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arglide 4 points ago +4 / -0

They make carbon fiber "racing legs" that look more or less like that. The evidence is that they're actually more efficient at sprinting than normal calves and feet. I feel like the upper 3/4s of those pictures are different in some way, but I can't put my finger on it.

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arglide 17 points ago +17 / -0

If a woman identifies as attractive, could she get taxpayer-funded plastic surgery? Boob jobs? All they're missing is a new phrase for "Being ugly causes me irreconcilable mental anguish".

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arglide 5 points ago +5 / -0

Patrick McGoohan, the actor/writer/director from that show, did an earlier show where he played a spy, called "Danger Man". It's not officially connected and it's much less unusual, but it's still a solid spy show.

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arglide 3 points ago +3 / -0

It's about expanding the audience. A lot of the people going to twitch are there for the normal game streaming, they don't go to the internet specifically looking for thots. But when they see it, some of them get pulled in, and the simp audience gets expanded. They're mostly men (or boys, in this case, which makes the whole thing significantly more unpleasant) and they already obviously have a desire for the streaming "relationship", so they're a rich source of future thot onlyfans audience.

Getting a new audience is often easier than getting someone to change their preferred brand.

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arglide 17 points ago +17 / -0

It could mostly be condensed down to "I will not buy media that is clearly written by people who hate whites, hate men, or hate the idea that men might enjoy something."

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arglide 13 points ago +14 / -1

go forward with your retarded egalitarian viewpoint and have women be part of the draft in which case, it's still retarded but at least it's being applied fairly

A society that actually treats men and women the same would be considered inconceivably cruel to women by approximately 100% of the population.

Having women be treated like men doesn't just mean women register for the draft, because as we know from women who voluntarily join the military today, when things get scary and it looks like they might actually get shipped off to fight, a substantial percentage of them suddenly become pregnant. The rate of pregnancy for a forced draft, for women who never even wanted to join the military in the first place, would be extremely high. Having an actually equal draft means, at a minimum, eliminating an exception for pregnant women: when their number comes up, either they're forced on birth control, and the ones already pregnant are separated from their child and sent off to basic training after birth, or just forced abortions all around. I can't imagine the left or the right agreeing to either one of those under any circumstances. Imagine the photograph: A crying woman, a crying baby, being pulled apart by uniformed MPs. Basically nobody has the stomach for that. Men being dragged out of cars and separated from their family at the Ukranian border, no problem, but never a woman. There are many men who have died in foreign wars who never even saw their child, who is then raised having never met their father, but women will never be expected to do anything similar.

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arglide 33 points ago +33 / -0

As always with this sort of thing, take the content they won't allow in a remake, multiply it by two, and that's how much stuff they wouldn't allow in a wholly new game where nobody would even know what content they cut. Writers at big studios are all made to be servants of "sensitivity readers", AKA the most terminally offended left-wing faggots they can find. Good characters, good writing, and good games are being strangled in their crib by these assholes. Whatever the game design equivalent of corpoate memphis is, that's where the industry is going.

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arglide 8 points ago +8 / -0

Yuzu's patreon displays the amount they make: $28,120/month, which puts the payment at 7.1 years of patreon income at their current level. Zelda: Breath of the Wild was when awareness of Switch emulation went mainstream on March 2017, but they only started their patreon in January of 2018, so they would have missed the big spike in interest. So given that their income would have started from 0, I would guess that 2.4m is considerably more than they'd cumulatively made on patreon, but they probably cleared at least 1 million.

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arglide 9 points ago +9 / -0

I got some great food, and all it cost me was $20 per meal, 10% of my yearly income going to pay their welfare, my son stabbed, my daughter raped, my job lost to a diversity hire, my culture demonized and replaced, and society entering a gradual decline as we concentrate resources on importing the third world instead of improving the standard of living. What a deal!

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arglide 6 points ago +6 / -0

Do you not starch and iron your bras? You should be ashamed to be seen in public.

