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Comment I'm generally anti-AI but... (Score 1) 75

Modeling has always been about some idealized image that doesn't represent real people in any reasonable way. They start with exceptionally attractive people and then use makeup, lighting, and lens effects to make them look even better. And when that's not enough, in more recent times they've been using Photoshop.

The human model has been holding the artists back from the completely artificial image they've always been pursuing.

Comment Buy nothing requiring direct Internet access (Score 4, Informative) 80

If it has to check in with a company's servers to function, they WILL either cease support or come after your wallet at some point.

Go with Home Assistant for control and devices that don't need to be connected to the Internet to work. Z-Wave, Zigbee and 433MHz are the things you should look for first before falling back to WiFi devices.

Comment Re:Enterprise (Score 4, Interesting) 220

Since I fully transitioned from Windows for personal use, and moved to MacOS and Gnome, every time I have to work with Windows 11, I just find myself swamped in UI garbage. It's not even the intrusiveness, it's literally just how messy and confusing everything is. I suppose with some effort I could learn to navigate around more efficiently, but why the hell would I?

Comment Re:Then how come... (Score 4, Interesting) 159

The Romans exiled most of the Jews from Palestine after the failed Jewish uprisings between 64 and 132 CE (encompassing multiple revolts). After that, even before the Edict of Milan in 313CE, the region became a major Christian center, but after the Christianization of the Roman Empire it was overwhelmingly Christian. When the Muslims invaded the region in the 7th century CE, there weren't a lot of Jews in the region, and it was majority Christian.

And just to tell you who the real enemies of the Jews were, when the First Crusade made its way to the Holy Land, the capture of Jerusalem in 1099 led to the savage butchery of Jews and Muslims in the city. After the loss of the Crusader kingdoms in the region, it was Turkish territory, and while the Ottomans weren't always terribly nice to Jews, they were a helluva lot better than the Christians, and there was a steady flow of Jews back into the area during the Ottoman period.

And there were most certainly people living in Palestine, as there was resistance to Jews who began building settlements. It was not, as later claims would have it, an empty land. Most of the owners of the land were absentee landlords, but that is not the same thing at all.

But no, the Muslims did not displace the Jews, that was the Romans, some 1700 or 1800 years before Jews began returning in significant numbers.

Comment Re: Cheating on your wife is a bad idea (Score 4, Insightful) 153

I'm an atheist, so in one sense I have no horse in this race. But while there's no denying the Church hierarchy protected pedophiles, and for a lot longer than even many Catholics would like to believe, it's not a central tenet of the Catholic faith. The Trinity, the Immaculate Conception, the Theokotos, the Ascension, Papal Infallibility when speaking ex cathedra, and the soteriological nature of the Church, those are core tenets.

And so is Matthew 7:5, which is in Catholic and in most Christian traditions the very heart of Christian ethics.

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