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22nd June 2025, 09:56 PM
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Views: 109  Re: 50 years ago tonight...
There have been tons of shark-eats-man movies since then, but it's interesting that you and I think many people remember Jaws first.
Is it because it was an "original," or the music, or the...
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11th June 2025, 01:10 AM
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2nd June 2025, 11:02 AM
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16th May 2025, 07:16 AM
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Views: 199 Re: Finally, Out of Pre Diabetes Range ....
yeah great point !! We all need to splurge every now and then... it's what makes Life tolerable. For instance, yesterday i went and had TWO large soft served ice creams at quick trip. But i will do...
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Forum: Artificial Intelligence
13th April 2025, 05:59 PM
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28th December 2024, 12:50 PM
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Replies: 102
Views: 1,603 Re: What are the DRONES DOING over NJ??
If they are 'demon drones', at least they're adhering to FAA guidelines with their lighting :)
I highly doubt alien drones care about FAA guidelines.
I still firmly believe they're military...
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27th December 2024, 06:10 PM
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Replies: 102
Views: 1,603 Re: What are the DRONES DOING over NJ??
Hey!
Remember the drones? Where are they? Where are the stories about them?
Where is the outrage.
I will not let this story die.
I swear, I will continue to investigate the invasion of...
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24th December 2024, 02:10 PM
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Replies: 11
Views: 400 Re: What Are Your Predictions For 2025?
I have a few predictions based on my very real, proven, documented, demonstrated, and actual psychic powers.
This whole drone thing will go away before the end of January. Not only will we not see...
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16th December 2024, 05:26 PM
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Replies: 102
Views: 1,603 Re: What are the DRONES DOING over NJ??
I lead such an exciting life at times...
so exciting that I decided to ask AI.
I asked it what it thought would be discovered about the drones and what they were for.
"The drones that hover...
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13th December 2024, 06:40 PM
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Replies: 102
Views: 1,603 Re: What are the DRONES DOING over NJ??
I noticed that they all seem to have flashing lights.
Do drones have flashing lights?
I know airplanes, jets, and helicopters do.
When I hear someone say they are the size of a car...how do...
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12th December 2024, 01:57 PM
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Replies: 102
Views: 1,603 Re: What are the DRONES DOING over NJ??
I like one of the more reasonable posts I saw elsewhere. In response to someone who said their mom is calling twice a day worried about drones.
Quote
"Ryan MacBeth is a military & tech youtuber...
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Forum: Artificial Intelligence
6th December 2024, 02:13 PM
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Forum: Artificial Intelligence
4th December 2024, 08:44 AM
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Replies: 15
Views: 297 Re: I didn't know this - am I the only one?
We can rationalize it - we've been really good doing that over the years. But those jobs in the USA pay $20-35/hr.
This is online 'grunt work' and the workers are rushing to meet quotas...
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5th November 2024, 01:13 PM
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Replies: 290
Views: 4,275 Re: Doctor! Doctor!
A teacher told her young class to ask their parents for a family story with a moral at the end of it…
and to return the next day to tell their stories.
In the classroom the next day, Joe gave his...
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Forum: Artificial Intelligence
6th October 2024, 03:25 AM
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Replies: 15
Views: 467 Re: Model Collapse
The Kardashians gathered to discuss their blaaahg.
"Back in the day, it was all about us," said Kimmee.
Kendall nodded. "Yeah bcs we would be like create create create till our Botox hummed!"
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Forum: Artificial Intelligence
5th October 2024, 11:13 AM
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Replies: 15
Views: 467 Re: Model Collapse
We haven't needed 99% of blog posts for some time. What was originally an outlet for creativity and individualism soon became just another means to an end. When keywords started to dictate content -...
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Forum: Artificial Intelligence
5th October 2024, 10:22 AM
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Replies: 15
Views: 467 Re: Model Collapse
But do they?
