If only it were so easy. Certain prescriptions from certain doctors definitely helped, but nothing makes the pain go away.

Children of Time

It’s a situation of just enough knowledge, I think. It’s true that water won’t put out an EV battery fire, but it will cool it down and prevent the fire from spreading.

Every time. Absolutely cracks me up.

Hmm, I’m game. My 2007 Toyota is at 210,000 or so. Passed down from a family member.

Though I didn’t quite mean it as a competition. In fact, I’m pretty rough on my phone. That’s why I was so surprised at a phone never lasting beyond 4 years.

What? How? Are you starting from an old phone already? I’m typing this from a pristine iPhone XR.

Same. School firewall blocked based on host names, so we all learned a lot about the hosts file so we could manually set all of the IPs Minecraft needed to authenticate.

This pretty well encapsulates my feelings, except for the issue of training the models. AI is cool tech, but the fact remains that people are making money off of scraped content. Not to mention the environmental aspect.

Honestly I find it difficult to reconcile.

In a perfect world, we would have open source models trained on public domain and properly licensed content.

I don’t think AI is going to replace artists any time soon. On the personal side, people create for the joy of it, whatever that means to them. On the professional side, people have a hard enough time communicating what they want to an actual person, much less a computer.

As someone that likely has moderate aphantasia, I really struggle with describing what I want. Being able to tell an image gen to make so many variations of X, and then commission a friend to take inspiration from Y and Z to make something original is really freeing for both sides, imo.

I’ve never gotten exactly what I’m looking for, but it almost always gives me something to point to, without doing a bunch of test drafts. I suppose that’s technically taking work away from the artist, but so does having an ‘undo’ button in procreate.

Idk, it’s a more complex issue than many make it out to be. I’m still further on the fuck ai side than not, just due to its current implementations.

End rant.

I disagree. You have to speak in a language people are willing to understand. More memes about things that improve the lives of citizens, please. Tear us down for our shitty infrastructure.

But imagine if you grew up with and struggled alongside those 40 plays for your whole life.

This is often called “waiting mode” and there are strategies to help deal with it. For me, that’s alarms. If I have an appointment, I’ll set alarms for when to be in the shower, out of the shower, and out the door. It allows you to actually relax.

Ooh, I know this one. The shirt is in my still unpacked suitcase from that trip three years ago.

My mom found three gifts I bought for her in the same suitcase 6 months after I returned.

If you have Italian ancestry, they actually have government help that will do free reviews of US immigration documents. I missed my Italian citizenship by a few years :(

But it was super easy to find out. Just google around for it, jure sanguinis or something like that.

I’m tearing up, it’s so beautiful

Isekai is religion for the modern era. “Oh, don’t be sad he was hit by truck-kun, he’s in a better place now.”

Note, I’m all for this. If I die in an accident, I firmly expect friends and family to workshop a story plot at the funeral

My cat learned I can’t see when I have the VR headset on and knocked a lamp over onto my head.

I think the main issue in that circumstance is you don’t have a lot of options as a human, at least not without tools. You’d have absolutely no trouble just killing the chicken, but there isn’t much option for a middle ground where both sides leave unscathed.

This is a top grade pun.

Similar, but with my feet/ankles. She wants to be close, but isn’t a big fan of petting. I’m not always great at respecting that desire, so we compromise like this.

Well, that explains all of the fake voicemail phishing we’ve been seeing