I use Copilot for generating images of concepts for presentations at work. It helps me get my point across and no accuracy is needed because it is taking the place of clip art and Google image searches. There is absolutely a place for Generative AI in the workplace. Whether it is worth the cost and whether people are trusting it too much is another question.

I’ve heard that they eat more grains if the rice is uncooked and uncooked rice expands in their stomachs causing pain and other problems. Cooked rice is already expanded so they won’t overeat

The flip side is that AI being able to create art democratizes art so that anyone with an idea can execute it. I don’t need to have a steady hand to make a drawing of the idea I have and I don’t need to be a software expert- I can describe what I want and what message I’m trying to convey and when the AI produces what I had imagined, I can share it with the world.

I’ve stopped caring whether they are real or not and enjoy those posts like I would enjoy TV or a book. They’re just entertaining stories at the end of the day.

The ACLU is also fighting back with lawsuits. There are people out there fighting, it just doesn’t always make headlines

On the tv airing of “How to Lose Your Guy in 10 Days,” they have a scene where they are playing a bluffing card game call “Bullshit” where you can call bullshit on people who you think are bluffing. They replaced the word “shit” with “spit” so everyone is shouting “bull spit” at each other. I found this to be so ridiculously lame that it made it kind of funny.

There are things besides fitness that are relevant to combat situations. In the movie Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, which takes place in a war zone in Afghanistan, we see the female news reporter is able to talk to the female residents in a combat zone and gain information about who was sabotaging a US-built well. The male soldiers weren’t allowed to speak to the women of the village, and had no way of getting this info.

Women make up 50% of the world population and sometimes you just need a female soldier to properly work with the locals. If men cannot get information from some populations because of their gender, then it makes sense that rules might be slightly bent to allow women to take part in combat roles. As a soldier, I wouldn’t want to be miss relevant info just because no one in my troop could talk to half the local population- that ignorance of knowledge puts my life at risk too.

From the article, it was a 10% drop in approval ratings from boomers, compared to <3% drops among other groups (who already had a lower opinion of him)

If research is funded by tax dollars, then it should absolutely be free for everyone to have access to.

I’m not sure how I feel about private research being required to be free to all (does it disencentivize research to let everyone learn from what you paid to learn?). Either way, if the tax payer pays for something, they deserve free access to learn from it.

Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Yes, this isn’t the best way to harm Amazon, but small, targeted boycotts can drive change. And I bet, if you try living without Amazon for a week, you’ll find replacements and it’ll be easier to move away from them long-term

Not necessarily. The employees of airlines have been quite impactful with partial, random strikes in a method called CHOAS. Not everyone will strike at the same time and their strikes only last a few hours- enough to cause problems for the flight they’ve been scheduled on. This hurts the company without harming too many customers and has been effective in the past as a strike strategy.

Think of a partial strike as a warning that more could follow if demands aren’t meet.

https://www.afacwa.org/chaos#%3A~%3Atext=CHAOS+is+AFA's+trademarked+strategy+of+intermittent%2Cminimizing+the+risk+for+striking+flight+attendants

Yes, if you click the link, it takes you to the EA github amd you can see folders for all included games

I wonder how that will impact those girls as they get older and start entering politics. Will it push them further left? Will they feel disparaged sooner and give up on politics sooner?

And same for the boys. By saying such dumb things so publicly at such a young age, will they face repercussions from their peers and get inoculated against manoshere-type-misogyny? Or will those beliefs become more ingrained in them and become a core piece of their identity?

Average and mean are the same thing (sum of everything divided by total number of things). Median is the middle number.

I think it is the opposite. Because everyone knows they don’t need the subscription, right or wrong Peloton needs to make up for subscriptions losses by introducing these one-time fees.

I think you know why

I was so hoping you were going to say that they discouraged you from putting white so that it opened you up for diversity-based scholarships. I am so disappointed to hear that was not the case. What they did is really messed up.

It’s both. They make it so you want to speed so they can generate revenue. Wide lanes and low speed limits can yield a lot of tickets

I’d assume it isn’t see through because you load it up with dirty dishes that sit for days before you run it. No one wants to spend days staring at the crusty spoon meemaw dipped in the peanut butter and licked like an ice cream cone before the wash is finally run

That’s a good attitude to have when you are trying to calm a mind anxious about whether you forgot something, but it is a really wasteful strategy long-term