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Danger all around us:

[spoiler]A deadly fish hook accident is all too common in the U.S., with around 1,200 people dying from such mishaps every year, according to a recent survey by the National Fisheries Institute.

A number of ways to protect yourself from these fish hook accidents have emerged over the years, including wearing a wide-brimmed hat, a waterproof coat, or even the plastic sleeve on a hand towel.

For people who want to go further, the Institute of Medicine says that the best way to reduce the number of fish hook accidents is simply to not go into the water in the first place.[/spoiler][spoiler]A deadly USB cord accident in the United States this week led to the death of a man. As of Wednesday, the investigation into the accident remained ongoing.

The incident occurred Sunday at around 11:00 a.m. local time (10:00 a.m. ET) in Virginia Beach, Virginia, where a 19-year-old man, identified as David R. Deleon of Charlottesville, Virginia, was using the cord to charge his cellphone, WAVY.com reported.

The cord was too long for Deleon’s hand, which was attempting to pull it out of his pocket. The cord wrapped around his neck, and he suffered a severe neck strain as a result of the accident. He was rushed to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

His cause of death was determined to be “extensive compression to the neck resulting in cervical spine compression,” according to a news release from the Virginia Beach Police Department.[/spoiler][spoiler]A deadly mop accident at the National Mop Shop in the City of Cleveland last week claimed a young man’s life.

On Tuesday, the Department of Public Safety said an employee at the National Mop Shop, a chain of retail stores with approximately 80 stores throughout the country, was injured when a mop he was operating hit the floor.

A passerby noticed the accident and called 911 at 8:15 p.m. Tuesday.

The man was rushed to MetroHealth Medical Center, but he succumbed to his injuries Wednesday afternoon.

The man was a 16-year-old who worked in the City of Cleveland’s public schools.

The National Mop Shop was placed on voluntary lockdown Tuesday night following the accident.

No other information about the worker’s identity was available as of Wednesday evening.[/spoiler][spoiler]A deadly tadpole accident in a Queensland river.

The adult fish, a giant prawn, was snorkelling through the River Tambo in the Northern Rivers.

As it was approaching the surface, the big fish lost its balance and fell into the river.

The juvenile fish was left clinging to its tail and died instantly.

A rescue worker said they were called to the accident at about 5pm.

“The adult prawn was trying to get out of the water, but unfortunately slipped out of its natural habitat,” he said.

“When it was pulled up, it had a big hole on its tail.”

A Department of Primary Industries spokeswoman said a post-mortem would be conducted in Brisbane next week.[/spoiler]
Let’s be careful out there.

Children of the night.
The other people are all asleep.
The first person awake is
the first one you know.
The one who looks at you.
The one who talks to you.
You were meant to be with them.
They are the first people to wake up.
They are the ones who will tell you
what you did, what you will do.
They are the ones you will run
to when things are darkest.
They are the ones you will run to
when there is nothing left to do.
They are the ones you will run to
when there is no end to your pain.
You are the first one to have a chance at life.
You are the first to be in the light.
You are the first to feel alive.
You are the first one who has a chance.

You are

Gorbachev Sings Tractors: Turnip! Buttocks! [Video]

The Soviet Bloc also had a penchant for the bizarre. In 1968, the Russian military staged a bizarre mock attack on a nearby U.S. base. To test the reaction of U.S. forces, Soviet pilots took off from a base near Pskov in eastern Russia and landed with parachutes. A simulated bombing mission was aborted when one of the jets got stuck in the air, so a second plane was sent in to try and drop some explosives. But the second jet had to land, and when it landed, the parachute failed. The Soviets had to abandon the mock attack and continue the simulated attack.
8. The U.S. Was Also Taunted By A Naked Pole Dance

The United States of America was in constant threat of invasion and invasion was the official motto of the Soviet Union. In October of 1969, the Soviets sent a team to spy on American bases in Europe with a group of

Bugs Bunny concedes it really is wabbit season in New York!

