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Great ending! I was not expecting any of them to make it, so that was a pleasant surprise. But we are definitely going to see Omega again.

Aside from the whole not-being-able-to-turn-their-heads thing. But they look cool as fuck.

Went to my happy place

I also like the biker scout troopers, too.

I hated when they tried to do “RAW underground” years ago. I felt it undermined the product because it was treated as, look, what we’re doing down here is real. No wrestling ring, no announcers. Just two competitors jumping in trying to beat each other into submission. I thought it was stupid that they’d insult their own product in that manner. Now they’re doing it with NXT. If I wanted to watch a MMA-style fight I’d watch MMA. I don’t tune in to WWE for that.

Still think those red imperial guards have one of the best designs in all of star wars

Talking of tourist trap, this was the photo on my calendar when I flipped over to May - such an odd “look to camera” photo I’ve not seen before! “Come to the Death Star! You’ll never leave!”

I'm trying not to speak too out of turn, but I've found that working with top-tier scientists and engineers has a lot of pros and a handful of cons. There's always a handful who are extremely well over-qualified in their fields and are absolutely brilliant at what they do, but also know that and make sure that everyone else knows that. It takes some tact and skill to work around immense egos sometimes. I'm not even talking about any particular area, or even about NASA specifically. For example, I adore Neil DeGrasse Tyson immensely and still consider him a hero, but he can be a total jackass when it comes to that sort of thing too. I'm lucky that I'm connected to that realm but am able to keep it at an arm's length at my current position. I just need to be able to book them for speaking appearances and get enough bullet points from them to effectively communicate it to the public, which keeps me almost completely out of the mix with most potential drama. It did admittedly take me a bit to learn to navigate it the right way though.

It’s a tourist trap!

I’m very happy to hear that the private school is taking her to finish out the year. I hope it is a much better experience than this last one was.

So we went to clean Q's desk out after school today. The principal followed us around, which I did not appreciate. Q's teacher made sure all of her stuff was turned in (textbooks, Chromebook, library books, etc) and made a big show of it, which I appreciated because I felt like she was looking out for her. While we were cleaning out her desks 2 pieces of paper came out. One of them was a short, 3 sentence apology from one of the boys who made fun of her when the bully hit her. It wasn't a good apology, but he tried. The other was the apology from the bully. I took a picture of it, because this was the big consequence that was supposed to make it all better. Obviously, fuck this shit. When we got home, the private school called and said they would be glad to have Q join them starting Monday for the last 6 weeks of the school year. We happily accepted. We finished one Girl Scout badge that she had already started. Tomorrow she is starting Screenwriting. I thought Tank would like that.

Not a bad day. Look at what a dairy vendor brought in today.

Because Oga wouldn't have it. This Batu crime bosses are territorial.

Well then why in the fuck not??

Lol. No.

Does Star Wars Land at DisneyWorld have a concession stand called Admiral Snackbar? Ackbar's Snackbar?

I loved it until the last act where it fell off the rails a bit. I've also seen Immaculate, First Omen, Lisa Frankenstein, and Abigail recently and thought they were all great.

Saw Late Night with the devil the other day. It was okay, nothing terribly scary in it. Everything did look appropriately 70s! It reminded me more of one of the segments in the VHS movies. Not one in particular but that it would have fit right in as a part in one of them.

Looks like Dijak is getting another shot on Raw.

Dragonov, Lyra, and Blair Davenport. The Women's division needed some new blood

Oh geez, we never got any of that shit at daycare. Although one of my friend's husband managed to get HFM from his kids. The doctors were shocked, they said it was like the first adult case they'd ever seen, they said his immune system must be awful. Q got norovirus once at daycare and we were cloth diapering so of COURSE I got it. Turns out those diaper sprayers literally weaponize that stuff. After E's first eye surgery, I said screw it to cloth diapers. Something had to give and it couldn't be my sanity. I do NOT miss babies. I admittedly think the elementary school stage is pretty fun once they learn how to read and stuff. (Q had a hard time, E just started reading one day, although his teachers said he clearly loved being read to, which we did a lot with both kids.)

If they're going to keep doing the draft, they have to shake it up a little more.

On the one hand, little clips like the ones in this thread are definitely amusing and interesting, but these deep learning-based methods that are all falsely marketed as AI are hugely concerning. Seth certainly knows about the issues with entertainment and many of you have brought up social media issues, too. I see them in research, with many organizations and researchers, including some federal funding agencies, really going all in on these methods being used for everything. Some of the uses are fantastic, such as helping to solve optimization problems at a fraction of the computational cost once the network architectures are built and the resulting models trained, but so many researchers just want to throw tons of data into these things to get results. While the models often perform extremely well, the machines are the only thing learning, not the researchers. We get results, but can’t speak to their reliability and often how well they generalize to the broader population the data comes from. To me, it goes heavily against the principles of scientific methods, including the criticism principle of parsimony, finding the simplest explanations/models for understanding the world around us.

Oof! Yeah, the kennel cough River had was definitely just being passed around daycare.

Huh. Interesting. We know ours gets so many infections because of daycare and all the crazy things he picks up there. There was a stretch in the winter where he had hand, foot, and mouth, covid, and likely rsv within around three weeks of each other wrapped around teething issues, which was also pretty miserable.