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arglide 7 points ago +7 / -0

The college I went to would send out emails when there was crime on campus when there wasn't an immediate arrest, basically "X crime reported at Y location, physical description of suspect Z". I'm sure most people here can already imagine what happened: The physical description kept including "black". So they stopped reporting race. The same happens on basically all news coverage.

In a choice between catching criminals or acknowledging that their political views are wrong, the left has been making the same choice for as long as I've been alive to notice it.

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arglide 42 points ago +43 / -1

Alternative third panels:

"What if I googled one parent households by race?"

"What if I googled reverence for education by race?"

"What if I googled drug use by race?"

"What if I googled IQ by race?"

"What if I googled criminality and reverence for criminals by race?"

"What if I googled college application rate by race?"

When it comes to "Diversity is our strength", blacks are somehow so different from whites they bring a unique point of view in every field and thought process, but when it comes to explaining the cause of different outcomes, they're exactly identical in every way.

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arglide 3 points ago +3 / -0

I'm sure it's happened way, way more than that, but nobody hears about it for the same reason why practically nobody knows about the ones you listed: being the whistleblower for it is complete professional and social suicide, and anyone who stops to think about it for a second would realize it.

James Damore got fired and called a misogynist by half the world for saying "Hey, maybe google should stop discriminating against men" in an internal email. Imagine what would happen to some guy from Equifax who says publicly "Actually, the reason this massive leak occurred is because our CTO is an unqualified diversity hire woman." Unlike Damore who could at least point to a hiring policy that was openly sexist, this theoretical whistleblower would never be able to prove that the white man who should have been hired for the job would have done better, he might not even be able to prove that that specific woman was a diversity hire even if the company has an explicitly racist and sexist hiring policy. But attempting to blow that whistle would definitely be enough to get the Damore treatment.

And worse than that, even the people close to the problem will never know when it happens most of the time. So the average college grad is... X% stupider due to DEI, and the average professional in any given field is Y% more incompetent. How would you ever assign actual values to X or Y? So when your doctor misses a diagnosis, even if he's a white man, would he have made that diagnosis if he went to the college he deserved to go to? You'll never know. You'll never even know what opportunities you missed due to being a white man in your own life.

Society is worse at every level, and we're losing advances in every field, by lowering us all to a level the stupidest black woman can operate at, and we don't even know what we're sacrificing.

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arglide 6 points ago +6 / -0

Dragon Ball Z (because lets be honest, that's where all the multi-demo appeal is) has literally done more for race relations coming together than probably every civil rights activist alive today combined.

You think civil rights activists have a net positive impact on race relations?

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arglide 3 points ago +3 / -0

It was more important for her to spend Christmas with her parents than support her fiancé because it's the first one after getting engaged? What the hell kind of logic is that?

I've been in the same room as a mother giving advice to her soon-to-be co-habitating daughter to push for her man to do whatever chores she doesn't like for the next week or two, because once he does them once, the pattern is established that it's now his responsibility forever. This is probably something similar. She doesn't want to spend time with his family, so she wants to set the pattern immediately.

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arglide 7 points ago +7 / -0

In this case he's actually probably none of those things, because this is an imposter account.

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arglide 7 points ago +7 / -0

The energy it takes to heat water is in kWh, not kW/h. If we're talking about actual desalinization through evaporation, don't forget the energy cost of the phase change, which is what takes most of the energy- just boiling ten liters of water already at 100 c takes another 6.27 kWh. So with the .937 you mentioned for heating from 20c to 100c, 7.21 kWh overall. Or in cubic meters of water, 721 kWh/m^3.

But actual desalinization plants recapture almost all of that energy to heat the incoming water, so the effective energy used is far less than that. According to this it's around 10–16 kWh/m^3 for multi-stage flash distillation, which is the efficient form of the evaporation process we're talking about here. But reverse osmosis is even less, at 3-4.