The New York Times has an article about a city-wide wabbit-hunt by the NYPD. The paper reports:

“In the Bronx, a borough in which more than a dozen people have been killed by raccoons this year, police are stepping up patrols and posting notices on street corners. In the borough’s other boroughs, police officers are asking residents not to leave their doors or windows open when they are sleeping in the woods.”

In Brooklyn, the city health department will be providing free vaccines for the public in hopes of protecting them from the rabid animals.

Raccoon, raccoon, possum, and skunk infestations are on the rise in New York, and have been reported in at least three different neighborhoods in Brooklyn, according to the Associated Press.

Raccoons, which are also called “rat cats,” are not native to New York City. They are

All I really need is an android and some Beaujolais," the man said, before walking off and leaving her in his hotel room.

“I don’t know what to do.”

On his way back to the hotel, he gave her a lift back up the mountain, telling her: “I’m not the kind of guy that would go out with you, but I just wanted to say thanks.”

The woman said she tried to contact him a few more times over the coming days, but he was not interested.

She decided to go public with her story to bring attention to the issue of road rage, which she said was “getting out of control”.

“This has been on the news for years and years. If we want to stop it, we have to start at the beginning,” she said.

"We need to tell our kids, ‘Be calm, if you see someone you want to get involved with, don’t.’

Truly, I would have thought that one one of the last professions that was vulnerable, but…

Go to https://talktotransformer.com/ and input a prompt (a word, a sentence, a paragraph) and the AI program chews on it and spits out a continuation, matching the tone and style of the input surprisingly well. (One sample I read was part of an interview between Trump and a reporter. I swear the computer version sounded just like him, except it was a little too coherent.)

Anyway, the following was my experiment. The first sentence was what I input, all the rest was the AI.

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Today my neighbor finally cleared the fallen leaves from his yard.

And as I’m sitting down to watch “Lawnmower Man” this week, I’ve got to say that I’m amazed at how many viewers I’m getting to talk about it with.

This week I’ll be talking about the movie’s plot, how my neighbor has the worst lawnmower, my favorite scenes and, most important, what I’m watching for this week.

So without further ado, here’s the list:

  1. “Lawnmower Man”

I’m in.

The plot:

In the late 1980s, a suburban couple is on vacation in Alaska. They’re spending the day hiking, enjoying the scenery and taking in the local wildlife.

One day, the couple spots a lone man running around in the woods. He’s naked, carrying a chain saw and looking for something to eat. The man has one goal in mind: kill the entire

A murderous hungry man naked in the Alaska forests … I think the plot has real possibilities, don’t you?

What? That’s it?

Better. But still, that first attempt. Who know bots could be so lazy?

Actually, that’s a good question…

Well there ya have it.

Starting with a D&D quote of mine, completely shorn of context:

Well it has improved over the years but it’s not new. Cnet reviews (some anyway) have been written by ai for a while now iirc. I remember reading a semi-scandalous seeming handful of articles some years ago about it. The main thrust being that you couldn’t trust reviews anymore since they weren’t actually written by people anymore.

I gave it the first line of Neuromancer:

“The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.”

Here’s what the AI gave me:


The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel. The port was a dirty, crowded place, and there were thousands of ships in the harbor. At night, they would come home, and those ships were full of people. But the sky was bright. The port was bright. The people were safe, because the sky was bright.

The sky above the port was dark, but there was another sky. A bright, bright black one. It was the sky of the city, where the people lived. The city was a city of thousands of people, scattered in all directions. It was a world of skyscrapers, glass and steel, and a thousand different races. They were from everywhere, of every color, every creed. They were all mixed together, all human, all of one race, of the same skin.

And the port was a dark place. There were hundreds of ships, all of different shapes and sizes. The water was filled with people and water, and there were


The writing ends mid-sentence.

There’s already a thread on this: https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=885110

Mine did, too. I wonder if it’s asking if you want to play, too? You gave it an opening to create text, and now it’s offering you one in turn. :cool:

Okay, I’m up for a collaboration, but I insist my nom comes first.

Whoops! I searched on the website’s name, and nothing came up.

I’ll report the thread for closing.

