This is my current submission. I think it has some good implied action to it.
I was also inspired to do the setup for video output. A video is not an image, but I was impressed with the tools working at all with relatively little extra installation effort and no tweaking of settings at all. It does less well with the chocobo image, though.
Some unexpected challenges: First, gloves undo some of the progress that's been made towards AI knowing how many fingers are on a hand. Second, models which know who Tifa Lockhart is have a tendency to break the "No overt erotic imagery" rule. Also, the chocobo LoRA struggled to make the chocobo reasonably large, and basically failed to generate acceptable images of Tifa riding it.
But that's for a normal passport. Same-day issuing emergency passports at embassies is a real thing.
Airline pilots work in a field that is filled with things that could result in deaths if they forget to do it, coupled with strategies that make it very hard to forget to do those things- checklists and cross-person verification. If it doesn't occur to them to apply that same strategy to something like bringing their passport, I'm not sure if I'd trust them to do the other things either.
"More importantly, the Knicks are now 1-0 when I throw up on the court, so maybe I’ll have to break it out again in the playoffs," he hilariously added.
Yes, that is definitely hilarious. Good reporting.
The rest of it is just the classic quoting of nobodies on twitter as a stand-in for the author saying those things, trying to pretend it's objective "journalism" and reporting facts when it's really just Kelly Coffey-Behrens upset that anyone wouldn't be overjoyed to be subjected to a black man's vomit, and that Tracy Morgan is the true victim of a string of health issues which are not purely the result of him being a fat bastard and giving himself diabetes.
And it was definitely the result of food poisoning, not some form of substance abuse.
That's unfortunate. I was on it when I was younger, and I'd say there's a world of difference between not being tired, which "decreased need for sleep" implies, and still being as tired as you would expect, but being unable to sleep, which is what I experienced. I assure you I felt like I needed to sleep.
Disgusting oppressing men, if they had allowed a womyn on the team, they wouldn't have made those phallic-standin paddles, and videogames would have actually become popular.
And don't get me started on the hostile white paddles and ball colonizing the defenseless Black field background.
Global warming is the most important issue ever. Internal combustion cars are literally killing us. Your children are literally all going to literally die because of ICE cars. Literally.
...What? The company that sells more than half the electric cars in the united states is run by a kind-of republican? It should be destroyed, then.
It's been a few years since I had played it, but this is the problem in more detail:
Any mission that has a cutscene- so most or all story missions- cannot be joined unless the host and joining players have all seen any cutscenes. Every person has to see the cutscene at the beginning of the hunt, so all new players have to load the hunt, find the monster, watch the cutscene after you found it, then all but one leaves their hunt and joins him. So you presumably launched an SOS flare for your friend after any cutscenes, or on your second attempt after watching them, and your friend had already played the mission, so he had already seen it. If you had both been new, you would have both had to play the mission alone until after any cutscenes, then one would invite the other. I had thought that the joiners would additionally not get credit for completion, but it seems like that's not true, but it's still a lot of additional friction with no real justification.
Have they made co-op not retarded?
I talked my friends into playing it with World, and then found out you can't play normal co-op in the story missions, which you have to do to actually unlock 90% of the game. They expect you to play through a lengthy campaign before you can consistently play with each other. Saying "Okay, you have a 15 hour homework assignment before we can actually play together, and we'll never have the new game experience with each other" is not acceptable.
maybe it should be a requirement to post the model and prompts. Possibly LoRA as well.
separate contests for pure and retouched photos
Two categories if you want, but at least in the "pure" one, I would support letting people use whatever tools they want, as long as they say what they did, so everyone could learn what's possible and how to do it. It's an interesting field, but it is changing pretty fast and it's easy to lose track of what's out there.
Right, every response in the article can be read in at least one of the following two ways:
A: Having this pro-troon position is bad, not because it's wrong, but because it's politically damaging
or
B: Having this pro-troon position is bad, not because it's wrong, but because it hurts women (sports/prison)
So this is hardly groundbreaking "Newsom is our guy on troons" sort of thing, he's just another TERF and/or wants to be president.