To me one of the greatest risks of A.I. is that the public begins to ASSUME the A.I. content is correct - it is the 'final word'.....dependable....trustworthy...believable.
Can you...
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9th September 2024, 07:07 AM
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Replies: 31
Views: 530 My Autonomous Uber Experience
Last night I Ubered home from my friends place, about a 23 minute journey. A guy showed up in a brand new Tesla. He spoke the destination address into the car and it set off by itself and we did the...
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29th August 2024, 11:57 AM
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Replies: 290
Views: 4,275 Re: Doctor! Doctor!
A very cranky old woman is caught red-handed, shoplifting at the local supermarket…
From the moment the store manager tries to talk to her, she’s already in full-on battle mode, giving him an...
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Forum: Artificial Intelligence
24th August 2024, 11:34 AM
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Replies: 11
Views: 311 Re: are layoffs AI related?
GM and other manufacturers were shifting costs this Summer. A lot of EV development has been put on hold. GM also fired the head of their and several people involved in their Super Cruise...
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17th August 2024, 08:52 AM
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Replies: 290
Views: 4,275 Re: Doctor! Doctor!
I realised that my 10 year old was watching too much reality TV when we attended a relative’s wedding...
As the four bridesmaids walked down the aisle to the altar, he asked, "Is this where the...
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16th August 2024, 11:31 AM
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Replies: 49
Views: 696 Re: Vegas has record heat...
Let's get this back on topic. Records were broken here in July for 90 degrees and above with tropical humidity. This week after Hurricane Debbie passed by the weather was perfect for August, 80s...
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Forum: Artificial Intelligence
8th August 2024, 08:41 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 317 RE: When AI Sucks...
I can imagine someone using AI to write a letter, several pages long. And the recipient using AI to read the letter.
Sender says: "Write a letter telling Xyz I love her"
Recipient gets: "The...
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26th July 2024, 11:48 AM
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21st July 2024, 05:42 PM
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Replies: 34
Views: 475 Re: So After All These Years I Finally Get Covid
Yeah , me and Claude as well as Mark (lansfear) could have some pretty 'heated' discussions back in the day about religion . But we always would come back around and remain friends.
Kind of weird...
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Forum: Mind Warriors
18th July 2024, 04:36 PM
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Replies: 44
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16th July 2024, 04:15 PM
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Replies: 290
Views: 4,275 Re: Doctor! Doctor!
Three women, two younger, and one senior citizen were sitting naked in a sauna. Suddenly there was a beeping sound. The young woman pressed her forearm and the beep stopped. The others looked at her...
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1st July 2024, 08:31 AM
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Replies: 290
Views: 4,275 Re: Doctor! Doctor!
Four friends are out golfing…
As they wait at the first tee, one heads to the clubhouse to pay.
The remaining three start chatting, and one of them proudly says, “I’m so proud of my son… “
...
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22nd June 2024, 03:26 PM
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15th June 2024, 02:51 PM
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Replies: 40
Views: 949 Re: Ever Lost A Long Term Friend?
...and life experiences. We don't stay the same and sometimes the changes go in directions that mean we aren't as compatible as we were years ago.
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15th June 2024, 12:07 PM
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Views: 585 Re: What I discovered...
The American Heart Association came out with a report a few days ago that said they predict the obesity rate will go from 41% to 60% in the next 30 years.
Isn't that odd with more diets, pills and...
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14th June 2024, 05:27 PM
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Replies: 40
Views: 949 Re: Ever Lost A Long Term Friend?
In this country (and maybe others), there are now two realities. I mean two separate views on what's happening in the world.
What reality you live in is determined by what group you listen to.
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14th June 2024, 09:25 AM
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Replies: 17
Views: 585 Re: What I discovered...
One subject that has always interested me is fitness.
From around 10 when I got my first weight set, and set it up in the garage...up until about 40, I would pump iron every other day.
Even did...
