Grok has clearly been instructed to defend Charlie Kirk in every context and to assert he “wins” in any given situation. Right-wing people like Kirk and Musk are obsessed with image and not losing face. Grok, like Kirk was programmed to simulate the kind of rationalizations and vernacular that appeal to right-wingers, and so it tries to spin-doctor Kirk getting capped as “actually he’s fine lol shut up nerd”. I think it’s hilarious, because it implies “Defend Charlie Kirk” is excruciatingly over-emphasized in the LLM’s instruction set to compensate for the fact that Kirk actually got humiliated regularly.

Shut up nerd, go worry about a real problem.

If you spelled it like Flo Rida you’d be spelling it correctly.

It’s a dig at people who think we can solve climate change with individual-level half-measures like using bugs as our protein source instead of just eating vegetables like people who aren’t completely fucking nuts.

You don’t enjoy comics where the entire strip is “I have non-sociopathic beliefs, also here’s a banal anecdote about my boring life”?

Good performances from quality actors overshadowed by fans whining about how they wanted the character to be a different character.

It’s honestly pretty amazing how they started making them when physical media was nearly dead and then rode triumphantly up and down the market longer than they should have been able to. They had a death grip on consumers.

It’s the Sony approach. Betamax was beaten by VHS (despite being better), and then Video8 was beaten by pretty much every competing format, so their strategy to defeat HD-DVD with Blu-ray was to methodically shove it up every consumer’s ass no matter how much they kicked and screamed. They spent a lot of money doing it, but they came out of it with market dominance.

No, I just drag my nuts all over the internet whenever and wherever I please. If you want to invite comparisons about lunatic behavior, then maybe you should throw some more honeys and sweeties and kissies in there and you’ll actually succeed in looking detached and unbothered instead of like a middle aged divorcee who cyberbullies teenagers on Instagram.

Originally I was going to make the bon mot that it’s clearly not true because I was wrong for assuming you weren’t an imbecile. Funny, right? That’s went right out the window after I saw you get bell curved to genius savant status by actual imbecile @[email protected]. Deliberately misinterpreting you in a failed attempt to score a point for their yippie boomer obsession with agitprop is so embarrassing I feel like I need to take my monthly shower early.

With planning and a steady hand. It helps to not hang out at McDonald’s afterwards.

Thankfully I have some, which reinforces that I’m right.

Dog shit adaptation of dog shit books, nothing but trash from beginnig to end. It was always going to go out like a bitch.

“Surely if I satirize people who trash my favorite show, it’ll make me feel better about how it took a shit at the end.”

Was it Game of Thrones? If so, don’t worry, that’s not applicable either way,

“RAILROAD
No train!”

—You

I don’t know how it works in high-falutin’ coastal cities nor yurop, since I’m just a flyover, but in my parts there’s a lot more road than there is bus, and not just on the big routes, but on all of 'em. In fact, I’ve never even seen a bus route where there was even so much as half as many feet of bus as there was of road. Based on your comment, I take it that your city runs a bumper-to-bumper infinite loop train of several thousand buses like a gigantic, diesel-powered, horizontal paternoster lift?

You’re one of today’s lucky 10,000, and yours is the eutectic system. Read my other comment if you don’t feel like looking into it.

Do you not understand humanism in context, or are you just under the impression that the Fahrenheit scale was invented arbitrarily and with no particular meaning in mind? Obviously it was not, and even calling it “totally incomprehensible” belies the folly of believing that people in the past were less intelligent. The Fahrenheit scale was an evolution of earlier scientific work, the Rømer scale, and it was intended to make sense for applications needed at the time; it wouldn’t have been developed at all otherwise.

The placement of 0° for Fahrenheit makes perfect sense from the perspective of the limitations of contemporary technology: the scale has to start somewhere, after all, and it has to be reproducible. Scientists had already tried working backwards from the boiling point of water or other materials and it didn’t produce consistent, reproducible results due to the endless trouble caused by atmospheric pressure, altitude, and so on. The freezing point of water was also not consistent enough. That sounds like unnecessary quibbling from people who also commonly thought alchemy was real, but the fact is that scientific needs had already evolved past the point where a temperature scale could have variable criteria; Rømer was actually motivated to develop a reproducible temperature scale for the specific purpose of measuring, and correcting for, thermal expansion of tools when making astronomical measurements.

