In the 70s and 80s, there was trope in TV mostly if someone died in a car somehow at distance after a chase or gun battle, the horn would blare to indicate the person’s head fell on it similar to the ending of Chinatown. It disappeared after comedians started making jokes about it around 1986. If you saw those jokes today, they’d make no sense.
I had a similar problem in the late 90s except I was in my late 20s and a friend of mine got me into web developing. It took me a couple of weeks to realize I didn’t need to spend 30 minutes uploading my work via ftp over a 56K line to see the website. I could have just opened it up with a browser on my own computer. I wasted a lot of time.
For me, it’s when it’s convenient. Opera has a VPN built in, so why not? I’m not so much worried about the government. I’m more worried about website owners.
The first couple of years MTV was more like “New Wave Rock Music” Television. So there really wouldn’t be rap, R&B, heavy metal, country, soft rock, jazz etc. It tended to be more artsy.
I prefer Krita. It’s easier to migrate from PS since they have similar GUI. Gimp is a pain to work with.
Also, it has autosave, I disable autosave, but you would like it.
I never understood the appeal of Discord or chat in general. Going all the way back to ICQ, I found it distracting. I’m guessing most people using it multitask, but I don’t so I always just sat there staring at the program waiting for a reply.
People who live in the suburbs live in very quiet environments. I live next to a busy street and personally I would like to see the inventor of the subwoofer eliminated.
I don’t have as much faith in AI. The manpower cost to have the team keep feeding prompts till it came out with something useful and then the energy bill to generate all the duds probably cost 100x more than it would have to hire writers, actors, editors, a director, and a crew to build sets.
Looks like the skeleton is called La mort Saint-Innocent.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:La_mort_Saint-Innocent_Louvre_R.F.2625.jpg
“The Death of Saint Innocent”, alabaster statue present in the cemetery of the Innocents from 1530 to 1786. Artist unknown.
And the woman is Jeanne of Bourbon, Duchess of Bourbon.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_of_Bourbon,_Duchess_of_Bourbon
“For the duchess tomb; a magnificent effigy tomb was commissioned with the effigy wearing a crown on her head and her feet resting on a lion, of which now only a stone sculpture of the cadaver monument type (now housed at the Louvre) remains.”
It’s normal in the US too. I’m on Medicaid and have a dentist and a podiatrist.
I’ve been using Libre Office Writer for at least 10 years. When I hear people complain about Word, I always think “You’re still using Word?”
Between all of the AI hype and the AI panic, my biggest concern is that the laws will be so poorly written that simple algorithms like A* will end up illegal and AI in general will be outlawed. We’ll have a Butlerian Jihad because a bunch of daffy CEOs simply said their machines will replace humans when they can’t. Our children will be forced to drink sapho juice and eat spice so they can work in a server farm made of humans.
Dating tip: If they like you, you can do no wrong. If they don’t like you, you can do no right.
Holy shit! I’m sorry, but you guys sound like the worst employees in the world. Drug deals in the parking lot? Coming to work whacked out on LSD? Wow.
If Europe imposes journalism standards on social media, it is that much harder to spin crap.
The Fediverse is social media. What kind of journalism standards would be imposed upon it?
First, how does a 70 year old man in a wheelchair who has been unable to move for half a century participate in an orgy? Second, having ALS, wouldn’t he have lost interest in sex during the Nixon administration? I’m thinking the demand for pedophiles might be outstripping supply.
My guess would be evolution. Those horses that let us ride them were fed well and cared for by humans and then mated with similar horses to make more and more of the same. Those that didn’t let us ride them had to fight for their own food and fight for their own mates and didn’t multiply as much. So we essentially happened upon a couple of horses that enjoyed hauling us around, told them to kiss each other, and we got more. Repeat and rinse for tens of thousands of year.
One of the authors, Prof Ashley Gearhardt of the University of Michigan, a clinical psychologist specialising in addiction, said her patients made the same links: “They would say, ‘I feel addicted to this stuff, I crave it – I used to smoke cigarettes [and] now I have the same habit but it’s with soda and doughnuts. I know it’s killing me; I want to quit, but I can’t.’”
Sometimes I wish there was a devastating famine, and 100 of millions of us would starve to death so we’d have to start using the old definition of “kill” again, and appreciate the futuristic utopian we once had. We need to stop scrutinizing the actuary tables for hidden horrors, look up, look around, eat a cheeseburger, have an after meal cigarette and relish the wonderous paradise in which we all live.
I urge you to talk to a lawyer before you try this stunt.
I’m imagining this comment as an I Think You Should Leave sketch. A bunch of people are on a tour in a museum and Tim Robinson starts going off on more and more unhinged rants about every art work the tour guide presents.