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If Scott Harris makes the team worse next year on purpose, then he should be fired.

One nifty thing I have been using AI for is for summarizing terms and conditions, as well as privacy policies, of companies I have a online subscription to. Or, more exactly, I might ask Gemini a specific question pertaining to specific areas of the T&Cs, such as, what are the company's rights or abilities to review and seize content I use through their products or services—for example, can Apple claim any ownership and usage rights or otherwise examine the assets I upload to its iCloud service? Can they help themselves to photos I upload to their service and use them in their marketing materials, for instance? (Topline answer: they can't use content you upload for marketing purposes, although under their Standard Data Protection plan, they can broadly scan to detect and report uploading of illegal or harmful materials, but not examine any financial records you might upload to it; under their Advanced Data Protection, they can't even scan your drive for illegal/harmful materials; but in all cases, if the government demands access to your uploaded content, they will fork it over. Makes sense.) You can even use AI to compare updated T&Cs with previous T&Cs to highlights what the relevant changes were. Beats having to read and compare the entire documents. I would like to know the other cool, helpful, productive, and/or time-saving things other board members use AI for.

Holy f***, does Bowden work for the Dodgers now? No way. If you have to pray that the 32-year-old top guy in the return is healthy in exchange for your two-time-defending Cy-Young-winning generational superstar pitcher, that's a bad trade.

I don't think you can make the case for Riley Greene as a superstar. He has barely been a 2-win player for three of his four seasons, and that includes this past season during which he played 157 games. I'm not even sure we can conclusively regard him as a star, since you don't dread it when a star is coming to the plate for fear he will strike out yet again. The only superstar we have on this team is Tarik Skubal, full stop. And unless Scott Harris is secretly planning on walking out of the Tigers' front office double-flipping it off as he leaves for a last time sometime before Opening Day, Skubal ain't getting traded.

I'm 5'10". You don't scare me. I run fast! 😃

To your implication, he can't pardon her until the Epstein threat is way into the rear-view mirror, probably at the end of his regime, is there ever is an end.

Well, of course it can't express how sorry it is! By definition, it can't express sorrow!

The cheering for the end of democracy is what made this post for me.

The source did suck.

The eventual best part isn't that they are withdrawing vaccination recommendations and leaving it up to personal choice, pr parent's prerogative. The best part will be when they outlaw vaccinations in the United States entirely, and criminalize people who obtain vaccinations in other countries.

I don't know, pardoning Ghislaine could be a bad look for Trump. I know we all assume he's bulletproof, but as we have seen, not even Hitler was that.

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Have I told you lately how much I love North America? Countries that have viable, wild populations of lions, tigers and leopards

Live Free Or Die In a Car Crash!

This is kind of fun.

I was about to post this in Map Pron, but I felt this is more reflective of this thread. This map shows how various countries around the world voted on the UN Resolution UNGA80 Against The Use Of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, which occurred on November 20. Not for nothing, and I know it's really hard to see here, is Israel is also colored bright red. Obviously, I think this reflects very poorly on us at the very least, and more likely is very telling about the intentions of the Trump regime. Maybe one or two guys can come in here and tell us why this vote doesn't suggest that at all.

The music people here, like @Biff Mayhem, will like this one. I myself got a little hung up on the way "apprehension" is used, which reads weird. At first I was thinking they probably meant "comprehension" ... but, you know, in a certain context, "apprehension" works, too.

Interesting that the Mexican diaspora has such a presence all the up to the east coast and way up into New England. Cook County is mostly Mexican, but my neighborhood is a relative Puerto Rican enclave.

I didn't know why until I looked. Probably a couple or three regulars here would know without looking.

I have actually wondered this exact thing.

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That's what Jocelyn gets for not just staying home and pumping out the babies, which, looking at her, I'd bet a lot of those red hats would have liked to have been the ones.

As I look at this, it occurs to me that the richest areas of most of the countries is this map is gravitating towards Switzerland.

It's hard not to. They make the thing seem so darned human. Mr. Conspiracy Theorist asks, is that part of an overarching strategy to lead us to be disarmed by its politeness and to bring our guard down so they can implement whatever their nefarious purposes are against us? I guess we'll all find out after we are disarmed by its politeness and we let our guard down. 😏

Stay away from my wife, pal! 😂