Luckily, maverick is a rainbow flag. However, the long pole is indeed up his ass.

It’s the lack of breed

Hey! Hey, now!

All those COBRA troopers were providing cover fire! They weren’t supposed to hit anything.

What were they providing cover for, you ask?

Ummmm

Stuff.

And thangs.

And serpentor.

Yo, porch goose loves its maverick. S’all I’m sayin’

Wattpad is a company/site/app for independent self publication. Fairly good user base, and enough awareness that movies and traditional publishers have found authors there.

With lemmy (and, I think piefed), you can set a display name in your user profile settings. There’s a character limit, but it can be almost anything.

Most foods taste more when at least warm. Notice I said more, not better.

That’s because once things get cooler, scent molecules don’t hit your nose as well, and fat soluble flavors aren’t as available to the tongue. Whether or not that’s “better” is subjective, but you can test it out fairly easily

Damn! That may be the most unpopular opinion I’ve seen on this community!

However, you aren’t entirely alone. I’ve known a few people that are right with you. Not many, but enough that I’ve tried some things cold but fresh, as in putting it in a fridge until it’s fully cooled.

Gotta say, I do not share the opinion for the vast majority of foods, and I found that some things are even worse cold than warm (things I didn’t like already).

That being said, some soups are nice cold, and some varieties of pizza are as good, though the crust becomes untenable.

THAT being said, you rock on with yo sef. Ain’t enough room in the world to be a food snob. You like what you like, and screw what anyone else thinks (just don’t do it to them lol)

Wattpad

Sadly so.

It’s supposed to serve as a check against mob rule, but it works as the opposite in the worst way

Ad asstra. It’s a web comic. It’s hilarious, and half of it involves sex with space ghosts (not the famous one), including oral; much ectojizz is splurted.

Alas, despite the sentiment being lovely, I don’t agree this is unpopular enough to merit an upvote :(

That being said, I hope you’re happy with all the erections and gushes you caused.

Define sucks a little more precisely?

See, I would assume you mean that their musicianship is lacking live. Which is entirely possible, I’m not quibbling on that as I’m not into the band enough to have watched a ton it their live stuff to form a useful opinion at all.

But the way you described how they suck is about one member not being up front and visible. Again, I’ve never seen them live in person, nor watched a ton.

But I’m not sure that the lack of stage presence = suck. It sure can contribute to sucking live, but it isn’t what I’d say is the determining factor.

It’s like when someone big name in pop does a complicated and intense dance routine that’s impossible to sing through. Is that a good live performance or a sucky one? I err on the side of it being a good show if it isn’t all they do. The inverse is also true, that if all they do is sit on a stool and absolutely nail the music, it’s a good show.

It puts me in mind of Iron Maiden too. Even when they’re having a rough go of it musically, they can make up for it with giant Eddie and awesome lights and pyro and you still walk out happy enough even though Bruce was almost croaking (fear of the dark tour was exactly like that when I went lol). But when they’re on point and the flashy stuff is there, it’s a fucking spiritual experience.

My impression of tool is that they err on the side of musicianship first, and anything else is secondary. Was that maybe what you experienced?

Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn.

Alas, murders are illegal killings. When it’s state sanctioned, it’s just regular old killing

Lmmfao! A typo, but I did value a good soup

An llm is just a set of rules for cobbling together text. In and of itself, the technology is ethically neutral. Mind you, all ethics are both situational and relative, but what llms do really isn’t ethically any different from something like how your game handles enemy actions, except in scale.

What makes them a nightmare is the wonton fuckery involved in how they’re trained. The open sourced ones lack the abusive and nigh maniacal plundering of human effort that the commercial ones do.

So, when it comes to a locally hosted, open source option, there’s no fundamental difference ethically between an llm, your music player, your word processor, whatever.

Even data centers for generative ai could conceivably be run ethically, given some massive assumptions regarding resource allocation and usage. Mainly in that the energy it takes, and the physical resources, are being allocated to those centres rather than something else. But if everyone agrees in the benefits, then using renewable resources carefully would make it no better or worse than any of the non ai data centers already in existence. I mean, most VPNs are renting either space or hardware from some company that has a data center. “The cloud” is just a giant computer owned and operated by some company somewhere, and that’s a data center.

Yeah, generative systems are way more resource intensive, but we can’t pretend that AWS isn’t doing the same basic thing, just with a different use case. Again, there’s the caveat that that details aren’t the same, I’m talking about principles of ethics, nor the specific technology. We’ve decided that building spaces, or filling existing space, for computing is useful enough to be worth the problems it causes. The consensus hasn’t really been reached that generative ai is also worth it, but in ethical terms, the same framework applies.

So, your concerns are absolutely valid. They are, however, partially met by sustainable implementation

Damn, you went from zero to asshole in one comment. Sorry you wasted my time.

That’s some really cool word play :)

Man, I had bucked and kicked and screamed and slid alllll over that living room until I was against the wall and was scrabbling at it until I was standing, and then sank back down with curtains in one hand and hair in the other.

Shit was religious

I said it wasn’t inherently harmful.

Second, if you’re going to stretch the word Theft to include murder and kidnapping/imprisonment, we’re both wasting time because we aren’t using the same language at all. Just let me know you’re standing on that principle and I won’t bother you again.

That being said, with the normal usage of Theft, it really depends on what you take from whom, and how much as to whether harm is done.

Secondary to that, even when there is harm from theft, it can still be justified. Me stealing a medication from a pharmacy certainly costs someone something, but if that’s the last ditch option when all else has failed, is it really a situation where the harm of the theft outweighs the harm of the broken society that made it necessary? While two wrongs don’t make a right, some wrongs preclude right in the first place.

In that scenario, the harm is so heavily distributed via tax breaks and insurances that it might even be a benefit overall since without some theft as a reason to exist, there’s entire industries that wouldn’t exist. The individual theft is still a harm tp some link in the chain, but the chain itself is not harmed at all.

Stepping back even further, what about stealing back? I paid taxes and monies into a broken system, thus me stealing necessary medication could be simply taking back what was taken from me in bad faith. Restitutional theft ain’t really theft, in other words.

Again, I never said theft was never harmful, I said it isn’t inherently harmful.