I just checked with my local school, and they're not just making them learn these arabic numbers, they're forcing them to learn AL GEBRA!!! Sounds like foreign nonsense to me, so I'm starting a petition to have the head fired, and possibly flogged.

You should check with your local schools too. Keep this policically correct woke DEI rubbish away from our kids!

There are times when I really wish I had the lack of scrupples to do this sort of thing, but I don't, so I wont.

This is the sort of silly law I can actually get behind, so long as they didn't spend long on it. It adds a bit of local flavor, and has a positive motive.

They're snails, they are the minivans.

Sounds tasty. I can vouch for lemons undergoing a similar transformation. Wrap them in foil, seal it really well, and chuck them near a fire or bbq. They come out soft, sweet, and delicious.

I'm assuming the curse kicks in as soon as someone even tries to attune to it, or possibly even touches it. I suppose it's also possible that the curse has nothing to do with the crystal, and is just the DM commenting on the rogue being an idiot.

In my experience, the hard part of writing a 600 word essay isn't getting to 600 words, it's not going too far over that! Once you get into the flow, it can be hard to stop in time.

I'd argue we know exactly what's going on in there, we just don't necessarily, know for any particular model why it's going on in there.

Only the admin of your instance can see your IP address, it doesn't get federated to other instances.

Assuming this is actually real, because I want to believe noone is stupid enough to give an LLM access to a production system, the outcome is embarasing, but they can surely just roll back the changes to the last backup, or the checkpoint before this operation. Then I remember that the sort of people who let an LLM loose on their system probably haven't thought about things like disaster recovery planning, access controls or backups.

Surgery, especially on animals.

In any other context, someone cutting you open, slicing bits out or rearranging them, them sewing you shut would be considered horrific, but we do it because we know that the short term suffering out weighs the long term harm of not doing it. When you choose it for yourself it might not be too 'evil', but an animal would not understand, even if you know it will mean they get to live a long, happy life, free of the pain and suffering that issue would otherwise cause.

“They will hunt you, they are like a cross between a lentil and a velociraptor,”

Well, that's a horrifying image.