@gregeganSF This reminds me of Acetabularia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acetabularia), a genus of single-celled algae that are 4-10 cm tall.

There must be a whole subculture of single-celled organisms that do not care for size limits! 🦠

@gregeganSF Damn, that's on my bucket list of atmospheric phenomena, I'm envious!

@gregeganSF There's also the part where everything it says about orbital distances seems to get parallax backwards, claiming that because the moons are so close to their parent planets, they can't cover the whole sun.

@gregeganSF One day we'll find out that the servers behind these AI chatbots are just a room full of reply-guys typing on a computer. I'm not going to use the usual "monkeys with a typewriter" metaphor because I'm pretty sure even monkeys would do a better job at answering these questions.

@gregeganSF

Could you mark stuff like this as "AI generated" in the future, even though you're posting it just to show how bad it is? There are lots of us who are avoiding it like the plague, and so don't instantly recognize the source from appearance of the screen, and so have to spend time figuring out that it is AI nonsense. Thanks!

@gregeganSF @dgoldsmith I only regret that I have but one boost to give to this post

@gregeganSF The post office scandal isn't really about the software failure, but the institutional failure of the post office legal department. They took the most adversarial possible interpretation of an adversarial legal system - their job was to get that guilty conviction at any cost, including deliberately quashing any evidence or investigation that might cast doubt on their prosecution. The software flaws went undiscovered because the PO was actively blocking any possibility of audit.

@gregeganSF @neilhimself wait which kind of possum? US opossums or Australian possums?

@gregeganSF or a pallid bust of Pallas

@gregeganSF Beavers are also very keen on apples. Though not, I suppose, especially prone to climbing into roof spaces...