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Führer and friend. Source: Midjourney. Gab, The Social Network For People Who Were Dropped on Their Heads as Infants™, is hard at work trying to create AI chatbots that are just as racist, sexist, antisemitic, transphobic, Trumpy, and batshit crazy as the network's 100,000 active members. More accurately, it is busy creating a couple dozen AI chatbots, based on various personas and historical figures, including everyone's favorite embodiment of pure evil, Adolf Hitler.

I grow weary of roasted vegetables and endless broccoli and cauliflower this time of year, and crunchy tangy salads really make dinner more fun and delicious. I’m usually complaining by now about how long and cold winter is, but this year has been so mild in the Northeast, as many of you know. It’s a little scary — though, I have to admit, I’ve enjoyed it. It was in the 50s today and we ate lunch outside in the sun.

The treasure which you think not worth taking trouble and pains to find, this one alone is the real treasure you are longing for all your life. The glittering treasure you are hunting for day and night lies buried on the other side of that hill yonder. —B. Traven, epigraph, Der Schatz Der Sierra Madre (1927) I don’t think I’m the first to observe that the final scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark can be read as a sort of mini-allegory about investigative reporting.

In Japanese, “light rain” is 小雨, or “little rain”, which is pronounced kosame instead of the expected “ko-ame”. Where’s that extra “s” in the middle coming from? The obvious explanation is that the “s” makes it easier to pronounce, since otherwise you’d have two vowels right next to each other. There is a word for this phenomenon, namely “epenthesis”, the insertion of a sound or letter within a word, found in many languages.

Some spoilers within. I want Ralph Fiennes’s cheeseburger. The cheeseburger, that is, made by Chef Slowik, his character in the satirical horror film “The Menu.” The burger appears late in the movie in the first and only appetizing moment throughout. Watching Slowik, with great calm and care, make this beautiful, juicy double cheeseburger, I caught myself saying out loud, “That smells good.” The burger symbolizes the joy of cooking food that people find joy in eating.

Good morning and welcome to The Morning Column presented by The Sporting Tribune. Please subscribe if you haven’t done so already. It’s free and will be delivered to your inbox every weekday morning. OK, let’s get to it! 1. Rams inch past Giants en route to a playoff berth, 26-25 With Seahawks loss to the Steelers, the Rams clinch a playoff spot after close win in New Jersey, writes The Sporting Tribune’s Grant Mona.

Did We Have a Global Pandemic? Promo Code: Greg Reese 2:27 video compilation here illustrating the dilemma of the Mysterious Coronavirus Global Pandemic. Hate the messenger all you want, but the Not a Movement has a massive, massive discrepancy from the Bucharest Expert Crew about WTF… Read more 6 months ago · 65 likes · 54 comments · Sage Hana So SAGE again is over the target and I am saying what SAGE has said by asking you to think, but SAGE is saying there was no fucki*g pandemic, come to terms with it…it was all a lie and it is becoming clearer that even those in the Freedom movement for various reasons, I would argue not nefarious but all the same, hurt people, and were part of the lie…IMO.