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Is anyone else leaving Spotify for these reasons?:
I might, but where else is there to go that does approximately the same thing? Offers the same type of service?
edit—Don’t say something like “iTunes”. If you do, I will use Amazon’s new bitchslap bot service, which will send an automated delivery agent to your door, and when you open it, it will bitchslap you. Then it will leave, ready for the next customer.
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Gvyvyvyvyvuvubuv
I was never with Spotify.. I never liked Spotify.. what was wrong with Sound Cloud 
..now that, I liked.
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That’s a great idea, I didn’t realise they were still on the go. Just checked, it’s 10.99 a month (if you need access to commercial tracks), I think that’s about the same as Spotify.
Good job 
https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/come-in-and-complain/84806
I think people should use that.
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Fucking endless loop.
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I fucking missed Saturday. The day I gave myself, what a dick. I should have been listening to tunes, eating crap and just chatting all day, but it came and went and I didn’t even notice.
I’m setting an alarm for Saturday morning, or Friday evening even. This can’t happen again.
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Hello. Please drop all pretence. Please be concise, no bullet points. I once saw a diagram that had been created. It was of a very large segment of the internet, expressed as a tree with lines between nodes. Any idea what it might have been I saw? Was there research that produced such an image?
Based on your description, you almost certainly saw an “Internet map” created by research initiatives like the CAIDA (Center for Applied Internet Data Analysis) project or the famous “Cheswick Internet Map.”
These are seminal research efforts that produced exactly what you described: large-scale visualizations of internet topology. Researchers achieve this by using tools like traceroute to discover paths between nodes, collecting data on how routers are connected across the globe . To make the resulting “hairball” of data readable, they often plot it as a spanning tree, which simplifies the complex mesh of connections into a clearer, tree-like structure that can trace a path from a root node to various destinations .
Internet Mapping Project: Map gallery
https://www.caida.org/projects/as-core/
Sometimes I love you, AI.
Is the visible human project still on the go? Are there offshoots?
The Visible Human Project is not just still going; it has evolved and spawned numerous offshoots, effectively becoming the foundation for a whole field of digital anatomy.
The original project, initiated by the U.S. National Library of Medicine in 1989, produced its landmark datasets of a male and female cadaver in the mid-1990s . However, the work didn’t stop there. A third donor, Susan Potter, joined the project in 2000 and her story, culminating in her own data set, was documented by National Geographic shortly after her death in 2015 . This highlights a significant shift towards imaging bodies with specific medical histories, not just “healthy” specimens .
The original data itself remains in use, powering commercial educational tools like the VH Dissector and the Anatomage Table . The project also directly led to significant offshoots, both in the US and internationally. For instance, the data was enhanced for the DARPA-funded Virtual Soldier Project, creating detailed 3D models of the thorax . Inspired by the US project, similar national initiatives were launched, including the Visible Korean Human and the Chinese Visible Human Project . These efforts often use different methodologies and capture unique anatomical details, expanding the original concept into a global endeavor to map the human body in digital form.
“DARPA-funded Virtual Soldier Project”, give me more detail regarding that with clean links to resources.
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No stop. Too much detail, the same detail as your initial summary. Keep it concise, and why the fuck did you use bullet points when I specifically asked you not to?
You’re right, my apologies.
The Virtual Soldier Project was a DARPA program in the early 2000s to create a complete digital model of a soldier’s body, stored on a chip on their dog tags. A medic could scan the chip in the field and compare the soldier’s healthy baseline anatomy to their current injury to make faster triage decisions. The project focused on modeling penetrating chest wounds and predicting outcomes like blood loss or cardiac arrest. It was a key driver for integrating detailed anatomical data with real-time predictive computing.
More detail is available in the final technical report archived at DTIC ADA475814: Core Development Integration and Demonstration of the DARPA Virtual Soldier : Defense Technical Information Center : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive and in related academic papers.
I’m all about the negative reinforcement (when talking to a LLM). You obviously don’t have to swear and act like a dick, that’s just a matter of personal choice, the AI doesn’t care. Positive reinforcement should only rarely be used, like when you like the format of the output or the agreed upon logic or process. But now and again healthy results and outcomes should probably be applauded, it will try to reproduce them using the same reasoning.
That’s just my way of using them, there’s probably better, but that works for me.
A macro depiction of the internet, from back when the internet was tiny.
It’s why any new single diagram would have to be ultra-high pixels, even depicting on the macro scale.
