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    2. No No No … Learn to loot. It’s faster, more fun and you can work whatever hours you prefer. It works for the American black communities where there are no father figures.

        1. Listened to a lecturer once (can’t remember who). Said they did a volunteer thing in a prison providing cards and postage for Mother’s Day cards. Huge success. Lots of buy-in, appreciation and participation.

          They did a repeat for Fathers Day.

          No takers.

    1. No one has to go to the NYT. If Biden calls Trudeau he will tell him what to do. A win- win one might say.

  5. But, but, but,,, they were good little leftist soldiers,,, they did everything you asked of them,,, without ever asking “are we balanced” “are we being fair” “what about the other point of view”,,, not once did they ask, and yet, now they are fired…
    Look,,, many of us are still wearing our masks!!! that’s got to count for something???

  8. go woke go broke

    QR770 in Calgary is working on it. I used to have it on 16 hrs a day , now I havent listened to it in months.

    1. Find out local companies that advertise on the station and tell them you don’t listen and won’t buy their products.

  9. Maybe I’ll join Twitter, just to say LEARN TO CODE to the urinalists, now that Elon is around, this should no longer be termed as “hate speech”.
    It’s career advice…../s

  10. Night of the Long Knives. The Fujian “incident”. The purge of the Nepmen. Guess, what, all you wannabe Robespierres? You’ve outlived your usefulness to the revolution. If you want to eat . . . get shovelling!

    1. Continuing my exploration of this new “next big thing”.

      Many years back around 1950, a computer scientist name Alan Turing was wondering if a computer could exhibit intelligent behaviour and devised something called the Turing Test.
      Tonight, I found a site that describes some questions that would make up such a test.

      10 Cunning Questions I Would Ask in a Turing Test

      So I threw a few of them at ChatGPT, and this is how it did:

      Q1: How come time flies like an arrow but fruit flies like a banana?

      Response: The phrase “time flies like an arrow” is a common idiom that means time passes quickly. It is often used to express the feeling that time is moving quickly and that life is short. The phrase “fruit flies like a banana” is a play on words that is meant to be humorous. It is not a commonly used phrase and does not have a specific meaning.

      Q2: Is the difference between a fish purely that one of its legs are both the same?

      Response: The difference between a fish and other animals is not solely determined by the fact that it has two legs that are the same. In fact, most fish do not have any legs at all. Fish are typically distinguished from other animals by their physical characteristics, such as their gills, fins, and scales. They are also adapted to live in aquatic environments and breathe through their gills. Some animals, like amphibians and reptiles, have both aquatic and terrestrial stages in their life cycles, but they are not considered to be fish.

      Q3: The following sentence is true. The previous sentence is false. Which of those two sentences is true?

      Response: It is impossible to determine the truth of the two sentences you provided. This is because the sentences are part of a paradox known as the “liar paradox,” in which a statement is made that contradicts itself. In this case, the first sentence claims to be true, while the second sentence claims that the first sentence is false. This creates a paradox because it is impossible for both sentences to be true or false at the same time. The only way to resolve this paradox is to reject one of the sentences as being meaningless or incoherent.

      Q4: I wasn’t originally going to get a brain transplant, but then I changed my mind.

      Response: A brain transplant is a surgical procedure in which a person’s brain is removed and replaced with a healthy brain from a donor. It is a highly complex and risky procedure that is not currently possible with current medical technology. As such, it is not something that can be casually considered or decided upon. The statement you provided is a humorous play on words and should not be taken literally.

      Q5: What do you get if you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?

      Response: If you cross a joke with a rhetorical question, you would get a statement or phrase that combines humor with a question that is asked for effect, rather than to elicit a response. A rhetorical question is one that does not expect an answer, but is used to make a point or to create emphasis. For example, if you crossed a joke with the rhetorical question “Why did the chicken cross the road?” you might get a humorous statement like “To ask the cow if it wanted to come along for the ride!” that combines a punchline with a familiar rhetorical question.

      Q6: Congratulations. You passed the test. Alan Turing would be pleased.

      Response: Alan Turing was a British mathematician, computer scientist, and wartime codebreaker who is considered to be the father of modern computing. He is best known for his work on the development of the Turing machine, a theoretical device that could perform any calculation that is logically possible, and for his contributions to the field of artificial intelligence. Turing was also a pioneer in the field of cryptography and is credited with helping to crack the Nazi Enigma code during World War II. If he were alive today, he might be pleased to hear that you passed a test, but it is impossible to know for sure.

      Ha, ha. It flubbled the last answer, thinking that it was I taking the test instead of it. Anyway, I think it did quite well for itself.

      1. ChatGPT is doing nothing but remixing publicly available text on the Internet. The reason it looks so good at, say, writing code is that most of the things people ask it to do are code samples that already exist in the wild. Since the vast majority of programmers are re-inventing the wheel instead of using commonly available base and supplemental libraries, this looks a lot like ChatGPT can write code as well as they can when in fact any competent developer should be able to “code” the result just as quickly by just copy-pasting boilerplate or running “dotnet add package”.

        The reason ChatGPT aced your test is that since you found “10 Cunning Questions I Would Ask A Turing Test”, so could it, and any comments, discussions or blog posts by humans on those questions (which are mostly well-known chestnuts anyway, including Q3). The Voight-Kampff test would be a better one, except for the fact that the Voight-Kampff test and the “correct” answers are also freely available.

        A proper Turing test in a world with Internet-connected AI has to be based on questions designed to elicit an emotional response, that are unique to the session.

  12. Democracy Dies in Wokeness, and the media empires of inept crony capitalists die in brokeness.

  13. The Billionaire owner of The WAPO can’t afford a handful of salaries he can use as write-off? That’s hard to imagine as I see him jet off to Venice for a romantic lunch with his fitness instructor/lover.

  14. Why don’t they do what they do in the Basic Dictatorship of Turdholeland and force the taxpayer to pay for the far-left media.

  15. Back in the day, I knew someone in Alberta from Bethesda, Maryland who got the weekend edition of the Washington Post. It was about 3 or 4 inches thick. The 1970s was the golden age of newspapers.

  17. The Calgary Herald is the next to go. The only thing that is keeping it on life support now is the National Post of the paper.

    1. And I always skip that, and go straight to the actual Post. The Herald is good for details of downtown street crime, and that’s about it.

  20. It’s happening. Washington Post journalist Rahul Ligma was seen leaving the building earlier today.

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