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Forum: Mind Warriors
1st June 2024, 09:14 AM
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Replies: 44
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31st May 2024, 11:37 PM
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Replies: 17
Views: 417 Re: Your All Time Favorite Board Games
Same here. And I'm a poor winner. I gloat, laugh, and call everyone else losers. And if I lose? I never lose.
My secrets are;
I inflate the value of my motels when someone lands on them. And if...
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Forum: Mind Warriors
31st May 2024, 11:26 PM
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Replies: 44
Views: 870 |
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Forum: Mind Warriors
30th May 2024, 05:45 PM
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Views: 870 |
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Forum: Mind Warriors
29th May 2024, 02:48 AM
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Views: 870 |
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Forum: Mind Warriors
27th May 2024, 02:50 PM
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Replies: 44
Views: 870 |
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27th May 2024, 12:53 PM
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Views: 429 |
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26th May 2024, 05:27 AM
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Replies: 28
Views: 429 Re: First 100 degree day down here in San Antonio
Pleasant here in Ohio; high of 82 today. Gonna install my son's basketball hoop this morning and do a little grilling later. Thought about smoking a brisket or some chickens, but there's rain in the...
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23rd May 2024, 10:14 AM
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Replies: 290
Views: 4,275 Re: Doctor! Doctor!
An amazing new supermarket opened in my neighborhood recently…
It has an automatic water mister, to keep the produce fresh.
Just before it goes on, you hear the sound of distant thunder, and the...
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Forum: Artificial Intelligence
15th May 2024, 10:51 PM
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Replies: 32
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Forum: Mind Warriors
11th May 2024, 07:48 PM
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Replies: 28
Views: 1,186 Going opposite worked for me.
Last question, personal info: none, other than email. I think that is one reason for longevity, having had some on my list for 25 years, and they still buy, even though I don't have as much as I did....
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Forum: Artificial Intelligence
10th May 2024, 09:32 PM
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Views: 2,644 |
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Forum: Artificial Intelligence
10th May 2024, 12:44 PM
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Forum: Artificial Intelligence
10th May 2024, 09:37 AM
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Forum: Mind Warriors
7th May 2024, 02:56 PM
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Replies: 28
Views: 1,186 Re: It's all in your head ??
A salesman who worked for me once told me "It feels like I'm going ten steps forward, and nine steps back".
I told him "That's how life is for all of us, all the time. All attempts are nines...
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6th May 2024, 09:55 AM
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Replies: 290
Views: 4,275 Re: Doctor! Doctor!
A beautiful young city girl marries a Colorado rancher…
The rancher spends most of the day in the pasture managing the cattle.
He asks his wife, in his absence, to direct the insemination man to...
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23rd April 2024, 12:41 PM
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23rd April 2024, 10:44 AM
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Replies: 25
Views: 715 Re: Investing in baseball/basketball Cards ...
Without any information, I doubt very few and think the 80-20 rule on steroids would apply in this instance. As mentioned in a post above about the brick and mortar stores. They seem to have sprung...
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22nd April 2024, 05:13 PM
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22nd April 2024, 09:38 AM
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Replies: 25
Views: 715 If OK with Robert...
I don't want to hijack Robert's OP, about collecting Cards, so if he doesn't want the thread to go off track, and because it's such a sore spot in my life...(not really, I did OK the other way)...he...
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21st April 2024, 05:16 AM
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Replies: 28
Views: 372 Re: Would You Go?
No.
I'm not going on any government agency trips to outer space.
I can sleep right here on planet Earth and my life is fine.
At the rate things are going, I'm not interested in seeing...
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Forum: Mind Warriors
14th April 2024, 09:23 AM
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Replies: 68
Views: 1,860 Re: Crap in a head.
well sometime the right thing to do is to shoot everyone that disagrees with sensible policy.
eg not shooting reactionnaries during the meiji restoration would almost certainly have delivered...
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12th April 2024, 07:17 PM
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Replies: 38
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