A Call For Humor!

[mhardy6647]

So... we are part of a local food coop here in the "Upper Valley" (a bucolic region, without question). The Coop has some advantages (e.g., excellent meat, seafood, and produce), but, of course, not cheap. We don't shop there often -- but we do when it counts (e.g., prime rib for Christmas dinner).
Every month they have a giveaway for coop members -- if you bought something that month, you're entered. We only found this out when, out of the blue, a year or so ago, we got a call telling us we'd won! Stopped by and picked up our prize, an environmentally sincere tote bag filled with environmentally sincere cleaning products.
Fast forward to yesterday. Mrs. H was starting our first tranche of seeds for the garden (tomatoes). She wanted a spray bottle to mist the pots and the seedlings without over-wetting them. She asked about the things we'd won three of, so I went and got one. Nice glass bottles with a spray head.
I opened the environmentally sincere packaging, started to extract the contents, and began laughing uproariously.
Mrs. H, not surprisingly, wondered what was up*, so I showed her the (three) packets of cleaner packaged with the spray bottle.



Here's the front and back.


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* I am, of course, normally so sober and serious-minded.

 

[Soandso]

 

[rationaltime]

50 years ago today, ‘STAR WARS’ began filming.
Read about it there. --> <

https://twitter.com/x/status/2035770678562234423

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[Ropeburn]

 

[Waxx]

 

[Bleib]

 

[Soandso]

 

[KellenVancouver]

 

[mhardy6647]

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So... long, long ago we were working on a biological problem involving the interaction (binding, in our parlance) of multivalent, macromolecular ligands (ahem, glycoproteins) to multivalent receptors (the then so-called asialoglycoprotein receptor of mammalian hepatocytes). Although the setting was somewhat different, the issue was already well known from the binding of multivalent ligands (e.g., the binding of polyamines, such as spermine or cadaverine) to DNA (which can be thought of as a polyvalent anion, thanks to all of those phosphate groups). We called it the parking problem, thinking about parking lots and big vs. small vehicles... Easy to park when the lot was fairly empty (low fractional occupancy, we'd say), harder when it was partly full, even though plenty of spaces might remain...
But we thought about things like urinals in stadiums, too.

Dang, we had fun in those days!

 

[tineared]

Uncooperative witness...

 

[Jimshoe]

And the Oscar goes to... (not sure if it's genuine or AI, but Huskys are overdramatic, and very "sturdy" too).

We can safely say thats AI

 

[respice finem]

We can safely say thats AI

Yes, when I look at the rest of this channel's stuff, probably so. And why is the Husky wearing a "vest"?
These videos are getting technically better all the time, soon we will lose trust in pictures and movies completely IMHO.
As happened before with the written word...

 

[jkasch]

So... long, long ago we were working on a biological problem involving the interaction (binding, in our parlance) of multivalent, macromolecular ligands (ahem, glycoproteins) to multivalent receptors (the then so-called asialoglycoprotein receptor of mammalian hepatocytes). Although the setting was somewhat different, the issue was already well known from the binding of multivalent ligands (e.g., the binding of polyamines, such as spermine or cadaverine) to DNA (which can be thought of as a polyvalent anion, thanks to all of those phosphate groups). We called it the parking problem, thinking about parking lots and big vs. small vehicles... Easy to park when the lot was fairly empty (low fractional occupancy, we'd say), harder when it was partly full, even though plenty of spaces might remain...
But we thought about things like urinals in stadiums, too.

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Dang, we had fun in those days!

Huh?

 

[FTB]

Yeah it's scary how AI make things look realistic.

I saw a video with a wolf coming to the vet and, apart from wolves don't do that, it was impossible to tell it's AI with the quality of the video.

 

[respice finem]

Yeah it's scary how AI make things look realistic.

I saw a video with a wolf coming to the vet and, apart from wolves don't do that, it was impossible to tell it's AI with the quality of the video.

Some wolves are half-domesticated, so not impossible per se. But it's less common than YT and such lead people to believe.
The bigger issue is, what will it do to mankind, not being able to trust anything and anyone.

 

[EERecordist]

I would say what do measurements say?

 

[Juhazi]

The bigger issue is, what will it do to mankind, not being able to trust anything and anyone.

Kudos! Including scientists, politicians and statesmen

 

[thewas]

 

[bom13]

We can safely say thats AI

Actually as an owner of 9 huskies over the years, I think it's safe to say that may very much NOT be AI. Until you've spent significant time with a husky it's hard to believe how "vocal" they can be and...Yes...they can be immense drama queens.

 

[Ralph_Cramden]