I think it is fine. No one should produce or raise children they do not want.

I still support our society focusing on improving the material conditions for every generation, new and old.

There should not be conflict there.

The fact this thread has three times as many comments as total votes goes to show how well the fediverse knows the lengths to which these users will go find new targets to justify harassment.

Mean Girls with 1800s stakes.

Archaelogical digs in Oceania have uncovered evidence of deep sea fishing (tuna bone carved fishhooks) from 40,000 years ago. We have been at sea a long time.

I am more worried there might actually be a Maximum Overdrive sequel.

Two sets of lids were swapped. Those lids can be pretty heavy. Whats inside them usually are valves for plumbing.

So after the 100th set of valves you’ve backflow tested that day and you’re resetting the lids in 100F+ degree heat and you turn around as you’re walking away with your gear that you swapped two lids?

Well, having done this work at two different times in my life: the size of paycheck matters decidedly on whether that’s getting fixed.

I was literally gambling at that point. Though I honestly just wanted one so I could sell or trade for Juzam Djinns. All because I got absolutely wrecked by them at the little tourneys they held at the shop.

They shut down abruptly and I remember starting to go to other local shops and quickly learning they deserved to be closed.

I spent a lot of money on 4th edition because I was told there were still Black Lotus by the card shop owner.

Cracking MtG packs though… booster drafts were so much fun with a small group.

I am not sure it is really an instance specific phenomena. I have two or three users who do the same to me. One of them appears to be a german user I have never interacted with on Lemmy in any capacity that I know of. It’s just internet things.

Then don’t be a rubber stamp and leave it for goat to handle.

I don’t know what that’s supposed to mean but the modlog shows you actively mod there.

I didn’t even know he was active as a moderator in any real capacity.

They’re a mod for MeanwhileOnGrad of all places and you’ve regularly engaged in the same debates they get embroiled in. This feels like some strange feigned ignorance.

Shrunk, even.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_3_Scarborough

I spent chunks of 2023 and 2024 investigating and testing image gen models after a cryptobro coworker kept talking about it.

I rigged up an old system and ran it locally to see wtf these things are doing. Honestly producing slop at 5 seconds per image v 5 minutes is meaningless in terms of value if 0% of the slop can be salvaged. And still, a human has to figure out what to so with the best candidates.

In fact at a certain speed it begins to work against itself as no one can realistically analyze AI gen output as fast as it is produced.

Conclusion: AI is mostly worthless. It just forces you to accept that human effort is the only thing with intrinsic value. And it’s as tough to get out of AI as it is to put any in.

And that’s looking past all the other gargantuan problems with AI models.

See your brain went immediately to a solution based on knowing how something works. That’s not in the AI wheelhouse.

He can definitely be the face of the right. Let Asmongold be what people think of when someone airs those kinds of opinions.

The Palladium books I had were from the 70s so it felt more like a novel approach. But I love the mechanics and worldbuilding of RPGs in general, pen and paper or otherwise, so all in all I enjoy the adaptive homebrews just as much.