Anybody remember those SNL skits where a character named Pat was not clearly male or female, and the whole joke was how everyone was just confused about how to address them but still ended up being polite and friendly? I don’t understand how our culture got from there to people demanding proof of gender from strangers.
I’m looking at jobs where they have offices in downtown SF and require full time in office because “culture” (or if they’re generous, 2 days a week at home), but the pay is like $250K/year. Anywhere else that salary would be AMAZING but in SF you’re going paycheck to paycheck and still commuting 2-3 hours a day. Seattle is just as bad.
Those places are beautiful and I’d love to live there, but it’s not realistic for anyone who hasn’t gotten some kind of windfall.
Of course they want child labor. Who else could they get to replace a silent population of workers who are unempowered to fight against abuse?
Unless they get creative this likely won’t do anything but piss off the human users. Research from a couple years ago found that bots are better than people at captchas.
This is sort of the way ::: spoiler spoiler The Wrath of Becky ends. After exacting her revenge for the second time, she gets approached by a CIA person who basically offers her a job as a field agent/professional killer and she ends up getting support ro take out one final bad guy with a flipping tank. It’s a satisfying ending for the movie and for Becky. :::
If you haven’t seen those movies, they’re worth checking out. They’re like 2 hours of revenge/justice porn, very violent and gory but entertaining.
Love the new design! It’s so cute!
Isn’t this charging model the same reason Kindle stopped allowing in app purchases? I thought they had said it was a Google play store thing though. Is Google doing it too or is there pricing something different?
Here’s the main one I used to get started.
I’ve started one on creating abstract art in Affinity that seems pretty good and I have a few others in my learning queue from him on specific parts of affinity that look really good but I haven’t done yet.
Him and Lindsey Marsh have a bunch of content out there on the whole suite. I took Lindsey’s course on graphic design theory that was pretty good but that course used adobe so i used it more for general concepts. I think either of them would be a good place to start.
Also udemy has some fantastic courses to learn the whole suite, each can be purchased for lifetime access for $10-15 USD. The instructors I bought from are still actively updating their courses and I get all the new stuff, even though I bought when AD was still on v1.3.
If you’re looking to learn it’s a really affordable way to do it.
I just watched that again for the first time in a while. It definitely hits different in the age of AI driven layoffs.
Highly recommend.
That’s kind of interesting because I used to work in health insurance (mental health specifically, so it has its own quirks), and it felt like things were always in financially dicey territory. It must be different in medical.
These researchers conducted research in a manner that was totally unethical and they deserve to be stripped of tenure and lose any research funding they have.
It already sounds like the university is preparing to just protect them and act like it’s no big deal, which is discouraging but I suppose not surprising.
Oh yeah this recipe looks better than the one I used. I would never have thought to bake the potatoes instead of boiling them thanks for sharing this! Maybe I’ll give gnocchi another go sometime.
I don’t get the fascination with AR glasses. It feels sometimes like these tech guys just watched Bladerunner or even Demolition Man and thought “there’s some good ideas in there”.
I don’t think this is a build it and they will come situation. I’m sure Apple will continue pushing it but I don’t know how it makes financial sense.
Having recently tried to make gnocchi, I have so much more appreciation for people who can make this successfully. Mine turned into little balls of sludge and were VERY unappealing.
Yours looks very yummy.
Conspiracy voice is reading to me like grad school voice. Just replace the suspicious overtones with condescension and ridicule.
I love it! Can’t believe you got this done in a day. Well done!
That’s awesome! It still blows my mind how quickly you 3d printer people cam whip something up. Fingers crossed for the print !
Way back when Inconvenient truth came out Al Gore come to my university to do his lecture on it. I was on the fence at the time about kids, but came out of there thinking there was no point to having kids who may not survive or have to live some post-apocalyptic underground bunker nonsense.
My sister works in environmental policy and I called to tell her about the lecture and told her i don’t know why anyone should even bother having kids. She was more optimistic than I expected and said there’s a lot of good work going on to fix things and that I shouldn’t give up hope. She went on to have two kids of her own and still works in the field. But about 15 years since we first talked about it, things are considerably more bleak and when Trump won she thought about getting out entirely.
I never had kids and have no regrets (for multiple reasons). But especially now I could not fathom having the level of optimism about the future I would need to feel secure in having kids.
Ooh that does look good! Will keep an eye out for this one.