In my archaeology/anthropology classes in college, we were taught to say “projectile points” instead of “arrowheads” for basically this reason.

I would be proud of being recognized at a local bakery, and similarly uncomfortable being recognized at a Taco Bell.

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

I have a bad habit where I stop feeling bad about not eating the food once it’s in the freezer, and then it doesn’t come out until I’m cleaning months later. And then all of my Tupperware is in the freezer.

There’s a middle ground that I think a lot of people miss, and that played an important role in me eating out less.

You can buy things like frozen dumplings, frozen pre-cooked chicken, etc… This isn’t going to be as cost efficient as making from scratch, but it’s wayyyy better than eating out all the time.

I’ve been learning to cook by weaning myself off of ordering out, to frozen pre-cooked stuff (that you should never grow 100% out of, my god dumplings freeze so well), to scratch.

An important dubstep of that has been taking something like pre-cooked dumplings with a homemade soup. It’s like buying level2 ingredients, something a little closer to human readable.

Sorry this edible just kicked in, I think I got lost in the metaphor in that last paragraph.

Children of Time

You might call it a shopping arcade. Pretty common in many cities, and likely is a public street, despite having a covering.

I think people forget how much heavy lifting the Clone Wars series did for their relationship, and Anakin’s character in general. Canonically they really were like brothers, but this is not portrayed clearly in film.

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.

Close. Nyan, or nya, is the equivalent of meow. So you need whatever sound a Japanese moose makes.

Memes and image macro were never synonyms. Image macros are memes, but that doesn’t mean all memes are image macros.

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.

Even more so, a pretend friendly stranger that’s documented as being in your location.

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.

Knew it would be this. I made the noise immediately on seeing the picture

Otto

Isn’t the Panama Canal basically running out of water? They should act like they’ve been cowed, sell it to us for a ton of money, and laugh all the way to the bank.

What the fuck