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Sound of silence

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Looking at you, hiking trails within a two-drive from Seattle. It's like being in a fucking shopping mall in the 90s, except now some people have bluetooth speakers hanging from their REI backpacks.

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The cost of AI slop could cause a rethink that shakes the global economy in 2026

I wouldn't pay money for access to AI. The convenience is not worth a single cent to me. But am I the average person? Is the average person sold on this nonsense enough to subscribe to it? The first hit is free to get you hooked. So if the plan is to get the average person dependent on it while it's free and then eventually charge for it, i'm not buying and I wonder how many people will. AI output is fucking garbage.

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"George, what the fuck are you talking about"

Roman Catholic here, born and raised, church every Sunday and catechism. As Roman Catholics, we don't fuck around with reading the Bible. We daze off during the two readings and the Gospel, and we rely on the priest's homily to sum it all up succinctly and with a couple of jokes sprinkled in.

18 years of going to church growing up and I don't know what a Gog Magog is.

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fire fighters

I've met a lot of firefighters who act like cops. One of them lived in my apartment building and his girlfriend routinely had a black eye.

Ive also met good ones. But more often, theyre entitled dickheads just like the cops.

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North America contains some of the longest continuous deciduous forest records on the planet.

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He is moving the forest service HQ out of washington DC and shutting down research. Ive not heard that he's closing regional offices.

Ive always felt like people think of the National Forests as National Parks or preserves, but theyre not. National Forests are mixed use allowing for recreation and industry.

Moving the HQ to the west makes sense to me since that's where a bulk of the forestland is. And we know that stupid people dont like smart people and their ideas, so research was bound to get torpedoed by Trump.

https://apnews.com/article/forest-service-relocation-dc-salt-lake-city-eca93fa055ffce3528f5e8c71160a135