What about his three other grandparents? Wikipedia tells Elon’s father, Errol Musk, was born in South Africa, but it says nothkng of this guy’s parents…

Yes, absolutely. It has a focus on decolonization, and more specifocally on the Algerian independence, for which Fanon was personally fighting. He has a great penmanship, and touches many aspects of the themes; including tge psycholigical aspects as he was himself a psychiatrist.

So this on Tumblr, thought of one or ours

In French it’s also called “pissenlit”, which can be translated the same way if split as " pisse en lit". But although I’d noticed this as a kid, I always thought of it as a joke and assumed the name couldn’t actually come from that…

So, this is an add for OpenHarmony (a project by OpenAtom with ties to Huawei), with an clickbait title. All of the critics made about Linux are things we’ve already heard from Windows and OSX, or even FreeBSD users, and I am not convinced by the solution they offer. “Offering native ports” is supposedly their biggest perk, but it is possible to make games run natively on Linux, the existence of Proton just makes it not entirely necessary. None of what they describe really seems that new.

“I’ll do it. I’ll bring the bill to Washington DC, tho I do not know the way.”

Don&Xi in “The Castle of Light”:
Both Donald Trump and Xi Jinpin hire the same architect for their respective projects, and due to a series of misunderstandings, the architect believes it’s one and only project, and tries his best to reconcile their contradictions. Trump wants a new Trump tower, a vanity project of ozymandian proportions, or in his words: “Huge. Tremedous. Bigger than anything you’ve ever seen, ever.” He wants it to dwarf all else, cast a shadow on the town at day shine like the sun at night. He sets no limit on budget, energy consumption or ecological impact, even offering to get rid of an regulations it might impede on. Only one constraint: It cannot, must not cast a shadow on his golf field at any time of the day.

Xi Jinpin wants to build a huge block of social housing to solve homelessness. And he wants it built on top of the hated golf course. And to fit his secundary goal of reducing carbon emissions.

The architect, best of his trade, takes this as a single challenge. He ends up making a building that is somehow located right over the golf course, but never casts a shadow, being made half of glass and spinning on a rail so that the concrete “foot” of the building is always in the direction opposite of the sun. The rotation is powered by subterranean rivers. Lenses and mirrors are used to further reduce the shadow. At first, Don is amazed while Xi is angry that so much resources went into what should’ve just been a bunch of concrete towers. But then Trump hates it because it’s filled with poor people. He doesn’t even want to play golf under it anymore because he hates having poor people above him, staring through the huge windows, the golf course ends up repurposed as common gardens. The building, while able in theory to “shine like the sun at night”, doesn’t; because the inhabitants prefer to turn off the lights like normal people. And of course, Trump has to foot most the bill since Xi had set a precise budget and said he’d pay no more while Trump said he’d pay extra to any extent necessary.
Xi is at this point very amused.
Until the castle of light becomes an anarchist commune.

< To be continued]

Well, duh. That’s the whole reason it’s been using ship hulls as temporary shells like a hermit crab. It receded because at its current size it finds military submarines more appropriate. Beside, it enjoys the warmth from the nuclear reactor.

This wasn’t a very serious comment, but now I feel like fighting you on this.

Mammals may have evolved from scaly animals too

Not directly, early therapsids had naked skin. Some earlier synapsids had scales, but it’s unkown if it was a general thing or something that evolved independently in a few lineages. You gotta go back almost as far as fishes for something that was definitely a mammal ancestor and that we’re sure had scales.

some mammals still have scale-like structures (pangolin, some rodents)

Pangolins are scaly tho. As for rodents, only the tail is scaly, so you don’t typically call the whole beast scaly.

Should we also call furries scalies?

It’d be strange to apply it to all furries when only a minority of mammals have scales.

No, hair and feathers are distinct structures from scales.

They all share a common basis (and with teeth as well), but feathers are arguably closer to reptilian scales:

• They’re formed of beta-keratin, like the scales of other reptiles and unlike hair which is made of alpha-keratin.

• Both are attested in dinosaurs, some had both feathers and non-feather scales.

Basically, feathers are directly modified scales. Hair appeared from scaleless creatures, altho it did use a gene that had been involved in making scales in this scaleless creature’s distant ancestors.

You could make a point that bird furries could be called “featheries”, which would be more precise and accurate than " scalies". However in absence of this term (which has been proposed several times bug never really enterered general use, “scaly” is more accurate than “furry”.

Tomato

Irrelevant.

Careful there, we’re heading into mediospino territory!

I would not fuck a ship. Unless it were shaped like a dinosaur.

They should. Birds are reptiles. Feathers are derived scales. Those on the legs still look like scales.

There was a cat that really was gone

The decolonial colonialist: “I think de should colonize every people we can to civilize them, because only by overthrowing the colonial yoke by force does a people attain true human dignity; and they must be colonized in the first place to be decolonized.”

International Nationalist: “I think all of humanity should embrace the human identity, prioritize it over any form of identity; and conform themselves as much as possible to the ideal of a human. The human nation should grow to rule over all humans, and non-humans in the human nation should either adopt the human language and identiy or leave.”

The Racist Humanist: “All humans are born and shall remain free and equal. But some among us aren’t real humans…”

The Neoliberal Socialist : “All the means of production should be privatized so that each group of workers have a clear enemy against whom to revolt to seize them; and when they’ve all been seized the disappearance of the state during the transition from socialism to communism will already be underway.”

After driving him home my sister told me that he spent a lot of money like thousands on online card games and that it was a sensitive topic for him.

As far as we know, it’s the gamer. Tho maybe his parents if thry pay for it?

I agree. Tho this post is not actually about Australia

I will not fear. Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will allow fear to go through me, and when it has passed, only I will remain.

I’ve read a few years ago of AI slop having like an unreadable signature on the bottom right, due to using a lot of data that had signatures there, including many from a same artist. I believe it was a Tweet by RJ Palmer. But what you describe seems more like someone is just putting their name on the slop they generate afterwards, with a simple image processing software.

Another possibility I find a bit less likely would be that it is like that old phenomenon where the ai tries to generate the signature, but it actually does it correctly because it got better at handling text and enough of the art used is from the same person to make a coherent one.

It’s not tho. Their FAQ page explicitly says they’re not chromium based (and they speak of both desktop and mobile) Wikipedia also says firefox mobile uses the Gecko engine, Chromium isn’t mentioned.

A documentary about Mansa Abubakri, a 14th century Malian king said to have sailed west convinced there were lands there to discover; but who never returned. Immediately followed by Star Trek. With some luck it might convince him to leave earth.