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Apr 29Liked by John Birmingham

I can understand researchers using it as a translation service, that's a logical use case, but for goodness' sake if you've just spent months or years conducting research surely you can write an explanation of it without resorting to spicy autocorrect to help you? *shakes fist at clouds*

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Apr 29Liked by John Birmingham

Not nearly as good, but there's a US patent specification that has "Fuck you John" written in the disclosure somewhere. If I had to guess, someone stepped away from their open document for the briefest moment...and didn't proof it, and the examiner didn't read the whole thing either (not uncommon in my personal experience).

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Before Agile became de reigeur in projects and software development and I had to write business requirements documents I'd put "happy fluffy bunny" in as a requirement and see how many of my stakeholders signed off on it.

Only one person who was not a business analyst picked up on it (all the BAs who reviewed my documents spotted it and then stole the idea).

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Apr 29Liked by John Birmingham

That's funny. I used to have a laminated theatre topo map, seriously handy, grade A, produced by German assets. Mind you, this was a topographic map to be used in combat operations. That was its purpose, and it was used as such.

One day, my team sergeant came to me, map open, and said, "Hey, sir, look at this."

I looked, and all I saw was elevation lines of a stretch of desert, right? I said, "Ok?" while scrunching my brow. He laughed, and traced some features with his finger.

Damn if some unnamed German soldier didn't, in very slick ways, insert a sexually suggestive sketch of a naked woman into the topo lines. Until he pointed it out to me, I'd never seen it, and I'd used that map a hundred times. No, it was not a coincidence. Once seen, it was clear.

I guess our resident Airborne lifer spotted it first, a long-service NCO with an eye for detail.

Shakes head. I was tempted to call up their 155's and do an adjust fire, "Left one-zero on vagina, drop two-zero to thigh."

People.

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That is amazing! 🤣

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The truth really is stranger than fiction. You can't make this sh*t up.

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Very nice. And here when I did my own slog through the university process I had the idea that scientific papers were supposed to be vetted. Silly me. Nice GPT reply, knuckleheads. If you're going to cheat, at least do a competent job.

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bahaha. How far up does that thing go? Going off the direction of the rats gaze a fair way. This is going to compete with the "Turtles all the way down" and "Rat dongers all the way up". Event horizon where they meet.

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