You only need it if you drive it on a public road

I still daily drive an ‘09 Ranger with a manual. I’ve had multiple people come up and ask to buy it.

Pump the brakes. You take your shirt off but leave your sunglasses on? What sort of backwards fuckin pageantry is that?

None taken. Straight cis furries do exist, I’m one of them, although we do appear to be the minority

I think it’s the other way around. Being an obnoxious, aggressive douchebag makes you more likely to drive a huge pickup truck

It depends on the design of the toilet, and how much water it dumps into the bowl at each flush. Some toilet designs have a tank with a higher capacity than the bowl, so if it gets clogged then it’ll overflow. Pro tip: know where your toilet’s shutoff valve is, it’s usually on the wall just under the tank. If it looks like the toilet is about to overflow, just turn that valve off and you can avoid the mess.

Sure, but I can fix a carburetor with a wrench and a screwdriver. Can’t do that with modern cars.

Dix neuf

Haha gottem

FULLY

AUTOMATED

Maybe a big courtroom like what Nuremberg was used for after WW2.

A man can dream.

Great story, but it descended too far into muscle-wank for my liking.

When I was a kid, my family went to go visit some extended family in rural southern France. It was going to be over Halloween, and since the French don’t celebrate it, we brought some American Halloween candy for them to try. To our surprise, they loved it, especially the Reese’s cups. We had expected them to find it gross, since they had much higher quality chocolate in Europe.

I’ve been trying to think of a way to have a nuanced discussion about art and AI, but hesitant to do so since people online can get incredibly vitriolic about it if they suspect that I’m in favor of AI. For the record I dislike AI being shoved in my face, from the uncanny-valley line art to the shovelware game apps that I keep seeing ads for.

To get to the point, I’m struggling to understand the moral difference between an AI model scraping art to use as training data, or an aspiring artist studying it to learn how to make it themselves. In both cases, the original artist has posted their work to a public website fully knowing that people will look at it. What’s the difference between an AI model vs a human learning from it? And how is it theft when the product is demonstrably different from the original?

I want to be clear that I just want to understand the logical underpinning of the arguments, and not arguing for one side or the other.

Case in point: All the 9/11 memes today

Yeah, a natural source of uranium ore wouldn’t be a great place to be around, if you don’t have the right protective equipment. Lots of potential for dust in the air, or on surfaces that you touch. The danger becomes inhalation or ingestion, bringing the radioactive material into your body.

I mean, as an alpha emitter the radiation can’t penetrate your skin. As long as you wash your hands afterwards it’s probably fine. You wouldn’t see me trying it though

Rate your mental health with the Trash Can Scale

Dude, heterosexuality isn’t some kind of disease that needs to be cured. I would take intuitive understanding of Kojima’s plots, though.

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