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For centuries, people believed that a cricket living near the hearth brought good luck to the house, while killing it or driving it away risked taking that luck with it.
The superstition was old and familiar enough in England that Charles Dickens called his 1845 Christmas story The Cricket on the Hearth, with the cricket serving as a kind of guardian of the home.
Some people still take it seriously enough that getting rid of an infestation feels like a real risk, not just a chore.
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Bill Maher absolutely unloads on Anthony Fauci after reading entries from his diary to the audience.
Maher couldn’t believe the level of “main character syndrome” coming from an 80-year-old Fauci writing about himself.
MAHER: “Have you read some of the shit in Fauci’s diary?”
“Last week I played a game here called, ‘Who said it: Fauci or Trump?’”
“Let’s play!”
“It is not hyperbole to say I am the most famous and talked about person in the country.”
“The nurses went absolutely wild to see me.”
“I am such a valued spokesperson and a good communicator.”
“One person said that Tyra Banks was sexy, but I was even more sexy than she was.”
“None of that is Trump. That’s all Fauci.”
“Writing to himself…at 80!”
“Why? So he can read it back when he’s 100 and remember what a hot piece of ass he was at 80?”
[Laughter and applause]
“Talk about main character syndrome!”
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🚨 LMFAO!! Funniest president EVER
DOOCY: A parasite is giving people explosive diarrhea in 9 states. When will it be safe to eat lettuce?
TRUMP: Are YOU eating lettuce recently? You are? GET OUT OF HERE, Peter!
😂😂😂
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One 1953 documentary predicted the entire AI revolution and got the timeline wrong.
Bell Labs engineers hold up a germanium sliver the size of a fingernail. Vacuum tubes: hot, fragile, the size of lightbulbs. This new device runs on a millionth of a watt.
They predict wrist radios. Portable TVs. Computers shrunk from the Empire State Building down to "a good-sized room."
They undershot by a mile.
That sliver became billions of transistors on a single chip. No transistor, no Moore's Law. No Moore's Law, no GPUs. No GPUs, no models with a trillion parameters writing your code, painting your images, reasoning at scale.
Every forward pass in every neural net today is electrons moving through logic gates invented in 1947.
A 1953 film just wanted to show off a lightbulb replacement.
It filmed the first frame of the AI era.
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Ed Dowd: "The COVID vaccines were designed to take care of a pension problem with the boomers, and then bring in 10 to 15 million younger, mostly male folks as replacement population." xitter.cf/conspiracyb0t/status/2…
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I could watch this speech 20 times and still get chills. This is the way 👇🏻
@SecRubio continues to demonstrate why he is the GOAT. Strength. Conviction. And the rare ability to articulate the fundamental choice between those who build and those who destroy.
Proud to work alongside leaders who refuse to apologize for America. 🇺🇸
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NOW LIVE: Responding To Trump's Bombshell Election Security Address, General Mike Flynn Has Called For The "Immediate" Arrest Of CIA & NSA Directors During Trump's First Term For TREASON!
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FULL HISTORIC SPEECH: Trump Releases Thousands Of CIA Documents PROVING Communist China Working With The Deep State Has Stolen And Manipulated Elections, Bought Off The Media— “MY GOD THIS IS BOMBSHELL!”
🔴WATCH THE SPECIAL HISTORIC BROADCAST LIVE HERE!⬇️
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A guy bought a $1,500 Samsung TV 3 years ago.
He watched Netflix. He watched YouTube. He thought the picture looked fine. He assumed that's just what a TV looks like.
His friend, a home theater installer who calibrates TVs for a living, walked into his apartment and looked at the screen for 5 seconds.
"You're watching everything in demo mode. The motion smoothing is on. The eco dimmer is cutting your brightness by 40%. Your TV is taking a screenshot of your screen every 30 seconds and selling your viewing data to advertisers. And you're watching a $1,500 panel in the same picture mode Best Buy uses under fluorescent lights to make TVs pop on a showroom wall."
He changed 9 settings in 12 minutes.
The picture looked like a different television. The soap opera effect disappeared. The colors became natural. The TV stopped spying on him.
Here's every setting he changed 🧵