“When Anna said she was raped by two on-duty cops, she thought it would be a simple case. She had no idea she lived in one of 35 states where officers can claim a detainee consented.“
One of 35..
What the entire fuck????
When we talk about unequal power and inability to give meaningful consent there is probably not a better example than when one person is literally imprisoned and the other is one of the people responsible for the imprisonment. Cops should definitely not be allowed to ‘have sex’ with people in their custody. The room for coercion and outright abuse is way too high.
Around Valentine’s Day in the US and UK, these things called candy hearts (or conversation hearts or sweethearts) appear: small and sugary, bearing a simple, short Valentine’s message. There are only room for a few characters, so they read something like “LOVE YOU” or “CALL ME” or “BE MINE”.
I collected all the genuine heart messages I could find, and then gave them to a learning algorithm called a neural network. Given a set of data, a neural network will learn the patterns that let it imitate the original data – although its imitation is sometimes imperfect. The candy heart messages it produced… well, you be the judge.
The neural net did produce some that would pass for – and arguably improve upon – the standard messages.
DEAR ME MY MY LOVE BOT CUTE KISS MY BEAR LOVE BUN
Others were in the same spirit, but perhaps not quite as effective.
YOU A LOVE AM GOOD YOU ARE BABE ME MY ❤ YOU ARE IT HEART ME SWEET PEAR COOL CUD FANCY MY HERO
Others were, um, strange. I don’t know what they mean, but some of them might work on me.
ALL HOVER OOG LOVE TEAM BEAR TIME HUG PIN A FACE YOU’RE ME SWOOL MAT BOG LOVE I HONKER HOW COT BEAR WIG FANG BE A GOOL TWEET UP BAT WIRLY OOT I WANDER TIME STAR
These will probably not be one of the standard messages anytime soon.
STANK LOVE SWEAT POO LOVE 2000 HOGSYEA HOLE HOW U HOT YOU ARE BOA CHERT FACE LICK SWEAT PEAR LOO GIN YOU A GOO LOOK BIG YOU ARE BAG U HACK
There was yet another category of message, a category you might be able to predict given the prevalence of four-letter words in the original dataset. The neural network thought of some nice new four-letter words to use. Unfortunately, some of those words already had other meanings. Let’s just say that the overall effect was surprisingly suggestive. Fill out the form here and I’ll send them to you.
Also, if you need more love help from the neural network, check out the pick up lines it wrote.
From early this morning. I had to go to bed before it finished uploading.
The extended family all together! Plus some divebombing Endler Boys acting like nuts, as usual.
The new fry are still bleached out some after the move a couple of hours earlier. But, they seem to be settling in well, and are already not acting particularly shy of the bigger fish.
Sometimes they will dart away from the Old Lady, who still looks like a whale compared to even the younger adults. And no wonder…
Also visible here: some better shots of the three larger surprise babies I have seen so far, who survived in the main tank.
The two smaller babies actually seem to be around the same age as the ones just added from the nursery tank. I’m guessing they’ve had good luck finding a steady supply of food in there, and maybe the new batch will grow more quickly too now that there’s more room and better foraging for them. They haven’t exactly been starving in the nursery, but they still haven’t put on nearly as much growth over the same time.
Bucephalandra Cobalt Blue – gorgeous irridescence! Need more Buces in my life.
Where have you found this one before? Online? I haven’t found a Chicago shop that sells Buces
Online! I ordered my Buces from hanaquatics.com (and I’m going to get more I’m hooked)
Oh sweet, thanks!
I have a mighty need
So did I… But they’re mighty expensive.
I still haven’t found a buce below $10 a small plant (2-4 leaves) though its way down from the 30-40 most were even two years ago. But still the nice ones are prrriiiccceeeyy D:
One day when I’m rich. I cannot live my entire life without these. But, one day.
I’m going to get one. Or more. SOON. I’m gonna do it.
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