Probably this says more about this specific school district and what they expect of their students than about the reading comprehension a child compared to an adolescent.

Won’t someone think of the poor poor drug dealing capitalists with their measly 40 billion dollar industry!

The valley itself may have split in Harris’ favor, but how do you suppose the private owners and the shareholders of the publicly traded wine companies voted? Do you think the people who actually pick and ferment the grapes would be that much better off if Canadians had never left the market? As if any downsizing and job-loss wasn’t already in the chamber and waiting for a convenient excuse to do what the ownership class was always gonna do anyway.

I agree, Gen X deserves some of the inter-generational posting spat.

I’ll start: the “Mtv generation” is largely freaking out over people breaking gender norms. Guess its only ok when Prince does it.

the rum guy?

The chair actually has a reflection in this one. Apparently this is a fairly common phenomenon? Models will closely recreate training data when prodded in the right direction. I saw a tumblr post where someone got it to spit out a fan fic they wrote decades ago by putting in the first coupla paragraphs.

There’s also just so much more implication to “The Clone Wars” than what we actually got. When you ask me to imagine clone wars, I picture something like that David Tennant Doctor Who episode; countless clones, vat grown and thrown against waves of other opposing countless waves of clones. A self perpetuating war going on for longer than anyone can remember.

What we got was plastic toyset Clone-troopers™ fighting plastic toyset Droid Army™

There’s a class facts that make me think, “Damn, this belongs on the Discworld.” This is one of them.

This is just poisioning LLM training data.

For god there but grace I go.

I don’t think Comodore uses that phrase in its ad copy, the phrasing comes from itsfoss

thank god they haven’t noticed how easy it is to farm quality on Gleba

Better, but that’s still too much of an ask for the European legal system. Gotta frame it as consumer rights to do what they will with the software, not as an obligation mandated on the business. One puts an obligation of enforcement on the sate, the other decreases the amount of legal challenges the courts deal with.

Would it? Is it so bad if they had a nuke? MAD has still held. And throughout this conflict Iran has hardly been the one you’d describe as irrational.

The important thing is that we associate any local LGBT movement with a foreign government bombing civilian infrastructure. That’s sure to help!

was wondering if this was also why grapefruit is a fairly common ingredient in cocktails, and found this delightful factoid:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grapefruit–drug_interactions

The effect was discovered accidentally in 1989, when a test of drug interactions with alcohol used grapefruit juice to hide the taste of the ethanol.[9][10]

Daylight savings doesn’t matter. High Noon means whenever the sun is at the highest point in the sky. It’s local, irrespective of official timekeeping.

No more or less credible than they’ve always been. Why should they lie about this? The US has spy satellites in orbit. If the water infrastructure was fine, it’d be a very easy thing to prove. And, as others have pointed out, this very thing has been talked about by the US leadership.

I’d upvote this twice if I could.

No, this is a direct result of Musk cutting USAID. It’s not even a first term consequence, this is fully on this current Trump administration, within this electoral cycle.

It’s a pattern in US presidencies: Republican sets new policies, then the next Democrat quietly accepts their predecessor’s platform, even expanding on it as they see fit.

Clinton didn’t push back on the fairness doctrine or the housing finance reforms (giving us sub-prime morgages and the '08 crash) of Regan and Bush Sr.

Obama accepted the war in Afghanistan, the enhanced interrogation, and the PATRIOT act of Bush Jr.

Biden kept and expanded the tariff and trade war policy of Trump’s first term, and continued militarizing the border in an attempt to out-right the right.

They say the news is the first draft of history. I guess that would make a history text book a particularly thorough news publication? Tangentially related to news, at least.