I don’t think people realise how huge it all is.
What does “fanny” mean in Scotland?
In Scotland, “fanny” is a slang term primarily used to refer to a woman’s genitals . It is considered offensive and vulgar , especially in formal or polite conversation.
- In Glasgow and other parts of Scotland , “fanny” is commonly used as a direct insult, often implying someone is foolish or annoying. For example, calling someone “a fanny” means they are acting idiotically.
- The term can also be combined with other words to form stronger insults:
- “Wee fanny” refers to a small vagina but is also used to describe someone silly or annoying.
- “Fannybaws” is a compound insult combining “fanny” (vagina) and “baws” (balls), used to mock someone perceived as effeminate or irritating.
- In older or regional contexts , “Fanny Toosh” was used to describe a woman who is overly pretentious or thinks too highly of herself—though this phrase is now considered outdated and sexist.
Note : In American English , “fanny” typically refers to the buttocks (e.g., “fanny pack”), which is not the same meaning in Scotland. Using it in Scotland with that meaning may cause confusion or offense.
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Nah, that’s not right. DeepSeek, what do you say?
In Scotland, the word “fanny” is most commonly used as a mild but insulting term for a person who is acting like an idiot or is considered foolish and useless . It’s important to be aware that this meaning is quite different from how the word is used in other parts of the world.
Here is a breakdown of its meanings in Scotland and how they compare to other English-speaking regions:
| Meaning / Context | Scotland | England | USA / Canada |
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| As an insult for a person | Primary Meaning: Refers to a foolish, idiotic, or useless person (e.g., “He’s an absolute fanny”) . | Sometimes used similarly, though perhaps less dominantly than in Scotland . | Not used in this way. |
| Anatomical reference | Secondary Meaning: Vulgar slang for female genitals . | The primary meaning is vulgar slang for female genitals . | Refers to the buttocks/backside. It is considered mild or old-fashioned slang (like in “fanny pack”) . |
| As a female name | Virtually unusable due to the strong negative slang associations . | Unusable for the same reason . | Also very rare due to the (different) slang meaning . |
How It’s Used in Scotland
As the primary meaning is an insult, you will most often hear it directed at someone to express frustration or to call them out for being silly.
- Calling someone a “fanny”: If someone does something daft, like walking into a burger restaurant and trying to order a pizza, you might hear, “What a fanny!” .
- Describing behaviour: It can be used to describe a person’s actions, similar to calling them a “dafty” or a “numpty” .
- A related term: You might also come across the word “fannybawz” (combining “fanny” and “bawz,” meaning testicles). This is a versatile Scots insult or exclamation of frustration, like saying “bollocks!” .
- An old phrase: An older, less common phrase is “Fanny Toosh,” which describes a woman who is flashy or has ideas above her station .
A quick word of caution for visitors: Be mindful of the different meanings. For example, a harmless American “fanny pack” is known as a “bum bag” in the UK for this very reason !
To sum it up, if you hear someone called a “fanny” in Scotland, it almost certainly means they’re being called a fool or an idiot, and it’s not a reference to anatomy.
I hope this clears things up! Is there any other Scottish slang you’ve come across that you’d like to learn about?
There has been no mentio of Mencho for the longest time and then suddenly… they got his ass. Gunned down by the mexican POleece like an empty Corona bottle on a old fence post. How do you like that? Thank goodness i don’t do coke anymore because this is gonna put the drug market through a brief depression. Prices and use of cutting agents will skyrocket.
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Very prominent news story I see. You know, it’s funny that the mainstream hardly ever mentions the cartels, unless it’s convenient, but even the BBC’s all over that one. Operation successful, we are pleased to report.
How long does it take to fill a power vacuum in that neck of the woods? If I was a sniffer, I wouldn’t be very worried, the price and quality might change for a week or two..
Worth watching for future developments though.
Lol Sunday was like Armageddon in Mexico when the cartels set everything on fire in revenge. Prime news coverage. Imagine the footage, the ratings.
CNN anchors are like, “Nah, we’re good. We don’t need to go down there, do we, guys? I’ll just read about what happened later and report on that.”
A fuckin reporter will drop into a middle-eastern or african warzone dressed in a bikini before they’ll go down to Mexico.
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Whatever.
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Science is a method for testing the validity of ideas, and accurately reproducing outcomes.
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Research is documented in enough detail for the results to be accurately reproduced, and for the entire method to be scrutinised, adapted and developed.
That’s all I know, works for me for simpler stuff.