southsamurai

So, Chuck, how much?

Yeah, little homie needs some shade and water I’d reckon

Yeah, the only issue is that any profits from paying for their service will eventually line the person’s pockets. It’s not like the company is directly doing it, or spreading the bullshit.

Makes it a slightly different issue, but it is still an issue

It happens. I can’t say it’s super common, but even with the protection of the cartons, accidents happen. Hell, I’ve checked in store, and had an egg crack on the way home from braking hard. Only once, but it shows that the right forces in the right way can cause cracks.

I haven’t bought eggs in years now (yay for my hen!), but I’d see it maybe twice a year or so

Shit man, I dealt with anxiety and depression for maybe ten years doing mostly hospice/end of life care. Acting is a difficult profession (seriously, it is) in a lot of ways, but it’s mostly controlled. They have schedules, and the actors rarely have to deal with the crises of making the shoot happen (except the ones silly enough to try and direct or produce lol).

Any job can be done with moderately controlled anxiety. The only question is how long, at what price?

Since those folks get paid way better than I did wiping asses and moving bodies, I suspect they can call their therapist or whoever during a major anxiety event, and can afford the usual meds to help ease them along.

Musicians are similar, once they’re big enough to do big tours. They have managers and assistants to help with the most stressful things outside of the performance itself. So they only have to worry about part of it.

Besides, I dunno if you’ve ever tried and performance of any sort, but it’s a different kind of fear. Yeah, stage fright exists, and everyone stresses about doing well, but people that pursue it as a job get a bigger internal reward out of it than a filthy casual would. So the payoff of the stress is higher. Like, for me, I’d never be able to do theater with any regularity because I don’t get that joy from it. But someone that’s top tier and doing it for a living definitely get a big dump of dopamine and other neurotransmitters from it. People think I’m fucking crazy for some of the martial arts shit I used to do, but it fulfilled me, so the price was worth it. Same thing for them

I don’t hate them, but damn are they pushing beyond what any one company should do. The only way a one-stop shop should be used at all is if it’s a very well structured, open side law source non-profit. Even then, I’m not sure that biting off as many things as proton is trying to would be for me.

That is an excellent breakdown!

It’s not an antenna.

The design around the oreo name is the same as the Nabisco logo. An oval with a cross on top.

Now, there’s some disagreement over why the design is what it is. The got that redesigned the cookie has one story, Nabisco has theirs, and then there’s the fringe symbolism crowd that points to some kind of quasiconspiracy with ties to the Knights Templar (with the degree of it being some kind of woowoo deep secret varying on who it is talking about it)

Basically though, it’s supposed to be similar to things that represent quality. The designer said that he was inspired by old illuminated manuscripts made by monks in Europe before printing. Basically; I’m paraphrasing because I can’t be arsed to look it up again.

The antenna is also said to be a kind of cross, as are the little flowery things in the circle around the oreo symbol. But Nabisco was using that oval and cross thing before they made oreos; it’s still part of their logo. So, whatever the reason for that design, it likely applies to the cookie as a reflection of that

Pissed out of a window rather than walk ten feet to the bathroom.

In fairness, I had the flu, and was a teenager. Feeling like hammered vulture shit, with a window right there and open anyway? No way was I getting out of bed. The window was just barely above the top of the mattress, so all I had to do was roll over, kinda prop up, and let 'er rip.

Surprisingly, not only did it not go horribly wrong, but the little forethought I had with a fever that high managed to prevent any drips from being a problem. Well, a problem then. Still had to wash the towel later, and that left me without a clean towel for fever sweats, but I had bandanas I could use for that.

Look, I was creeping into dangerous fever levels lol. Not the best set of decisions, but it worried out in the end

Ngl, the first time my hen molted, I was verklempt. She didn’t get that bad, as she tends to st it in waves rather than all at once, but I was anxious as fuck all wondering if it was molting or some kind of disease

Yeah, well, nobody started shooting the fuckers before they could get spooled up

Mostly, yeah, but then again genuinely funny ones were always rare.

