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if there's two things i know, it's women and exactly what's going to happen in the future

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When I was 18, my father's uncle bought a new car, which meant he had to get rid of the old one. This man and his wife were meticulously responsible in all aspects of their life and this car was in immaculate shape despite being almost 20 years old. He never missed an oil change.

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I would have liked to have seen it, with the white of the white-wall tires being stripped off the rubber due to the centripetal force.

A machine of great power but unknown structural integrity being pushed to its limit against common sense, this is what the Ottawa Senators remind me of so far.

When I was 18, my father's uncle bought a new car, which meant he had to get rid of the old one. This man and his wife were meticulously responsible in all aspects of their life and this car was in immaculate shape despite being almost 20 years old. He never missed an oil change.

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The details of what happened next are hazy. No one wants to commit to anything on the record, but my aunt is heavily implicated in what followed. Somewhere on the way to Nova Scotia, I think between Edmonston and Fredericton, my family decided they should "see how fast this thing can go."

What followed was alarming, if not traumatic. The impromptu speed test was ended before reaching 200 km/h, but no one involved seems to doubt the car could have indeed reached that speed. What was in doubt was whether the vehicle would actually stay together at that speed.

When I was 18, my father's uncle bought a new car, which meant he had to get rid of the old one. This man and his wife were meticulously responsible in all aspects of their life and this car was in immaculate shape despite being almost 20 years old. He never missed an oil change.

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But the handling didn't matter because of the 4.3L V8 in the front, which was frankly an irresponsible amount of power to give an 18 year old. That car could *cook*.

As it happened, the summer before I left for university, rest of my family took this car out east for our semi-regular Nova Scotian summer vacation. (I was working at the Cobourg Sunoco, putting together funds that would soon go towards many cases of Brava beer.)

When I was 18, my father's uncle bought a new car, which meant he had to get rid of the old one. This man and his wife were meticulously responsible in all aspects of their life and this car was in immaculate shape despite being almost 20 years old. He never missed an oil change.

He rather then sell his old car to some stranger, he asked my father if he would take it off his hands and that's how my family came to be in possession of a burgundy 1989 Cadillac de Ville in my last year of high school.

I routinely drove this car to school, and my friends and I referred to it as the "Shaggin' Wagon" due it's air ride suspension which absorbed bumps like a magic carpet. This suspension also caused it to handle like an absolute battleship.

Something I've noticed from being forced to ingest a good amount of LLM generated text is how difficult it is to read for more than about 1 page. The LLM Slop House Style diffuses meaning in a way that makes my brain reject it like a bad liver transplant. 6 words are never used when 15 will do.

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The fact that actually doing something was the main barrier to being considered as having done something was a great boon to society for millenia. We lost out on countless historical mediocrities just because those who couldn't be bothered would have never created anything worthwhile anyway.

Something I've noticed from being forced to ingest a good amount of LLM generated text is how difficult it is to read for more than about 1 page. The LLM Slop House Style diffuses meaning in a way that makes my brain reject it like a bad liver transplant. 6 words are never used when 15 will do.

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I do think using LLMs for coding is most likely to persist, but again the outputs like are a firehose of grape juce that you might be able ferment into wine if you know what you're doing. Using "thinking" mode does improve the output, sometimes significantly, but the token burn is just unmitigated.

It's just not a good technology. I won't go so far as to say it isn't it can't be a useful technology, but I don't respect it. It's inelegant, inefficient, and even at its most effective, it cheapens the act of creation or action itself to the point of triviality.

Something I've noticed from being forced to ingest a good amount of LLM generated text is how difficult it is to read for more than about 1 page. The LLM Slop House Style diffuses meaning in a way that makes my brain reject it like a bad liver transplant. 6 words are never used when 15 will do.

I'm sorry, but LLM text is bad and if you think it's acceptable it's because you either don't know what good writing is or you don't care about who reads what you write. LLM slop is not average. It's bad.

Next episode of Tim Stützle's podcast drops next week, btw. Wonder what he and Mo Seider will talk about.

I am completely blown away by the Lars Eller standing ovation. Just pure crystalline concentrated Hater Shit. With apologies to JG Pageau and his Ole chant, Sens fans giving Lars Eller a standing ovation on Brady Tkachuk night is now the funniest thing Sens fans have ever done. I'm in awe.

Sens have the greatest fanbase in the NHL. No one touches us, get the fuck off of me. I'm hating out the door until I fucking die.

Sens fans brought it to an unprecedented degree last night. Not sure how much the Amazon sound was helping, but watching the replay this morning made it sound like a goddamn playoff game. Absolutely electric stuff from start to finish.

"Tim, did you hear any of the chants the fans were chanting throughout the game?" TIM STÜTZLE:

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I know the crowd had a lot of good chants for Brady in Ottawa tonight, but « Fuck your podcast » is an all-timer.

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tim stutzle would have loved the ceremonial retweeting of the haters back in the day, i just know it.

The only thing that confuses me about Alberta is why so many Albertans believe the province is meaningfully different than the rest of Canada. Everything else about Alberta is eminently comprehendable by even the most average of Eastern Canadian minds.

Holy shit you guys like owning land and trucks? What a foreign concept to me. As someone who grew up in rural Ontario, I have never met someone like this in my life.

Trying to explain Albertan separatism to Europeans like "The Resource Extraction Province wants to separate from the Resource Extraction Country because they believe the Resource Extraction Federal Governments are insufficiently supportive of resource extraction." and bring met with blank stares.

look at the guy they brought in to boost the scoring, dog. it's like we found a hot dog on the ground so we ate it and got food poisoning

I fucking knew it too. When he was acquired I was thinking "This guy sucks shit, it's going to be Stepan/Dadonov all over again" but I said nothing because I was trying to manifest positivity this year. "oh he's a good finisher, he'll be useful" NEWS FLASH: YOU HAVE TO SHOOT IN ORDER TO FINISH

Watching the Adam Friedland Grimes interview with my VR headset and calling it McGill House Party Simulator 2009

I've decided I'm going to wait until after the 15th game of the season to start expressing my strong opinions about various Sens players. I want to let things stabilize a bit before making sweeping judgements from a small sample. Dylan Cozens you have 7 games to get your shit together.

Dylan Cozens you have 7 games to start beating the Brady Tkachuk Merchant accusations (I will be the one doing the accusing)

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There's a non-trivial chance the Sens season rests on how well Burakovsky plays with Stützle and Batherson. In a pinch, they can always throw Amadio back up there, but you know Tarvis Green wants to keep his Amadio-Pinto-Giroux security blanket line intact.

Alex Adams@alexadamssn.bsky.social

#Sens line from practice Burakovsky-Stutzle-Batherson Greig-Cozens-Zetterlund Amadio-Pinto-Giroux Foegele-Halliday-Cousins Chabot-Spence Kleven-Yakemchuk Matinpalo-Zub/Stanley Ullmark

I wonder if he ever knew he was responsible for the Velvet Underground of law podcasts

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NFL legend Mike Ditka passed away at the age of 86. Rest in peace 🙏🏻