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Had some dental deep cleaning done and they gave me the world's supply of Lidocaine, I feel like my face is falling off.

48 people whose fate was never known until decades later, and it's still not certain what happened. Swallowed by the sea.

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My great uncle was a rating on HMS Loyalty which fell victim to U-480 very late in the war, in the Channel. He survived, around half (including the Commander) did not. He wrote to the Archive people in Germany to learn about the submarine, but he died before the true fate of it was known, as it was mistekane for another until a mystery wreck was found in the late 90s...
uboat.net/boats/u480.htm

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Once I explained that it would be generating animal-themed prompts for humans to draw, the largest model, DaVinci, generated this list.
Good luck, humans
#botober #botober2022

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I had a bit more trouble getting the smallest model, Ada to generate this Halloween-themed list of prompts. Many of its prompts didn't seem obviously Halloween-related to me, but when questioned Ada would express confusion. Here's Ada's list.
#botober #botober2022

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Why is YouTube advertising high-end retirement communities to me

I have spent all day in the DC and fully understand how Bowman felt when he murdered HAL

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I'm potentially in line for stem cell therapy for my knackered eyes in the distant future, which if successful would be pretty great.

I had to have my eye lazered, won't lie, it was pretty rad. Beats needles, anyway.

Adam Buxton's suburban sanitized version of an NWA classic makes me laugh every time I see it.

youtu.be/iZyqwOOmETI

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"invincible", adj. unable to interact with or be interacted with by people named Vince

It's really interesting to see how public perception is created, distorted, and propagated via social media. This is nothing more than puffery, and it's pretty disgusting.
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

The Solent in one picture. Commerce, Leisure, and Tourism. It wasn't the prettiest place but it had a certain energy.

flic.kr/p/rt99gn

Ooh new Megadeth Album finally out. I refuse to say 'dropped' like some Twitter dickhead. I'm a fedi dickhead. Totally different.

If any app runs full screen it locks that monitor down and you can't move any other applications to it until it is resized.

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Open a new window? Completely random where it goes.

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Dual monitor on MacOS is a complete shitfest, it amplifies the strange behavior of Window management that's already there, e.g. some apps just drop focus and you can't get it back without a long press on the dock icon.

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