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Reg:

I don’t care who Banksy is—the art speaks for itself.

I don’t care who Banksy is either. Banksy strikes never as some privileged asshole with stencils and Crayolas who gets fame and profit from other people’s misery.

Judging from some of Banksy’s topics, subjects, and favorite causes, Banksy’s work would have been right at home at Krysta…[Read more]

Fellow Unbelievers:

Polo!

Fellow Unbelievers:

Marco!

Reg:

My posts aren’t going through. Has AI hijacked the Forum?

Reg:

Is everyone seeing the IP address under their name or just moderators? I think it is just anyone with elevated permissions….

Not I, said some random Sapient observing Little Red Hen and the menagerie.😁🐔🐮🐷🐴🦊

Under our name where? Under our name on the left where it appears with our thumbnail images?

Sounds like it’s time to go back to the earlier version till they fix the latest one.

Note: In my email I got an AtheistZone notice of PopeBeanie’s post in Small Talk. I was able to read it but I wrote a response that simply failed to get posted. Another clue.

So, it looks right if you have moderator privileges? Could be solved by resetting a toggle somewhere in the behind the scenes.

Jake:

Enco,

I stand by what i said regarding the utility of declaratory judgments. I could add to what i said but i will leave it as is.

By all mens leave it as is, but AI is not a God and nothing it says should be believed without citations of primary sources.

(Duck.ai from my experience does cite at least one external source per search, so…[Read more]

Unseen:

“Nobody Saw This Coming” evidently is restored, if it ever was down. See above.

By now, though, everybody’s seen it coming.

Unseen:

“Bespoke” meaning a custom or one-off design is not a “thing” in American colloquial English. It’ll send most of us running to the dictionary.

I always thought of Mushmouth from Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids when I heard the word “bespoke.”. No doubt due to his creator’s crimes, Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids has been memory holed.

M…[Read more]

So, I note that the Forums still aren’t restored. If the data is lost, will it at least be restarted by restoring the topics? I’m particularly missing the “Nobody saw this coming” thread following The Warning’s musical progress.

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Somehow that word bespoke escaped my attention until a few weeks ago.

“Bespoke” meaning a custom or one-off design is not a “thing” in American colloquial English. It’ll send most of us running to the dictionary.