this area. It’s like they are voice acting on top of their normal acting. That’s a poor way to describe it, but it’s the best I can do.

I don’t want to take anything away from any other aspect of Emily Blunt’s toolkit as an actor. But using AI for any aspect of her voice acting is like trading a Bentley for a fucking Daewoo.

Happy cake day.

I think we’re going to see a lot of cake days for the next few weeks because there was a big exodus from the bad place a few years ago this time of year.

It technically is that, as well, and I’ve certainly seen them used to transport things short distances. At a top speed of 15 MPH (unless you know where to find the governor, but even then), it isn’t something you’d want to use to bring a bunch of lumber back from the lumber yard. More like bringing a broken towbar to an unresponsive GSE shop so that it can be left on their doorstep to shame them. As a random hypothetical.

I am still using an abstraction of my first ever Geocities password in some older accounts that I haven’t scrambled yet. Password requirements were basically nil back last century, it’s important to remember.

I think you are thinking of belt loaders, which have a long flat bed on them.

Except, BAM - it’s not a flat bed, it’s a moving conveyor belt that is raised to carry the bags and cargo from those carts into the plane.

Unless you’re thinking of something else. But I think you’re thinking of something like this:

Those aren’t used for transport, they are mobile conveyors for loading things into the belly.

Thank you for the added erudition WorldsDumbestMan

There are probably at least two factors, as someone who is unfit to comment this confidently on the question.

On the one hand you have a coming of age of kids who were exposed to a high dose of Warner Brothers smut.

Many of them are coming of age at the same time as the internet, making it easier for a niche community to form or be found and grow.

This seems totally plausible but again, I’m bereft of actual knowledge on this topic and I’m at least partially trying to provoke someone better fit to the question to educate me.

Only for having a poo.

one that was all about showing kindness and forgiveness to the fucking Romans, no less—who coincidentally did _what_ with religions?

Did what? I’m curious what you think the obvious answer is here.

Without wading into the core tiff you guys are having, I do need to push my proverbial glasses up my nose and point out that the Romans were pagans - polytheists. From what I’ve seen they were pretty tolerant of other gods being worshipped, which is why there was a temple, and the Sanhedrin, and the Pharisees, and so on and so forth, in occupied Jerusalem.

So I think the answer to your rhetorical question above is that the Roman’s famously absorbed or accepted other religions, as long as they didn’t disturb the peace and as long as they weren’t in direct conflict with their laws - which I think Judaism and most early sects of Christianity mostly were - in part because they were intolerant of other gods.

To the degree that there was persecution, it seems like it was mostly linked to Jews or Christians in other cities who refused to make sacrifices to the local gods. If the harvest wasn’t great one season, the locals might start to blame those weirdos who only want one god for some reason, and who offended their local gods. So even this was almost more about disturbing the peace then theology.

Even then, they were often offered amnesty if they would change their minds. They just had to stop doing the thing that was pissing off the locals and their gods.

Obviously Nero Neroed all over the Christians later on but there are good reasons for thinking that was all about framing them for the Great Fire of Rome, which he supposedly started himself so that he could build his Golden House.

Anyway, carry on with whatever this is.

There aren’t many principles in my corporate life that I am proud of, but I am very proud of the one I have used and taught to guide self-service strategy:

Don’t outsource your labor to your customer.

If self-service isn’t purely about empowerment and improved experience, customers will see through it eventually, and the money you thought you saved on efficiency will be spent somewhere else.

Narf

This might be artfully crafted ragebait.

I’ve viewed it as artistic progression, plain and simple, similar to the Beatles, but I think we’re basically saying the same thing.

I kind of split the Beatles into before and after Revolver. Revolver is a truly brilliant album that also acts as a nice bridge between the two major eras that I think of the Beatles run. Their Beatle-Mania Pop Sensation era culminating (masterfully) in Rubber Soul on one side, their Concept era on the other. And Revolver an era unto itself; the Beatles Fully Embrace Getting Weird era.

I feel like OK computer represents a similar point in Radiohead’s artistry to Revolver.

But in both cases, I think these are more milestones in their artistic ability than an intentional shift leveraging their previous success. But I’m not sure you meant that this was intentional on their part, so I may just be agreeing with your nonopinion in a ruminative meandering way.

I might almost consider if we were to pretend OK Computer was their debut, but even that just don’t feel right. I still love most of what they’ve put out since then and they can still kick it on stage.

This is pure ragebait for a certain (my) demographic and I love it.

Crazy is kind of his schtick from what I have seen.