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Stadium Arcadium, in my opinion, is the best record the Red Hot Chili Peppers ever made. IT'S SO GOOD

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Ohhhh this is badass. Sabertooth don't stand a chance of course but the effort is commendable

Sabretooth vs Nosferatu Zodd by Danielfs2002

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Well, I've been shadowbanned. I can't send messages and I'm not receiving any. No idea why they did this.

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That raccoon is just sad cause it's got zoochosis and it's going through some mental horrors

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When I was a kid, I lived on a farm, and once a year the adults would go duck hunting and bring home a few ducks. One year, it was me and my brother's job to pluck those ducks. We were, like, maybe eight or nine? Plenty old enough to pluck a duck, but with zero experience.

And that zero experience turned out to be a problem, because we hadn't had much to do with birds and the thing about a bird's feathers, right, is that you've got a feather that sits in a little sheath thing that's rooted in the body. So what you want to do is pull the feather and sheath both out. But if you're a little kid who's never done this before, all too often, the feather comes out and leaves the sheath in the body. So we'd be doing our best but the ducks would come out maybe a quarter plucked properly and otherwise still full of these feather sheaths, and then it's a matter of going back and pulling all these little sheaths out.

I remember quite clearly, my mother and aunt helping us with this part, because it's fiddly and we were taking forever. They'd take the plucked ducks and re-pluck them properly. And I remember my mum making a remark to my aunt (not maliciously, she didn't know I could hear and was just making conversation), "You know, it would've been easier for us to just do it from the start and not have to deal with all these fiddly little bits." And she was absolutely right -- my brother and I were involved for our benefit in the same way you get a young kid to "help" wash the dishes, we were learning a life skill. But even though we'd done most of the work, we'd removed most of the unwanted mass from the duck's skin, we'd actually made things harder. We'd removed all the feathers and a quarter of the sheaths, but the sheaths are much easier to remove with the feathers attached, so working on a "mostly plucked" duck was a lot more work for the adults than just doing the whole duck from scratch would have been.

Anyway, I vividly remember this incident every time someone suggests saving time by writing with AI and then just editing it into something good.

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Happy Skynet Day everyone! And remember, Sarah Connor didn't save the world from AI multiple times just for y'all use ChatGPT to do your homework 👍🏻

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Lmao

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HUESERA: THE BONE WOMAN dir. Michelle Garza Cervera, 2022

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Please reblog for reach. This poll is probably going to get passed around Kansas residents more than non residents but I need imput from both parties

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