Omnibus Stupid MFers in the news thread (Part 2)

 

Also, if you click the reply button of a post, and then the full quote button, you can see exactly the codes used.

I just tried the reply + full quote bit. It shows the formatted quote correctly, but for some odd reason doesn’t show the codes.

Did she ask the Hispanic voters in the district who they wanted as a rep? Maybe they don’t care which country they come from, which religion they follow, or what ethnicity they possess - maybe they value competency at the job as the primary consideration.

It would seem they made their choice;

https://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/article/unofficial-results-stamford-s-jacobson-beats-19623172.php

I don’t know if this one is stupidity or malice. I really hope the first, and I don’t envy the idiot who made the delivery mistake to the mission……

Resoundingly!

From the article,…

Authorities said it was possibly a smuggling attempt that had gone wrong.

Ya think?

An “error” and “mistakes” by a Wyoming reporter lead to publication of AI-generated articles in his newspaper. Oopsie!

Was his editor sleeping, or drunk?

Not a wise Latina.

Some of her best friends are Jewish.

Fewer today than last week however.

At least she admitted that she’d offended people, instead of using the standard weasel “if anyone was offended.”

And while I gather her opponent isn’t: people can indeed be both Hispanic and Jewish.

And no double spaces after a period. Sheesh.

My hands always type them. But the HTML standard says browsers are required to display multiple repeated ordinary space characters as if they were exactly one ordinary space character. So you never see them. You can force the visible double-spacing behavior by using space characters other than the basic one, but that’s a lot of extra keystrokes, like 10 or 12, for rather little result. And is very unlikely to become muscle memory. Unlike the double-tap of the spacebar that I’ve now stroked five times in this post. :slight_smile:

From the article:

“We want to make it clear that Rinda Food Industries does not use or condone the use of any illegal drugs in our products,” General Manager Steven Teh said in a statement.

That’s a missed advertising angle.

You know, maybe this can be explained by a very early attempt at AI:

Better to be done quickly with an elected official who’ll fail the “think before talking” test so badly.

(And yep, sorry to say it but I can just perfectly imagine her saying it… “we need someone representative of the lived experience our community” takes effort, saying “oh please he’s [identity that’s not ours]” is easy.)

Since many apps nowadays default to automatically turn two spaces into period-plus-space I’ve found myself doing so for fast typing.

What the hell is the story behind that?

I’ve never seen any explanation of how it ended up so mangled.

If you read it out loud to a hip hop beat, it’s kind of awesome.

Fatboy Slim could probably turn it into a good song.

Being a newspaper, an apprentice Linotypist who’d never heard of etaoin shrdlu?