Worse (in terms of sitcoms as a genre) they almost never stand up to time. And that’s where some of the older ones have an advantage. Survivor bias. The shitty ones aren’t in syndication any more. So we only see maybe the top ten percent of all of them with any regularity.

But it is damn hard to come up with the right combo of writers, cast, and zeitgeist. Look at the Dick van Dyke show as an example. Some of the best comedic actors in the business all in one place, with the best writers or the era, making a show that is about a situation that’s damn near immortal because it focused on core segments of life. Because of that, even the less acceptable humor (and it never went bad) is easy to shrug off.

Since the executives in charge production are a product of decades of cynicism and money only thinking (it was almost always money first, but that is different), they take no risks, and want mostly reheated dreck. That’s never a good foundation for comedy. It has to happen by accident when that constrained.

That being said, it does happen from time to time. While I’m not a sitcom fan, and not into it, always sunny manages to work for most people because they’re willing to keep riding absurdity so that they don’t need a real sense of continuity. There was the office (which, again, isn’t my thing) that was one of those perfect storms of on-screen and off talent being allowed to go ham in a situation that is damn near universal in scope for its target area. Even if you haven’t been stuck in an office, you likely know someone that has. It makes the jokes hit better, and the ones that don’t can get carried by the cast’s talent.

But, yeah, I don’t think the current era is good for sitcoms. The old networks are running scared and chasing an old paradigm. The steamers are past the point of throwing money and seeing what sticks. The audience is spread out even more than the cable dominated era. It’s hard to justify a non proven formula, and formulas don’t work as well as they used to

Well, in fairness, we had a ramp installed and the good shit spots are all gone now

At least three times a day

Jfc, I literally just had a dream where I was taking care of a baby during custody issues in court, and the baby babbling and making noises had everyone in the entire building stopping by to act silly for it, including the judge leaving their place to come ask if she could hold the damn baby.

No fucking clue why I would have that dream, never had a baby of my own.

But I’m sitting there in a dream court, and the proceedings are interrupted by a judge needing to play with a damn baby.

What’s worse is that I was equally enthralled by the little mindflayer monkey.

Which has nothing to do with the fact that if a toddler comes up to me and extends a little hand, opening and closing their fingers in a “come walk with me” gesture, I’m going to play hell not doing so, no matter how much common sense tells me that it’s a trap because toddlers don’t just appear out of nowhere to ask you to walk with them.

That’s dedication

Homie shit in their front yard, then settled down behind their camera watching it long enough for a butterfly to flutter by and land on their butt chocolate

Acetylcholine.

There’s plenty of things that can trigger it being dumped into your system. It’s a neurotransmitter, and works throughout the body like most of them do.

One of the things that triggers it is eating. You eat, it gets released. It gets released and fairly quickly hits the receptors that are open to it.

One of those receptors in the gut then increases bowel/intestinal motility.

Thus, you wake up, and your body starts pumping out fresh chemicals. You eat, and the chemicals related to that crank up. Then, poop happens.

There’s a shit ton of things besides eating that can get the job done, but it’s extremely common for a post prandial poop to pop.

Me? IBS has fucked my shit up for ages, and I can usually time when that first rumble will hit after I start eating. Fifteen to twenty minutes. It isn’t always urgent as that’s determined by a wide range of factors, butt it’ll definitely hit in that time range if there’s no stimulants involved (and I’m real sparing with caffeine). So you aren’t alone at all :)

That one’s a keeper!

Hypothetically, any time you’d not be able to have a person do it.

Thing is, all the current models out there are built on stolen talent. So you have to decide if that matters to you.

Me? I don’t hate generative software per se. I think it does fine for the exact cases you mention.

Nah, it isn’t. Intelligence implies independence. What it is is a fancy algorithm with a big data set.

It doesn’t have to be general ai to be called ai, but so far none of the models I’m aware of have reached a standard to be called intelligence in the colloquial sense for sure