Do you think they halted “adjudications” because they’re having a harder time than expected rigging the AI model and it kept pointing out that people like Sackler were fucking rich shitbags?

“This statement is inaccurate.”

I would say I generally have an excellent memory with better recall for what is read vs what is said. Not that helps you, but I’m a merely anecdotal case.

Maybe more than recall ask them when they read fiction if they pictures the characters orbjust kind of glaze over during prolong descriptive sections. Do they complain about movie casting? I never picture characters so even if I think a performance is bad, I’m never mad that the actor doesn’t look like how I imagined them.

Yeah, with that one in particular I thhough everybody was just beating a dead horse with the same joke on “counting sleep.”

Not OP but also have aphantasia.

I discovered it when I was…23? My whole life I figured people were saying “picture this…” figuratively and it didn’t even occur to me that it could be otherwise because it was self-evidently impossible to me to “see” something until I learned the word “aphantasia” and that the inability to visualize is not considered the norm/not universal.

*June 6

Charles de Gualle, who was 196 cm/6’5”, once said¹, “We giants are never at ease with others. The armchairs are always too small, the tables too low. The impression one makes too strong.”

I’m slightly taller than he was and I’d add the three concussions I’ve had simply due to height. Hitting my head in my own home is a truly miserable experience.

There is a fantastic little French novel called Lobster about exactly this.

A lobster survives, after seeing his father be eaten, only to fall in love with the woman who ate his father. The novel is the story of his pursuit and erotic encounter with his father’s devourer.

From goodreads (fuck Amazon):

Aboard the Titanic, Lobster watches Angelina devour his father, before being plucked out of the aquarium himself. Just as he is put in the boiling pot, the ship hits the iceberg and the pot is thrown to the floor. Lobster survives, with some changes: he finds himself sexually attracted not only to a human, but to the very human who ate his father. He gives her one life-changing orgasm before their tragic separation, following an ugly incident in one of the lifeboats.

I read a biography of him last year that I really enjoyed, A Certain Idea of France and it’s very funny that he was kind of Just a Guy^TM. He was, technically, a very junior member of the last cabinet before Pétain, but nobody in the public knew who he was and he had only just been promoted to general.

Even the British were a little dubious about him. Whether he was going to be allowed to speak on the BBC to rally the French was a question until a last minute intervention by Churchill essentially amounting to “why not.”

Oh, damn. I’m a little younger than that but inherited a ton of Legos from my cousins and recognize many of these pieces. So cool to see them in their original set!