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fun fact: niagara falls was literally turned off in 1969.

engineers built a temporary dam and redirected the water to study erosion, leaving the american falls almost completely dry for five months.

imagine visiting one of the world's most famous waterfalls and finding out it's temporarily out of service.

3am thoughts are basically your brain deciding that the perfect time to revisit something embarrassing you said in 2014 is right when you’re trying to sleep. suddenly you're questioning your career, relationships, entire existence, and whether penguins have knees.

bro i literally just wanted to sleep.

sometimes you are not watching a movie, playing a game, scrolling, traveling, drinking, reading, or daydreaming because you enjoy it.

sometimes you are just trying to spend a few hours somewhere your real life cannot reach you.

that is the interesting part of escapism.

the activity itself is not the problem.

the question is whether you are taking a break from your life or quietly trying to disappear from it.

one of the strangest things about her is that she somehow became a culture war symbol without really saying much politically herself.

first there was the controversy over her mother’s birthday party, where guests wore blue lives matter imagery and red “make sixty great again” hats. then came the american eagle “great jeans” campaign, with the obvious jeans and genes wordplay, which somehow turned a denim ad into a national argument about beauty standards, race, eugenics, and politics.

at this point sydney sweeney could probably post a picture of a sandwich and half the internet would spend three days arguing about what it means for america.

creatine helps replenish atp in the muscles, which can improve strength, power, and performance during short bursts of high intensity exercise.

taking around 3 to 5 grams daily is enough for most people. it also increases water stored inside muscle cells, which can support performance and make muscles look fuller.

you do not need a loading phase, and creatine can be used safely over the long term when taken consistently.

apparently ai companies are clearing out used bookstores, scanning millions of books to use for training language models, and then destroying them. washington post

as long as companies keep growing, they make money for their investors on the stock market. but what if a company (google, say) has grown big enough to become a monopoly? there's no more room left for it to grow. it needs new arenas to take over, otherwise it loses value, because it's no longer growing, and a stock whose value isn't rising gets sold. now these ai companies have created a trillion-dollar fantasy, a bubble, with no product behind it, through promises (projections) of buying services or products from one another. they passed the same hundred billion dollars back and forth and made it look like 1.4 trillion. huge stories of productivity and automation (hype) were created. but here's the thing, the value or service created thanks to ai doesn't match the cost of building and running the ai, and closing that gap doesn't look very likely either. when it bursts, most of those trillions will evaporate, and the price will be paid, as always, by ordinary people who lose their savings.

look, nobody here is saying ai is useless; like any technology it definitely has application areas where it's very useful. it's just not a cure-all. for instance, when you say let's make all the trucks in the usa ai-driven and give them their own lane: you'll be putting a million or so drivers, who already work pretty cheap, out of work, and spending billions of dollars on top of that. the result? after all that effort and cost, a better version of what you end up with has existed for two centuries, and it's called a train :) this trillion-dollar bubble is bound to burst, and a third of the us stock market will go up in smoke. the work done and the knowledge accumulated for ai will remain. there'll be an abundance of cheap gpus for running open source ai, and if people like trump and bibi don't start a third world war, life will go on..

it's 100% about creating a calorie deficit. eating late at night, oh, eating junk food, and so on have nothing to do with it. eat 3 bags of chips before bed if you want, if the calories you take in are less than your daily needs, you'll lose weight.

the artist who put out a single called morning dew. it's said the song will be on the reissued version of her 2nd studio album b'day, to be re-released for its 20th anniversary. the album will probably come out on september 4th. the song's producer is pharrell williams. i think it turned out nice.

the match where, given that trump stepped in and unfairly got the red card suspension lifted, we might as well go ahead and congratulate belgium on the round. sure, they say there is no justice in football, but the game really does love writing scenarios like this one. honestly, i would not even be surprised if folarin balogun did something that ends up hurting his own team's chances.

a reference link that another website gives to your site, and in the eyes of search engines, a digital certificate of vouching. it's still one of the most powerful, most controversial, and most manipulated dynamics of search engine optimization (seo).

the person who founded this chain was a conservative christian but didn't really get into politics. they'd put bible verses and the like on the bottom of the paper cups the drinks come in, but that was about it. years after they died their granddaughter (lynsi snyder) took over the head of the company, and she's an incurable trump fan. she can't help fawning over trump everywhere she sees a microphone. the woman donated 2 million dollars to trump's election campaign in the last elections. because of this, a lot of people in the usa have started boycotting this company. it's interesting too that a firm like this, the vast majority of whose customers live in democratic states like california, plays it as a fanatical trump supporter.

in my eyes it's among the best 3 shows i've watched.. i watched it years ago when it first came out and i was in awe of its screenplay structure, its vision, its depiction of the future.. i rewatched it with netflix and i was in awe all over again.

the internet was opened to worldwide use militarily in the 1960s, and as a civilian thing 30 years after that, in the 1990s. gps started being used militarily in 1980. because they couldn't get out ahead of globalization, it spread across the world in the 2000s along with the development of devices, as a result of civilian demand. everyone's location is known at any given moment.. even though the applied history of drone technology goes back very far, it was used in the 70s, became practical militarily in the 90s, and fully landed in the field in the 2010s. we're being watched from kilometers above.. ai has been designed/discussed since the 1950s, the era of mechanical computers, and was put forth for end-user consumption from the 2020s onward. it continues to evolve.. robot designs have been tested for years, but civilian contracted, state-backed technology companies have been on the verge of nearly completing humanoid machines since 2010. it's inevitable to think that humanoid robots won't be wandering among us with ai integration in the future.. it's obvious that a part of asimov's utopia will come to pass..

the news regarding the methods of implanting a chip in every person and controlling, steering, and tracking them this way, the kind mentioned in conspiracy theories, is a projection of the years ahead. there are very serious arguments that cell phones and social media are being used as the vanguard of this. it's impossible that finch's machine hasn't been built; whoever controls the machine also controls world intelligence..

his follower count on instagram has reached 4.6 million in real time (before the game it was around 50 thousand), and from here on it's tough for him, he'll have to stand well in goal in the other two matches as well, because there's going to be enormous pressure on him, he's gotten famous beyond measure, all eyes will be on him.

a language app that's less of a language-learning program and more of a way to pass the time. but still, when you spend a little while looking at it here, you can more or less work out the anatomy and structure of a language. it adds a bit of vocabulary too, even if limited. however, it has one problem. there's a big difference between languages in terms of how they're programmed. for some they've put in quite a bit of effort, there's plenty of content. for others it's very limited, and you end up memorizing words and sentences without learning the language. the range of languages is unfortunately very limited too. there are around seven thousand languages in the world. never mind those, they've gone and filled the app with artificial languages. i looked at finnish back in the day, and since it was so limited it was over in no time. afterward i figured i'd look at estonian, the language closest to it, and they hadn't even added it. what was the need for stuff like valyrian, klingon, and the like?