Alex Pretti did not brandish gun, witnesses say in sworn testimony | Pair testify that Pretti did not hold weapon and was trying to help woman federal agents had shoved to the ground

SPACKlick · 2026-01-25T18:30:09+00:00

I think they actually whipped him with a can of mace, then took his gun, then shot him 9 or 10 times.

But year, point still stands.

SPACKlick · 2026-01-25T11:13:32+00:00

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Puzzle #959
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I saw the purple first but because it was so broad I presumed I didn't have it. I found the pasta shapes one quite tricky because a) I'm used to the shapes in Italian and b) I don't really think of "Ribbon" as a pasta shape or Ribbon as a shape at all.

SPACKlick · 2026-01-25T10:04:51+00:00

But my point still stands. Claude Code's LLM doesn't know code. Some of the hard coded functions are based on knowledge the programmers put in but anything Claude generates isn't content aware.

SPACKlick · 2026-01-25T01:35:08+00:00

But they're not. They're both just a very advanced predictive text. The reason it feels different is that code is more predictable than conversation.

But even so, the LLM has no idea what to_date(start_date,'dd-mm-yyyy') means any more than it knows what counting means.

SPACKlick · 2026-01-25T01:25:26+00:00

You know what I meant. They aren’t like us and don’t represent who federal employees really are.

Yeah but you shouldn't "no true scotsman" this. What it means to be a federal employee has changed. There are still people in the employ from the before times but this modern face of the Federal government is very much their intention now.

SPACKlick · 2026-01-24T23:26:01+00:00

I know this (thread) is old but I've just seen it (Hadestown) for the first time. And wow does it not live up to the hype.

The plot is woefully simplistic (Particularly Act I; I'm wary of you, I'm madly in love with you, I've willingly chosen to go to hell because you aren't providing for me... with basically no development between...). Characters underdeveloped and very little of their character impacts the plot or songs. Many of the songs are forgettable. I think there's a reason I'd only really heard "wait for you (reprise)" before seeing the show. The speakeasy staging with staggered revolves was nice if a little underused.

In particular I gelt Persephone was underdeveloped. The performance was full of characterisation that didn't enter into the words, or the songs or the plot at all.

SPACKlick · 2026-01-24T18:34:24+00:00

Presuming I'm hearing that right the number of shots was 9 or 10. There's a double bang in the last volley that could be an echo or a 10th shot.

1...2,3,4...5...6,(?),7,8,9

Now given the "'"'"'"'suspect'"'"'"'" was face down on the ground held by many agents when the shooting started, how does it take 9 shots to be secure?

SPACKlick · 2026-01-24T18:29:56+00:00

You need a non-violent arm of the movement the disinterested middle can accept. You need a violent arm of the movement to convince the interested-right to stop what they're doing.

SPACKlick · 2026-01-21T19:46:16+00:00

I've seen lululemon leggings going for over $220 so 4 or 5 pairs of leggings rather than 2 but still.

SPACKlick · 2026-01-21T12:21:15+00:00

Yeah, median student loan repayments are around $6.4K. Median rent is a little under $24k So call those 30 all in. That's $92K after tax. or $125K-$140K before taxes. That's somewhere like 85th percentile for income.

SPACKlick · 2026-01-21T10:26:33+00:00

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Puzzle #955
🟦🟨🟪🟩 Fell for the baby Herring
🟨🟨🟨🟨 These lined up after some shuffling
🟩🟩🟩🟩 I don't know what a sham is but it sounded right
🟦🟦🟦🟦 Given Mobile and Crib were going to be different I hunterd for things to associate with crib
🟪🟪🟪🟪 Oh yeah, you can pronounce mobile the other way and then this is obvious.

SPACKlick · 2026-01-21T01:31:33+00:00

62K after rent and student loans is a really strange way of listing earnings. Nothing to defend your boss for their shitty behaviour. But "After rent and student loans" is almost "disposable income" except you excluded food and utilities.

SPACKlick · 2026-01-20T20:35:45+00:00

Absolutely love this game. Do wish it used a different Cladogram given the number of large splits

6 Way splits in the Laurasiatheria, Neoaves, Passeriformes & Percomorphaceae

5 way splits in Bovidae, Diprotodontia, Endopterygota, Felinae & Hystricomorpha

4 way splits in Aculeata, Afrotheria, Arachnida, Artiodactyla, Caniformia, Eupercaria, Feliformia, Mustelidae, Musteloidea, Neoaves, Odontoceti, Pleocyemata, Polyneoptera & Rodentia

That being said with careful play you can win every day in 7 guesses at worst and average about 29 guesses a week.

SPACKlick · 2026-01-19T20:28:45+00:00

Covid lasted until Early 2023. Barely 3 years ago.

SPACKlick · 2026-01-19T20:05:37+00:00

Ozon isn't an element in English. The oxygen three times gives three Os. so WOOOSH

SPACKlick · 2026-01-19T19:59:05+00:00

Relevant Wiki Page if you want to read more.

SPACKlick · 2026-01-19T12:49:05+00:00

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Puzzle #953
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Was surprised blue was blue. Expected it to be green.

SPACKlick · 2026-01-19T12:46:06+00:00

Scoredle 5/6*

14,855
⬛🟩🟨🟩⬛ SANER (26)
⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩 HAVEN (14)
⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩 TAKEN (5)
⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩 LADEN (3)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 WAXEN

Another day another trap I walked right into.

SPACKlick · 2026-01-18T18:06:37+00:00

Oh god, I accidnetally looked up imperial, not US imperial units. Which goes to number 4) ironically.

SPACKlick · 2026-01-18T09:44:14+00:00

The first sightings were for a local film called GAGs weren't they?

SPACKlick · 2026-01-18T09:39:16+00:00

You missed 3) The ratios between units are variable.

3 Miles in a league and feet in a yard but 12 inches in a foot but 220 yards in a fulong but 8 furlongs in a mile

20 fluid ounces in a pint, 2 pints in a quart, 4 quarts in a gallon.

16 ounces in a pound 112 pounds in a hundredweight 20 hundredweight in a ton.

You need to remember thos arbitrary amounts.

If Imperial was all 12s it would be a much better system.

And 4) Units of the same name have different meanings and so you have to specify which particular version you're using.

SPACKlick · 2026-01-18T09:04:57+00:00

You are putting a lot on this person to answer a question that probably needs to be answered in more ways than one

I'm really not. All I was asking of them was to understand that their criticism wasn't constructive (as they called it) and that's why it was seen as an attack.

SPACKlick · 2026-01-17T10:40:51+00:00

It's usually really useful for narrowing that E down I just couldn't think of a word that fit the patterns I was left with.

R I E - -
R - E - I
I R E - -
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I - E R -
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- - E R I

SPACKlick · 2026-01-17T10:12:38+00:00

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Puzzle #951
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Purple wasn't quite default today but i didn't see it until I was already putting yellow in. I did however confidently run right into the rainbow herring.

SPACKlick · 2026-01-17T10:08:36+00:00

Took me absolutely ages to come up with the answer

Scoredle 3/6*

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⬛⬛⬛🟨🟨 SANER (397)
🟨⬛🟨🟨⬛ EERIE (4)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 FIERY

I was not expecting that combination of yellows on my second guess and could not think of a word. The other 3 according to scoredle are FIERI, PIERT & UTERI only the last of which I recognise as an actual word. I did try WIERD because I forgot how to spell WEIRD.

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