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3 weeks ago @ Crasstalk - Start The Week Open Th... · 0 replies · +10 points

The cost of living in Colombia. If you choose to get friendly with the locals, you have to force yourself to recognize and accept that it's a totally different culture and you can't change it. And it can be heartbreaking. A local friend was beaten and sent to the hospital yesterday by loansharks he couldn't repay. And they promise they're going back today to collect. Or else it will be worse. And other than come up with the money, which I don't have, there's nothing I can do except wait for the worst.

Some days, and today's one of them, I could burn the entire country down with my rage.

3 weeks ago @ Crasstalk - Start The Week Open Th... · 1 reply · +5 points

Sometimes I hate living here with the intensity of a thousand suns. I'll put details in the reply, because it's sad and there's violence. Not towards me or the other Mr, but to a good friend.

1 month ago @ Crasstalk - Let There Be Fall Week... · 0 replies · +1 points

We had a 4.9 today, just a week after a 5.4. I was walking Curly and didn't feel today's but last week it woke us all up at 2am

3 weeks ago @ Crasstalk - Let There Be Fall Week... · 1 reply · +6 points

That wallpaper would drive me absolutely nuts. There's something not right about floor to ceiling koi.

3 weeks ago @ Crasstalk - Let There Be Fall Week... · 1 reply · +11 points

I wake every morning around 5 to take Curly out. And I obviously get up before the homeless because they're still asleep in merchants' doorways as we walk by. And there's one thing I've noticed in particular. They almost always have their shoes off when they're asleep. I can never figure out why. Now you know what I think about at 5am.

3 weeks ago @ Crasstalk - Center Yourself Open T... · 0 replies · +2 points

They're not real good at fine tuning. I told it to replace something on the clothesline with a pillowcase behind the crow for better contrast. I guess it helps to be very specific, but even then it screws up.

3 weeks ago @ Crasstalk - Center Yourself Open T... · 1 reply · +5 points

I don't know if I'd ever pay for a subscription, but I got 6 months of ChatGPT pro for free and I've been creating and editing images and I have to say that I'm pretty impressed. Same goes for nano banano from Google. I'm still learning what to tell it and how to tell it, and both often go terribly wrong, but it's fun. I also told Google AI that I wanted it to create an app to automate sizing to different aspect ratios and it created an app for me in about 2 minutes. This was supposed to be a black and white photo with the gold ring, but somehow it decided I needed some green, which I actually like.

1 month ago @ Crasstalk - Here We Go Again Open ... · 0 replies · +5 points

I'm sure it has something to do with the other ET story that's fascinating me, 3i/ATLAS. Is it a comet or an alien craft?

4 weeks ago @ Crasstalk - Here We Go Again Open ... · 2 replies · +10 points

So I'm currently fascinated by the Buga Sphere, a basketball-sized orb that was apparently seen flying around Buga Colombia earlier this year. It hit some electrical wires or something, sputtered out and fell to the ground and was picked up by some random Colombian. It has no seams or weld marks of any kind, they're not sure what it's made of, it can supposedly change it's weight, they figured out it has some sort of chip in the center that's surrounded by some kind of fiber optics, and it reacts to ancient Sanskrit chants. I have no idea who decided to try singing to it. The outside has hieroglyphic and some other markings. It has to be aliens I just know it.

4 weeks ago @ Crasstalk - Here We Go Again Open ... · 0 replies · +19 points

I have a cousin coming to visit next month who I haven't seen in about 40 years. About a year ago he found me on Facebook and we started a correspondence and he decided he wanted to see me before we both kick off. Should be interesting.

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