But chicken are the same species as their wild counterpart, the red jungle fowl. And there’s such a diversity of them, some may be more closely related to a wild jungle fowl than to another variety of domestic chicken. Therefore, it seems to me that what defines a chicken (as opposed to a jungle fowl) isn’t a specific genetic mutation, but the fact that it’s domesticated. And it seems to me that capturing a live jungle fowl would’ve been easier than hatching an egg you’ve harvested. The fowl that first laid an egg in captivity may thus already be considered a chicken, although it was born a red jungle fowl, hatched from a red jungle fowl’s egg; and only then it laid the first chicken’s egg.

No, France.

I’ve seen a fair amount of Chinese tourists and I don’t recall seeing them act in a way that struck me as particularly proper or improper. They’re mostly just walking around and looking at stuff. I also haven’t heard of specific complaints about their behavior. Some people complain about tourism in general, how some places get too crowded and prices increase, but it’s less about the behavior of tourists. Or when it is, it’s not the Chinese who are singled out for it.

I was terrified of the Nothing. Some people are afraid of the Gmork, but to me it paled in comparison.

More than one. I grew up in the 2000s and I had this DVD. This movie scared the shit out of me and I loved it for it.

Then me and Kyle,
We looked at each-other.
And we each said:
“OK”.

There would still be disagreements on how to program the AI. A super intelligent AI with information about everything could probably find the best way to reach any goal, but how do we define what are our goals in the first place, and how they’re prioritized? And what constraints they are on the actions of the AI state?

There’s a quote I’ve heard, I think it’s from Alexandre Grothendiek: " There’s no systematic way to go from the knowledge of what it to the knowledge of what should be", that sums it up pretty well.

I think if wizards actually existed, they would seldom bother with actual curses; which seem complicated to cast and prone to backfiring. Having shown someone a little magic, they’d be very easy to trick into thinking they’ve been cursed, and the resulting paranoia, anxiety and confirmations bias would do the job. I imagine it’d be some wizard’s favorite trick. They’d gloat about it to their colleagues and they’d laugh together in their secret wizard circles.

So a wizard would need a pretty strong incentive to cast an actual curse.

OpenAI released a generative model that emulates the famous Studio Ghibli art style; or more precisely Hayao Miyazaki’s art style. The latter had once said “I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself” when presented with a proof of concept of AI generated 3D characters, an exchange you can watch here. Now, this specific sentence refers more to the idea of using unnatural movements similar to a disability for creepy shock factor; but he also seems avert to the concept of AI art.

Depends on where you live, but try to find an organization active in your town whose ideas are somewhat in line with yours. If they’re on a social media you use or have a website with an RSS feed you can subscribe to, use that. Otherwise, try and get in their contacts (many organizations have a contact list broader than their actual member list, so you don’t have to adhere if you’re not sure to commit). Then you get notified for every action they take part in.

To find them in the first place… Keep your eyes peeled for stickers or posters in the streets; and try to find the people at a protest or event said posters advertised.

One I like is “Not a snowball’s chance in hell”

1. Stu has a cool outfit and an afro, is always dancing, doesn’t advertise.
2. Misoginy

Shiiiining juuustice me samete…

Likewise! ^ ^

I recommend you check out “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness” by Michelle Alexander.

The basic getaway from the book is this: Segregationists didn’t go anywhere, and since the time of Ronald Reagan, the ways the segregationists found to keep black people down are mostly related to the economy and law enforcement. The stereotype being attacked is now the “gang-bangers”, those from “the hood”. Not all black people… Just most of them.

From the 60s-70s, black people living in near industrial zones where they mostly worked were hit by mass unemployment due to their relocation. Rather than try to find a solution, propaganda stigmatising them was massively produced, the “war on drugs” was started to punish them for the only survival means that some found. Black people serve disproportionately long sentences, and are forever alienated when they get out, often unable to find jobs. Not only those who were imprisoned, but their families and communities suffer from this. This is not only true of drug-related crime; but sometimes things like misfiled taxes. The war on drugs was basically a pretext to over police and arbitrarily arrest black people, and dissuade them from forms of protest against their situation.

Now, compared to segregation, this is as big a net, but not such a tight one: This systems allows some black people to escape this system and get a situation equal to white people… But of you look at the bulk of the stats, many aren’t better off than during segregation.

These were at first, right-wing policies bore by the Republican Party, but Bill Clinton ended up doubling down on them instead of opposing them, because he didn’t want to appear “weak on crime”, since then there has been no opposition to it in mainstream politics.

Colorblindness helps this system, because it keeps you from naming the oppressed group, and thus from seing the oppression. It makes it easier to swallow the idea that the millions in prison are no-good gang hooligans from the mysterious land of “hood”, but that for the most part, black people are doing fine, because those who went to the same school as you or are among your coworkers are doing fine.

Wait till it learns to hate…

It’s the sassy pose…

“Bad” I can’t say, you took no risk, and thus made no mistakes, but also displayed little skills.

Using triangles for the bodies is a good idea, as triangles are a good shape, you can do anything with triangles. Have you consider increasing the amount of triangle, as such?

I dropped the round heads in the last one, because honestly, circles are an overrated shape. And you can do anything in triangles, why use anything else?

You can find any number of foolish ressources online, none of them tells you the truth about triangles. All sorts of websites and yet more websites try to teach you how to draw, without even mentioning triangles in any of their tutorials.

This is getting seriously depressing, I knew who it was before I checked the username. You posted that you were going to quit drinking after the superbowl, right? I believe the superbowl is over.

You have a serious problem, but not an unsurmountable one. Get help if you need, I think you do. You can do it!

Internet pictures with words are fucking dumb

Memers in shambles right now. Webcomic artists, to shreds. Researchers who use diagrams with legends in their publications, pulverized. Journalists, atomised.

A child draws a picture of his father and writes “I love you” for it is the man’s birthday. He posts the picture online.

YOU FOOLS!

Yells the mother, as she beats them both to death with a large brick.

In the halls of the United Nations, an envoy reads the latest finding of his commission: “I’m afraid every character of every alphabet is ultimately a drawing.”

“But that would mean…”

“Yes, I’m afraid. Every text online counts as internet picture with words. Including the meeting reports that Stephanie posts on our site.” Sound of typing stops, as Stephanie looks up, aghast The discussion resumes, the tone rises and descends again, a consensus is reached. It is a hard choice, but a fair one. All the lettered people are to be buried alive.