Hey guys we made a neat new Bluetooth tracker! We’re innovators!
“Ice cream van music, but it starts playing after you’ve found a dead body” type vibes lol
On a serious note - neat concept, maybe pick an interesting hook from a bunch of books to encourage kids to read them
On an unserious note - Paper. They taste like paper. Old paper.
There’s technically enough food for nobody to starve, so nobody can be starving!
The exact same way it works in the rest of the world right now, right?
…right??
You know I was all down to be like “stay and see how it turns out”
But yeah now I see mushroom dude with a fckin bowie knife I’m like nope
I think the “Congratulations, homosexual!” aperture science meme sums it up pretty well.
It was when I was holding leftmost lane position passing a semi and it beeped and tried to steer me into said semi that I decided it can fuck off for ever lol
Funny how giant corporations known for sucking the life out of their employees are terrified of unionization.
Yeah, but he was who signed it so they give him credit it seems
Of course, he delivered the activist Supreme Court that they always dreamed of.
Holy crap what a good point. Exclusion of those who are ‘straight’ but closeted could cause so much harm.
Idk fwiw I’m pretty queer and I disagree with OP. As long as you’re an ally and respect the space and accept that you might get hit on by dudes or approached on the dance floor, go.
Yeah… I’m pretty freaking queer and straight people being in gay bars doesn’t bother me at all. If you have issues that make it scary to be around straight folks that’s your problem, and you need to deal with it yourself instead of trying to be exclusionary.
You’ve apparently decided that every straight person will inherently ruin the queerness and safety of the space just by existing in it, even if they’re totally supportive. I disagree and will not be excluding my allies, thank you very much.
The nice thing about explicitly gay bars is that if I see a cute guy, it’s ok for me to go offer to buy them a drink and if they say something hateful, I can go find an employee and tell them someone unwelcome is in our space.
My straight friends are a part of my support network and if I want to bring them to a gay bar, I’m going to. Your issues are your own, go talk to a therapist.
There will always be ignorant idiots who come to gay spaces and behave badly. If you want to keep them safe, be part of the overall system that makes those types of people feel unwelcome.
There is work to be done to defend our explicitly gay spaces, but it’s in the trenches, excluding those who deserve it and welcoming our allies with open arms.
Very funny that all of the climate denier right wing dipshits moved to one of the first states that will see major economic damage from climate change they insist isn’t real
With the sheer amount of money that the rich are throwing at OpenAI via investment firms, they don’t need nor want to charge imo. The fact that they’re being built into Apple’s ecosystem and are getting name-dropped to people inside of iOS is kinda what their investors want.
It’s the age old “walmart opens and operates at a loss for 2 years to force others out of business, then jacks the price” model.
Investors want them to cement this as The AI company & brand so that once it gets giant and starts to be profitable just by being the biggest gorilla in the room, the shares they bought are worth more.
So what I’m trying to say is that our version of capitalism is perfect and makes lots of sense and is in no way insane and degenerate.
Dude this most recent tech bro scramble is ridiculous. Google and Apple are fully aware and accepting the fact that their stupid LLMs are built for verisimilitude, not accuracy, yet they’re shoehorning it into everything and just accepting that it’ll fuck with their users…
Well that makes sense, seeing as there’s absolutely no other way to tell if someone might be interested other than touching them in private areas and seeing if they like it or not…
Christ on a bike, what the fuck.
Under US copyright law, only works created by humans can be copyrighted. Courts have (imho rightly) denied copyrights to AI-generated images.
My question is when do you think AI image tools cross from the realm of a “tool” (that, for example generates and fills in a background so an item can be removed from a photo) into the realm of “a human didn’t make this”?
What if an artist trains an AI so specialized it only makes their style of art? At what point do you think the images they create with it begin to count as their “work product”?
No fluffy shork photo I’m afraid but I wanted to share a nice story.
I’ve been dating an mtf girl for about 6 months now. She’s been on hrt for about 3yr but is still very socially anxious. We’ve been going out grocery shopping and whatnot to get her a bit more exposure to being in public presenting as fem - with me there to anchor and help in case she gets overwhelmed.
Recently, we went to Ikea together to look at kitchen shelves cuz my kitchen is a disaster. She was forgetting her anxiety a bit and we were having a nice light conversation winding our way to the exit and I jokingly asked “do you want a shark?” as we walked by the crate of them.
She asked me if I knew, I said I did. She turned the cutest freaking shade of red I’ve seen and said she didn’t think she could ever buy one without an anxiety attack and stumbled over her words a bit. Cute as fuck. 🫠
I knew what had to be done.
Next day I went back and went straight to the bin and bought literally just a shark. I’m super cis and masc but the self checkout cashier definitely clocked that I wasn’t buying no shark for no kid or nothing. Got a smirk on the way out. 🤣🤣
Decided that instead of just giving it to her I had to surprise her somehow.
She’s living in someone’s basement right now month to month and my roommate is leaving, so we’ve been considering moving in together - it would be nice to take turns cooking and be closer together but still have our own space to retreat to if we want. We’re both super introverted.
I decided to hide it in the closet of the vacant room and wait.
Two days later, she comes over and we’re watching random shows and cook a nice dinner, just hanging out doing our own thing after eating. I’m absorbed in assembling the shelves I bought instead of the ikea ones (sry ikea your shelves cost too much) and she’s on her phone on the sofa. She says she’s going to check where she might wanna put her furniture and I had to try super hard to be cool and be like “sure hon” without letting my giddiness creep in.
I stood up slowly and crept to the hall until I heard the gasp and went in and gave her a giant hug. Many good tears on both sides. She says she never imagined someone giving her a stuffed animal could make her cry, glad it did.
She and her new shork are moving in later this month and I’m super excited. 😊🦈💜