Now he can grow up to be a SPICY butterfly!

We’re just embarrassed our assholes aren’t as beautiful as our pets’

Seems to me your definition of intelligence ignores whole aspects of true intelligence, at least of the human kind, such as emotional intelligence and social intelligence and artistic intelligence and moral intelligence…

“Problem solving” is the name for what you described and it doesn’t necessarily require intelligence. In fact most intelligent people have encountered situations where it made solving a problem more difficult.

Nothing wrong with “suddenly.” I probably should have used it in my previous comment. It’s just that sometimes you want to say “all of a sudden.” Especially at storytime. The extra time helps build the suspense. “Suddenly” is more sudden in that it just jumps in there. With “all of a sudden,” the subject isn’t ready but the listeners are.

“of the sudden” (1570) actually predates “of a sudden” (Shakespeare) according to my OED as squinted at through the nifty magnifying glass. But it’s been considered obsolete for a long time despite having all of a sudden experienced a resurgence.

(Note, I modernized the spellings of “sudden” rather than try to switch focus back and forth)

Upvoted and agreed, not least because I just learned that “all of the sudden,” while at present a nonstandard variant of “all of a sudden,” has valid history.

And of course it doesn’t matter in this casual context!

But in formal writing, in this era, using “a” will avoid distracting the reader from your main point.

It’s great that you’re helping your native plants stand against the invasives, they’re like the schoolyard bullies of the backyard.

It’s great that you’re helping your native plants stand against the invasives, they’re like the schoolyard bullies of the backyard.

Aha. But that sounds correctable… So not having any people assigned to checking on railroads and making sure the system recognizes them as railroads would be due to miserliness on the part of Tesla then… And might also say something about why some Teslas have been known to drive into bodies of water (or children, but that’s probably a different instance of miserliness)

I’m pretty sure Tesla self-drive does a lot of stupid things you never would, too. That’s why they want you at the wheel, paying attention and ready to correct it in an instant! (Which defeats the whole benefit of self-drive mode imho, but whatever)

The fact that they can avoid all responsibilities and blame you for their errors is of course the other reason.

Since the story has 3 separate incidents where “the driver let their Tesla turn left onto some railroad tracks” I’m going to posit:

Teslas on self-drive mode will turn left onto railroad tracks unless forcibly restrained.

Prove me wrong, Tesla

Cool, if it’s also Art Nouveau.

I hate to be a nitpicker but…

Their executives have been given military titles of Lieutenant Colonel already! Without any military training or fitness test.

https://defensescoop.com/2025/06/13/army-detachment-201-executive-innovation-corps-meta-openai-palantir/

Amber bot is shit at poetry.

The idea of an onion as a metaphor for heartlessness is intriguing, because it’s layers all the way down, but there’s no poetry in the approach.

Anyone applying to colleges probably has one already.

You need some Quakehold Museum Putty. The cats will appreciate being able to scratch their faces on the scratching tree you got them, without being startled by the noisy mess.

Refreshingly factual

Burnt to a crisp, and spicy

If you think you need a phone, it should be a burner.