Notices by Matthew Skala (mattskala@mstdn.io), page 2

@ocean @lain I think she's his mother.

@lain Couldn't get planning permission.

@lain Claimed to be friend of Epstein, though he wasn't actually on the list that I saw.

uh, guys, I don't think that's a snake...

@lain Kind of like what happened here in Canada when they legalized "recreational" cannabis. A lot of people are buying and using it for medical purposes, which was already easy to do legally; the only real difference being that now you don't have to talk to a doctor first.

There's something very amateurish about this whole operation.

@lain That's the punchline of the elderly-cowboy joke.

@lain All the usual disclaimers apply, but my ratio model says the only good buy in precious metals at the moment is platinum. It's been below both gold and palladium for several years, which is historically unusual. The platinum-palladium ratio seems highly likely to reverse soon (palladium should be cheaper on chemistry and abundance, has been more expensive recently, now is about equal); platinum-gold may take much longer if ever.

@lain Say it in Japanese without saying it in Japanese.

@lain That's pretty fast if they have to get out and push.

@lain someone used the "block block boosts" option.

@lain Let me remind you that Hakui is the UFO capital of Japan, and is home to the "Cosmo Isle Hakui" UFO/space exploration museum.

@lain 1. they're simply incompetent; or 2. he has hostages/kompromat. Of course these are not mutually exclusive.

@lain Open letters from scientists lost a lot of credibility with that "AI pause" thing.

@lain So just one snake' is okay, but not snake's?

@Moon dunno about the others but I think the one on the left is Harry Potter.

@lain @Moon nothin'.

@Moon Not sure whether this supports or disproves the claim.

@lain Who'd enforce the decision?

You can tell I'm not a real academic anymore because I stopped to actually do the experiments before writing the conclusion.