If one is in support of old party politics around this administration, how is that any different? Seems like the right uniform to wear, all things considered.

:: slaps roof of pentagon :: You can fit so many grifts and distractions in this baby.

First I’ve heard of that. This is brilliant.

I get where you’re coming from. For me, once I’m past/over the initial titillating shock of the scene or actors at hand, my mind turns to all the subtle things going on in the frame. After repeated watches, the things that seem to matter most? Authenticity. Those little fleeting moments when people drop their guard, stop acting, and really just enjoy themselves. A look, a touch, a lunging mouth, an orgasmic cry that is too real to fake… those moments that bring something real crashing through the fourth wall? Yeah. Absolutely.

Personally, I would call this “mono-romantic & poly-sexual” to avoid any ambiguity. “Monogamish” is right up there with “heteroflexible” - useful in a pinch, but requires a conversation to clarify.

There are also serious gains to be made in science on the back of AI models, just not the flavors most people are familiar with.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8633405/

Edit: The missing permanence might also be a reason for many of the issues of LLM’s, some kind of “self” with a sense of the passage of time to return to. I’m pretty sure i’m not the first one who thought of that, and there are probably a lot of people with even more PhDs at work here.

Image generation uses a concept of a LORA that is a bolt-on model to augment a base model. It can provide support for additional tokens (those map more or less to words and concepts), or bias the base model on existing tokens. For now, that’s probably as close as you’re going to get to anything resembling long-term-memory on an LLM.

Eh, it’s Facebook in a suit-and-tie. Rarely does anything get above the level of watercooler talk, job-fair friendly material, and hiring/training/talent influencers strutting their stuff.

Also, like Facebook, the most useful part of it is the built-in chat. It’s hard to stand out on the “feed” if you’re not a company, and most of your networking and job hunting happens in chat. The latter is crucial since recruiters use this to screen out robots and invalid candidates, and it’s your best opportunity to do the same. And you will get feelers from crafty LLMs pushing all kinds of sketchy “opportunities.”

Meanwhile, the slop that hits your feed is inreasingly AI-generated nonsense, awful infographics, techbro/ceo-bro influencer nonsense, and just straight-up corporate PR advertising. It would be better if people posted things, but nobody wants to say or do anything that would cost a job now or in the future.

like a movie or TV show.

Last one I went to, the staff were singing together while they cooked. It was phenomenal.

Poor executive control and possibly substances. Consider the dark side of ADHD where “fight” is the go-to response after getting overwhelmed, scared, provoked, or just too tired to think straight. It’s straight dysfunction to be sure, but many of us were blessed with other default responses to adrenaline and bad executive function.

Oh shit.

You could probably work with some artists to knock that together in Mugen or something.

A single-player Final Fight clone would work too, but it would be a handful of small stages: parking lot, inside the diner, and out back by the dumpsters. Destructive scenery and being able to use furniture as weapons would be a big plus. Game/mission types would be king-of-the-hill, time trial, survival mode, and boss rush.

Oh bother.

I’ve done the nudist camp thing. This is 1000% true. This also works if you’re “Donald Ducking it” and just wearing a shirt.

Counterargument: the rear of your car is far more resilient to impact than the front. You can cope with backing out, but maybe your wallet/schedule won’t cope with a fender-bender to your headlights or front bumper.

This is specifically a Dethklok track list. Some of these are kinda brutal.

Producer: Okay, but… “Teeth?”

Band: ::complaints and groans of disbelief::

Nathan: They’re like… bone knives. In your face. And kids lose their first set with blood and agony, and then you get even more. It’s so f—ing brutal. So we made a song about it.

Toki: Plus it’s important to teach the kids about brushing.

Swissgar: Yous don’t want to be losings your bone face knives.

The problem is more with the perception of disrupting the “correct” social hierarchy. Conservatives have no trouble taking money from, or being served by their “lessers” in society. This includes sex workers. It’s when the underclass elevate themselves or exceed their “betters” do they have a problem.

In this case: driving a big showy pickup truck - a coveted symbol of buying power - that shouldn’t be obtainable.

Correct, it’s all been synthetic for a long, long time. And for what that’s worth, even if there were enough sources of natural latex in the world to support the global tire industry, we’d still have problems. In both cases, polymers are stabilized with sulfur in a process called vulcanization. I’m mostly sure that’s why tires don’t decompose under natural conditions.

People are working on it though: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11041115/

One starts to get the impression that they should just have the archeologists dig the tunnel in the first place, and budget the project like one big find.

Ah yes, C64 floppy drive “headbanging”.

IIRC this is because rather than ship a design with a limit switch or any position sensing at all, the drive software just rapidly slaps the read head home a bunch of times to ensure it’s properly aligned with track zero. I have a hard time believing this was to reduce part count, because the drive itself is a whole-ass 6502 computer; the sale price also reflected that. Instead, I think it’s a software fix for a “sometimes an issue” hardware problem.

What i love about the jump-humping thing is I’ve heard it involves a third party to move the bed for you, making it just the weirdest threesome.

Since “all dogs go to heaven” isn’t mentioned in the bible but is generally accepted christian doctrine, it’s actually dogma, which is way funnier.