Yeah, I'd call that sentence more... vapid and awkward, like much corporate speech, than tortured. It's not like it's unparseable; the meaning is fairly clear -- it's just pointless in the context presented. It serves no constructive purpose for the reader, being a vague attempt to invoke a nonspecific sense of nostalgia, likely to distract people from the frustration of the shop being closed? Corporations churn this slop out with or without LLMs

We MUST be able to inspect and age verify every AI slop porn image to protect the fictional children!

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If you read the article carefully, they are talking about lenses THINNER than a hair. I see several of the posts here thinking the width/radius of the lenses is this small, a reasonable mistake given the way this was written. Having a radius that small would severely reduce their light gathering ability, requiring very bright light or very dim images or very long exposure times.

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I was a child prodigy who skipped a grade, not dissimilar to Sheldon Cooper, except I was better socialized, and excelled at athletics and was a leader in the Boy Scouts.

I had a real problem getting to sleep at night and waking up in the morning. I would read in bed until late at night and be late in the morning.

At some point in my early 20's I experienced a period of unemployment, and at my doctors advice I started tracking my sleep. We determined that I had a 27 hour biological clock. He said it was unusual, but happened to some people, mostly young men, and that I would grow out of it as I got older. Which didn't really happen, but kind of happened. I have a 24 hour clock but I only sleep 6 hours a night, sometimes less.

No. I do not. The polar deserts are becoming valuable real estate. I don't need to persuade anyone of anything. I need to secure property rights, build fences and buy guns to protect my claim from those who clued in late. I'm really just making conversation.

You are creating poverty for no good reason.

You are wrong. There is no evidence to support the assertion that climate change from fossil fuels is rendering the planet less hospitable. If you research the Paleocene Eocine Thermal Maximum, you will see that the opposite is true.

This is really bad for those species. It's reasonable to expect that, in a healthy species, there's going to be a few self-fertilizing mutant freaks born. But, when those self-fertilizing mutant freaks dominate the landscape because insects aren't doing the job and there's empty habitat for the freaks to expand into and dominate, it's inviting a blight to take them all out. And then, there will be very few flowers of the species to reproduce with the bees. There's going to be dramatic change.

They follow a book. Anyone can read it. It's not bigotry or racism to read the book and claim that it defines the people who openly claim to follow it.

They are sickly, inbred xenophobic and antisocial monsters. They believe they are the chosen people of God, and they have two standards of behavior, one for each other and another for Goyim, who have dirty blood and are no better than animals.

They sexually mutilate little boys, they have irrational eating disorders that stem from mental illness, they are predatory loan sharks, and they engage in lies, slander, theft, banditry, fraud, corruption, propaganda, blackmail, assassination, murder and genocide.

They believe that there are two races. The human race, and the Jews.

It's in their book.

Eighty years ago, the Japanese and the Nazis believed they were the master race and wanted to keep themselves inbred and subjugate outsiders. We, as a species, stomped them, and now they are decent, civilized and valued members of the international community.

The Jews haven't been stomped hard enough yet.

Is this the same guy that proved time travel was possible by generating a negative energy density gravitational lens using any common coffee maker?

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I don't consider that relevant. No rational person should. We are still pulling oil out of the ground and burning it. Until we can provide for the energy needs of the human race without burning things, it's foolish to bury plastic and mine coal.

I am not a chemist. But, based on the understanding that I have achieved through my investigation into Russian Stoves aka Thermal Mass Heaters, it should be relatively simple to superheat the off gasses generated by the initial burn in a secondary burn chamber, and produce a system that releases only carbon dioxide and water. Plastic is just hydrocarbons.

I know how to solve the problem of microplastics.

Burn the plastic for energy. It is made of oil. We are still extracting oil for energy. Burning used plastic makes sense. It's like using gasoline to store ketchup and then putting it in your car afterwards.