Bonus happy goats: a neighbour dropped off a bucket of apple peels. The goats like the apple peels so much they mostly ignored the geese, who also really liked the apple peels (but you'll notice the goats gave the geese a wide berth: geese are jerks)

@transitionalaspect @sundogplanets clean laundry that has been hung to dry in the sun and is almost, but not quite dry, is also good

Last time I was on a BBC podcast I tried to describe one of the pieces of debris that fell as about the size and shape of the hood of a semi truck. The very proper hosts with very proper British accents paused for a few seconds and then very politely asked "...a what?" And I stammered something like "uhhh... a lorry? Is that a lorry?"And then they cut in me saying "lorry" in a different tone of voice over "semi truck" and it doesn't even make sense. Wish me luck with my English words today!

@sundogplanets @sidereal @Strider_UK I'm afraid that the difference between the two is getting blurred?e.g. stuff like grammarly: I suppose it does use some kind of LLM, and it has a number of the issues with LLM generated text (e.g. flattening of style) so I wouldn't trust it not to also suffer from the ethical issues with LLMs, but afaik it's being sold as basically an advanced spellcheck.(I don't have direct experience, I'm still using 20th century-style :) aspell under linux, which is quite limited, but also I'm not writing professionally, so I don't care that much)

@sundogplanets hope, duct tape, and someone's leftover grant money from 5 years ago.... describes so many worthwhile things in my experience. both online and offline!We should do better as a society.

@sundogplanets These companies remembers me the Panama scandals at the end of 1800:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_scandals

@sundogplanets Paradoxically, an asteroid can hit the Earth by traveling hidden by the satellite streaks.

@sundogplanets Don't feel guilty!

@sundogplanets I bet next goat will be named Aurora

@sundogplanets IMHO there are other better ways to create some thousands of jobs.

@sundogplanets I found a good source of free plywood offcuts at the cutting service of our equivalent of Home Depot.Not large pieces, but a lot of them.

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@valhalla @sundogplanets and the bonus joke/pun: cosa fanno due mucche in una stalla? Bivaccano.What do two cows do in a shed? They bivouac(Because of the “vacca” in the verb bivaccare which is the italian for bivouac)

@not2b @sundogplanets they aren't a thing here in Italy either, but sweet stuff made of a batter with eggs in it and then fried definitely are.so I guess it's the same idea, just a different variant

@sundogplanets “Orbital data centers are the most efficient way to meet the accelerating demand for AI computing power,”Demand isn't accelerating, you're forcing it on everyone you assholes!! We can't NOT use it when you make it an integral part of every product you sell ASSHOLES!

@sundogplanets If Galileo had proposed such an abstruse orbit they would have put him to boil with carrots and onions

@sundogplanets I noticed that this morning: here on the Riviera, with 11℃, there is people wearing thick parkas, padded gloves, and all the gear Amundsen style… while I have rolled sleeves

@sundogplanets The 1959 Morris Mini Minor was between 580 and 686 kg: maybe we can consider that weight as definition of "mini":

@sundogplanets Chickens are full of envy for the geese, who can migrate to a warmer place