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I hope she will have many more happy years in her! ❤️

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Yeah, I’d say you pretty much got it! :D

This is a really good comment. Personally I hope it bursts soon, because I find it stressful and tense to live in the middle of this artificial hype train (among other things), but I also hold no delusions that AI will go away.

In the end, I just look forward to the day when everybody is aware of and understands what AI is and what it ISN’T. Because right now it’s just a bunch of confusion and hype and people are implementing this tool without having any idea what it actually is, which can lead to problems.

When we all have demystified this new tool and understand what it can and can’t do and what it should and shouldn’t be used for, I will be a very happy lady. Because fuck man, it is so tiring.

There’s also the conflict of intellectual property and how this subject will manifest in the future. And when I say intellectual property I am not taking about all the thousands of people whose intellectual property has been used to train AI without consent. I am talking about AI companies and how they will most likely Crack down hard on any company that has used their product and earned money with it. One of my colleague said that he believes that there will be a lot of lawsuits against companies that have used AI to create a profitable product and that AI companies will claim these products as theirs because their tool created them, therefore any profit made will belong to the AI company.

Most likely, companies will have to pay expensive licenses and/or subscriptions to have access to these tools for commercial use.

And that is one of the reasons why I do not use AI for anything at all.

It all depends on intent. A good faith reply could be identical to a bad faith reply, but the motivations are different. For example a reply to OP’s post could be something along the lines of accusing him of being a pro AI tech bro who is in denial about the bubble bursting someday. The good faith person would have misunderstood the intent of the OP and come to a wrong conclusion which they would admit fault to during a correction. A bad faith actor would most likely understand what the OP means, but would deliberately make the worst interpretation of what OP said and when corrected, he or she would double down to make the OP look as bad as possible.

So it is not so much whether the reply is friendly or not, it is about the intent behind it and how willing or unwilling the other party is to have an honest conversation about the topic at hand.

You horrid beast.

You’re also wrong, because most old movies begin with the credits, nah nah.

The only time I spoil a movie on purpose is when I hate it so much I want to make sure no one gets tricked into watching it.

I would love to spoil Gods of Egypt for that very reason. No one deserves to sit through that pile of non-movie. Problem is that I have no memory of the plot, so it is impossible to spoil. You could probably convince me that anything happened in that film and I would believe you. All I know is that it was so anti-immersive, that I ended up becoming painfully aware of the fact that my friend and I were sitting in her apartment, in front of a black box that makes color and noise for two ours. It is that bad.

Btw, 12 Angry Men is a great movie. I think I had it spoiled for me back in the day, but I still thoroughly enjoyed the movie, because it’s not so much about the conclusion, it’s the journey through their conversations and arguments that makes the movie so appealing. In fact, I think that most people watching that film will know exactly where it ends up and roughly how it gets there, but the execution is still so fucking good that it doesn’t even matter.

Btw, if you’re still in the mood for oooooold movies that are great, I would highly recommend Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) which is a silent film about an unfaithful man who decides to kill his loving wife in order to be with his mistress. What happens after that is, in my opinion, one of the best silent films ever made. Fantastic acting, emotional music and beautiful visuals. You forget that you’re watching a silent film where no one is saying a word. You forget that it is in black and white. You forget that you have seen a hundred years og technical improvement in film. You are reminded that actual skill and quality is timeless. It made me cry the first time I saw it. It just fucking wrecked me in a way I didn’t expect and it is legit on my favourite movies of all time. It’s old enough that you can watch it on youtube or some other video hosting site without issue. If there is any achievement in this world that I would be proud of, it’s to know that I helped someone find this move.

Haha, I love it xD

Toothless was designed by Chris Sanders who made Lilo and Stitch. He more or less reused Stitch’s design and mixed it with big cat proportions when he did toothless. It’s kinda funny/cool once you realize the Stitch influence. Even some of toothless’ behavior is lifted from Stitch.