Description of multi-stage flash distillation from that link pasted below, because I found it interesting:

Saline water blended with recycled brine, preheated within the middle stages, is brought to working temperature (usually between 90–110 °C) with steam, in the Heat Input Section. At this point, it is transferred to the first stage, which is kept at a lower pressure than the heated saline water equilibrium pressure. Consequently, the saline water becomes partially vaporized. Steam generation removes energy from the mass of saline water, therefore cooling it to a certain extent. Furthermore, steam extraction results in higher salinity and higher boiling point in the case of the remaining saline water. The steam is transmitted to demisters, where transported droplets are eliminated, then it flows into a heat exchanger at the top of the stage. Consequently, the heat of the steam is passed over to the incoming saline water, whereby the steam cools down and condenses. By this process, the heat can be recovered with high efficiency.

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arglide 12 points ago +12 / -0

Yeah, artists and the art they make are irreplaceable and unique. They bring so much effortless creativity to everything they touch. A true artist would never steer you wrong. Truly a source for beauty in this world.

Beyond the myriad ethical failures of Generative AI software

AI lets you generate pictures of attractive women and 'learns' from other artists, unlike me who personally invented the concept of art and have never been to a museum, and would report anyone who told me to make a woman attractive for wrongthink. Ban AI now! Anything that deprives artists of income is unethical! Oh, a factory near me just shut down? LOL, better learn how to code, blue collar scum.

Never idly wondered what the unlikely offspring of an echidna mated with an ostrich would look like.

I give you an entire ostrich crossed with an echidna album. Done in about five minutes, for free.

Generative AI software: Never ate a bad meal. Never lost a loved one. Never felt its stomach lurch on the swing set. Never felt embarrassed by a social gaffe. Never held a child. Never held an unpopular opinion. Never laughed at an inappropriate joke. Never acted upon a misunderstanding that resulted in a damaged relationship. Never had a good day. Never had a bad day.

Point to what on that picture you couldn't have drawn if you hadn't been on a swing set. Shit like this is why people want to replace artists.

Here's the overwhelming difference--- when an art director talks to me, they have an idea of what they want and what they would like me to do-- but they also want my unique creative input and voice. They count upon it. They can communicate with me via our shared human experience and language. I can successfully infer countless instructions from the briefest of exchanges. Even the most vague vapor of a thought can be built upon and given substance for meaningful discussion.

AI does what you ask it to and artists do what they think you should have asked for, and that's why artists are better?

It doesn't. 1's and 0's don't understand you any better than you understand them.

Maybe not, but AI also doesn't think looking at attractive white women is unethical.

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arglide 8 points ago +8 / -0

Trusting reviews of "It gets better after X" is always pretty risky. If something is consistently bad, the reviews will still get consistently better, because people who didn't like it are a lot less likely to keep on trying. So is it really better in season 3, or did all the people who would say otherwise stop watching after season 1 and 2?

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arglide 10 points ago +10 / -0

A lot of them would say what amounts to "Because I don't trust republicans to teach their children right", revealing two things: First, that they don't think republicans should be allowed to raise their own children the way they want, and second, that deep down, they know the left has such an iron grip over education in this country that there's no real chance of the right using that same authority to control how their kids are raised, despite how many of them have convinced themselves they're "fighting the man" and that conservatives are "the establishment".

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arglide 2 points ago +2 / -0

I'm using a 3090, but that is definitely not a requirement. Other system specs don't matter much.

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arglide 2 points ago +2 / -0

Stable diffusion with JuggernautXL.

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arglide 6 points ago +6 / -0

Not OP, but I agree with what you said, so I did it. A single img2img to clean up the whole thing in general but keeping the anime style since I assume that was intentional. Then some iteration on the hands and one on the hat to make it less ridiculous.

Then did a second img2img to make a photorealistic version.

Some notes of my own for OP: I don't know what you're using to generate, but your results don't seem great. Here are my first ten, totally unmodified results for "blonde steampunk girl at beach in bikini, anime style", and here are my first ten for the same thing, but "photorealistic". Get a model that looks good at https://civitai.com/ and read some of the prompts people use there. Also, AI still gets hands wrong a lot of the time. Especially if they're holding something like a gun. But it can be pretty good at faces and figures.

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