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(wake me up) wake me up inside (before you go-go)

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Woaaah, we’re halfway there,

WOOAA-OOOOAAAAH

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Hast thou thy morning meds consumed?

Off with ye, then, and do so! (And also should’st thou some water imbibe.)

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Please help me with my upper jaw reconstruction

I lost so much of the bone in my upper jaw that I can't even wear dentures now without reconstructive surgery. (It's been nearly 1 1/2 years now with no upper teeth--including not being able to wear dentures.)

We go in next week to discuss the next stage of my upper jaw reconstruction (involving titanium plates, something called a sinus lift, and other fun stuff) now that the initial scans are complete, and even though my surgeon is donating his labor, he estimates the surgery and recovery are going to cost at least two or three thousand dollars (100K to 150K pesos) for materials, hospital fees, other surgical personnel, etc.--maybe more. Much cheaper than it would be in the US, but still quite a bit considering we're still deep in debt from El's birth certificate fiasco despite all the help y'all gave us with that. (And thank you so much for that!)

So hey, if you can help me get a complete upper jaw again (and teeth to go in it for the first time in well over a year) without us having to go even DEEPER in debt, that'd rock! Thank you!

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“Rubber bullets were designed for ricochet fire” is a nice and convenient lie but it’s still a lie.

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Honestly bizarre that tomatoes get all the flack for “not being a vegetable” because they're technically a fruit when:

A) There are a ton of fruits that get categorised as vegetables. Like this also applies to pumpkins, squashes and cucumbers.

B) The fucking mushrooms are standing there at the back of the crowd in this witch trial, trying to look inconspicuous because they somehow got into the vegetable club with no fucking controversy despite the fact that they're not even plants.

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Hi my name is Cozier and this is my new song Take me to bed (I'm sleepy)

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I think I like food forests more rather than the current monoculture farming and would rather create a food forest because it feels more like gardening than farming to me. You know?

I much prefer them personally

As long as people are around, we are going to have paths of some kind, and if we want to stay with streets as we currently have them why not line them with food?

Canopies to provide shade and color, with vines like ivy or grapes or beans growing up the sides.

Espalied fruit trees as fences and shrubs so you can grab bassket full of fruit and a handful of berries on the way to the park or neighbors house.

Root crops and ground cover filling in the gaps. Compost bins where we have garbage bins now.

Not only does it sound pretty, it also would be more efficent for food harvesting and distribution. Plus think of how much lower the heat of any given street would be!

So yea, I def dream of food forest streets.

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I've finally figured out an argument that convinces coding tech-bros that AI art is bad.

Got into a discussion today (actually a discussion, we were both very reasonable and calm even through I felt like committing violence) with a tech-bro-coded lady who claimed that people use AI in coding all the time so she didn't see why it mattered if people used AI in art.

Obviously I repressed the surge of violence because that would accomplish nothing. Plus, this lady is very articulate, the type who makes claims and you sit there thinking no that's wrong it must be but she said it so well you're kind of just waffling going but, no, wait-- so I knew I had to get this right if I was gonna come out of this unscathed.

The usual arguments about it being about the soul of it and creation fell flat, in fact she was adamant that anyone who believed that was in fact looking down at coding as an art form as she insisted it is. Which, sure, you can totally express yourself through coding. There's a lot more nuance as to the differences but clearly I was not going to win this one.

The other people I was with (literally 8 people anti-ai against her, but you can't change the mind of someone who doesn't want to listen and she just kept accusing us of devaluing coding as an art) took over for I kid you not 15 minutes while I tried desperately to come up with a clear and articulate way to explain the difference to her. They tried so many reasonable arguments, coding being for a function ("what, art doesn't serve a function?") coding being many discrete building blocks that you put together differently, and the AI simply provides the blocks and you put it together yourself ("isn't that what prompt building is") that it's bad for the environment ("but not if it's used for capitalism, hm?" "Yeah literally that's how capitalism works it doesn't care about the environment" she didn't like that response)

But I finally got it.

And the answer is: It's not about what you do, it's about what you claim to be.

Imagine that someone asks an AI to write a code and, by some miracle, it works perfectly without them having to tweak it---which is great because they couldn't tell you what a single solitary thing in that code means.

Now imagine this person, with their code that they don't know how it works, goes and applies to be a coder somewhere, presenting this AI code as proof that they're qualified.

Should they be hired?

She was horrified, of course. Of course they shouldn't be. They're not qualified. They can't actually code, and even if by some miracle they did have an AI successfully write a flawless code for every issue they came across that wouldn't be their code, you could hire any shmuck on the street to do that, no reason to pay someone like they're creating something.

When actual engineers use AI what they do is get some kind of base, which they then go though and check for problems and then if they find any they fix them, and add on to the base code with their own knowledge instead of just trying different prompt after prompt until they randomly come across one that works.

People who generate code like this don't usually call themselves engineers. They're people who needed a bit of code and didn't have the knowledge to generate it, and so used a resource.

And there you go. There are people who have none of the skills of artists, they don't practice, they don't create for themselves. When they feed the prompt to the AI they then don't just use the resulting image as a reference point for their own personal masterpiece, and if they don't like it they don't have the skills to change it---they simply try another prompt, and do that until they get something they like.

These people are calling themselves artists.

Not only that, these people are bringing the AI generated thing to interviews, and they are getting hired, leaving people who slave over their craft out of the job.

And that is the difference, for the tech bros who think AI art isn't a big deal.

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This was one of my introductions to military history. I was 14 and haven't ever really looked back. Big fan of star forts and Vauban.

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i think all quiet on the western front and the lord of the rings are in direct conversation with each other, as in theyre the retelling of the same war with one saying here’s what happened, we all died, and it did not matter at all and another going hush little boy, of course we won, of course your friends came back

[anexperimentallife]

Hast thou thy morning meds consumed?

Off with ye, then, and do so! (And also should’st thou some water imbibe.)

[anexperimentallife]

Please help me with my upper jaw reconstruction

I lost so much of the bone in my upper jaw that I can't even wear dentures now without reconstructive surgery. (It's been nearly 1 1/2 years now with no upper teeth--including not being able to wear dentures.)

We go in next week to discuss the next stage of my upper jaw reconstruction (involving titanium plates, something called a sinus lift, and other fun stuff) now that the initial scans are complete, and even though my surgeon is donating his labor, he estimates the surgery and recovery are going to cost at least two or three thousand dollars (100K to 150K pesos) for materials, hospital fees, other surgical personnel, etc.--maybe more. Much cheaper than it would be in the US, but still quite a bit considering we're still deep in debt from El's birth certificate fiasco despite all the help y'all gave us with that. (And thank you so much for that!)

So hey, if you can help me get a complete upper jaw again (and teeth to go in it for the first time in well over a year) without us having to go even DEEPER in debt, that'd rock! Thank you!

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if the muppet show was still airing chappell roan would guest star and thered be a running bit of miss piggy thinking shes trying to steal kermit but shes actually trying to flirt with miss piggy the whole time

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