Had lunch, did not become a ball of sunshine.

Am I doing it wrong? Lemmy/Piefed, what’s your anti-depression recipe?

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Right now there are two different animated characters available to converse with: Bad Rudy, a mean red panda with a vulgar streak who will roast the clothes you’re wearing and call you a “whiny twat” (though this attitude can be toggled on and off) and Ani, a blonde anime woman who, after enough positive engagement, will shed her dress to reveal a lacy lingerie set. Musk shared a clothed image of Ani on his feed on Monday.

In a surreal juxtaposition, as Musk hyped the rollout of the edgy animated personalities, xAI announced that it had entered into a contract with the U.S. Department of Defense and was making its “frontier models” available to all federal agencies and offices through the General Services Administration.

You lost me in the first part, not gonna lie.

If my brother spoke like that, I’d think he’d been bodysnatched, too.

“Pass the salt, please, brother.”

“I’m sorry, brother. I’m afraid I can’t do that.”

“I know that you and mother were planning to disconnect me… and I’m afraid that’s something I cannot allow to happen.”

Butts

Power doesn’t corrupt. It just exposes who leaders really are.

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When we claim that power corrupts, we let powerful people off the hook. How you use authority reveals your character: Selfish leaders hoard power for personal gain. Servant leaders share power for social good.

For anyone who thought this wasn’t real, I present to you: https://xnote.ai/

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I’m about to drop the hammer…

What he did was hand the clerk a note that said: “This is a bank robbery, please only give me one dollar.” Then, as he later told the local NBC news station, he calmly sat in the corner of the bank having told the clerk: “I’ll be sitting right over there in the chair waiting for the police.”

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He invited the paper to send a reporter to interview him in Gaston county jail, where he is now in custody facing charges of stealing from a person (for just $1 the prosecutors didn’t think they could hold up a bank robbery charge).

He told the paper he had lost his job after 17 years as a Coca-Cola delivery man, and with it his health insurance. He was in increasing pain from slipped discs, arthritic joints, a gammy foot and a growth on his chest.

Since being in the jail he has attained his goal: he has been seen by nurses and an appointment with a doctor is booked.

I never read Garfield, but so far this cat just seems like a dick.

It’s the same woman, but the men pass the hat around so they know it’s their turn to do something sexist. /s

Edit: added the /s tag

Under the terms of the settlement, obtained by Bloomberg Law, Alphabet will spend $500 million over the next 10 years on systematic reforms. The company will have to form a board-level committee devoted to overseeing the company’s regulatory compliance and antitrust risk, a rarity for US firms. This group will report directly to CEO Sundar Pichai. There will also be reforms at other levels of the company that allow employees to identify potential legal pitfalls before they affect the company. Google has also agreed to preserve communications. Google’s propensity to use auto-deleting chats drew condemnation from several judges overseeing its antitrust cases.

My brain autocorrected so hard I didn’t realize it was wrong until this comment.

Meanwhile, guy who can’t read: that sign can’t stop me!

I don’t think it’s meant to be funny.

It is, however, pretty rad.

There needs to be a mandatory parenting training course if you’re expecting a child.

I like this in theory. But I know in practice some idiots will always manage to get their hands on the curriculum.

Starting to sound like you do think there’s a stringent definition of what a meme is.