And it’s not just pets either, wildlife also gets affected by firework

You’re definitively forgetting about other important insects for agriculture such as worms

Maybe it makes achieving personal things in a dark society harder, but it strongly helps to improve society itself. And it’s much more pleasant to live in the opposite of a dark society. A better society is not a zero sum game

Healing is hard and uncomfortable in the short to medium term, but in the long term it’s always preferred

Another comment mentioned that she did, in fact, elaborate this right after

I just want to point out that Greta Thunberg is 22 years old. She’s been an adult for 4 years now

Frankly at this point self-diagnosis shouldn’t be as demonized as it is. Because getting a diagnosis is, 1. Expensive, 2. Involved as all hell sometimes, 3. Not all professionals being great, and 4. In certain countries cough the US cough, it gets you literally put on a list

I say this as someone who is diagnosed. Just preface any statements you make with you not being professionally diagnosed and that you think you might likely have it and such, and you should be fine. Ultimately the point of the diagnosis is to help you. If you feel like the autistic framework is useful to understanding yourself, use it.

People didn’t use to call those AI images. They used to call them images with a filter

Sure, some form of machine learning was involved, but so was your Google search for the previous decade. Unless one specifies what one means by AI, I still stand by my statement

In addition, OP’s image was still real, even if it had a filter on. A lot of people’s images have such filters on, especially since often they’re applied automatically. That’s the whole difference and the point

So I see people arguing whether this is AI or not and I just wanna say that

What people should take away from all of this is that we’re rapidly approaching a point where we’re simply unable to accurately determine whether something is generated or not. And we, as individuals and as a society, are not ready for that. We’re heading into a different world, and we better prepare for it, as well as re-examine our relationship to art and images before we’re forced to do so by the circumstances

Only older people from what I’ve seen. At least, whenever I hear a ping out in public, it’s always someone older

So, to answer your question, no, not really

The more you take an interest in and try to learn at least a little about basically any other single topic, you’ll quickly realize that nearly everything has a near infinite complexity and depth

The rabbit holes are endless, there’s so much knowledge to have everywhere. The people who don’t appreciate this fact and say stuff like in the screenshot are a bit foolish, I think

How do you know you don’t have it? Tests are barely even able to detect it, with a high false negative rate. There’s a reason it’s not part of the standard testing regiment

Lmao yeah, I thought “haha funny joke” but people were genuinely asking

For future reference, never run any script or code or command unless you know what it is and does

I mean, no, the tester didn’t say anything wrong here, and all of those (and more) are conditions one must take into account if one were to write a piece of software without errors

I believe it was always the plan to return samples, however, that is assuming the funding for it won’t be cut, which unfortunately might end up being the case

Maybe part of it is the whole “greatest country on earth” stuff as well. In other words, a lack of humility

In the European countries I’ve lived in, pride like that wasn’t really encouraged. And if you’re too boastful or what not to the point of arrogance, you tend to get the stink eye

And this applies to patriotism as well. Here in Norway for example, despite us having a stronger claim for stuff like “greatest country”, very few people, if any, really feel like being “proud” of one’s own country is something that one should be doing, or it being honorable at all. The best I see is that people enjoy living here and, if they see another Norwegian out there or Norway mentioned, they just get happy to see a fellow Norwegian, just because we are relatively small

Honestly, most Norwegians I’ve met complain about Norway’s problems more often than not lmao, despite, all things considered, you can hardly find better countries to live in, except some other European ones depending on your own preferences

There really is just, no culture of like, arrogance. Something that I feel like is very different to the US with its super heavy emphasis on individual capitalistic success

Maybe that’s a large part of it as well. A consequence of American culture being so extremely individualistic

We’ve gotten very uncomfortably close to a nuclear exchange multiple times in history

The only reason it didn’t happen is pure luck

Until one of them fires the nukes, that is. But sure, it might not happen

It’s like paying your rent by playing Russian roulette

I can’t speak for all the officials there, but many of them very much have been directly elected

The Norwegian one for example is the prime minister

Depending on the situation, repetitive shit might be unavoidable

Usually you can solve the issue by using regex, but regex can be difficult to work with as well

So you unironically think they are worse than Google?

…really? I don’t think you are being serious