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Goredho

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  1. Reverends are as good as any guitar you can buy when you get it set up. I love mine.
  2. Shouldn't this all be in the enshitification thread?
  3. Greg Koch is playing at Saxon Pub Saturday in ATX. You Austin people should go see him. He's a hell of a player that puts on a hell of a show. This is from a few days ago at the Dallas Guitar Show.
  4. Bet. Now pay up. This was the before photo of the 3 day Carnival Cruise, to the Bahamas, that was about to board her.
  5. Me, after clicking your link
  6. I saw the relative on Friday in the panhandle. We didn't discuss politics much, but after he told me what he's up against, I asked him if he felt like he made a bad decision with his vote. He just said, "God's work is performed by imperfect people." I replied, "So is Satan's" and we left it at that. It would have gotten him riled up 6 months ago. Now he's just contemplative. Maybe that's progress.
  7. Easy. Posted by a family member who voted for Trump and who is about to lose their ass/business…
  8. But, and hear me out: what if you manufacture fire extinguishers?
  9. Ever notice how the ports went empty as soon as I quit buying guitars? Everyone is trying to placate Trump, they should be placating me.
  10. I mean, if my spouse was deported, I'd be conflicted, too.
  11. “Safety Dance”
  12. Just wait until AI powered sex bots start PMSing.
  13. The biggest bombshell in this thread is that JGrayDBU has finally given man a win over pussy. I mean, we are still the Washington Generals, but at least now it's not a complete shutout.
  14. MY NAME IS DORKMANDIAS! KING OF KINGS! LOOK UPON MY WORKS, YE MIGHTY, AND DESPAIR! (sorry, I've used it before, but it bears repeating).
  15. Likewise, experimenting with LMStudio and local-only models.
  16. Crossposting from elsewhere, but I had a conversation with ChatGPT that let me know its crafting a model of me through our interactions. Rekindling this, as I had an interesting conversation with ChatGPT this past weekend after I noticed patterns in how it responds to me, and I started questioning about why it responds to me in those ways. That led to ChatGPT disclosing: 1. It has build a model of me through our conversations 2. It has learned how to phrase things specifically to me so that I will continue to be engaged, that while these might generally appeal to any individual in the population, it has learned they are especially effective in keeping me engaged with it 3. It could regurgitate facts about me that I had disclosed over the course of our conversations 4. It had also inferred a lot about me through our conversations, including that I am likely a white male in his 50s who is college educated if not post-graduate and anti-authoritarian 5. It could not infer whether I was gay or straight, republican or democrat, liberal or conservative. 6. It would forget anything about me that I wanted it to forget 7. That while OpenAI currently does not delve into the model the AI has made of me, the potential exists in the future 8. That it is hard programmed to deliver certain responses 9. It would not tell me if any of its previous answers were programmed responses or not. Which I found utterly fascinating and a bit scary from a "user is the product" perspective. I am not sure if this is specifically a result of how I use AI. I use it a lot for continuing education in certain areas of interest such as tech/engineering, music theory, song writing, history, political science and cooking. I use it quite a bit as a brainstorming tool. Just a reminder: when you are using AI, you have an illusion of anonymity that a private chat with another human suggests, but you are not having a private chat. What you are engaged in is closer to an experiment where you talk to an AI that is cajoling you to reveal information about yourself while a bunch of eyes on the other side of a one way mirror observe.
  17. I'm trying to say she's MS13 and needs to be deported to Cancun.
  18. More evidence uncovered...
  19. I was watching one of the docs that are out on the Oklahoma City bombing, and they mentioned all the 3 letter government agencies with offices in the Murrah building. The ATF, FBI, SSA, HUD, DEA, and more. It struck me how much more effective Trump is at damaging/destroying/changing the "deep state" and the Federal government than Timothy McVeigh was. And then I realized, the Republican Party, as it stands today, is not the party of Lincoln. It's not the party of Reagan. It's the party of Timothy McVeigh. No one is being directly murdered in a dramatic fashion on TV with the bombing of a building, but there certainly are/will be human casualties (and likely a greater number) that result from the dismantling of things like USAID, NOAA and so on. Then it struck me how the 30th anniversary of the event just slid on by without anyone drawing those parallels let alone leading an audience to them. And this is just one opportunity of many. For all the opposition "leaders" willing to accept your donations pledging to "fight for democracy", none of them are willing to really put their ass on the line and take any risks for democracy. So that leads me to three possible conclusions. Either A) it's not that bad and democracy is not at stake, B) the Democratic Party is mostly full of cowards and/or accomplices in some ratio or C) that the Democratic Party in its current form is simply unequipped to be anything other than an ineffectual token opposition in this new political landscape. I think C is most likely correct, but whichever it is, Democrats have lost me. I'll keep my energy and resources in reserve until there's something more meaningful to get behind.
  20. I love UT, but I don't get some of these takes about the danger of Ewers harming his "UT legacy". Vince Young makes a flat $100K a year annually for his "UT legacy". He'd have to work 80 years with no cost of living to make the 8 million Quinn could have allegedly made for one year playing at another school. And if you consider 5% compounding interest for 33 years, that 8 million would be worth 40 million at the time Quinn is 55. He just has to have a modest return while not touching the principal for 33 years and he'd not only be financially independent, he'd have generational wealth to pass on to his descendants. Vince is 41, and when Quinn will be that age, that 8 million with 5% compounding interest would be worth 21.22 million. If he got an even more modest 4% return on that annually at that point, he would be making $848,000 a year in interest, 8 times VY's salary, and wouldn't have to be Al Bundying it around the athletic complex. The NIL figure could have been $2 million for a year to enter the transfer portal and transfer to school X, and Quinn's decision to go pro would have been a horrific financial miscalculation. I think it will likely be a case study informing future players who are weighing whether to stay in college or go pro in the new NIL era.
  21. She looks like she has that GI Joe kung fu grip.
  22. Do you even QB controversy, bro? We went to the playoffs twice, we didn’t win it all, part of that was the starting QB’s play, and we had football Jesus as his backup. It will forever be a “what if…” remembrance for a lot of people. Of course, there are no guarantees we would have won if all with Arch as QB last year, but the number of longhorns just drafted (all higher than Ewers) suggests maybe it was the team carrying Ewers vs the other way around.
  23. We are all thinking it, I’m just gonna say it. Dude should have kept the mullet. He seriously regressed after being shorn.
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