From the show I saw, the early choice was between foxes that would immediately try to kill you versus foxes that would be willing to let you live. The floppy ears and curly tails happened very gradually in the process.

The “not selected” foxes were snarling and snapping and generally being nasty as hell.

The coolest thing about that experiment is that just selecting for tame and docile foxes also caused them to develop floppy ears and curled tails.

You win.

About 40 years. We met for real when she was in 9th grade and I was in 10th grade. We started dating when she was 15 and I was 16. We got married 32 years ago.

Edit: Since it looks like we’re the oldest couple in the thread so far: first date was October 5, 1986.

I recently purchased an incredibly shitty hand truck for a move.

Apart from the not unexpected need to beat a part into shape with a hammer, it also included a “wrench”. Really just a vaguely wrench-like shape stamped out of a piece of 1/8" thick sheet metal.

There were three different sizes of nuts and bolts required for assembly, and the “wrench” didn’t fit any of them.

If we scream into the void, how will we hear it when it calls?

Not arguing you’re wrong, but I’ve been witness to the other side of that sort of conversation.

The item was ketchup. Always needed to have ketchup. Then:

Child: “I hate ketchup!”

Mom: "What do you mean? You put ketchup on everything.’

Child: “I’ve never used ketchup. I’ve always hated it.”

[Jump forward a few years]

Child: “Where’s my ketchup?”

Mom: “I thought you hated ketchup?”

Child: “Since when? I use ketchup all the time.”

As the dad, I’m tempted to point out that mom doesn’t need help losing her mind, but as the dad, I also know better than to be involved.

We have guinea pigs, so the definition of “good box” has changed to something that is just the right size and shape to be made into a hidey.

As soon as we put in the new box, the girls start destroying it, so we need a constant supply.

Also: someone took the picture.

TIL I have the same treadmill desk as Linus.

Edit: and he also appears to ignore the safety clip.

They should check in with Doc Hopper. Kermit isn’t the easiest frog to catch!

Now ICE is going to be going after Kermit!!!

Try to separate the AI hype from AI.

AI has been around for years and we all utilize the results of that research.

Remember that at one time a compiler was seen as AI.

It’s the curse of AI: once a problem is solved, it’s no longer AI. It just becomes a tool, and we adjust what “intelligence” means to exclude the new abilities of computers and code.

Even LLMs have value, just not how they’re being used. If you carefully curate the training materials, you could have a useful tool.

I’d love to see an LLM trained exclusively on medical records of patients who were successfully diagnosed and treated. I wouldn’t want to give it a medical license, but it could be a useful tool in the hands of a competent physician. It might turn out to be useless, but we need to try it.

Words matter. Fascism is a very specific thing. Calling every authoritarian government fascism just dilutes the meaning of the word.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ur-Fascism

Learner.

I do that.

It’s the team I previously managed. We all still work there (so far), but I’m no longer a manager. The team was disbursed for various reasons.

We didn’t want to say goodbye, so we set up a discord so we could keep shit-talking. We still get together every few months for dinner.

You mention that you have a BA without providing further details as if a BA automatically means your degree is unemployable.

What was your major?

The sound of trickling water is triggering to beavers. Literally. If they hear water running, they have to turn it off.

They are the ultimate dads of the animal Kingdom.

I’m sure if they evolved in an environment with electricity, they’d be going from room to room turning off light switches.

https://youtu.be/Ttw5a6xRj6c

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