Keep in mind that scientists were limited by 17th-century technology, so the best method available to them to establish a consistent and reproducible temperature was to use a eutectic system, because it stabilizes its own temperature more independently of its outside environment, and a eutectic system of ammonium chloride brine was the coldest one they had access to. Therefore, the melting point of ammonium chloride brine was the 0° of many systems, including being 0°Rø. Like most decent scientists of his day, Ole Rømer recognized the inherent superiority of sexagesimal, and set the boiling point of water at 60°Rø. Also like the majority of scientists, Rømer considered it most useful for practical applications to establish multiple points of explicit secondary definition for his temperature scale, explicitly stating the freezing point of water is exactly 7½° and the internal temperature of the human body is 22½°.

Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, who was strongly influenced by (and in some ways a protégé of) Ole Rømer, wanted to develop a derivative system and improve on it because of the widespread demand for accurate thermometers, and he also developed the first practical mercury thermometer. What he settled on was to start at 0°Rø but multiply everything by 4, because it would make calculations much easier, and because it would make the scale easier to interpret than using fractions (temperatures were usually given in terms like 13⅔° at the time, not decimals). That would put the freezing point of water at 30°, the internal temperature of the human body at 90°, and the boiling point of water—which Fahrenheit wasn’t quite as concerned about, because it was outside the scope of what he wanted to accomplish with thermometers—at 240°F. Fahrenheit wanted these numbers to be easier to work with, however, so he then adjusted the scale so that the freezing point of water would be 32, also putting the approximate measurement of human body temperature at 96. This gives you a temperatere scale with lots of whole numbers to work with, where the important “yardstick” numbers the factors of 2, 4, 8, and 16. What’s more, because the primary reference points for the scale line up with multiple aspects of the environment that humans have evolved to survive, this meant that people who encountered the Fahrenheit scale at the time it was developed lived in an environment where it’s likely to get near but not typically below 0°F on a winter night, and near but not usually above 100°F on a summer day. Considering that, and considering it was easy to do arithmetic with Fahrenheit, and considering further that Fahrenheit’s mercury thermometers also literally worked better than anyone else’s at the time, it’s not hard to see why it managed to get such a deep foothold on regular people by the time better scales based on more accurate and sophisticed calibration arose. As better methods arose for controlling for the variability of water’s freezing point, the scientific community’s need for Fahrenheit diminished, but it was still popular.

Note on the boiling point: the Fahrenheit scale was adjusted by the Royal Society decades after his death to drop the boiling point of water to exactly 212°, for the sole purpose of making the boiling and freezing points of water exactly 180° apart for calculation purposes. That’s why the approximate human body temperature in Fahrenheit is now 98.6°F instead of 96°F. This also means the eutectic system of ammonium chloride brine is no longer 0°F but is near 4°F, which is a fascinating insight into the evolving needs of science.

That’s what I mean by humanism. Fahrenheit was a scale designed to be reproducible as possible, in a way that was agnostic as possible of environmental factors with simple technology, using numbers that were easy to calculate, which in turn made sense to ordinary people and corresponded largely with the experiences of their daily lives.

It is not an attack on scientific principles nor on non-American cultures to describe Fahrenheit as a humanistic system, it is the accurate use of a term. The connotations you get from that are the ones you bring with you.

Luck has nothing to do with it, I’m just that good.

Celsius is the only SI unit I don’t like. I get that it’s more objective than Fahrenheit, but it has worse vibes and isn’t pleasant because it’s the worst of both worlds between the actual objectivity of Kelvin and the humanism of Fahrenheit.

Yes, among other scandals. That’s why it has been captured and is being debased. The Washington Post is now like Hector’s corpse being dragged and abused in grisly triumph, except there’s no Aphrodite to keep it from rotting.