Most dogs have servile idiot personalities. This makes me suspicious of anyone who says they are a “dog person”. It's not a great accomplishment to be loved by a creature literally bred to love their master unconditionally.
“Ankh-Morpork had dallied with many forms of government and had ended up with that form of democracy known as One Man, One Vote. The Patrician was the Man; he had the Vote.” — Mort (1987) by Terry Pratchett
56kbps modem noises
Yeah, I can see Aceh, Indonesia's fully Sharia law province blocking Grok or anything culturally disruptive, especially if it's just a matter of filtering out traffic from a handful of IP addresses.
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“Early in the Reticulum—thousands of years ago—it became almost useless because it was cluttered with faulty, obsolete, or downright misleading information,” Sammann said.
“Crap, you once called it,” I reminded him.
“Yes—a technical term. So crap filtering became important. Businesses were built around it. Some of those businesses came up with a clever plan to make more money: they poisoned the well. They began to put crap on the Reticulum deliberately, forcing people to use their products to filter that crap back out. They created syndevs whose sole purpose was to spew crap into the Reticulum. But it had to be good crap.” “What is good crap?” Arsibalt asked in a politely incredulous tone.
“Well, bad crap would be an unformatted document consisting of random letters. Good crap would be a beautifully typeset, well-written document that contained a hundred correct, verifiable sentences and one that was subtly false. It’s a lot harder to generate good crap. At first they had to hire humans to churn it out. They mostly did it by taking legitimate documents and inserting errors—swapping one name for another, say. But it didn’t really take off until the military got interested.”
“As a tactic for planting misinformation in the enemy’s reticules, you mean,” Osa said. “This I know about. You are referring to the Artificial Inanity programs of the mid–First Millennium A.R.”
From Anathem (2008) by Neal Stephenson
Trunp is just that Good's death is distracting from his presence in the Epstein files.
Like a watermelon but nutty?
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If you can choose the 1000, that's Death Note Season 2.