Evolution and Abrahamic religions are absurdly incompatible. One day, having just watched the development of organisms for millions of years, God finally gets bored, selects a random species of particularly successful land fish, and gives them a soul.

(Subsequently, he hyperfixates on them for a couple of thousand years, giving them rules and intervening on behalf of a small subset of them, then finds that tedious and disappears again. He pops back to impregnate one land fish, and introduces the idea of eternal life, then when his fish son dies, he gives up on the whole thing and is never heard from again.)

Hilarious that it’s Europe-focused but they’ve given it a name that’s at least a little different in nearly every language.

I’ll send you a link; do you have a Dáblio account?

No, I’m only on Weh.

Góód óf yóú tó máké ít úp tó mé. Í’ll vísít yóúr stóré ágain in the near future.

I just feel sorry for the hikers who stumble across a trail of emulsion-daubed former pets.

I appreciate that you rectified it quickly, but my doctor has just diagnosed me with backlyme disease. You’ll be hearing from my lawyer.

paint dogs that recently died

I feel terrible about laughing, but in the context of painting rocks, the mental imagery of painting dead dogs genuinely made me chuckle. What does she paint onto them?

You cannot pass.¹ I am a servant of the Secret Fire, wielder of the flame of Anor.³ The dark fire will not avail you, flame of Udûn. Go back to the Shadow! You cannot pass.⁴

Close enough.

Hi, I bought a comma from you earlier but when I opened it at home, it had two backticks attached that weren’t mentioned in the listing. How do I return it?

I’m a bit late to the party, but the context is a free browser-based text adventure game called Fallen London. (not to be confused with the Fallout 4 total conversion mod Fallout: London). I’ve not played it so I can’t vouch for it.

Started by verifying I’d understood the artist’s signature correctly, and used that to get an idea of when he was publishing and what publications were common, from a bunch of web results.

Then searched Google Books for a partial phrase. The most likely result wasn’t viewable, but it gave me a specific publication to look at.

Searched for that same issue on the general web, found a different issue of the same magazine on archive.org. Didn’t find the cartoon in it, but was lucky enough that it was part of a collection that has been OCR’d.

Searched the collection for the phrase fragment, found an exact match (despite “beginner” being misinterpreted by the OCR, so I got lucky with my chosen fragment), flicked through, and found it on the fourth page (again quite lucky that it was near the start).

G. B. Inwood. Page 2 of Volume 92 of The Judge, a publication from the University of Iowa, from March 1927.

The illustrator is G. B. Inwood, but I can’t find much about them.

Edit: the illustration might be from Volume 92 of The Judge, a publication from the University of Iowa, from 1927 – but I don’t trust Google Books to get the publication dates right.

Edit 2: Google Books was correct. Here’s the full magazine. This picture’s on digital page 4, numbered page 2.

As a criticism of the DNC, the meme’s pretty close to the truth, even if it does inspire apathy – like Lucy yanking the football away every time, it’s the DNC who sabotage nominees who intend to implement effective change of the system.

But since there’s no other viable ball to kick, the electorate need to kick anyway – and spend the rest of the time organizing on a national level and engaging politically on a local level to shitcan Lucy. (This metaphor isn’t especially extensible!)

And this is the mid-Cretaceous – as feathered dinosaurs go, Anchiornis was around 60,000,000 years before that, and Kulindadromeus perhaps even earlier.

Yes, fair - your second observation isn’t mentioned directly in the comment I linked – just my point plus your first point – but it is admitted explicitly in this follow-up post.

Activation of the extensor digitorum and the second lateral lumbrical?

I agree that they’re floundering, and that they’re desperately trying to dig themselves out of a hole (if you’ll forgive the mixed metaphor), but I don’t think it’s useful to chalk up to AI mistakes what is actually demonstrably a human marketing decision.

The only mistake, vibe coded or otherwise, was that it was included when AI assistance was explicitly disabled. It’s otherwise entirely deliberate.

That said, I’m not sure the concept a bad thing overall. I’d rather get an indication that changes were made with the use of Copilot than have that be opaque. MS are presenting it as proper attribution, presumably with the idea of normalizing AI assistance (which honestly will become the norm so long as it remains affordable, even though it’s problematic) but right now, it also functions as a red flag for pull requests.

Bonus:

Thanks! I was wondering whether I’d get any benefit from their routing versus GraphHopper’s web UI; sounds like right now, that’ll just be in parts of France.