Cold fucking War

Czar of Russia

The Czar wasn’t around during the Cold War for … reasons.

My guess is the CTO of Chat GPT: Mira Murati. based on a mix of how she’s appeared in interviews, including this one with the WSJ.

Any work made to convey a concept and/or emotion can be art. I’d throw in “intent”, having “deeper meaning”, and the context of its creation to distinguish between an accounting spreadsheet and art.

The problem with AI “art” is it’s produced by something that isn’t sentient and is incapable of original thought. AI doesn’t understand intent, context, emotion, or even the most basic concepts behind the prompt or the end result. Its “art” is merely a mashup of ideas stolen from countless works of actual, original art run through an esoteric logic network.

AI can serve as a tool to create art of course, but the further removed from the process a human is the less the end result can truly be considered “art”.

Late teens, maybe early 20s.

How close am I?

We still kind of owe you for everything you guys did in the revolutionary war.

Tell you what: when the time comes to fight the fascists again we’ll send your resistance movement munitions if you send us dope “uniforms” for ours.

Various other things like leaves, rags, sponges, or leftover paper. Failing that a bare hand works: manners dictating you wash it after.

Some cultural hangups on the left hand being “unclean” stem from those cultures using that hand for hygienic reasons.

“Quantum immortality” is magical thinking for people that aren’t comfortable with their own mortality. It’s functionally no different than belief in an afterlife.

Bigots aside, I’m convinced most people are 100% fine with queer and gender non-conforming characters so long as they’re well written.

People like characters that act like actual people – not pandering, one dimensional, rainbow capitalistic tokens.

Appear strong where you are weak.

The value isn’t it’s (likely crap) utility, it’s being able to say “Look at us: we’re launching spy satellites just like technologically advanced countries! We’re advancing our offensive capabilities! You’d better take us seriously!”

One: you can be sued for anything regardless of if it’s true or not. Someone could find some sleazebag lawyer and sue you for drowning hundreds of puppies while laughing about it – does that make you a puppy killer?

Two: We have presidents that we know directly ordered genocides of native people … yet weren’t sued for it.

Even better is finding someone to cook with and make 30 portions instead. It goes faster, is more fun, and when you’re making that much food doubling the amount doesn’t appreciably increase the work.

It took me years of living on my own to learn my parents were doing it wrong:

The dishwasher doesn’t need to be full to run it. You can chuck everything in after a meal and start it immediately.

Detergent and water are cheap, and even if it’s only a few dishes the machine uses less water than doing them by hand. Also, use liquid or powder detergent and make sure to fill the pre-wash detergent holder – detergent pods are a rip off.

Yeah … good luck with that considering how entrenched AT&T is is.

For example after 9/11 it was decided the country needed an interoperable public safety broadband network: The First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet).

I’ll give you one guess as to which carrier got the contract to build and operate it.

You’re not wrong. Most “leftists” in stable, comfortable countries are notoriously useless at effecting actual change. You can get them to show up to a “feel good” protest, you can get them to sign petitions – but that’s about it. Between the infighting, disorganization, defeatism, complete lack of pragmatism, and just plain laziness they’re about as ineffective as can be.

It’s frustrating as fuck, especially if you’re that sort that’s willing to put in actual work for the cause.

Then add a layer of air a few feet wide between the armor and the crew compartment, duh.

They almost certainly have in house legal teams and those lawyers are salaried.

Your “devil’s advocate” is a moron that can safely be told to fuck off. “Cis white males” aren’t losing shit – it’s the same damn program it’s always been except it’s open to all kids now … and hopefully has far fewer kids getting molested by the adult leaders

cis white male

I would love to hear your “devil’s advocate” explain how are the white kids are being hurt by this change.

Not really, unless the house was built incredibly cheaply with thin studs and crappy drywall.

Wood is pretty decent at blocking sound – it the voids between the studs that’s an issue. Filling them with sound deadening insulation solves that problem.

It’s not as good at blocking sound as a masonry wall obviously, but it’s “good enough” at a fraction of the price.

My toolbag calipers are cheap hardware store ones. They’re accurate enough and I’m not out much when they inevitably get damaged or lost.