The funny thing about the green card comment is that my wife is Latina and I’m white as can be, so the person was basing their comment entirely on my accent.

When I moved to Los Angeles from N WI people would always ask where I was from; sometimes saying “no” when I said Wisconsin. When I married my wife, somebody at work said it was just so I could get a green card.

I think Holtec mostly just makes storage containers for spent fuel. They’re not exactly simple, but orders of magnitude less complex than running a plant.

I saw it yesterday with just a “4” pointing to the little piece.

If they succeed, they should change the name to “North America” just to mess with trumps obsession with the word.

He should have moved to Idaho; I guess that stuff is ok there. https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/idaho-allows-faith-based-medical-neglect-to-kill-children/

Mysterious ways, indeed…

Philly used to know what to do with robots…
Poor Hitchbot

Friend mentioned that when a similar thing happened at his University, the frats just had “gatherings” instead of “parties” and that was ok with the administration… (probably decades ago, so a slightly different environment)

I can’t remember where the important thing is because I have a huge mental map of all the things that might come in handy one day…

I think she just made the classic rookie mistake of swallowing a whole rat before the press conference; tail was probably still in her throat.

I have a chairdrobe and a lampdrobe. t-shirts and trousers go on the chair and button shirts go on the lamp (cheap torchiere lamp)

“Maintains consistent snacking preferences” the most specific one “Owns rasps” If it really got me, it would call me out on what I usually use Amazon for…   Last minute project stuff.

It was a sad day when olives no longer fit on the ends of my fingers…
I need to make some sort of silicone glove with olive-pit-sized extensions, so I can eat them the way the lord intended.

Heck of a way to find you that you’re immortal.

I have a friend who had developed an expert system for scoring certain lab samples (for cancer). It was a very good system that had few errors and was used for a couple decades. Somebody decided to replace it with an AI system (undefined what sort of AI) and it ended up doing a lot of false negatives, so the lab got sued for missing a lot of cancer diagnoses. Friend’s final task before leaving the company was to update his old model and hire somebody whose primary job was to maintain the old model. On the other hand, a trained monkey (and I’m assuming a LLM) could have done better than the radiologist who looked at my CT scan and said there was no problem, when I could look at it with the basic software they put on your scan DVD and see a fracture across all but a few mm of my sternum. When a different radiologist looked at the scan, he also ID’d several other minor things to follow-up on.