The Eyes of the Dragon? Tbh I was around that age when I started reading Stephen King, and my introduction was The Tommyknockers, which I enjoyed, and Firestarter, which I loved but I don’t know if I can recommend them because I can’t remember for sure if either of them have graphic sex scenes…

Oh, and there’s Carrie of course. A banger.

Same way we always have - trust. Reputation has always been a thing, there was a brief window where photographic or video evidemce was enough but it didn’t last all that long and tbh it’s always had its flaws.

Nah actually I’m pretty happy mostly. Although I do get horrible muscle spasms when I’m stressed sometimes

Only if you believed his bollocks, which we all know is not to be believed

Huh. Never noticed the MLM parallels of the current AI hype so much before. Literally levenschtein distance of one, should’ve spotted it.

I think the idea is that, whilst shorting, you get squeezed. The question is not ‘if’ but ‘when’ and if it takes too long and you’re $1B deep you can lose your shirt

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If my night shamalamalan directed it would be really good for like the first 40% and then everything after a certain point would feel incredibly paint-by-numbers

Sicilian ice cream sandwiches are a real thing and they are basically the best thing that’s ever happened to breakfast cuisine

Siesta is barely a thing in Italy any more unless you’re like 70+ and rural lol. But a brioche stuffed with ice-cream is the king of breakfasts what are you on about

Grab that cash with both hands and make a dash

Human connection is actually the basic premise of the original post. I’m just being salty because I resent having to constantly fix the shite that lazy cunts vibe code, but yes, it’s not an obvious join and I’d probably had a drink

I kinda like two kinds of horror film: funny ones (dale and tucker Vs evil, shaun of the dead, cabin in the woods) because they’re often some of the funniest comedies; and brooding ones with compelling characters (the skin I live in, Psycho, Alien). Although that second category is highly subjective and probably not really a category at all except inasmuch as it excludes comedies, slashers, and ones with paper thin poorly motivated characters…

You’ve got to be kidding me! 😡😡

You’re certainly not wrong! To me, it seems that consciousness is just what it is to be the kind of machines that we are, and also why sentience/consciousness is so impossible for the sort of synthetic 'AI’s we have that currently exist. But how could we ever really tell? Hard to know what evidence would ever be convincing either way!

Truly the strangest epiphenomenon we’re all aware of

Yeah tbh I just thought the --json option was pretty neat - I hadn’t known about it until fairly recently

Just one of the many perks of a stable monogamous relationship.

... -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"query": "{ users { name } }"}'? No. Why would you do that when you can just do ... --json '{"query": "{ users { name } }"}'. Yeah curl is awesome.

Probably? Lots of sick people at Disney