Gee, maybe there might be some practical, social and legal problems with always recording camera glasses…

“Huh, we just can’t seem to connect with the yonges. Clearly it’s because we don’t use TikTok enough and don’t get their slang”

No, it’s because the platforms you keep running people on are totally divorced from the interests of the constituencies you want to mobilize, and party leadership continuously torpedoes policy that is actually popular. Communicating a platform perfectly, getting the message seen by every potential voter, won’t do a thing if they don’t want what you’re promising.

Not sidelining and running hit pieces against your most energizing grassroots candidates, then trying to substitute hand picked party insiders for them would be a good start. You can win elections or you can enforce party orthodoxy, not both.

Imagine criticizing trans people’s new names when you’re called the “Bepartment/begistry of motor vehicles registry”

Would Tails go in cool and good or schizo?

relevant video

She’s got a lot of good stuff about US farming in general. A lot of discussions about the issues in modern farming from the perspective of someone actually working in that space and not towing the normal line.

I haven’t seen any AI generated images on here in nearly a year. So it’s interesting to me that you’re seeing enough of it to be an issue. I blocked like 3 or 4 AI boosters because their absurd arguments made me angry and want to argue, and I don’t come here to be angry and argue. So if I had to guess, most of the objectionable content you’re seeing is probably coming from a handful of people, a tiny fraction of the active users here.

If it took people actively calling them out to prevent some sort of normalization and spread, then new people would be routinely poping up and posting slop that I would see. I think most people just realize that it adds nothing to the community, and aren’t about to start spontaneously doing it or liking it just because they see someone else do it without being challenged.

The ship is sinking and everyone is grabbing what they can before the mother of all hype cycles comes crashing down.

Not always. Black pepper contains Piperine which also effects the TRPV1 sensing protein like capsaicin, if a bit weaker. Horseradish, mustard and wasabi have Allyl isothiocyanate which affects TRPV1 but also TRPA1 which triggers pain cold and itching response, leading to coughing and tearing.

There are a fair amount of other compounds that effect the TRPV1 and plenty of other similar receptors.

Yes, this is why pepper spray sucks even if it doesn’t get in your mouth.

Spicy isn’t a taste or a smell, it is a sensation caused by the compounds lowering the threshold to activate of heat detecting nerves too below the ambient temperature of the human body. It’s basically making you burn your self.

Lots of other “flavors” are also like this, lowering the threshold of firing for certain sensory nerves. Sichuan pepper for instance, it lowers the threshold for movement sensing, causing the bizarre tingle waving sensation.

Those heat sensing compounds exist all over your body, not just in your mouth.

I suspect it’s largely more the result of failing internal organization. Like, a detached from reality and ideologically motivated faction with in corporate leadership has seized control of the company and fired anyone who told them they were being idiots or opposed their initiatives. People are probably getting promoted or hired to management positions based on their ability to tell leadership what they want to hear rather than their ability to actually run things. Everyone lower down has internalized that telling the higher ups what’s going on will get them fired and only is telling them what they want to hear. Resources and people got diverted away from projects that the management doesn’t care about (have no potential to drive growth), and they’re just assuming that the “increase in productivity of AI” will make up the difference. Now everything is melting down and their core product is losing market share while the new products intended to drive growth are failing to see meaningful adoption. Heads will probably role, but it’s unlikely it will be the people who are causing the problem.

That’s what it looks like to me from the outside.

In general, Western Europe is much warmer than the equivalent latitudes in eastern North America. The Gulf Stream current pulls large amounts of warm water from the Caribbean up to Western Europe and generally keeps the area fairly warm, by way of sheer thermal mass. Southern France is about the same latitude as Boston. Edinburgh is further north than most of Newfoundland and Labrador.

IT KEEPS HAPPENING!

Come on people if you find century old ordnance in your back yard, make sure it has a flared base!

Stick with mortar rounds, not shells for infantry support guns or artillery!

The described size of the shell is interesting. “Over 3 centimeters” sounds like it could be a 3.7cm shell which were fairly common in WW1 but, none of those were “20 cm long” most being closer to 10 cm, such as the the 37mm mle.1916, the 1 pounder pom pom and the 3.7 cm TAK 1918.

Later ww2 3.7mm shells were often close to 20cm in length though.

Probably not directly.

But if I had to guess, this, along with a few other similar markets dropping suddenly, suggest some major actors in the world are liquidating assets to get cash for some reason.

Some powerful global actor suddenly needing a lot of cash suddenly could mean something that effects you.

Yah they used machine learning but that’s not really AI, or at least not “generative” AI which is what people associate the term with at this point.

Saying it’s AI gives the impression that it’s just a prompt and output system, as supposed to… well closer to the virtual instruments that get used in DAWs.

They’re mascots for voice banks used in various voice synthesizers. (Not really AI and have been around a lot longer than the current trend of slapping that label on everything)

Miku is kind of the OG for a program called vocaloid, which is a proprietary piece of software.

Teto started off as a voice bank in UTUA a free software, but since she’s gotten a release with synth V which is another proprietary voice synthesizer program.

Anyone can use them to voice a song and use them to say anything, but they’ve sort of developed personalities by association with what songs using them have gotten popular.

The joke here being that a lot of (recent) popular songs using Teto are fairly existential, self deprecating, or otherwise speaking to internal misery. Where as a lot of notable Miku songs tend to be a bit more silly and light hearted. specifically, the comic is referencing the song “Miku” by Anamanaguchi. The teto here would be more in references to things like “ MINIMUM RAGE”, “ ライアーダンサー” (liar dance), or “ROT FOR CLOUT”.

At this point, it’s pretty clear he’s being played by all involved.

Like, they’re all just giving him the run around till he gets board and moves on. The government in Venezuela and US oil companies who want no part in this.

Like he’s actually a massive chump. Like sure’s he’s the 800lb gorilla in the room in regards to being able to order the US military to do things. But he’s to fucking stupid and senile to actually engage with geopolitical realities.

I’d say isopods… but… they’re crustaceans, not insects, and they got way more than six legs, so not bugs really.

So… bristletails. They like leaf litter or sandy rocky soils. Eating algae, lychens, and general detritus. Some have notably adapted to digesting cellulose, a rare capability in animals (most animals who eat cellulose rich plants have some bacteria that do the digestion for them).

They’re also some of the most basal insects, having diverged from the rest of the group around 400 million years ago. They’re a distinct lineage without anything particularly close to them. A little evolutionary island like tuatara or platypuses.

Lmao, straight up he’s got no fucking attention span or patience. He’s just going in circles pushing on issues, trying to find one that will budge with just mean words rather than having to spend money or do anything material.

He wants some sort of “win” something concrete he can point to and say “look how much we’re winning” because his poll numbers are in the toilet. He’s surrounded him self with incompetent yes men who keep failing to give him meaningful results, and he’s terrified of losing the house and senate in 11 months.

Like creating a UFO sighting by using a warship’s radar array to make a stove top popcorn package.