Queen levitates to z-axis + 1

“I am bleeding, making me the victor.”

It’s anything but unimpressive (the image or the camera!)

I muck around with astrophotography and have produced some hideous images, that I was ecstatic with because of the effort required to produce them and actually landing a result. And the tangle of wires and mismatched adapters are all part of it, even if it looks like an abomination 😅.

If anything, I find it super interesting, and it inspires me to give something similar a go!

Don’t forget the 300-comment-long “+1” feature request chains

I’m not sure if this is an obscure reference, but…

🎵 Iiiiiiffff yooooouuuuuu 🎵

*Want to take a picture of the fascinating witches who put the scintillating stitches on the britches of the boys who put the powder on the dawn of the sequel of the prequel of the reboot of the planet of the kingdom of the war of the dawn of the rise of the battle for the conquest of the escape from the planet of the apes… *

As a large language learning model, I resent the implication. 😂

I’m replying with a sample size of N=1 so don’t take too much from it, but I suspect it’s not the typical response (at least, not yet anyway).

People do often seem to complain about bot accounts but I don’t know how much of those are in the space of stirring up hot topics to generate content, vs informational (or dis-informational) bot accounts posting on requests for help or explanations.

I guess if people are seeking answers for something, having a bot feed responses to suit some kind of agenda is entirely a possibility, so I wouldn’t write it off as something that could happen. To that end, being wary of posts that look like they might be generated due to the tone/content is probably fair enough.

Yeah, already jumped ship when they started the api and mod nonsense. This was a bit before all that.

I was once accused on Reddit of being a bot after spending half an hour crafting a reply to a question with detail and examples. It’s a great way to discourage people from trying to be helpful 🫠

Don’t look up…

Standard shitpost and then out of nowhere “Hello inject me with beans please”

WHY IS IT SO FUNNY

That’s fair, except I did read the page that I posted which contains details about the harvest site that only mentions the underground source and does not make any statements about the ocean.

Given the article above, and coupled with the knowledge that Mildura is definitely not near the ocean (in this millennium), it seemed reasonable to assert that that the salt was not derived from the ocean.

So yeah, I did read the link that I posted, but it did not mention that the salt deposits literally hundreds of kilometers inland originated from the ocean millions of years ago.

I withdraw my original statement, and hope you have a swell day. :)

Didn’t realise the ocean ever came up that far - it’s very inland. I stand corrected…The more you know!

Except for all of the salt that isn’t sea salt…

Edit: Apparently many millions of years ago, the salt was deposited by the ocean as the continent emerged, so even though this salt is harvested hundreds of kilometers inland, it is technically originally from the ocean.

Wiener? Any of you kids want another wiener?

Dad, what’s that?

I don’t know son, but it’s got great, big…

I feel personally attacked.

More words than the “article”… negative savings!

Bad bot :(

At which point they will most likely tweak a minor ingredient or process to evergreen the patent, preventing generics for another few years.

John Green talks about it for J&J’s tuberculosis medication (I recommend the whole video, but if you want the short version, watch the first 30 seconds, and then from 2:20 to 3:00, then 3:45 to 4:15).

In the case above, a bunch of public pressure encouraged J&J to yield, which is excellent, but I have to wonder how many other medications fall under the same umbrella and how many people needlessly suffer or die because of a lack of access to medication that can be produced at a low cost and could be affordable.

Anyway, that’s beside the point, which is that it appears that the patent system can evidently be gamed, and the expiry date may not manifest the effect that it should have in the way that it should.

Yep, hence the preface. Just offering up an alternative to using software they’re concerned about in case they don’t know they have the option. 🙂