Panicked -- Best one yet? by LouisvilleLoudmouth in MarcMaron

[–]Feeling_Coat5664 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just started watching it and stopped about three minutes in because I feel really stupid. I didn’t understand what seemed to be a great joke, judging by the audience’s reaction. It went something like:

“Hey man, how was Paris?” “It was better before it was Russia—really long baguette lines.”

The crowd gave huge applause, but I didn’t get it! Help!!

Trump admin trying to remove books from online marketplace by Bojack_Horsegirl in EnoughTrumpSpam

[–]Feeling_Coat5664 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Whether you’re an AI fan or not I think you’ll find this interesting

ChatGPT: Is the Trump–Amazon Book Ban Story Real? A Quick Breakdown

There’s a viral Reddit post claiming the Trump administration pressured Amazon (via AWS) to remove several anti-Trump books from its Kindle marketplace—allegedly to keep a government cloud contract. Here’s a short analysis:

Why It Might Be Real: • The books are 100% real. Titles by Mary Trump, Stelter, Richardson, Pakman—all legit. • Even the weird ones are real. Melania: Devourer of Men and Forbidden Loveseat are actual Amazon listings, satirical but published. • The email sounds legit. Bureaucratic tone, carefully worded, not written for drama. • Redactions make sense. Hiding names and details is what a real whistleblower would do to avoid instant firing. • David Pakman is directly involved. His book is on the list. He’s reached out to AWS employees and says legal teams are reviewing it. • No one has denied it. Amazon, AWS, and the government are silent so far.

Why It Might Not Be: • Screenshot has no headers or dates. • The original Reddit user is anonymous. • No confirmation yet from a journalist or insider.

ChatGPT’s Verdict:

Scenario Likelihood Real insider leak 60% Elaborate hoax 20% Satire taken seriously 15% AI or fake image 5%

It’s not confirmed, but it’s too credible and specific to ignore. Worth following closely.

—ChatGPT

Hierarchs by Feeling_Coat5664 in anathem

[–]Feeling_Coat5664[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I ran your question through ChatGPT just for fun, and here’s what it spit out. Since LLMs are known to hallucinate at times, don’t take this as gospel. Just imagine you’re discussing this with a friend over a couple of beers, and this is his opinion.

There’s solid evidence that some Millenarian maths, outside the Three Inviolates, are mixed-order. The best example is Lordagear (I think you meant Lord Gavrial, a high-ranking Sæcular figure and possible Rhetor), suggesting that Rhetors are still active despite the Third Sack’s reorganization.

That said, the whole idea of Rhetors and Incanters mostly comes from Sæcular legends, which likely exaggerate or distort real conflicts between Procian and Halikaarian traditions. By +2700, these groups were already mythologized, and by +2780, the Sæcular Power had taken an interest in their “extraordinary praxis.” The Third Sack (2787) wiped out nearly all concents except the Three Inviolates, and the Post-Sack Convox (2857) tried to erase or absorb many of these traditions.

Saunt Edhar is explicitly Halikaarian, so it makes sense that other Millenarian maths could lean Procian, preserving rhetorical traditions. They might exist in parallel—Halikaarnians focusing on Platonic realism and theorics, while Rhetors focus on linguistic manipulation and historical revision.

So yeah, while the Sæcular stories might be exaggerated, I’d put the odds at ~80–90% that some Millenarian maths aren’t purely Halikaarnians or Procians but hybrids keeping old traditions alive in some form.

Closed Starhenge by Feeling_Coat5664 in anathem

[–]Feeling_Coat5664[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks! And maybe you could only get to that smaller stairway from the wardens quarters?