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I'm going to celebrate it every year and call it "no kings day".

Pam Bondi.

There is a game called Whispers from the Star which uses an LLM to run the script. It's pretty much a fancy choose your own adventure book. It's pretty shit.

https://youtu.be/zDa4l18z9z8?t=626

I live and own a business in PEI. It's a classic arcade that usually sees a bit of traffic from tourists.

I for one welcome this change.

All the teachers were deaf.

Deaf people LOVE when hearing folks try to communicate so they’ll do anything they can to help you out generally.

That is the exact opposite of what I experienced when I was learning ASL.

At one point in my life I had planned to learn ASL/English sign and work as an interpreter. I lived in an area on the west coast with a community college that had a huge deaf community and a very good ASL interpreter training program. I did almost two years (just short of completing) before bailing out.

Our classes were complete immersion from day one. No speaking or writing was allowed. Later classes, fingerspell was to be kept at a minimum. It was pretty cool but at times really frustrating. It's easy to build your vocabulary of noun and verbs, but more abstract concepts were hard to understand in this setting.

Think of it this way. How does someone explain "abstract concept" with only gestures you don't understand yet?

Why did I quit?

I'm a hearing person and the deaf community was generally pretty hostile towards hearing people in the program. One deaf woman went so far to say I was exploiting her disability. That's kind of the vibe I got from many in the community. This was the main reason for leaving. I didn't want a job where I worked with people who actively hated me for no reason.

The second reason; it was very hard to become fluent. I was getting pretty familiar with the local dialect (a blend of ASL and English). I was getting good at reading sign, but MY signs sucked. I just didn't have people to "talk" with out of my class and they were all hearing people in the same boat as me.

You can pick up sign languages by watching videos over and over, but your pronunciation is probably going to suck without someone actively correcting you.

Ban THC but allow alcohol, tobacco, and guns?

BHA-HA-HA-HA!

I'm still using CS5.1 Photoshop. I used a newer version about a year ago and short of a few things moved around, it was pretty much the same.

Maybe there is some back end, under the trunk changes that make it more intelligent in how it does something, but I never noticed.

For what I use it for, I don't foresee myself using anything else until it stops running.

Why the fuck should I care what a guy who plays video games says about anything other than playing video games?

I have a feeling this dude has no formal education on human sexuality, biology, or transgender studies.

The modern US hasn't fought a war with someone right next door, who looks and talks like them. Not only would it be hard to hold captured cities, but I think many Canadian fighters would walk across that massive unsecured border and start fucking up US resources like electrical stations, water supplies, subway systems, internet backbones, government buildings, . It is super easy to buy guns and ammo in the US, bombs are not hard to make. We would have a fair amount of local support as well.

We Canadians could just walk around the US in public and you've never know it.