If the world traded oil rather than burned it, we would be in a much better position.

Yeah? Well I’m threatening a billion percent tariff on Mars unless I get a pony!

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Just a standard YouTube search and a lot of patience. And yes, it’s trash.

Gosh, this is a difficult one… there’s a specific country talked about in the article, which is also in the headline, which has sanctions put upon it because its military invaded another country.

But I couldn’t possibly be talking about that country, could I?

Charlie is only a sometimes potato because he’s an extremely energetic and zoomy dog. Ghost is mostly potato these days, but she’s almost 11.

But every night, Charlie potato has to warm himself up to cooking temperature by laying pressed up next to me as tightly as possible.

Either the Fats Waller one or the Bessie Smith one. I really like Peggy Lee’s version too.

The country versions get weird. Apparently Hank Williams, Jr. did one. I noped out of that one as well, forgot to mention it.

I think you are being way too hard on yourself. You know what dogs want more than anything else? Love. You loved her and that was the best thing you could have possibly done for her. Sure, I made mistakes with Lucy too, but she was loved and her life was a lot better than any feral dog’s would have been. She was also a rescue in a shelter that euthanized animals if they did not eventually get adopted. I saved her life. You could save a dog’s life and all it would want in return was love from you.

I think you should get another dog and I don’t think she suffered like you think she did.

It can always get worse.

Also a decent summary of the stereotypical Jewish mother and her love of suffering. Also illustrated by the following joke:

Q: How many Jewish mothers does it take to change a lightbulb?

A: It’s all right, I’ll just sit in the dark.

It only took Weimar Germany 3 or 4 years to fix the hyperinflation problem, but it also made people seriously distrust the government and when the next economic crisis hit (The Great Depression), Hitler was able to use the fears of the populace to rise into power.

I have owned just one dog. In the sense that it’s less work and less expense, it is better, but I find two dogs so much more rewarding. I wouldn’t say they play together though… Ghost is a mean old thing who hates everyone, but she will allow Charlie in her presence (most of the time) and does seem to feel more comfortable when he’s around. Charlie absolutely adores Ghost and allows her to attack him whenever she gets in the mood to because he loves her so much. It’s a very odd relationship. To make it weirder, Ghost loves to play but Charlie mostly just likes to cuddle. Since no two dogs (at least no two I’ve ever met) are alike, you get a mix of personalities, which is lots of fun.

But the most valuable part of owning two dogs is both selfish and helpful- When Lucy (the first dog) started getting old, I got the advice that we should get our next dog before she died, and that way we would at least have a dog to come home to rather than an empty house. It doesn’t mean you aren’t still devastated when it happens, but it really does help in terms of having the support you would have otherwise (or also) gotten from the dog who is now gone. We got Max only a year before Lucy died, which was too close. We didn’t wait that long the next time when we got Ghost.

As far as the bond lessening, definitely not. It does help that I’m Charlie’s favorite and my wife is Ghost’s favorite this time, but my wife was also Max’s favorite and stayed that way until he was gone. I will never get over losing Lucy or Max, but having Max to come home to when Lucy was gone (and in the case of Lucy, my wife and infant daughter were out of town and it couldn’t wait so I really was on my own) and having Ghost to come home to when Max was gone, was such a comfort.

Now my mother, her housemate and how her housemate’s daughter all live together and they have four dogs. They’re four small dogs, but that’s still way too many dogs.

Unless they’re done in order to sacrifice captives to the gods like they did in pre-Colombian Mesoamerica. That was because they legitimately thought they had to do it to keep the universe working. That’s also why their wars were usually about attacking to wound rather than attacking to kill. Just as many people died, but they died in sacrifice rather than on the battlefield.

Oddly enough, the interpretation of the glyph the Mayans had for a war as we would think of it- one of conquest- is “star war.” Blame Dr. Linda Schele for that one.

If only they could do something about it like not invade another country and get those sanctions lifted.

Of course in January, they won’t have to worry about that.

Trump plans to do something about it. He plans to give Putin two thumbs up and offer him the Presidential Medial of Freedom (soon to be renamed the Trump Medal of Being the Greatest Ever Bigly).

I have two dogs. Charlie and Ghost. He is the outside of a potato:

And she is the inside of a potato:

Well don’t leave them where they are accessible in cutting things that aren’t fabric.

You have so never had a little girl Kelly in your life.

I was totally ignorant to the world of fiber crafts the first- and last- time my wife found me cutting up something with her sewing scissors.

Of course, that was before she became addicted to every fiber craft under the sun. Now I live in a house with several spinning wheels and a tapestry loom. This could be you too if you start crocheting. Take heed.

(I’m actually fine with it because she’s making me an Ernie sweater. I saw an Ernie costume on Halloween and I suddenly realized how much I wanted an Ernie sweater. So I asked and she immediately said okay. Yay!)

THEY DAMN WELL BETTER!

People always say things like this, but the fact of the matter is that there are a lot of extremely lonely people desperate to express themselves, and some of them think that a machine is their only hope.

https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2023/05/03/new-surgeon-general-advisory-raises-alarm-about-devastating-impact-epidemic-loneliness-isolation-united-states.html

Some of those people talking to LLMs are fools who think they’ll get some sort of wise response, sure. The rest of them are just looking for someone to talk to. Unfortunately, if politics gets brought up, that LLM might lead them down a dark path without them realizing it.

And honestly, the pathetic fallacy is an easy trap to fall into, especially with computers. Back in the 80s when I talked to ELIZA, I knew rationally that it wasn’t alive, but there was still a tiny emotional part of me that would think of it as a human on the other end that I was talking to. And plenty of people let their emotions take over their reasoning abilities.