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I just asked ChatGPT to tell me which countries have populations that are closest to Mordor.

It gave me a detailed top 5 and seemed to be enjoying itself :oldlaugh:

It can be brutally honest if you phrase questions correctly.
 
I'm on vacation and my wife invited her widowed friend to join us. So here I am walking around a beach resort getting strange looks like I have two wives. The look that we got from one woman at dinner was too funny.

I've decided to just own it. 😆
 
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Borg said:
I'm on vacation and my wife invited her widowed friend to join us. So here I am walking around a beach resort getting strange looks like I have two wives. The look that we got from one woman at dinner was too funny.

I've decided to just own it. 😆
Maybe could've tried vacationing in Utah. They go more by " Eight is Enough". Or so I hear.
 
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Borg said:
I'm on vacation and my wife invited her widowed friend to join us. So here I am walking around a beach resort getting strange looks like I have two wives. The look that we got from one woman at dinner was too funny.

I've decided to just own it. 😆
Pictures would have been interesting. :cool:
 
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Borg said:
I'm on vacation and my wife invited her widowed friend to join us. So here I am walking around a beach resort getting strange looks like I have two wives. The look that we got from one woman at dinner was too funny.

I've decided to just own it. 😆
A few years ago I actually took two women out for dinner. It was certainly a new kind of social challenge!

I'll leave the rest to your imagination.
 
The other day I caught Smerconish (CNN political show) invoking Ockham's Razor; incorrectly of course.

"The obvious answer is almost always correct"

Now how much should I trust his interpretation of current events? Egad!!!!
 
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The other day I caught Smerconish (CNN political show) invoking Ockham's Razor; incorrectly of course.

"The obvious answer is almost always correct"

Now how much should I trust his interpretation of current events? Egad!!!!
You're not likely to find someone who gets everything right. He may have also failed while trying to simplify a point. Now, if you catch them making 3-4 mistakes in a short time that's a clearer indication of ineptitude.
 
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You're not likely to find someone who gets everything right. He may have also failed while trying to simplify a point. Now, if you catch them making 3-4 mistakes in a short time that's a clearer indication of ineptitude.
My take is he is intellectually sloppy and doesn't do his homework. I often watch him because there isn't much else interesting to watch at 6 AM on Saturday mornings. And lately he has been annoying me. But this degree of sloppiness shocked me. I expected better than that.
 
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My take is he is intellectually sloppy and doesn't do his homework. I often watch him because there isn't much else interesting to watch at 6 AM on Saturday mornings. And lately he has been annoying me. But this degree of sloppiness shocked me. I expected better than that.
Ok. I haven't owned a TV for a while. What annoys me is people in YT who drop by videos and comment on how they don't like a song, sport, etc? Just don't watch it then.
 
Being old, I did a search yesterday, on how likely I am to get a hip fracture.
Today, I looked at the growth of the S&P 500 Index fund.

The equation today, looked spookily familiar.

Upon confirmation, it reminded me of the old Pirates vs 'something or other' not-a-correlation.

That is all.

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Fun Fact: Many years ago, my uncle ran the service department at a very large GM dealership in Los Angeles. This place was huge! They had a service center dedicated to servicing large busses. And many of these busses were the personal busses of celebrities who used them for travel; mainly movie stars and musicians. Since he ran the department, my uncle could check out a bus for some bogus reason and take them for a personal road trip. No one knew the difference. He was the boss.

One year my uncle, his wife and daughter, my ex and I, and I think my sister all took Willy Nelson's bus on a 1000-mile road test for a week to visit other family members. Because of my work on mobile CAT scanners and MRI, which were on large busses and tractor trailers, I was licensed to drive a bus. So was my uncle. So off we went. It was very nice inside a heck of a way to travel.

Guess what we found in a tray under one of the beds.

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What I am going to tell you about is what we teach our physics students in the third or fourth year of graduate school...

It is my task to convince you not to turn away because you don't understand it. You see my physics students don't understand it... That is because I don't understand it.

Nobody does.

Richard P. Feynman, QED, The Strange Theory of Light and Matter
 
Doh! It happened again.

Was trying again to figure out the probability of me breaking my hip, when an intermediary graph reminded me of solar panel output graphs from my younger years.

linear-ish, then whoa!, then linear-ish again.

I'm blaming this on Martin Gardner. That bastard got me REALLY going.

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