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  • I interpret it as the "average man" phenomenon. If you take all of the "average" measure for a man in all aspects, you'll find that what you get barely resembles human. To me, that's the same effect the OP is getting at. Someone falling into the "normal" range on absolutely every single metric would be kinda weird, and probably its own abnormality.

  • Am I missing something? Aren't the people asking the man if he's giving mom a break the ones perpetuating the "moms are expected to raise children" stereotype? The guy in this scenario is simply doing father things, it's the assumptive person asking the question that's hanging onto old beliefs.

    I'm all for fathers being fathers, and I think anyone who bothers to take their kid to the park on off times is probably in the same boat. It comes across as more than a bit condescending to have some random person imply that this activity isn't one that's normal for your family.

  • Just a phone case with a retractable tether would work fine. Put it in your pocket. Tether is out of the way, completely invisible. Pull it out, tether extends enough to use it, and reteacs when you're done. With a clip or strap, you can attach it to just about any outfit easily enough.

    Realistically, if you have to have a phone somewhere like this where pickpocketing is likely, id suggest either a cheap phone you can lose, or keeping your phone in your hand/a hand on it in your pocket.

  • You realize the entire political system is a game right? And it's rigged? Realistically the Republican party has a 0% chance to get elected ever, if we just go based on popular vote. The average citizen has roughly 0 influence on the election, with how heavily gerrymandered districts are, with how heavily certain areas are "encouraged" not to vote...

    The people in Texas don't want you to be in a heat wave either, in general. Only the mega rich who have no skin in this game, who can fly out to whatever tropical paradise has the best climate this time of year. And the ones who say they DO want that are, 9 times out of 10, just parroting whatever their favorite billionaire wants them to.

    I support anger, I support aggression. Make our voices heard, but aim it at the right people. Fighting internally is what they want us to do.

  • Well that's pretty misanthropic. Maybe don't take your frustrations out on the average citizen that probably has nothing real to do with this, and who are the only people who will suffer from the climate issues. Cruz sure won't.

  • Which doesn't work if the air is already saturated. Water cools by evaporating. If the air can't hold any more water, it can't evaporate and cool. I mean, external cold water I suppose, but if you have actively cooled water, we're probably not in a heat crisis situation.

  • Awful aggro to someone just pointing out a simple fact. They never said we don't need to address large vehicles, or even that they shouldn't be the first thing addressed. They're simply pointing out that these aren't a perfect golden bullet to the issues that plague cities, and we need to be aware of the downsides to any potential solution, and be willing and able to make the changes necessary to then fix THOSE issues. I don't expect nuance, though, everything is a dichotomy online.

  • Why is that? The whole point of generative AI is that it can combine concepts.

    You train it on the concept of a chair using only red chairs. You train it on the color red, and the color blue. With this info and some repetition, you can have it output a blue chair.

    The same applies to any other concepts. Larger, smaller, older, younger. Man, boy, woman, girl, clothed, nude, etc. You can train them each individually, gradually, and generate things that then combine these concepts.

    Obviously this is harder than just using training data of what you want. It's slower, it takes more effort, and results are inconsistent, but they are results. And then, you curate the most viable of the images created this way to train a new and refined model.

  • The issue is that they're taking a tool with actual legitimate use cases, particularly maintenance and repair uses, and turning it into something to just push their own service. It'd be like a doctor saying you can only be healthy if you use his brand of fuckin... Vitamins or some shit,I don't know. It's got nothing to do with Microsoft, it's not automatically the worst thing in existence, it's just that Microsoft CONSISTENTLY does this kind of garbage, and it's one of those things that isn't overtly even a bad thing, you just have to look a bit.

    So in short, I agree it is(was?) a useful tool, I don't agree that everyone is rabidly anti-microsoft, any more than anyone's rabidly anti-get-punched-in-the-taint.