No, you willingly got shocked weekly to win a tiny TV for your room! It was aspirational! Except the max payout for most games was like 50 tickets and the TV cost 80,000 tickets, so all you could buy at the end of the 2 hours with your 243 tickets was some bouncy balls and gum.

They have violated their maximum cuteness limit for the year, please ask them to refrain from any excessive cuteness or face the consequences!

(The consequences are aggressive face scritches)

Oh yes, please tell me more about this oral tradition of the ancient Greeks! ;)

Am I a joke to you?

I scrape all of the kernels off, then have a friend fling them into my mouth with a slingshot while screaming “Ayayayaya, Zordon!”

Fascinating! As a native speaker, I got 89/100 (“you know 72,000 words”), but perfect on the core and intermediate levels. There were a few that I knew I’d heard before, but couldn’t quite place, and then there were some words that I just got lucky with my experiences, like having recently reread Gulliver’s Travels and being asked about “brobdingnagian,” which literally comes from that book.

I’m curious what other native speakers get, and how difficult even the lower levels are for those learning English.

Mr. and Mrs. McGill,

Thank you for your time. While the vicious poisoning of your son was a horrific tragedy, I am sure that with the evidence we discussed, justice will be served and the perpetrators will be made to financially compensate your shattered family. If you need to contact me or any of the other lawyers at our firm regarding this important matter, you can reach me at [email protected].

In the past 2 weeks, I’ve played Tie Fighter and Dune 2. Glad I had over the minimum 640 KB of RAM for Dune - it’s pricey these days but worth it for a smoother experience!

She’s either in a laboratory or under a waterfall

Björk Björk

“WHAT?” *pauses midway through microwaving a banana

“Sharing is caring!”

Fox News: That’s communism!

Fair enough, and I wish she was elected over Trump because she was the only other contender. But is she actually the best choice for 2028? The Democrats’ bench sucks, but there are still people I’d prefer over her (who could hopefully actually win a primary). I might take her over Newsome, though.

I mean, I do wish she was president right now because the world would be a better place. But that statement is also probably true of approximately 8 billion other people.

The last panel looked off, so I think it is edited from the original comic: https://jakelikesonions.com/post/184087753999/drug-sniffing-cats

She is beautiful!

My thoughts, ended up being longer than I meant, but here:

Paying attention to the loudest voices, you will think we’ve split into two societal groups: those who use AI and think it’s absolutely perfect and will save humanity (“sheep”), and those who deny it has any uses whatsoever, is morally abhorrent, and is going to end mankind, either through war or through decay (“luddites”).

Most people will be in the middle. We will slowly learn what LLMs are good at doing, and what’s it bad at doing, and it’ll be messy. People will lose their jobs, but then some companies will realize that AI can’t actually replace those people, and some services/products will get dramatically worse/enshittified. Others will begin making a living through the use of AI, some adding great value to society and others just creating slop that a small but big enough fraction of the masses will consume to keep it around. People who are smarter at separating the good from the bad will laugh at both the luddites and the sheep.

One or two AI companies will fail and there will be massive turmoil and fallout for them. But most will either slowly reduce expectations or succeed moderately over time. Generalized AI will turn out to be way harder than some thought, and consciousness a way bigger leap from LLMs than predicted. There will be a loud push to implement safeguards, and it will be mostly ignored by politicians. However, there will be some progress on energy and water concerns, leading to large differences between countries/US states in terms of regulation. AI will turn out to be mostly bad for kids.

There will be several huge successes - a huge medical cure/vaccine, or an amazing technological invention/improvement, probably some kind of multi-disciplinary discovery. The people who drive it to completion will acknowledge it wouldn’t have occurred without AI, but humans were mostly responsible, but the media will claim that AI invented it out of whole cloth. There will also probably be some high-profile failures, like car crashes or critical server outages, maybe even leading to deaths. Luddites will seize upon them as if they’re apocalypses, and sheep will dismiss them as anomalies. The truth will be in-between. Most people’s lives will not change drastically.

I suddenly want to go out and buy Jersey Mike’s…