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There’s 13 Days Til Christmas!

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Chocolate Leaf Cake

Recipe: https://cakewhiz.com/how-to-make-chocolate-leaves/

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Ya'll read this thread ! It's not something I have actively thought about but I think they make a great point here.

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disabled people are worthwhile with meaningful lives. if you can't work because of disability. if you can't study, can't be independent. can't do house chores. can't care for yourself. you have the same worth and meaning as everyone else. you deserve the same dignity and respect. there's no life that is a waste to live

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https://twitter.com/1000lifehacks

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if you’re looking for some good news, a transgender woman in japan won a case against her employer trying to get her to change how she presented and referred to herself! its a good step forward for rights in the country, and its always nice to hear about our stories around the world. (source)

on top of that, the first informed consent clinic was opened in the country as well! (source)

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I see a lot of people make posts along the lines of "why use AI when you can pay an artist," but nobody really provides an alternative for those who got into AI generators specifically because they're broke and don't know how to draw, but still want visual representations of their OCs.

The answer is dollmakers and avatar games. Hero Forge, Picrew, Doll Divine. Make a free account on Second Life or IMVU and use their character creators. Download the Sims 4 now that the base game is free. You have a lot of options, and they make great reference images if you save up to commission an artist later on. They may be limited, but are they any more limited than the AI generation process?

AI art is bad because it's art theft, not because it "has no soul" or whatever. People aren't trying to shit on your fun just for shits and giggles, or because they're trying to be elitist; people are upset because the AI is pulling from stolen art and stolen photos.

I am personally not interested in debating whether AI art is "real art," because that's secondary to the theft required to make the AI work in the first place.

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Lifelong fraudster, welcomed whole-heartedly into Republican leadership, found guilty of fraud. The beginning of the end is here.

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That's a long way around to say that it's very likely he broke the law.

There is a "chance" Donald Trump didn't break the law by hiding debt from his 2016 presidential campaign's financial disclosure reports, according to Forbes.

Documents obtained by the outlet show that the then-candidate failed to disclose $19.8 million in debt to Daewoo, a South Korean company with a history of ties to North Korea.

"There is a chance that Trump's omission may have been legal," the report said, noting that Trump may have used a loophole in the law.

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The corporate media 'red wave' was all wrong.

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Support workers and unions. We are all in this together. #WorkingClassSolidarity

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““The Great Pacific Garbage Patch can now be cleaned,” announced Dutch entrepreneur Boyan Slat, the wonderkid inventor who’s spent a decade inventing systems for waterborne litter collection.

Recent tests on his Ocean Cleanup rig called System 002, invented to tackle the 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic pollution, were a success, leading Slat to predict that most of the oceanic garbage patches could be removed by 2040.

Intersections of ocean currents have created the massive floating islands of plastic trash—five slow-moving whirlpools that pull litter from thousands of miles away into a single radius.

The largest one sits between California and Hawaii, and 27-year-old Slat has been designing and testing his systems out there, launching from San Francisco since 2013.

GNN has reported on his original design for the floating device, but his engineering team improved upon it. System 002, nicknamed “Jenny,” successfully netted 9,000 kilograms, or around 20,000 pounds in its first trial.

It’s carbon-neutral, able to capture microplastics as small as 1 millimeter in diameter, and was designed to pose absolutely no threat to wildlife thanks to its wide capture area, slow motion, alerts, and camera monitors that allow operators to spy any overly-curious marine life…

Slat estimates ten Jennies could clean half the garbage patch in five years, and if 10 Jennies were deployed to the five major ocean gyres, then 90% of all floating plastic could be removed by 2040.” -via Good News Network, 10/19/21

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 Covid hospitalizations for seniors in CA,  NY and other states now exceed levels for BA.2 BA.5 and Delta, says expert Eric Topol. See his substack below.