I took a bunch of pictures of me and my cat just before we took her to be put down (cancer sucks). I obviously looked pretty upset in all of them. Like, three months later my phone put together a slideshow of misery to celebrate the occasion.

I was involved in a very vicious street fight. It was incredibly violent and frantic, with blood everywhere. It was more of a free for all instead of me taking on like nine dudes. I’m not a violent person at all, so it was really distressing. Some big guy lifted me up and slammed me against a wall, so I reached out and gouged his eye with my thumb. It was awful. I could feel the shape, and it was all clammy. It was so against my regular self that I burst awake. I thought it was still going on though because I could still feel it on my thumb. Turns out my hand was in my shorts, and the clammy eyeball shape was a part of my male anatomy.

you PACK miette? you stow her body like the laundry? oh! oh! jail for mother! jail for mother for One Thousand Years!!!

I feel like I’m coming off poorly. I thought we were just chatting, but you seem upset. For clarity, in case this is what offended, I felt like I was being petty and semantic here.

Those walls of text are all you, buddy.

Yeah, I have a bad habit of being verbose in these.

I did not say the title was written by AI, I asked if it was or not.

My bad. It was not my intention to sound accusatory. I’ll change the wording.

stop framing my saying “short people” as a pejorative instead of the descriptor I clearly used it as.

I’m confused here. I’m in no way framing it that way. How else would you like me to say it? My argument was that “nearly life-sized” could mean a scaled replica vs a 1:1 carving of a shorter person. I wasn’t saying that it was socially incorrect to call them short.

as a child, I was infatuated with Pompeii for some reason. I had a giant color picture book detailing the history of the people and the culture leading up to the disaster.

That’s pretty neat. We were really big on Egypt in my household for some reason. I did see some TV specials about Pompeii, but as a kid it always spooked me.

Doing so stepped on a lot of toes, apparently.

I thought we were just chatting. My toes are fine. You did make a pretty bold assertion out of the gate, and that does sometimes invite discussion. Sorry if you felt attacked or anything.

I didn’t say this earlier, but thanks for the article about the rock relief carving. I figured carving is carving, and the medium wouldn’t matter. That’s what madee take a second look at the photos and see the maybe seam and stuff.

Saying “short people” is waaaaay different than “nearly life-sized”. There is more to size than height. Proportions matter too. Shorter people aren’t also narrower, for example. It makes sense to me, but if they said they found statues of short people I wouldn’t get the same vibe.

I agree that people aren’t all the same height, but there are averages to go off. That’s why things like chairs and doorways work for most people.

The more I look at the photos the more I think they are indeed statues. There is a big ol’ void beneath the dude that suggests he’s standing on dirt, and not carved from a stone that was originally there. They also seem to be two different statues that were placed side by side. You can see a seam in between them. I suspect that they were carved separately, but with the “wall” structures around them with the intent to be put in an alcove or something.

At the end of the day though, this is all kind of petty and overly semantic. I don’t think this was written by AI, and you do but you have doubts. A sample size of 2 isn’t all that great. I just wanted to share some neat stone carving things that were found in Pompeii, not debate about the grammar of the article.

Edit: Changed some needlessly accusatory language.

I feel like “nearly life-sized” means they were scaled down, and not just short. They don’t have the remains, but they know the average heights of people from the same time and place.

Also, per Wikipedia:

… relief carving is a type in which figures or patterns are carved in a flat panel of wood… The figures project only slightly from the background rather than standing freely

Based on these being slightly more three dimensional, I probably would also have called them statues. I am not an archeologist though, so you may be on to something.

You’re gonna have to redo that last sentence there. I’m not catching the drift.

What data are they gathering? Like, what specific info from the appliance can tell the power company what it is you are running?

Yeah, 100%. It’s just that usually when something like this gets a large-ish negative reaction it’s because people associate it with furries or some other “taboo” fetish/lifestyle.

I also find that furry stuff gets way more hate than it deserves (which is none hate). I say boo to that! So long as stuff is consensual and nobody gets hurt (who doesn’t want to, lookin’ at you BDSM), then let people enjoy things.

Side note: It’s hilarious how for years people were cheering on Captain Kirk for banging green alien chicks, but cat ears and a tail is a no-go. Cross-species stuff is cool so long as they’re from another planet? What if it was planet Yiff? On the topic of aliens, do we even know if Superman has a human-like penis? Maybe Kryptonians bust onto egg clutches, who’s to say?

Anywho, people are silly and really like policing other people’s likes.

It would have to be an inference based on power draw. Not at all accurate or definitive, I don’t think. This seems a bit tinfoil-hatty to me.

I’m betting it relies on an assumption that every dishwasher would draw the same amount of current (within reason) as every other dishwasher. The same with every washing machine, every dryer, every AC, and so on. On top of that, all the current draws would need to be unique. If a dryer pulled the same current as an oven then the surveillance people wouldn’t know which you were running.

Sure, you could infer a little based on time of day and such, but who’s to say the homeowner isn’t just running 10 microwaves?

Eh, I say let the furries have their fun. Like, they’re going to do stuff like this anyway. Might as well sell it to them.

Well, it is exactly what it says on the tin then. I was sure it was made up, lol.

Turns out this is from a real study, and not just a meme lol.

What do you want to say/see that you cannot? Which rule is rustling your jimmies the most?

Wow, I figured we didn’t have laws like that here. A few years ago we had a bunch of honkies drive on down to Ottawa. They had a website with their plans, and they literally said they were going there to overthrow the government. If you want here is a Wikipedia article about them

They got some house arrest

Edit: I have added a Wayback link to the MOU.

I don’t have kids, so I don’t really have a dog in this fight. I think it’s reasonable to feel weird about someone doing something you’re not used to. So long as they’re happy, nobody is getting hurt, and nobody is a jerk about it, everything should be fine. Like, if both guys know about one another then cool, if she’s two-timing both then maybe a discussion needs to be had.

Bit of a tangent: It’s weird to me how against things like polyamory or swinging North American society seems to be. I’ve seen people talk about cheating with less confusion and apprehension. Is it so alien that more than two people can consensually enjoy each other’s company? Archie comics have been a staple here for years, and those crazy kids are deffo in a proto-polycule.

You are right! The funny thing is I was trying to think of it that way and got it backwards anyway. Not enough mental RAM left after work for that kind of thing, apparently.

Unsolicited formatting help

If you want to see the arrows and not format as a quote throw some backslashes in front of the less greater than signs.

\> Typing this

> Gets this

Otherwise, if you want to get rid of the gaps between the quote lines then put less greater than signs on the empty lines.

> Typing
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Gets

this

Edit: I had to fix some wonky formatting, lol

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