A party pooper is a term for someone who spoils things for everyone else

@[email protected] I think your bot’s having some trouble with this one

Aged about 11, my class were asked to write a paragraph about our experience with hunger. Mine was about how it was nice to anticipate a meal with family. I remember the first sentence “being hungry is great…” The teacher thought I had taken a very creative approach and read mine out, but I was just surprised at how different everyone else’s were. It’s only 30-odd years later I realise that i didn’t actually know what hunger was.

Anyway this has reminded me I’ve only eaten a couple of slices of bread in the last 2 days and I should probably do something about that

It’s being spread through communication - It’s a meme. Memes don’t have to be funny.

I’m pretty sure it counts as a sandwich as defined by the ham sandwich theorem. The only part that might be debatable is that the filling is not a single connected volume, but that doesn’t seem to be required by the proof.

As an 8 foot tall therapod, he’s a pretty close analogue to Deinonychus - the real life inspiration for Jurassic Park’s velociraptors

Are you thinking of newspeak?

Hey, didn’t I cut a scene from one of those movies? Yeah that’s the one. I want to put it back in. let’s see. Ah crap, that guy there, what’s his name? Jab…Jaffa? He needs to be a slug. Can we change that? What the hell, it’s the 90s, we can find some computer nerd to do that. Needs to be bigger too. Like, erm, bigger than the frame? Will that work? Ah what the fuck keep him man sized, he’s a space monster he can change size or some shit. That bit there - whassname, Sulu, he needs to be standing on Jagger’s tail. Just make him stand on the tail. Cut him out and move him up and down it’ll look fine. Yeah sure, I’d stand on a mafioso’s tail - it’s a power move, they respect that. What’s this scene about anyway? Yada yada, removing the bounty, yada yada… yeah I remember there was something about a bounty in one of those movies. It all fits. It’s like I planned it all in advance.

Every road going south is also a road going north. Note all of them have rotational symmetry

Nuh-uh. I’m just a character an ape made up while it was pretending to be a person. You can be a transcendent being and mecha pilot your body around if you like. You can construct your sense of self however you like. That was my point. Our buddy upthread could be the very embodiment of the DSM criteria for ADHD, and that would still be a valid way to be a person.

Self is an illusion. We’re all just a product of our brain chemistry and experience. Don’t sweat it.

What I get from this is OP is horny for weasels

My Brother in Christ…

In my country the ‘correct’ way to eat is to hold the knife in your dominant hand and the fork in your off hand. I have always maintained that that’s wrong. You keep one utensil close to your plate, and jab the other towards your face. Which one do you want in your most favoured hand?

I’m thinking it’s the town of Penistone in the north of England, but I can’t find a business that starts Penistone Ha…

I have not seen any obvious chatbot posts on Lemmy, outside of jokes like the top comment in this thread. Whereas by the time I left Reddit I was finding and reporting 2 or 3 per day. This could mean

• no-one’s seriously deploying chatbots yet on Lemmy
• the chatbots here are better than the ones I saw on Reddit, or at least different enough that I can’t recognise them
• the parts of Lemmy I see, and the parts where bots post don’t have much overlap
• I was actually a bot all along

Are you 30 to 50 feral hogs?

Except it’s not and it won’t. It’s just a fraction of a second pop and done. There’s no sustained reaction because inertial confinement by it’s nature is extremely temporary, and there’s no way to introduce new fuel. If they do some monster fuel pellet that outshines the laser then sure - they can claim a net surplus. If they find some contrivance to keep a reaction going after it’s started then fantastic, well done, the day is saved. But they’re not likely to do that at the NIF because, shhh! NIF is not really about generating energy.

Oh good find. It’s a whole ai generated blog. Who made this and why?

Wikipedia’s figures for the last time they made this claim. The exact figures might be a bit different this time round, but I doubt they’ve found 99% efficiency gains. Livermore sends out this sort of press release pretty regularly and it always comes down to the same creative accounting

Basically, there’s a whole load of input energy that they just don’t count. Heat? Doesn’t count. UV? Doesn’t count. Plasma? Doesn’t count. this diagram from the wiki might be instructive. There may be decent justifications for counting it like this - I don’t know, I’m not a nuclear physicist. But I think the way they continue to report it to the media is simply dishonest.