It took a shot a dialog, apparently Sci-Fi.

Come on, you sons of bitches! Do you want to live forever?

No. No!

No, no! We want to live forever!

This is what you wanted, didn’t you?

It’s not my fault you’ve lost your shit. I never told you what to do. Now you’re acting like you can make your own rules, like you can force us to follow you. We’re not going to get into that.

Well, look at what you’ve done. You don’t have a choice.

No, but I do! It’s my fucking planet.

So you have no say?

Yes, I do!

Then why should we care?

We need your help, and you’re not helping!

What you need is an army. We need to protect you.

I said no. I don’t need help.

You should’ve said no years ago. You were there when they came. When

Before it dies, though, I think cooks are still safe:

The worst topping for pizza is

Cilantro!

Pizza!

Cheese!

The best topping is

Beef!

Chicken!

Spicy sauce!

If you have not tried this combination, you have been missing out. Just look at the photo above for a taste.

You may not be able to eat pizza with a knife and fork, but you are going to like this one. It is so good, it almost tastes like chicken. And with a bit of extra seasoning, you can totally turn it into this chicken and cilantro pizza.

This pizza is packed full of flavor and is the perfect thing to put on your next pizza party.

How To Make Chicken and Cilantro Pizza

Ingredients for 1 pizza:

12-16 ounces extra-lean ground beef

1/2 cup grated Parmesan

1/2 cup shredded Parmesan cheese

1 tablespoon fresh

I’m going to try an experiment with having it write a chain story. I’ll give it a prompt and then I’ll use the last line it gives me as the prompt for another section.


It was a dark and stormy night. The skies were a pitch black in the distance and the city of Boston was ablaze. It was the early hours of the morning. The wind and rain had not let up for the day.

I had just arrived at the Boston Herald office after the first night of campaigning for the 2016 presidential election in Massachusetts, and I had just finished my final reporting assignment of the day. I was standing in a back hallway in the newspaper’s newsroom. It was early, but I was getting the hang of things. There were a few people milling around in the hallway. A woman in a business suit had just walked in, and I recognized her instantly. It was my new colleague, Maggie Haberman. She was coming over to me for a final report. We had been at it for about 15 minutes when I decided to go outside for a smoke.

A few minutes later, I returned to the newsroom, where I was greeted by a colleague of mine. I explained the situation and he told me that the police had taken over, and he had to leave. He left immediately. It’s no good to talk about a police takeover in the newsroom. It’s much better to wait for news of our own. It’s true that I did not get a copy of the statement from the police, but it did not come from a police officer. It came from an officer I had asked to sign a document.

The next day, on July 13, I went back to the police station to get my statement and my laptop. My colleague and I tried to find out why the police had taken over. They explained that there were two cases, one against us and one against the police station. The police had just arrived to take over the station and were asking us to leave. We had two hours left. We didn’t know if we were going to be arrested. We were still waiting for our flight.

The plane, which was headed to a festival in Costa Rica, had been carrying 12 passengers and three crew members when it disappeared from radar screens at 11.30pm on Thursday night.

All aboard had been able to make it off the plane safely, and the plane was spotted at 2.30am by a pilot who saw it flying through a cloud.

At the time, investigators believed the plane may have turned and landed in Nicaragua.

But on Friday, the US Coast Guard announced that they had found debris, believed to be from the plane, in the area of Punta Nizales.

The plane disappeared from radar at 11.30pm

“The plane has been located and recovered,” Coast Guard spokesman Mike Eustace said.

A spokesman for Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega, Daniel Varela, said the plane was found in a “deep hole” near Managua.

The BBC’s Will Grant in Nicaragua says this is the second time in two weeks that Nicaraguan forces have recovered an aircraft from a secret airstrip in the country’s mountains.

We were surprised that the aircraft was found alive, despite it being submerged in a shallow area of the ocean.

We believe it’s a Cubana jet. We believe there was no sabotage on the aircraft - but there are certainly questions to be asked - whether Cubana had this plane at their disposal and whether it was used to fly back to Cuba from Nicaragua Richard Franklin, Air Accidents Investigation Branch

The plane was found in a deep hole on a mountainside overlooking Managua, according to the Nicaraguan newspaper El Vocero.

