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« Reply #73800 on: May 18, 2026, 01:05:07 pm »
Realistically, paper and ballpoint pens did more to advance humanity than computers have so far. Before paper, they were carving shit on stone or clay. Before pens, the were trying to write with feathers...imagine writing a book like that.

Ballpoint pens are the unsung heroes of the modern era - the most practical form of information technology.
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« Reply #73801 on: May 18, 2026, 01:11:10 pm »
"After Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the Moon, they prepared to lift off and return to the Command Module. When they went to arm the ascent engine, they discovered that a circuit breaker switch had broken off (it was probably knocked loose when Armstrong was moving around in the cramped Lunar Module).
Without that switch, they couldn’t fire the engine to leave the Moon. They would have been stranded.
Buzz Aldrin took a ballpoint pen and used it to push the broken circuit breaker into the “on” position. It worked. They were able to arm the engine and lift off safely from the lunar surface.

— a humble ballpoint pen literally saved their lives. Without it, they would have slowly died on the Moon after their oxygen ran out."
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« Reply #73802 on: May 18, 2026, 01:15:07 pm »
My car and my laptop are also named Dahlia.
When I get on my lawnmower I ask it how's it doing
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« Reply #73803 on: May 18, 2026, 01:17:25 pm »
I did make my bot an Agent. My end goal is to get as close as I can to a home-made AGI
Interesting times, can't wait to see it in action... Here
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« Reply #73804 on: May 18, 2026, 01:24:00 pm »
No, Claude is the name of the Anthropic AI. Just Claude.
Wow... It's everywhere, I just looked. Claude is legit
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« Reply #73805 on: May 18, 2026, 01:25:55 pm »
Who said ChatGpt has no sense of humor. This is what he commented on my file diagnostics:
“ So the earlier scanner was lying through its little regex teeth. We now have a safe correction report and can proceed to Phase 6B Step 1 only: create the three empty memory module scaffolds and add script tags. No functions move yet. No extraction. No “just one tiny function,” because that is how the demon gets invited in.”
Demons? JD Vance says UAPs are demons. Maybe it's the times
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« Reply #73806 on: May 18, 2026, 03:54:00 pm »
Wow man. I think there’s a tornado outside. I wonder what my deductible is….I could use new siding….that James Hardie shit….and a steel roof
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« Reply #73807 on: May 18, 2026, 04:05:16 pm »
"NEW: Florida house sitter accused of stealing a U.S. airman’s car and beloved dog while he was deployed overseas has been arrested in Miami-Dade weeks after the husky was found dead inside the abandoned vehicle

Andrew Beckham, a Colorado Air National Guard member, hired 28-year-old Andrew “Andy” Jansen to watch his 11-year-old husky Maverick during a three-month deployment

About a month in, Beckham lost contact with Jansen

On April 2, he saw Jansen driving away from his home in his blue Subaru with Maverick inside, but without the dog’s food, bowls, or medication

Beckham immediately reported his car and dog stolen. He returned home on April 22 and continued searching

Days later, Maverick was found dead inside the abandoned vehicle at a luxury apartment complex

The dog had blood on his face. Jansen has now been arrested in Miami-Dade"



....hopefully he'll get shanked in jail. Dog killers are unworthy of life.
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« Reply #73808 on: May 18, 2026, 05:40:57 pm »
Yeah….this is a storm
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« Reply #73809 on: May 18, 2026, 06:49:11 pm »
"N.Y.C. Hotel Housekeepers Will Earn Over $100,000 Under New Contract
A deal between a powerful union and an industry group substantially boosts annual pay for workers coping with New York City’s high cost of living."
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« Reply #73810 on: May 18, 2026, 07:02:27 pm »
Realistically, paper and ballpoint pens did more to advance humanity than computers have so far. Before paper, they were carving shit on stone or clay. Before pens, the were trying to write with feathers...imagine writing a book like that.

Ballpoint pens are the unsung heroes of the modern era - the most practical form of information technology.

I rarely write any more and my handwriting is atrocious.

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« Reply #73811 on: May 18, 2026, 07:04:15 pm »
I rarely write any more and my handwriting is atrocious.
I miss typewriters.
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« Reply #73812 on: May 18, 2026, 07:11:23 pm »
I was really anal about my hand writing. I print in all cap block letters and if I make one mistake on the page, I tear it out and start over. I would do that in college, fill notebooks, make little illustrations with colored pencils…In retrospect, surely a  byproduct of an autism/weed melange.
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« Reply #73813 on: May 18, 2026, 07:33:45 pm »
It will be interesting to see who these mosque shooters are. Trans? Muslims? What a curious turn of events.
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« Reply #73814 on: May 18, 2026, 07:53:39 pm »
Dog lover, Cousin Eddie Randy Quaid at 75:



he likes the Cattle Dogs.
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