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In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: Manlobbi 🐝🐝  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: OT Gurus Focus Dollar General
Date: 08/21/23 11:28 AM
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Surprisingly readable, for an article written by a bot!

It certainly is written by a bot. If you don't believe me, read the following description of planetary life forms. It is from a text-based computer game that I wrote several years ago in which the software describes tens of millions of stars, their planets, and where environmentally suitable the software generates life from first principles - based on the gravity, temperature, geology, and so on (which was itself generated by each planet's proximity to the star, and the type, and size of the star). I worked with an astrobiologist (this is actually a real profession) briefly to expand some of my ideas.

Ueneyg: 1st planet The planet's surface is cool and gaseous and the planet's most sophisticated species is essentially nothing more than a highly elaborate network of biological wires functioning as a highly effective mind. It is understood that this intriguing creature reproduces by the production of its basic elements activated by the absorption of nuclear radiation generated within the planet. The communication with members of its species involves radio waves and the creature can generate extremely high temperatures anywhere within itself and by collecting and firing off unwanted mass it is able to accelerate throughout space.

Czeyts: 7th planet The planet has a liquid surface below very little atmosphere and the most interesting species hibernates for most of its life and has a cockroach-like form with a semi-transparent skin. Propagation involves the breeding of two genders resulting in natural selection. This species has established colonies on other stars.

Vruevjae: 2nd planet The planet's surface can be seen to be smooth and hard with heavy volcanic activity. The planet's most advanced species lives on the planet's surface and it has the appearance of a tall shrub-like plant mostly red in colour. The creature reproduces by male and female exchanging genes in large groups and discharging a series of strings each with a small nodule that explodes to distribute new cells.

Shaenye: 4th planet The planet has a rather featureless sandstone surface with a thick gaseous atmosphere. The dominant form of life lives on the solid surface of the planet where it can absorb the star's rays. This species is akin to a simple but uncommon carbon-based life form and this largest known life form has declined almost to extinction owing to changes within the atmosphere.


If one can programme that, it is pretty trivial to programme these robot articles about stocks, given the enormous amount of data collected for each one. Where data is missing, you can just skip paragraphs, and have conditional expansion based on specific data available. Different templates for different categories (retail as for DG, another template for all the REITs, etc).

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