Not even, they should be used to interpret/process natural language and maybe generate some filler things (smart defaults etc; a good use is generating titles for things). Translation it’s very good at too.

The more text an LLM has to generate, the worse it is, and the less it can base itself off of real text, the less it’ll do it correctly.

I think these are probably the main bits they wanted to remove (both Article I section 9):

• The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it.
• No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed.
• No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time.

Pure speculation to be clear, but they removed only the end of section 8, and probably removed section 10 because it would have to be numbered differently. Habeas Corpus has been causing them trouble, they’ve been stealing money pretty blatantly already, and bill of attainder/ex post facto laws seem convenient to them.

Also, habeas corpus is gone?

Is this not the bat he adopted near the start of S1?

The character Berdly is an archetypal “annoying nerdy kid” character. He’s a gamer, he’s weird with girls, he thinks of himself as an intellectual.

The first person in the screenshot is presumably making a joke, but the message could have plausibly been made by Berdly (minus referencing sex).

The second person says that the first person’s profile picture (of Berdly) is affecting their behaviour in the same way that the mask from The Mask (1994) takes over the body of its wearer, suggesting that the first person’s behaviour is out of character for them.

This is funny because of the clashing tones between the two messages (the floweriness vs straightforwardness) and the (absurd) idea that a profile picture can possess you.

Trans woman who pays a bit more attention to mannerisms than most people, both in men and women.

1. Yes, it’s a real thing
2. It’s at least 90% men, and I’m being generous
3. It’s not most men that do it (especially in the sillier ways)
4. Size matters not

Picture a teenager in black sweatpants and a hoodie, on his own in a bus. That’s the most common I think. It’s generally men who try to project an image of strong masculinity or coolness. They don’t really do it with other people because it’s silly. It might be an unconscious thing, idk. It still looks stupid. It’s mostly men because it’s a masculinity thing.

It’s great if you don’t do it, and I wouldn’t be surprised at all if you didn’t. But there very much is a type of guy who does it. And there is no common type of woman for that specific behavior.

#F5A9B8 at (10,20)

For those curious, there is actually a reason. It compresses better in QR codes: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/02/why-are-qr-codes-with-capital-letters-smaller-than-qr-codes-with-lower-case-letters/

Having just read the problem, I’m curious how o3 solved it (and the human too tbh). My experience with LLMs says they’d be absolute complete crap at this, it’s a very hard and open-ended problem. Intuitively I’d say it would just end up doing random changes tryjng to improve its score.

I think I could write the “trivial” solution but anything beyond seems… difficult. Congrats to the winner!

Fair point. I was just thinking of landlines provided by ISPs with their phone packages. Still, surely we can do better?

They should really upgrade the audio quality, phone calls sound so bad still…

A lot of germany has deposits actually, so an extra 25-50 cents on top for cans and glass bottles

!! Congrats! Hope you get what you want soon

Proposal: have a shorter way to write “global time” (or you could have, say, 4 quarter-global times), the same way we have C, F and K for temperature, then make that a more common way of communicating time.

Yeah UTC kinda does that but nobody uses it like that. Shorten it to U and it’s much punchier. Also abolish daylight savings, too confusing.

If you don’t wanna bias to europeans too much, use the international date line.

It is really weird to suddenly have emotions and to be like, affected by the world around you suddenly X)

Lmfao samee, I getcha. I had nothing against my skin before, but it was never comfy. I didn’t even realize it because it was just normal, and when it felt worse it felt like it just needed a shower (where I incidentally rubbed my skin raw. Which I didn’t even process as probably-not-great).

The body is a hodge-podge of Rube Goldberg machines, and trans research is wayy underdeveloped. Method of delivery and absorbancy and a billion other things probably affect the effects.

Out of curiosity, the skin changes were a huge boon to me (one that I didn’t expect to be so nice), so there’s a world where it was partially psychological. Was body odor a big dysphoria source for you?

Yeah, in my little experience basically all of the effects of hormones are “in general” at best, both in timeline and actual effects.

Personally my libido went up a little but unlike OOP it was very much present before too.

Meanwhile the skin softening stuff took a week or so to be noticeable, when it definitely “should” take longer.

Not gonna lie, I love how it increasingly gets more desperate, going from showing off how well they’re doing, to how “horrible the things the allies are doing”, to end on just a lazy caricature of “the enemy”. Also how it shifts from “we’re waging a war of justice!” to “the jews organized WW2”

Well, in the first bit of the Hitchhiker’s guide, there’s:

“You’d better be prepared for the jump into hyperspace. It’s unpleasantly like being drunk.”

“What’s so unpleasant about being drunk?”

“You ask a glass of water.”

Which does fit, even if it’s not necessarily a “well-known phrase”