Wonderful work!

Jesus fuck there is some ghoulish shit in there! Just withhold water as someone dies slow so as to “do no harm” ? Ugh.

Thanks for sharing.

Canadian here and I agree, I wouldn’t wish our neighbours on anyone else. But, it’s our cross to bear.

Edit: reworded for clarity.

Around 96% of recipients identified as white people

Cannot wait to hear about the Foz News reaction to this.

One of the parts that breaks my heart is that if assisted suicide is so popular now that it’s legal, how many people suffered for how long when it wasn’t?

Oh, you should watch Keaton’s movies!

The General and Sherlock Jr are my (and I think most people’s) favourites.

Chaplin’s Modern Times is similarly wonderful.

To each their own! Some people love dark humour, some people find it repellant. Some people love puns, others find them dull. Some people can’t stand Chaplin or Keaton, others revere them.

Personally, I dig some of the old time classic Buster Keaton stuff so it was fun to see a similar energy brought to the screen.

Spoilers below but:

Stuff like him trying to keep a fire going as the wind cheats and changes direction, then sleeping on the fire, waking up later on fire cracked me up.

Or him winding up to throw a snowball and having it go a foot just works.

Or his inept beaver attorney whose failures cut through language and was no match for J’ACCUSE!

Or just giving up on the trapper map, erasing it all and starting from scratch.

Or on the physical side, him trying to get in and out of the box as it slides down the mountain.

It’s comedy, everyone gets a kick out of different things. There’s no right or wrong answer! Personally, I have trouble thinking of a funnier moment in a movie in recent years than when the horse costume payoff came as the native fellow tried to jump onto his horse which just collapsed because, obviously, it’s two people in a horse costume.

Played in a couple soccer* games on Sunday, last two for the season coming up this Sunday.

*football, I know. Also, not really official as it’s 7 aside coed but a lot of fun for this old man!

They are acting upon the recommendation of the largest systematic review of the evidence in the UK to date.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/apr/10/what-are-the-key-findings-of-the-nhs-gender-identity-review

The plan is " to set up a clinical trial into the use of puberty blockers next year and to recruit the first patients by spring. Streeting said the study would help “establish a clear evidence base for the use of this medicine”."

Essentially, the research on this has been so polarized, the results so conflicting and the science riddled with terrible methodology etc that the government is saying “fuck it, we’ll establish our own gigantic study.”

I’m a big fan of Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, a webcomic.

That sketch was my forst thought too.

Sorry, Canadian… Are you saying that to get healthcare you have to pay this company, out of your own pocket, a grand a month? And just hope they don’t deny etc and forget about any deductible?

I mean, just reading that question as one long run on sentence certainly didn’t make me think of you as an adult.

Also, might be a language thing, but buddy has almost no age connotations and is used pretty frequently across age groups.

It’s a good plan except for the one small problem of everyone always getting slaughtered in the first ten seconds…

I’ve always lliked Blackadder’s description of an advance as “another gargantuan effort to move [Haig’s] drinks cabinet six inches closer to Berlin.”

I should have explained my experience and background a bit better. I’ve worked as a line chef to support myself in school, my knife skills are decent and I know a lot of the basics.

I also have almost no sense of smell so cooking is a game of diminishing returns for me anyway. And having lived with high end chefs who could glance at a pantry, know what’s in season and pull something out of their backpocket, I know how much knowledge is required.

So far, I’ve been using the LLMs for recipes for almost a year with no insane instructions and no bad meals other than one that didn’t come out great but I burned part of it.

The LLM isn’t really making up a recipe, it’s borrowing from hundreds of recipes and can figure them out pretty well.

Have you taken a look at an LLM generated recipe and evaluated for yourself?

The thing is, if I want to combine local in season veggies with things that are going to expire, I’ve got to google or search for however long on this recipe site, then repeat a few times until I find one that fits the mood etc.

Have you tested this theory? I’ve been using them for almost a year and after dozens of different recipes I think only one wasn’t great? (Though I burned a bit of it so that’s on me.)

Why? It’s a skill I’m content not to hone and I’m damned busy with a full time job, night courses, a side hustle and keeping active while trying to live in one of the most expensive cities in the world.

I’ve lived with really good chefs and know the time, effort and skill required.

I’m asking for tips on leveraging technology to improve my life. Is there no place where we’re okay with LLMs doing something helpful?

Edit: “Git Gud” isn’t particularly helpful here.

Not sure how the Good Place was marketed but I found it one of the best ruminations in pop culture on what it means to live well.

I am really looking forward to watching all of B5 but I keep kinda hoping someone will redo those mid 90s effects. I remember watching as a kid when it came out and the effects were rough then.