God if that isn’t the truth. We changed from Thryv to rackspace and we went from zero spam to 30 a day and this is AFTER they block a bunch. Waste of my time every day having to go through them.

One thing I’ve been reading about in Asian countries primarily is that women in the work force are disproportionately screwed when it comes to their careers and starting a family. The government and patriarchal society expects them to leave their career to start a family and they get left behind once they’re ready to go back. It’s also harder now a days to raise kids even with 2 incomes, lots of women just don’t want to bother and I understand why. But the pressure is still very much there by society and men who do want a family, especially in those cultures. So now they’re fed up with dating and choose Ai boyfriends or no boyfriends instead.

I sorta get it, I did the online dating thing and it was sorta difficult to find other people who 100 percent didn’t want kids like I did. Ended up working out for me but I know I’m an outlier.

That’s what people said about original prompts for text Ai bots but we’ve been able to get some from a couple popular ones.

Confidentiality agreements REALLY mater to big companies. Once they’re made aware that Adobe does this they’ll either kick up a fuss so Adobe won’t do it to them or switch programs. We’ve already seen people break Ai in plenty of ways, I wouldn’t out it past people to figure out how to break the Adobe one to show original artwork for confidential projects at some point. We’ll see how it goes.

If this post is true a lot more of the people who matter should be caring once they become aware and if they don’t them the people who need confidentiality should. We’ll see how the cards fall.

Unironically it might work. Have a filing cabinet with all the attacks that you can point too.

Ah fair enough, I figured it was something like that.

Lul you’re right. Would you happen to know if they claimed any actual medical benefits with the masks? I’m assuming they did cause they’re getting sued but the smart thing to do would have been to just say it’s cosmetic and has no medical benefits.

Yea it’s unfortunate.

Reminds me, the box a pet rock came in that my brother gave me this last Christmas has the frigging minions logo on it. It says ‘as seen on [minions eye logo]’.

Jokes on you, I pirate my books. No idea if the book youtubers I watched were paid but their sensibilities are similar to mine and so far they haven’t lead me astray. I like supporting my book writers directly instead of giving money to corpos whenever possible.

She has a roku TV which I’ve read a bit about cracking but it sounds sorta annoying. Once we move in I’m planning to get a projector and hook it up to a mini pc with a wireless small mouse and keyboard. We mostly use it for movie nights anyways.

Eh I get what you mean even if it does sound sorta mean and I don’t entirely disagree. I would just call it ignorance, she wasn’t aware that you could get cracked apps for tvs or that just hooking up your pc to the TV is an easier alternative to all of that. Now she knows and she’s all about it.

Were planning to move in together soonish and I told her I would handle all the techside of stuff and that she can just let me know what she wants and I’ll do it.

You’re not kidding. My girlfriend started talking about this until I straight up told her to stop. She already has ublock on pc she knows there’s a way, she’s just willing to pay to not have ads on her YouTube TV app because they’re frustrating.

We already have ad books. They’re called magazines, just give it a couple more years and regular books will be filled with ads too. I’ve already encountered some regular books that have an insert talking about another book from the same creator. Sure it doesn’t seem bad now but soon it’ll be an insert about a friend of the creator, then about the same company that did this book, then in similar genres, then more inserts about products that might make your book reading experience better, etc etc.

Probably because people have been using it since the 90s for either gender. Same with dude. I was in high school over a decade ago but back then I remember dude and guys being gender neutral, both guys and girls used it that way. Funnily enough this same conversation was happening back then too among my peers, and we all agreed it was already gender neutral at the time.

I have 4 pairs of the same kacki shorts that I use for work. It’s comfy.

If you ever go to Japan save up some good money for collectibles. They’re sold at VERY reasonable prices and because it’s Japan and people take care of their shit they’re in very good conditions a lot of the time. You’ll want to buy a lot of your childhood stuff, I know I did. I had to buy an extra checked luggage just for all the stuff I brought back and I only traveled with my carry on because I wasn’t expecting to buy anything except for a game cube which I could fit. Turns out I was wrong.

Visited Japan last year and picked up all the originals in Japanese. Red, blue, green, yellow, crystal, gold and silver. Solid condition and working for a decent price at an out of the way recommended shop. I would like to pick up the boxes but they would probably be more expensive because of the rarity. I’ll probably end up buying some aftermarket on Etsy just to display them.

Well shit. I wasn’t expecting that last line.

That’s fair. I look at it for free if they bring it over but I charge 25 with a 3 hour minimum if there’s any work. Most people say no thanks, I helped an older lady replace her hard drive and didn’t actually charge her even though she wanted to pay since it really was just 5 minutes to order a new one and 10 to change it out once it got here. She gave me some homemade cookies so it was a good deal for me.