Been using Photoshop since 3.0 released on windows. I knew when they went cloud that shit was going sideways, but it was the acquisition of substance painter that did them in for me. Even though CC was kind of a mess, instead of building on the value proposition and including substance, they decided to have it as a separate charge.

Fuck adobe. Fuck subscription software.

totaly agree with your firs two points…

re: training and operators - my take on it is this has all the hallmarks of a swarm setup constantly recharging a portion of it’s numbers… Ukraine has illustrated that AI shit’s coming quickly, even if llm’s and jensen huang are wildly out of touch.

and it promotes harmony between different cultures in a way I’ve never seen - you can’t talk shit about anyone based on religion, for example.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_religion_in_Singapore

“The Sedition Act also prohibits seditious acts and speech which “promote feelings of ill-will and hostility between different races or classes of the population of Singapore,” and the Maintenance of Religious Harmony Act (MRHA) empowers the Minister for Home Affairs to take a pre-emptive approach by issuing restraining orders against a religious leader that has committed or is attempting to commit certain acts threatening religious harmony.”

it’s a microcosm of different cultures crushed together with little room for debate, should things go partisan conflict tragedies would rapidly ensue; but the restrictions on freedom of speech seem fraught with potential pitfalls…

I look at Singapore like Taiwan - they seem to genuinely try to do the best for a broader range than most, and each face unique ethnic and geographic complexities that they’ve overcome through enginuity and clever, hard working populaces.

But yeah, murdering people for pot… fuck man…

it would take a lot of books to bribe me into marriage…

but I’m willing to see where it goes.

this is one of those things that’s hard to communicate to people… hot A’s - a single warm meal per day even - is an incredibly better experience than shipped food or MREs. especially when it’s shitty cold or raining and you’re outside 24/7

logistically hard but worth the investment

more usable calories in the tray than what’s on it.

I just hope for the next 100 years people who hear republicans say “but what about the children” respond every time: “YOUR PARTY DEFENDED AND REELECTED A RAPIST AND PEDOPHILE FOR OVER A DECADE”

this interview is hilarious. the aura is starting to wane and it appears Jensen thinks he can simply ramble his way through explaining why we should all still just be incredibly grateful for the state of the shitshow they’ve architected…

MY DEAR BROTHER NUMPSY!

i-i-i-i-i-i-i-want the knife… please?

there AIN’T NO GROUND HERE! YO!

He’s absolutely not known for the office.

do you have any idea how big that show was in the UK?

holy shit mate

dude’s a genuine comic’s comic, he’s funny in all circumstances, but to you he’s just some insult comic who got famous “on a radio show ragging on his costar.”

like, that’s petty levels of dismissive imho. the kind of shit I expect to hear from whiney zealots pouting about their invisible friends.

haha lol found the whiney zealots pouting about their invisible friends!

insult comedian

lol, someone’s upset. was it the criticism of religion? probably

I must be a weirdo because I ripped through all of Frank Herbert’s dune books then went on to read his other stuff like The Whipping Star, Dosadi Experiment, and White Plague.

that guy writes shit that excites my neurons.

The Machine Stops

dude this is a banger, thanks!

The lady literally told them “Fuck the whole lot of you!” She put the house up for sale at bargain-basement price in order to sell it and move out as quickly as possible, so none of her kids would get anything at all after she’s dead.

legend. I’d have her over on christmas every year.

shockwave damage

well, that’s the thing… these kind of pressure waves do tremendous damage IN tissue. outside of tissue, small arms caliber? ehhh… I don’t think there’s enough transfer from one medium to another - from the air to flesh. It’s def something I’d love to see tested.

And he’d be deaf, right?

you can sustain a tremendous amount of mangling on the exterior of the ear and still hear. I don’t disagree it’d be mangled tho, not this slight nick. I think he grabbed glass and cut his own ear.

he’s also Pvt. Pyle in Full Metal Jacket. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_D’Onofrio

yeah real joe the plumber vibes.

the smells, the sloshing, what could possibly go wrong?