Bet you read that in a textbook

I was in my university’s Society of Physics Students, and some of the members got to have dinner with NDT after a talk he gave at the school. Reports confirm he is a self-centered, arrogant douchebag

I use it for generating illustrations and NPCs for my TTRPG campaign, at which it excels. I’m not going to pay out the nose for an image that will be referenced for an hour or two.

I also use it for first drafts (resume, emails, stuff like that) as well as brainstorming and basic Google tier questions. Great jumping off point.

An iterative approach works best for me, refining results until they match what I’m looking for, then manually refining further until I’m happy with the results.

As always

I’d wager Grandma is symbolic of the generation to which most of those barons, mongers, and billionaires belong.

If you can find a product you actually believe in, sales can be pretty nice

Could an average rowboat support her without capsizing?

This is where I think capitalism might actually work by virtue of its own perversions. As the conscientious progressives abandon him, he’s going to have to shill even harder to conservatives to try to tap into that market. If some asshole can get MAGAs to buy into renewables, I’m just going to sit back and let it happen.

If we’re being technical, it resulted more directly from mercantilism than feudalism.

Capitalism is explicitly designed for people to benefit themselves at the expense of others. Capital begets more capital in a positive feedback loop that results in massively powerful billionaires.

If you elect representatives, those representatives are checked somewhat by the threat of being voted out. Capitalism has no such check. Sure, ostensibly people can choose not to buy a product, but unregulated capitalism selects for monopolies.

Having this pop up in the middle of a dozen goofy 5 minute skits with guys in Garfield and Odie costumes was an unexpected surprise, but a welcome one.

Slide your cuffs up to your palms and hold them in your hands while you put on your sweater

I think the obvious answer is “Yes, some, but not all”.

It’s not going to totally replace human software developers anytime soon, but it certainly has the potential to increase productivity of senior developers and reduce demand for junior developers.

Also, Israel is much much less reliant on the US for aid than in times past, and I think there’s a fear that if we stop supplying them, somebody else will and then we’ll have absolutely no influence over anything they do.

It seems like the prevailing narrative tries as hard as it can to bury this fact. Unilaterally withdrawing aid doesn’t magically make Israel stop what they’re doing, they can easily get support elsewhere. All unilaterally withdrawing does is throw away our only real bargaining chip to try and nudge them toward ceasefire.

Brendon! Brendon come here for a sec.

Yeah coach?

Brendon I have something to tell you. It’s something important. Never fall in love Brendon. It’s not worth it, you don’t have what it takes.

Uh huh

Love is an alpha male’s game Brendon. Do you know what an alpha male is?

Uh, yeah I think s…

An alpha male is the strongest man in a tribe, Brendon. They did this study with wolves, turns out the alphas get all the ladies. Chicks really eat that stuff up. You’re what’s called a beta, Brendon. You’ve just got no chance, you’re better off not even trying.

Uh, are you an alpha male, coach?

I’m a sigma male Brendon. Sigma, there’s a difference. Means I’m a lone wolf, I don’t follow the rules Brendon. The ladies can’t handle that, it intimidates them. If you think about it that’s even more alpha than the alpha males. I read it online.

Uh huh. Where’d you read that coach?

The Internet Brendon, the information superhighway. Lot of information on there. A lot of information some people, betas, aren’t ready to hear Brendon. It’s sorta subversive, off the beaten path. The kind of information they don’t want people to know.

Who’s"they"?

Brendon why don’t you worry about getting out there and actually kicking the ball. And don’t fall in love, that’s important.

I mean, kinda? Tooth decay got way worse when we started relying on sugar-rich grain for most of our calories after we developed agriculture.

Neither, they’re perpendicular axes. It’s just that every greentext is on the top right quadrant

And what is your alternative? That a majority of Americans spontaneously organize and rise up outside of the purview of elections? That they spontaneously organize and vote third party?

“Useful idiots”, look in the mirror champ. There are plenty of good times to levy well-deserved criticisms at the not-literally-fascists party. Months before a close election between them and the literally-fascists party is not one of them. It’s probably the worst time in fact, and only serves, whatever your moral reasoning is, to increase the probability of a literally-fascists party win. You’ve unwittingly volunteered as a stooge in the troll army helping the right. Congrats, you played yourself.

You’re strawmanning ultimatums that no one’s saying. All we’re saying is that, functionally, high turnout for Democrats is the best outcome leftists get from the election. Republicans are worse for leftists than Democrats, across the board, full stop. Republicans are worse for the genocide you’re talking about, full stop.

Muddying the water about the failings of democratic leadership are entirely counterproductive in securing an administration that’s better for the left than the alternative. Big tenting with the neo-libs is how things haven’t gotten more awful than they are.

One of the two is going to win in November and dictate future foreign policy. There are two outcomes, that’s literally an actual dichotomy. Your actions regarding the election (personal voting strategy as well as comments that sway the personal voting strategies of others) ultimately support one of those two outcomes. If you get enough people to abstain in protest against Democratic foreign policy, you are increasing the probability of getting Republican foreign policy.

They’re not really lying, it’s more like those medieval drawings of exotic animals the artist had clearly never seen before, based purely on rumors and secondhand descriptions.