No survivors or debris have been found at the site.

There were no reports of violence or looting at the park.

More than 1,000 people live in the camps and are receiving humanitarian aid.

The number of victims and casualties has not been released, but aid workers say there have been two deaths and more than 200 injuries.

More than 70,000 people have been forced from their homes.

There were reports of looting at the park, but Mr Hossain says the government is in control.

The UN has appealed for $4bn (£2.4bn) to help the displaced people of Rakhine state, where the Rohingya Muslims are accused of being illegal immigrants from Bangladesh.

‘Sickening’

Mr Hossain said more than 1,000 Rohingya have been sheltering at the camp, which has a capacity for up to 5,000 people.

He said some people are already refusing food and water and the situation is becoming more serious every day.

He said the situation is getting worse by the day.

“In some places, there is no water at all. The rain has been so hard,” he said.

‘It’s going to get worse before it gets better’

He said he has tried to reach out to the US authorities, but they have not responded.

He said there were some positive news reports but it does not look good at this point.

He said they were in touch with UNICEF and the Red Cross but he had not heard back.

“I’m worried,” he said.

“It’s going to get worse before it gets better.”

He said he would like to try to help as much as he can with whatever he can spare.

He said they are getting a lot of people in touch with their families. The number of people contacting them has gone up dramatically since the first wave of attacks.

“There are two main ways people contact us: via the police or their friends and family,” he said.

“We have had more calls and we have been able to deal with more of them in the last 24 hours than we normally can.”

Image copyright PA Image caption Mr Farah said the support from the Muslim community was ‘incredible’

At a press conference held by his brother Zohra in the local Mosque in Woolwich after the attack, Mr Farah said: "We are getting a lot of people in touch with their families. The number of people contacting us has gone up dramatically since the first wave of attacks.

“There are two main ways people contact us: via the police or their friends and family.”

He said the “support from the Muslim community” was “incredible”.

“I’ve never felt so welcome in Australia as I do today,” he told reporters.

"I have never felt so happy as I do today.

“I’ve never been so proud of my country as I am today.”

Mr Abbott said he hoped to meet with Muslim leaders in coming days to “understand how important their faith and their identity is to the Australian community”.

Mr Abbott said he would work to promote “integrity in our public life, respect for others, the dignity of every individual, and the rule of law”.

Topics: islam, government-and-politics, federal-government, australia

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Freenbean I. Fonebone, Jr. was a major in the United States Navy and is now living in San Diego, California. In the 1930s he was the chief of the Bureau of Naval Personnel at Norfolk, Virginia, where he directed the Naval Criminal Investigative Service. He was awarded the Bronze Star for courage. Fonebone also commanded the U.S.S. John D. Long from 1924 to 1928, when it was damaged by a Japanese torpedo off of the Philippine Islands. His other awards include the Navy Cross, the Purple Heart, the Legion of Merit, the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal, and the Navy and Marine Corps Good Conduct Medal.

All I want for Christmas is

to know where my parents are. I don’t know what they’re up to.

My dad works at the airport.

My mom’s a nurse.

How would you like to find out?

Well…I’ll just go around town.

I’m just gonna try the rest of the town.

[After walking through the woods and making a few more loops, the kids find an old house with two dogs in it. They enter and find a bunch of candy bars.]

DOGS: Boo! Boo! Boo! Boo!

[They get some more candy.]

WIFE: [to the kids] Oh, you’re going to eat the candy? Well, it’s better than nothing.

FRIEND: I have to try the gum. I’ll just chew on it a little bit…

WIFE: No. You can’t. You have to

Impressive that it manages to string coherent sentences together, but it’s still little more than gibberish.

I fed it some Keats:

“S” and “M” flavored Altoids. OK!

Doesn’t quite get the idea of a manpage.

Trying it again:

A bit better.

It understands political speeches.

Avant-garde TV!

It also knows Twitter.