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Psst, the artist doesn't get paid when AI companies use the IP for free to turn out slop

Well, let's replace it with whatever they're doing for the AI companies.

We think it's probably PCOS, but the death panel insurance won't pay for the test, so we're treating empirically. It improved some of her symptoms, but not that one, and I'm cool with it. I've accepted that this is our relationship.

Not if we're just giving it away to the richest people on earth to feed into a plagiarism generator, no. There's either IP law for everyone, and EVERYONE gets DMCA, or there's IP law for nobody. Nobody is above the law, including AI execs.

Well, the biggest change in our case was that she basically did not want to be touched for the whole pregnancy plus a full year afterwards. To provide some context and what I mean, she'd get annoyed with holding hands, and really frustrated with hugging. Physical contact is big for me, so that was really rough. Then, she convinced me that every pregnancy is different and that probably wouldn't happen the next time (it did). It's been over a decade, and I've basically just come to terms with the fact that sex really isn't a part of our relationship anymore. That was a really, really difficult thing to adjust to, but I did adjust to it. I eventually saw that it had to be a choice, and had to ask myself what was more important. I decided that I liked my relationship with my wife and my kids better than I liked sex. I'm not going to try and convince you that it's better; it's not, it's just different, and I'm good with that. Definitely not everyone would be, YMMV.

I don't want to frighten you, OP, I'm just telling you my lived experience. It really is different for every person, and having kids is not an easy thing, so it's going to change you. You can't say how your partner may change any more than you can know how much you'll change in five years. Only you and your partner can decide what you're both willing to put up with. If you want to stay with them, do it. If not, don't.

FTA: The user considered it was the unpaid volunteer coders’ “job” to take his AI submissions seriously. He even filed a code of conduct complaint with the project against the developers. This was not upheld. So he proclaimed the project corrupt. [GitHub; Seylaw, archive]

This is an actual comment that this user left on another project: [GitLab]

As a non-programmer, I have zero understanding of the code and the analysis and fully rely on AI and even reviewed that AI analysis with a different AI to get the best possible solution (which was not good enough in this case).

The enlightenment era revolutions were, almost unanimously, instigated and led by upper middle class fuckboys.

If you believe my kids, yes

Nothing, but only if they're quite serious about demolishing IP law. If we're going to do this, let's not half ass it for a couple of spoiled rich kids, let's go all or nothing.

Bullshit, why give them special treatment? Just dumpster the whole copyright system.

In my life, we went from corporations not being people, to corporations being people, to corporations being too big to fail, to corporations being flat out above the law.

Thanks, I'll check it out!

A friend and I just had a conversation today about how using contractors instead of CalTrans crews to build CAHSR has probably meaningfully contributed to the cost overruns. There's one instance I'm aware of where a contractor submitted a cost overruns to the authority for reimbursement on THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS of long distance calls. In 2017. Motherfucker, use Skype, email somebody, God damn. But we both know that was a scam, and thankfully, so did the inspector general.

You know, the last ten years have been a whole lot of "no way that will happen" and then that thing happens. I never ever would have believed that Luigi would have caused the kind of outpouring that he did or possibly even set a UHC bankruptcy in motion. We're sitting on a powder keg, saying it'll never go off because the sparks never caught for long before.

So, is this an announcement/plan, or is this an acknowledgement?

Idk, it's easy to get depressed about it, but I think that there's another interpretation. It shows that Gen Z recognizes how fucked everything is, and recognize the urgent need for drastic change, which is what Donald promises, even if he's a colossal piece of shit and the changes he promises are pure grift. Yeah, they've been taken in by the right, but only because the right has seized on the populist moment while the institutional left is still fretting about decorum, rank, seniority, process, and literally anything else before results. If the left gets out there and starts swinging for the fences, I think we can turn things around. So, of course, the democrats are preparing to rise to the occasion by offering Gavin Newsom and his plan to build the biggest bulldozers on earth for bulldozing the homeless.

I think this is part of why Bernie was yelling at people to run for office. We need more options, more people who are willing to turn their back on the establishment, on the left.

Brb, putting anime speed lines around Ben Affleck smoking

I had a friend who's super into this stuff (he's a furry) break it down. Intercepting rockets is fucking hard, even with computers and advanced sensing and everything we've got on our side, it's really hard. Israel's Iron Dome fails to intercept a pretty large number of rockets overall, and those are much lower altitude, lower speed rockets compared to MRBMs and LRBMs. According to Wikipedia, during the re-entry phase, ICBM warheads are clocking about SEVEN KILOMETERS PER SECOND. The fastest commercially available bullet is the .220 swift, which does a measly 1.2 km/s. So, knocking down these warheads, without considering the countermeasures that we know ICBMs use (chaff, decoy warheads, etc) is like trying to reliably hit a bullet five times faster than the fastest bullet available with another bullet. This is fucking vaporware, much like Musk's hyperloop. We could be focusing on nuclear disarmament and building and iterating on proven tech that we know works, but everything just has to be a goddamn scam.

I think Mothra would be a pretty dope patron. Most of the pact comes down to lighting lamps and fighting any reptiles you find.

Californians: "idk, he just kept asking and I kept saying, like, the beach? The coast? The seaside? Eventually he just stormed off in a huff, but, yeah, no, super weird guy. I still don't know what he wanted."

Context: as long as I've been on the west coast, I've literally never heard anyone call it the shore.