I’m no floor expert, but I did put floor like this into a room. The instructions we got was to leave a small gap all around the room, since temperature fluctuations will cause the floor to expand, and if there is no space to expand into it will buckle. Baseboard trim that I installed later disguises the gap.

I think gluing it down is not the answer. It may just cause it to buckle in the middle where it is harder to reach. If it’s like the stuff we used, you can score it with a straight edge and a knife and then cut it.

Sweaty gamer meme. I think the government is supposed to be the gamer? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jb9Ebe_rA8M&t=0

I understand the intended sentiment, but a gatekeeper is someone who acts as an obstacle to something that the subject wants to obtain.

To say a surgeon is a “cultural gatekeeper” implies that they are dolling out culture–or ethnicity in this case–in an exclusive way to those who seek it. This would make sense if the subject of the surgery was altering their appearance to that of a ethnicity other than their own, but this would be contrary to the point of the article.

It’s emblematic of the purple prose which LLMs engage in. It is unlikely that a human writer who demonstrates such an excellent grasp of the English language as demonstrated in the article would make such a mistake.

I should also point out that the article lacks any specificity whatsoever. While it does cite general facts about surgery, a specific clinic, and descriptions of ethnicities, The article fails to demonstrate that this trend even exists. It does not contain a single image demonstrating the trend. It does not cite the origin of the trend. It does not cite any central figures, celebrities, or even specific surgeons or clinics that engage in this practice. Nor, does it highlight how this practice would even manifest itself. For example, how are these features highlighted? It only gives examples of whitewashing, but not how it’s ethnically sensitive surgery would actually appear.

It reads a lot more like a Google Gemini search result, or an article prompted through chatGPT, and the subject of the article sounds like it was fabricated by the user.

“Surgeons are more than technicians, they are cultural gatekeepers.” I’m pretty sure this was written by an LLM. This phase in particular literally contradicts it’s intended meaning for the sake of Pliny phrasing.

I got accused of being a cop at my most recent protest 😅😅😅 I wore my usual work boots, pfg, suspenders, etc.

I kinda agree. While I do want these llm companies to be more private, in terms of data retention, I think it’s native to say that a company which is selling artificial intelligence to hundreds of millions of users should be totally ambivalent in the face of llm induced psychosis and suicide. Especially when the technology only gets more hazardous as it becomes more capable.

I wonder if this applies to ocean meagafauna. Were humans numerous enough along coastal areas over evolutionarily significant timespans?

My head cannon is that orcas have a robust language and culture, and they have a religion which contains tenates about not harming humans which they developed during the Holocene after generations of mass retaliatory killing by humans.

Serious question: what sort of crimes do I have to commit to be reincarnated as a penguin in Australia but not Antarctica?

What is my ass

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Falin! Put some pants on!

While the open source argument is valid, the end to end encryption critique is a bit odd to me. It is, by definition, end to end encrypted, and proton claims that the chat history is stored locally on your device and is blindly encrypted at rest on their servers, same as in their email system.

The individual messages do have to be decrypted for inference option arrival, but really there isn’t another option.

What I’d like to see is evidence of 3rd party audits on this scheme in addition to more information on the models used.

I’ll be honest, when I got my ass blown up by a trip mine 1 minute from completing a S tier pizza delivery, stumbled into the bunker shamefully with a half ruined pie, and a vtuber popped up to take delivery and told me she was the very same person who put the trip mines by the door, this old man did crack a smile.

Life’s too short to pick your partners based on other people’s aesthetic preferences. The whole, ‘is this guy too young for me thing’ is a more complicated choice IMO. Maybe you’re over thinking it. Have you been on any dates recently?

I think this particular shot is a bit of a non-story, honestly. From what I read in the guardians article, they composited in a falling building. The footage of the building collapsing was itself generated by ai (I’m guessing veo3).

The generation of these kind of short, repetitive assets via ai is probably the ideal use case, aside from compositing.

It’s low cost, low on energy resources, and frees up the VFX team to work in other areas.

I get that the stupid end goal is to replace actors, cameras, sets, and the like, consolidating all of the creative output into one industrialized pipeline, but that’s capitalism at work, not technology. The movie industry has been eating artist alive for decades. A creative team using tools at their disposal in a reasonable, grounded way are not the enemy. Subscription services might be.

I’m doing okay! I’m definitely feeling emotionally burnt out this evening, but I couldn’t tell you exactly why. 🙃 However, I ate some ice cream, and I’m going to read fanfiction.

Have a good week too!