Did you even notice how many times you said ‘I’?

Is it common for a medicine to be 100% effective? That seems weird to me.

Except it isn’t just a name change because with this change you can no longer use it for person to person payments.

This is in regards to the N.R.A. bringing a suit against a NY official who had threatened banks and insurance companies in an effort to stop them from doing business with the N.R.A. after the Parkland shootings.

Customers and shareholders of those banks and insurance companies can put pressure on them to stop doing business with the N.R.A., but government officials, especially in official acts, cannot.

I’m sure if the details of this case were changed so that it took place in Texas, and instead of the N.R.A., it was Planned Parenthood… it would still be a unanimous opinion, right?

The trick is to then open the image in Gimp and export it.

Here’s the one I got… not sure which is worse.

This doesn’t stop doctors, nurses and teachers from reporting abuse, it just exempts them from the law that compels them to report abuse.

Amazingly, none of our troops in WWII hooked up with any Nazis they met online.

My old VW Beetle had an unreliable starter, so I often found myself push-starting it. You don’t see many people push-starting vehicles today, and even fewer doing it by themselves.

Why bother with cremation?

But even then, if every pixel gets marked as ‘created by AI’, it would still be trivial to take real CSAM and run it through an image-to-image generator with denoising turned down to 0.05 and suddenly you have real CSAM that has been marked as ‘legal’ since it is technically AI generated.

Also, keep in mind that there are several open source projects out there where anyone who knows what they are doing could just strip out any protections that might be put in place.

Venues have always sucked. Ticketmaster/LiveNation are trash corporations, but music venues have always been about doing things as cheaply as possible and providing the barest of minimal services.

While I do hate Ticketmaster with a passion, I have to admit that about 6 years ago I went to local venue that had been gobbled up by LiveNation and I was amazed at the transformations they had performed. Bathrooms had actual attendants, people whose job it was to keep the line moving. They would watch stalls and urinals and then tell the next person in line when one was free. Pavilion seating had wait service, so you didn’t actually have to get out of your seat to get an overpriced beer or food. The place was clean, fresh paint was on everything. I was at a concert at this venue last year and it still looked nice and these services hadn’t gone away.

I’m not saying that LiveNation should have the monopoly it has on live shows, but there has to be some kind of middle ground between keeping it fair, but also incentivizing venue owners to keep things looking nice and providing useful services.

It would solve that one problem, but would create so many more and much larger problems.

I’m pretty sure all 4 images are the same woman.

This was before Google was a thing, much less reverse lookup with Google Images. The point I was making is that this kind of thing happened even before Photoshop. Photoshop made it look even more realistic. AI is the next step. And even the current AI abilities are nothing compared to what they are going to be even 6 months from now. Yes, this is a problem, but it has been a problem for a long time and anyone who has wanted to create fake nudes of someone has had the ability to easily do so for at least a generation now. We might be at the point now where if you want to make sure you don’t have fake nudes created of you, then you don’t have images of yourself published. However now that everyone has high quality cameras in their pockets, this won’t 100% protect you.

A kid at my high school in the early 90s would use a photocopier and would literally cut and paste yearbook headshots onto porn photos. This could also be done in bulk and doesn’t require any skills that a 1st grader doesn’t have.

The pandemic really put a freeze on car sales, however that just means that everyone who would have bought a car then, and have been putting it off due to the chip shortage and inflation are soon going to find themselves in situations where they will need to replace their cars.

I currently have a 12 year old car and a 10 year old car, and both are very quickly showing their ages to the point where I don’t feel confident taking either on a long drive. As much as I love not having a car payment, I have a feeling within the next year or so I’ll be buying a new one and I doubt I’m the only one in this position.

Luke 22:36-38

While preparing for his arrest, Jesus tells his disciples to sell their cloaks if they don’t have a sword, and go buy a sword. Some view this as Jesus advocating for his followers to be armed, however it is also believed that he just wanted them armed to ensure that he gets arrested, especially when his disciples say that they have 2 swords already, and Jesus replies “That’s enough”.

Then in John, when the guards show up to arrest Jesus, Peter draws his sword and cuts the ear off of a guard. This pissed off Jesus, and he told Peter to put his sword where it belongs because ‘those who live by the sword, die by the sword’. It is obvious that Jesus didn’t intend for the weapons to be used. Perhaps he should have known that ‘dumbasses who carry weapons, want to use weapons.’

Pronounced ‘Sue You’?

Fun fact, you can actually fit every single other planet at the same time in the space between the earth and the moon, with a bit to spare.

Though, not for very long. Gravity hates when you try things like this.