I was watching the Olympics and this event came on called the Biathlon where people shoot rifles and then go cross country skiing and I've been pondering the origin story ever since.
Were they like "shooting a dumb gun isn't a real sport so let's add some slow-ass cross country skiing to the end just to make it qualify" or were they like "cross country skiing is BORING so why don’t we add a part where they're all shootin' some guns just so it's not completely mind numbing" or was it something else in general?
@Alice Clearly Biathlon was invented by DHS to provide practice in shooting and escaping for ICE. It has since been abandoned for that purpose because they’ve realized they don’t need to escape,
I always get bummed out whenever I think about chicken wings because every two chicken wings represent one chicken's life, so I think the solution is to genetically mutate chickens so they each have a freakish amount of juicy wings ready for the plucking.
We are only weeks away from Trump claiming he ended World War 2.
"We gotta have peace Adolf, I said, and Hitler looked at me, with tears in his eyes… Sir, he said, The Third Reich is grateful that you ended World War 2, and you really deserve a peace prize for your magnificent achievement."
WaPo - Demolition crews are tearing down part of the White House to build President Trump’s ballroom despite his pledge that construction wouldn’t “interfere” with the existing building. https://wapo.st/4hqBNiU
“ABC/Disney says it made the decision to suspend production on the Jimmy Kimmel Live show "to avoid further inflaming a tense situation at an emotional moment for our country,” because "some of the comments were ill-timed and thus insensitive.” The network says the show will return on Tuesday.
"Some of the citations that underpin the science in the White House’s sweeping “MAHA Report” appear to have been generated using artificial intelligence, resulting in numerous garbled scientific references and invented studies, AI experts said Thursday."
"Of the 522 footnotes to scientific research in an initial version of the report sent to The Washington Post, at least 37 appear multiple times, according to a review of the report by The Post. Other citations include the wrong author, and several studies cited by the extensive health report do not exist at all, a fact first reported by the online news outlet NOTUS on Thursday morning.
"Some references include “oaicite” attached to URLs — a definitive sign that the research was collected using artificial intelligence. The presence of “oaicite” is a marker indicating use of OpenAI, a U.S. artificial intelligence company."
@arstechnica Hopefully someone figures it out soon since the new Zoox self driving cars we’re seeing in San Francisco using 4 wheel steering will soon be offering service in Las Vegas. Part of the reason for 4WS may be because they’re bidirectional. They also have no steering wheel or driver’s seat.
