foxontherocks [undecided, undecided]

Human artists often make decisions based on reasons and if you ask "What's going on over here?" and can anticipate an answer to that question, like "Some teacher or video told them that is how light works" or "They thought it looked cool", that is probably a human. Human artists also struggle to create their art and AI doesn't. It isn't uncommon to find areas that it seems the artist spent way more time and energy on. Human artists use tools to create images while AI creates the images directly. If you look closely at real art you can often find brushstrokes or light and shadow work that are characteristic to some 3d modeling tools. In general, I feel like AI does really bad with lighting.

Fun little test for you

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/ai-art-turing-test

It isn't Balatro. Why did he think he could win.

I think the raven's bigger problem is that they are just too weak. Humans aren't very strong by animal standards but we are strong enough to break wood and rocks. How would a raven ever get past the stone age. You'd need an entire flock of ravens with stone axes to fell a tree.

His politics were awful but what if he changed. People can change. He read the Lorax.

I mean, yes, Youdao, but I am not sure how well a Chinese translation app would would for you.

The escalators in some stations are way too long. Being on the escalator for more than 5 minutes is scary. These ones are always very steep too. Feels like I am being escalatored down to hell.

i don't like that when i look down at the tracks the only things i can see in the track zone are rats and roaches. they should introduce some biodiversity down there. no one on inaturalist wants to see more pictures of rats and roaches.

Balatro never did that.

This doesn't work because all of your revolutions also failed. The USSR fell. The CCP liberalized.

Unfortunately, I love highly specific software and this has reduced my ability to use Linux. It is genuinely great that I can have any extremely narrow, bizarre need and some person wrote a program fixing that need in windows. Like what if I need to mux my mice and I am stuck on linux.

at the same time though, libs were claiming their canvassers were asking the GOP men in households to speak to their democrat voting wives and getting rebuffed.

if ever there was a time to pick a fight with the SCOTUS it was over student loans. The conservative court's justification to overturn the loan forgiveness was the worst legal argument to come out of the court in our lifetimes. like the conservative justices were so head in ass they forgot about standing.

Yes they run everything and have everything they want but do they know that? It is really hard to tell what revanchists actually believe and what they only say they believe. Political factions have made some incredibly weird, irrational choices in the past.

I do like that Stein is out there, at every major left wing protest causing trouble and getting arrested for it. I remember she vandalized a bulldozer at the DAPL protests and thought that was worth some support. PSL is invisible. I have literally never seen La Riva or De la Cruz in person. They aren't running around trying to be seen. No one knows who they are and it is because they aren't hustling like Jill is.

Prereleases can be fun but they can also be awful. I had someone get up and "go to the bathroom" in the middle of a game in a pre-release only to go to the judge's table and write down that he won. I've also had someone threaten to stab me during a pre-release for playing an aggressive BR deck. I would still be playing magic if it weren't for its players who are, imo, the worst in the board gaming community.

I had to keep teaching online (kindergarten) during the lockdown in Shanghai. The online teaching tools provided were a little rough at the start but got better over the course of the lockdown (and after I set up dozens of macros to manage the class, and eventually some OBS gimmicks). Major difference between what I saw and what American teachers saw was supervision during class time. Almost everyone lives with their grandparents. I had to constantly beg grandma and grandpa to stop answering for students, stop hand feeding students during class so they could answer, to wear clothes during class, to tell their grandchild to wear clothes during class. My students all met academic goals pretty close to their normal ones. The only thing that was really hard to teach was tracing and copying for the computer kids, but the tablet kids did okay.

I lived in Shanghai for the lockdown. We were really inside for 3 months, not allowed to leave our apartment complex except for a daily test at the local school. To get out of the lockdown you would have had to jump over a 10 foot gate and people did to buy cigarettes on the black market. About two months in I found a man online that was delivering some expat foods (the government declared foreign foods nonessential) to expats. I bought a baguette. That man was arrested.

KOSA had bipartisan support

i think it is nice that some folk in vietnam and india can extract a living from facebook by creating shrimp jesus

And it is supposed to be a La Nina year.