It's unclear to me how much it's porn to pervert to troon, and how much it's autism to troon to porn pervert troon. Especially since autism is presumably over-represented in discord moderators.
There are definitely a lot of autistic men/boys who get convinced their social weirdness is actually because they're a cute girl inside and if they just take these drugs they'll become a socially normal kawaii girl just like in their anime. Then once they're in, the "support groups" are essentially industrialized grooming, and they end up crazy perverts. Some of the screenshots I saw a while back from one of the kiwifarms vs. crazy tranny episodes was pretty eye-opening. These people are able to operate in the open and in huge numbers to push some really extreme degeneracy- in this case it was how to make bathtub hormones, or "girl juice" as they call it- and banning that shit, and everyone who participated in it, would definitely be a great first step, possibly more effective, and definitely easier, than banning porn.
post-it note
I think it was the NSA which would do regular mandatory password changes and then occasionally throw you out of your office to do a physical search for things like passwords on post-its. But yes, people choose awful passwords all the time, I assume it's even worse when it's protecting assets that aren't even theirs. Having strict password policies in the workplace makes sense.
It would also likely be skewed to the bottom, too. Two peaks at either extreme, even.
I bet if you checked statistics on how much muscle people gained/weight people lost from exercise, it would look pretty abysmal, if you didn't filter out all the people who only exercised for a week then gave up. So I checked, and got this:
The average creator on OnlyFans earns $151 per month *This amount is calculated by combining the average amount of subscribers (21) and average subscription fee ($7.20) of your average OnlyFans creator account. Note: this figure doesn’t include tips.
What's the average number of videos released per month? I bet it's low. For this data to be a meaningful comparison to hooters, which actually requires people to show up or get fired, it would have to do something like divide by number of videos released or otherwise control for women who didn't actually try. I bet the return per hour worked is better for onlyfans even at the lower end.
Edit: Thinking about it further, this is all nonsense. You can't take the average number of subscribers and multiply it by the average subscription fee, because there's no guarantee they're equally distributed. Maybe the popular women charge more and the average sub is higher. Maybe the cheaper women attract more subscribers and the average sub is lower.
On the other hand, a brief bit of internet research suggests that, if you don't use Steam for your in-app purchases- which is not mandated- you don't have to pay them a cut, which is surely more valuable than in-game ads.
To summarize the article, "Make then under-perform by 20% and they'll stop being woke, to do that, buy 20% less of their stuff". Or a direct quote:
Proxy 20% of your army. Use Legos, other game minis, or whatever. Instead of buying new units, proxy 20% of your intended GW purchases instead. I personally use 3D resin printers, which are excellent (I have a full threads on 3D printing if you search).
Hold off on new purchases. Every quarter GW will release new exciting things that everyone will want to field on the table. I’m not saying don’t field them. Proxy them. Wait until the quarter is over before going out to buy the actual minis if you want them. That will completely throw off their quarterly projections and they will “miss rent” in our shareholder/landlord analogy.
This is pathetic. First of all, this won't make them under-perform by 20%, because not 100% of people will participate. Normies don't notice, and even in the warhammer player base, not 100% of people disagree with woke. People who do care have to make up for it by reacting strongly, not by "delaying their purchases by three months". I like playing games, and I don't buy 20% less of the woke games, I buy 100% less. These people hate you. They look at a story that features white men and they hate it because they hate white men. It's not about representation or equality, they'd have zero problem with a black woman making a story about black women ruling the universe. It's about hating white men. They will not stop when there are 25% female space marines, or even 50%. Women make up 2 out of every 3 college graduates, and they aren't stopping there. "Perfect diversity" is 0% white men. The correct amount to purchase from these assholes is nothing. Don't 3D print 20% of your stuff, 3D print 100% of your stuff, and ask your friends why they aren't. If you have such a compulsion to buy new plastic toys that you can't stop pouring money into the pockets of people who think you and your family trash because of your skin color and gender, you need to get a fucking grip on reality.
Their clerks have been writing their opinions for them for decades, and it's not even a secret.