at its core it’s meant to help men avoid sinful lust, which is evidently positive (and only a hedonist would disagree).
I wouldn’t consider myself a hedonist and I disagree. Men should learn to control themselves, and that doesn’t happen if they’re never exposed to things that challenge them. Repression doesn’t make things better, it makes them awkward, obsessive, and it makes discussion taboo. Which makes abuse all the more likely.
Oh boy, the Steam community is cringeworthy. Like, TPUSA level.
“yOu LiBeRaLs HaVe SpEnT yEaRs SaYiNg DiVeRsItY iS iMpOrTaNt BuT tHiS gAmE oNlY hAs AfRiCaN pRoTaGoNiStS?”
Þank you for þe info!
Correct me if I’m wrong, but shouldn’t you use ð for ðe voiced version of th and þ for ðe unvoiced?
(Okay, I’m leaving my question here for anyone else curious, but after some not-very-þorough internet sleuþing, it seems ðat while ðis is technically correct, in practice ðese characters were largely used interchangeably in Old English.)
I think there’s a stark difference between crafting your own comfyui workflow, getting the right nodes and control nets and checkpoints and whatever, tweaking it until you get what you want, and someone telling an AI “make me a picture/video of X.”
The least AI-looking AI art is the kind that someone took effort to make their own. Just like any other tool.
Unfortunately, gen AI is a tool that gives relatively good results without any skill at all. So most people won’t bother to do the work to make it their own.
I think that, like nearly everything in life, there is nuance to this. But at the same time, we aren’t ready for the nuance because we’re being drowned by slop and it’s horrible.
What a surprise. Being told you’re always right leads to you not being able to handle being wrong. Shock.
I’ve had the same thought. Haven’t really looked into it though.
When you gain weight your fat cells grow, and when you lose weight they shrink. You don’t actually gain and lose fat cells the way people think.
But as my doctor explained to me, if they get big enough, they divide. Then even if you lose weight, you have fat cells hanging around who think they should be holding onto more fat than they are. So your body will want to be fat, and will enforce that with cravings.
It’s why it’s extremely hard to lose a large amount of weight and leave it off. I’m on my third major attempt now.
And that he didn’t tell this to graduating diplomats, whom would see through this peaceful transition
In this sentence, “who/whom” is acting as the subject of the clause “who/whom would see through this peaceful transition” and thus should be in the nominative case “who.”
Easiest way to know when to use “whom” is to replace the word with “he/him” and follow the “m.” If “he” makes more sense, use “who.” If “him” makes more sense, use “whom.”
And if you’re not sure, just use “who.” It’ll stand out a lot less if it’s wrong, since “whom” is gradually falling out of use.
So UN leaves to Geneva.
Then the US says, “The UN has abandoned us. We are leaving the UN.”
The US leaves the UN, throwing away an incredible amount of soft power. We fade on the world stage.
Trump is a horrible pathetic moronic excuse for a leader.
She resembles the cat from Dungeon Crawler Carl, which is an audiobook you should very much listen to. (The book itself is good, but the audiobook is one of the best I’ve ever heard).
You mean Gravy Boat?
What about Princess Donut the Queen Anne Chonk?
I still suspect the entire thing was a marketing ploy. That they had no intention of ACTUALLY changing the logo. They just wanted people to push back so they could get in the news. I wouldn’t be surprised if the marketing firm that made the logo also started the backlash.
I suspect the same is true about American Eagle’s Sydney Sweeney ad.
I’ll always remember him for Mario and Luigi being tied up in this image.
Because there need to be reasons to participate in society properly. If it’s “we’re cutting you off from all trade and never restarting it,” there’s no incentive for them to change their behavior. Sanctions always give a reason.
Punishment isn’t a good motivator of human behavior, reinforcement is.
Man, after playing with the Steam Deck I have a hard time imagining any handheld PC that doesn’t have Valve’s phenomenal trackpad. It’s the only way I want to use a mouse cursor on a handheld now. So I definitely won’t “upgrade” to the Xbox-branded thing (even if I have been an “Xbox guy” since forever).
The real class war will be between people who ate yesterday and people who did not eat yesterday.
The billionaire class wants you to think someone with a million dollars is your enemy. And they want the millionaire to think you are their enemy.
But you know what the difference between a million dollars and a billion dollars is? About a billion dollars.
The enemy is the ultrawealthy, and the more we remind the vaguely rich about this, the better our chances of actually changing things. At least that’s how I see it.
Steam Deck ftw