Parenti’s speech is also known as “The Yellow Lecture” because the surviving footage of it has a distinctive coloration.

The other reference is this meme is to a scene in Seinfeld where Kramer’s apartment is being aggressively illuminated by a big red neon sign across the street; in this case, changed to yellow.

Why is that relevant?

I think this article does a good job of exploring and explaining how LLM attempts at text summarization could be more accurately described as “text shortening”; a subtle but critical distinction.

It routinely baffles me when folks think that copy-pasting crap into and out of a chatbot somehow contributes to a conversation. It’s like half a step up from telling everyone about the dreams you had last night

She isn’t; she’s referring to the time Trump told Israel they “have to finish this up” in a published interview..

Canada Dry makes a damn good zero-sugar ginger ale

If they keep it for themselves, yes.

Is it possible you’re thinking of that time Jon Stewart was on Tucker Carlson’s show, rather than vice versa?

I rewatched that episode just this evening, and completely agree; fantastic scene. Dukat is a delightful villain throughout the series, but this is one of his pinnacles of bastardy.

Imaginary Kira supporting his twisted logic was a nice touch, too; “Being reasonable only made us bolder”

I think you mean the embryo; it takes some time after being laid for the zygote inside the egg to develop to the point it could be considered a fetus.

Hi, fat guy here. I can’t speak for others and I certainly don’t know statistically whether or not I represent any kind of majority, but I do know that for me my excessive weight is entirely the result of poor lifestyle decisions.

That shot of the waiter cackling madly as he fills the bottles has stuck with me for years.

According to The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety:

A total of 4,714 people died in large truck crashes in 2021, a 17 percent increase compared with 2020. Sixteen percent of these deaths were truck occupants, 68 percent were occupants of cars and other passenger vehicles, and 15 percent were pedestrians, bicyclists or motorcyclists.