Well, the T-800 (Schwarzenegger) was never seen blinking because he (almost) always had shades on. The T-1000 never blinked because the actor Robert Patrick spent weeks practicing shooting without blinking.

And doesn’t blink when shooting!

I didn’t realize this scene was in Mexico.

Technically, he did claim illness to try to get out of serving his country (the Austro-Hungarian empire) and he did fail his physical. Later, when WWI broke out, he was allowed to volunteer for the Bavarian army (not his country at the time) and did see combat.

My evangelical and Fox News-addicted aunt absolutely loved Trump … and thought he was the Antichrist at the same time. They do think he’s bringing chaos and destruction and they want it because they think it will usher in the Second Coming.

Acid lasts a lot longer than mushrooms, but for me mushrooms always included a brief bout of severe paranoia. I loved both of them, but now I would fight to avoid having to take either one. I’m just too old – psychedelics are for young, invincible people IMHO.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuAAza_Yvps

Right next to the very thrilling samples of wood from each state!

Pronounced “da-RILL”, of course.

You know it’s absurd to believe in Bigfoot, right? It’s obviously just a Yeti in a gorilla suit.

Found Grover Krantz’ lemmy account!

Fun fact: Krantz was the originator of the so-called “running man” endurance hunting theory, but he was better-known as a firm believer in the existence of Bigfoot. Also, his skeleton (and that of his favorite dog) are on display in the Smithsonian for some reason.

I agree with this. I’m nearing 60 and I feel like I should be over 100. I’ve done a lot of different things and had different careers in my life, lived in many different places with different sets of friends etc., not just doing the same thing day after day and living in the same place.

Also, no kids, although this point is kind of the opposite of the other point. I think when you focus on kids you watch their lives flash by; they’re in their twenties in no time and you’ve lost that many years yourself.

Where I live, it’s a bathroom for other people’s dogs.

I’m gonna go patent Marxism lol. Maybe I’ll patent irony at the same time.

I mean, it’s bad coming from actual human beings involved in the funeral home business because you know that they absolutely do not really give a fuck in the slightest (not something I really hold against them because they have to be like that for their own sanity). But coming from AI is just next level awful.

I’m so thankful that I got to retire from the programming profession before this AI shit took over (although I did get to spend a couple of decades burdened by junior developers, which is basically the same thing). If I were still in the shit, I would use LLMs for their proper purpose: proving to management that I’m using AI.

My dad died last November and when I called the funeral home we’d picked out to come pick up his body, the answering service was fucking AI. It had a weird non-specific accent with strange background noises going on, and when it repeated my father’s name back for confirmation, it said “Robert common name R-O-B-E-R-T, Smith common name S-M-I-T-H.” I was like “WTF? Common name?” I’m still made at myself for not telling them to go fuck themselves and using a different funeral home. For bonus points, the funeral home owner (with the same last name as one of the characters in The Sopranos) kept cracking jokes when we met with him, and then he ghosted me for two weeks and finally delivered the urn with the ashes in it at 8 pm the night before the interment ceremony, leaving them on my porch and splitting before I could talk to him.

But the fucking AI thing was the worst. I keep replaying the “condolences” it offered in my head.

Bah. You’ll know he’s actually dead when it shows up on Polymarket.

Time is an infinite loop.

My fear is that they’ve already been doing this for a while now, with a combination of impersonators and deepfakes – and thus “Trump” will never die.