This feels like solving an impossible puzzle only to fall right back into existential despair when you start thinking about it, because an egg is also not just an egg in the same way that not all egg layers are chickens. So if we can remove the chicken from the equation we also have to remove the chicken egg. Else we are cheating. And then we are right back where we started and the chicken and egg question still stands undefeated.

Should probably check out some of my local ones and see what they have. Thanks for your comment! 🤗

In the end, green energy will win. It’s already happening even though, right now, the black energy lovers are doing everything to pull the brakes on green energy. They will not be able to hold on to their power forever and many countries are already investing heavily in green energy. It’s only a matter of time.

For me: the internet. The internet has done what my country has done and that’s centralization. Collecting everybody in a few big cities and subsequently killed small villages, towns and communities. Ironically, in the case of my government, it was done to save money and in the case of the internet, it was done to make money.

I also enjoyed my time during the years I was taking my degree. The friendships and fun hangouts, the way we helped one another and accepted one another and learned tolerance and humility. I remember that I actively participated in as many things as possible while I was studying, because I wanted as few regrets as possible when I graduated and the next phase of life started. I’m so happy I had the pressence of mind to think of that and take advantage of my time with these people while I still had the chance, because this current phase of life is a lot more slow paced and there isn’t much in terms of socializing because everyone is working and are making babies these years. I don’t mind that those years ended and that we are here now. It was good while it lasted, but I do think that if it had lasted any longer than it did, it would probably have gone stale at some point. We ended on a high note.

Oh, and since last year, my spouse and I have been returning to physical media and have started buying and borrowing DVDs and Blurays again. Recently we watched a 2004 movie that has a scene in a DVD store and I just blurted out to my boyfriend that I miss going to one of those stores and browsing DVDs. Especially Blockbuster-type stores where you’d rent the DVD because they always had a bin with discarded films you could buy for super cheap. These days most of our DVD purchases take place online and it’s so boring. I miss going to a physical store with atmosphere and find some random movie I hadn’t seen before and it was almost free, it was that cheap. Axel Music and Moby Disc were my favourite stores and I totally took that experience for granted because silly me thought that stores like that would always be around. The closest I get to reliving this experience is when we go to the library to borrow movies. The DVD section is shoved away in a sad little corner in my library so it’s not really the same, but it’s still better than nothing at all. I don’t know what I’ll do if physical media is forcefully phased out after the boomer generation passes away. Dx

On the other hand, LPs have made a comeback so maybe there is hope yet.

Honestly… valid. I love Urusawa. Monster and Pluto are both amazing shows. The only reason I even bothered with Pluto was because it was made by him.

I’ll eat my words. There’s at least one person in anime who still makes good shit and actually tries.

Ah, thanks for the clarification. So it was only half a hallucination I had there, lol.

The joke could also be on the wife depending on the perspective. Kinda in the Mrs Hyacinth kind of way. We don’t laugh at Richard for being oppressed and abused by his wife. We laugh at her for being such an insufferable dummy. That’s the type of joke I got out of this birthday picture. A Mrs Hyacinth joke.

Honestly, I don’t think it is that deep. I think you’re hurting, which is valid, but you’re projecting your own hurt onto one photo and judging an entire relationship based off of one joke-pic. If we knew more about their relationship dynamic and what they are like as people, we may be better equipped to judge whether or not this joke is made by two people who thinks it’s funny or made by one party to humiliate the other. We literally don’t know.

Female cats are like that. When I met my boyfriend I had two female cats and the first time he stayed over at my place, they were the two biggest harlots, basically pissing all over girl code and hanging on him like he was a tall glass of water in a desert. Even meowing loudly whenever he went to the bathroom. Zero loyalty.

And then a few years ago my in-laws got a female cat and she is all over my father in law like he’s made of sunshine. :b

Am I misremembering or did they cancel that category after her performance? I have a vague memory that breakdancing had only recently been accepted as a discipline and then she did that and they decided to remove the discipline again…? Might have been a fever hallucination after I saw her performance. Wishful thinking, probably.

Lord have mercy xD