I wonder if it’s possible to extract a sub-thread and make it a full thread? The link was incorrectly hyperlinked by Discourse to include the colon in the end.
Prompt: Please write a humorous poem about financial charts that climb to the sky and investors who bet on them.
GPT-4:
There once were some charts that would soar,
Investors would bet and adore.
They’d climb to the sky,
Oh, so high, oh my!
Till reality knocked at their door.With lines that went up without bound,
Investors felt joy all around.
But soon they found out,
There was room for some doubt,
As their dreams came crashing to the ground.They thought they were making a kill,
But the market had plans to fulfill.
With twists and with turns,
Their stomachs would churn,
As their portfolios suffered the spill.So remember, dear investors, take heed,
Financial charts can mislead.
Don’t put all your hope,
On a graph’s upward slope,
Or you might end up in financial need!
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A Russian submarine commander blamed for atrocities in Ukraine was gunned down on his morning jog in Krasnodar—and his killer likely knew just where to find him thanks to his habit of posting his running routes on a popular exercise app.
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My apologies, GMS. I should pay more attention to the author of each specific post. Mea culpa!
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I created a new top-level topic Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth - not crazy, but definitely takes years
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ctrl-alt-delete rebooted him:
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The five best-paid California mayors, from high to low:
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Oakland
San Diego
Long Beach
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This is the Royal Caribbean
There are 20 decks, seven swimming pools, and 6 water slides.
Of course it will be illuminated in pastel colours when plying the waters of the Caribbean by night. Avast! Black flag on the horizon, skipper!
There are many more pictures on the Royal Caribbean Blog post announcing the ship. Many resemble the utopian images of interiors of space colonies from the technological optimism apex of the early 1970s.
It will, of course, be based in Miami, Florida.
There are no artists’ renderings of accommodations for the crew.
Rumours that rival cruise ship operator Carnival Corporation plans to launch an even larger ship, Wretched Excess, are unconfirmed.
You would ask about lifeboats, wouldn’t you? Here’s what Cruise Mummy says:
Do cruise ships have enough lifeboats for everybody on board?
Cruise ships do not usually have enough lifeboats for every last person on board, but they will normally have enough for every guest. Most crew members will use inflatable life rafts instead of lifeboats.
There is always provision for every person on board a ship to be safely rescued, but physically it would be almost impossible to provide enough lifeboats for everyone on the ship.
Lifeboats can only take up so much space along each side of the ship, and they need to be able to be lowered to the ocean.
Also, lifeboats need a person on the ship to launch them, so there has to be an alternate way for them to then evacuate the ship. They could hardly jump once the lifeboat has been lowered.
Cruise lines don’t have to provide enough lifeboats for all passengers according to law. As long as there is enough capacity for 37.5% of passengers alongside each side of the ship in lifeboats (so 75% total), then the rest can be carried in life rafts (source).
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Mirror, mirror on the girl,
who’s the one that makes you hurl?
On the other hand, who would you choose to open a beer bottle with his/her/its bare teeth?
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Ouch. That’s gotta hurt. Or maybe just don’t post like that to the Internet.
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For contemporary prices in funny money around the world, see the Big Mac Index, with raw data posted on The Economist’s GitHub site. Switzerland remains #1, at US$ 7.30 (CHF 6.50). Who’s cheapest? Ukraine, at US$ 2.20 (UAH 62.00).
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In all my 30 or so visits to Zurich, each lasting from 10days to a month, I have eaten at the (there, symbolic-only) Golden Arches exactly one time. That sufficed to satisfy my curiosity as to whether or not Swiss quality could improve beef-ish patties on rolls with trimmings. Meh. Zurich has much more tempting and satisfying fast food - like Cervelat and Bürli with hausgemacht mustard at the famous Sternen Grill in Bellevue.Almost exactly the same price as a Big Mac. My mouth is watering as I write. It is often the first thing I do when arriving in town from the airport.
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Here is more about Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library, which is now available in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, and the Republic of Ireland.
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Christopher Rufo’s “The Transgender Empire”: watch it before they take it down.
This is the first I’ve heard of “nullification surgery”, or “nullo”. Here is a rather gruesome description of the process from the promotional material from a “physician” who has “been performing gender confirmation surgeries for more than 20 years”: “Gender Nullification”. Don’t look at the before-and-after photo gallery linked to this page.
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