Honestly, most cardinals that were in any kind of position to be elected pope probably have similar stories, especially from that far back.

Not saying this is OK, but its kind of depressing that not having a history of protecting pedophiles is too high of a bar for morality for electing a pope.

You won’t believe this 1 crazy trick to do whatever you want while the US president.

Still there. It acts up if I don’t keep on top of my oral hygiene for a while, I just brush twice a day, floss once, and get a cleaning done periodically, nothing crazy. And it hasn’t been a problem for a long time.

I got my other wisdom teeth removed like 10 years ago, so this one has his been chilling in my jaw for a decade without issue.

For me, they said my wisdom tooth was too impacted, so unless it was causing pain O should just leave it because removing it could damage a nerve and leave part of my face numb.

And I’m in the US, and dentists are constantly trying to upcharge you for whitening and other stuff, so I took that warning seriously.

I’m way more confident in my ability to take a goose than a cat. Geese are mean and can hurt, but push come to shove I could tank that with adrenaline.

Cats will claw your eyes out.

Then you have more revenue so it’s easier to launder large cash payments through it.

Oof, if you’re going to run a money laundering business at least either provide a good product or a cheap price.

I think there’s a useful discussion for why these technologies can be effective at getting people to connect with them emotionally, but they themselves don’t experience emotions any more than a fictional character in a book experiences emotion.

Our mental model of them can, but the physical representation is just words. In the book I’m reading there was a brutal torture scene. I felt bad for the character, but if there was an actual being experiencing that kind of torment, making and reading the book would be horrendously unethical.

I have a preconceived conclusion about my anthropomorphized view of a statistical model with some heuristics around it. People who know what they’re talking about say I’m wrong, but I need an idea for an article to write that people will read.

Just out of curiousity, did you ever live in the 80s or 90s?

I was a child throughout the 90s in the US, and I don’t think its just rose colored glasses. We didn’t have the internet as a whole, but government still mostly worked, we had a good chunk of the middle class left, the enshittification of everything being cheaply made in china hadn’t happened either, food wasn’t all hyper processed HFC’s outside of candy and stuff that is clearly junk food.

I think there’s some objectively good stuff in that time period, and its not so long ago that you don’t have good medical science and can travel by car and have running water (in the developed world at least).

They mean the US in the 80s and 90s when we were burning through all of the goodwill and progress made in the prior half century.

Yep that sounds like a flying object that no one identified.

Starfish don’t have lungs, so they can’t choke.

a few dozen fake internet points.

Persians https://www.linsfood.com/easy-persian-saffron-rice/

The usage of the yellow rice below the chin like shading screams AI to me. If it was real they probably would be leaning more into a flat cartoon art style and just have the neck just go down as white.

Also, that grain of rice making his right nostril is jank.

Make sure you use organic short half life poisons. Don’t poison the surrounding areas with rainwater runoff just because you want to live in a nightmarish hellscape.

Desolate responsibly.

That’s a plucky kitty.

Grain diggers*

Don’t worry, we’re working on making the earth look WAY shittier so you can work your 9-5 without worrying about missing out on anything.