consider there are only 10 (ten) trans U.S. college athletes
Even if that is the case...that's 10 too many, especially if they are taking scholarships and records away from real biological women.
I thought liberals were all in about womens' rights?
I mean there's solid evidence that Republican voter suppression prevented 17 million Democrats from voting. That's a wide enough margin by far to have given Haris the win.
LOL..ok, you keep telling yourself that, rather than do a lot of retrospection and look inside to see what a poor candidate with a poor message you ran....and the republicans will continue to clean your clock.
Yep...SO much voter suppression with a Democrat president and senante during the election....not to mention the wins in DEM controlled states.....yes, keep telling yourself whatever makes you feel better.
The Generative AI companies did their thing. It was overall very impressive, even if they massively overstated its usefulness. ChatGPT is a great early demo of this infantile, currently-almost-useless-but-very-promising tech! Now someone simply (heh) needs to get the compute requirements down two to four orders of magnitude.
If companies like OpenAI can (and want to) work on that, great! Or others can build on the work that's been done up to now. I don't think anyone will miss the current companies, though they might currently be employing people who likely have a leg up (thanks to their familiarity with the subject) on addressing the compute resources problem.
But whenever (if ever) it gets done, people are going to run it on their own machines, not your servers and jail. Lock-in has always been, and will always be, an adversarial force to be eliminated by progress. If that means OpenAI's long-term plans won't work out, well, too bad.
Are they new lenses bodacious bokeh monsters!?!?!
(The photographers here should catch that one...)
Geographical mobility used to be much easier. In the age of credit scores and limited housing, it is extremely difficult to find a landlord who will admit you without a job, and much harder to find a job that will hire you without already being local.
Well, credit scores as we know them have been around since the 60's...so, not really that new.
There's PLENTY of housing....just depends on what part of the US you are in.
I see houses for sale all the time where I live (New Orleans area)....it may be scarce in NYC or west coast urban areas....but that is not the whole US.
In other parts of the US, there are homes...GOOD jobs, and cost of living is much less.
And those are regular W2 jobs.....if you jump into 1099 contracting....you can work wherever and very much often....remote.
I've done both....and if you have any job experience, you can get jobs before you moved.
I've never moved before having a job in that area....
Not so easy once your kids have friends and school in Seattle.
As a child, I had to move with my parents a number of times as Dad progressed through his career....
Hell,, military brats do it all the time still....but it wasn't that long ago this was pretty common....grow up, leave the nest....it's ok and natural....
I guess you must be single or young....Reasons not to leave your area: owning a house, family, friends, not wanting to pull kids from school during critical times (or mid year), established connections, and a lot more tech jobs in Seattle than 99% of the rest of america, outside silicon valley? "Sell your house" and then you pick up a house that is also overpriced but pay much higher property taxes. Income tax is *zero* in Washington...Also, this is actually Redmond, not Seattle proper.
When did people get to be such pussies about moving?
Hell, when I grew up, this was a common thing....you moved to where the best job or new opportunity was.
Fun? No.
PITA? Yes
But families did it as a matter of how life is/was....
I remember as a kid moving a number of times
I myself have moved....
Do people today believe that as grown adults they STILL have to live near Mommy and Daddy?
Friends? Well hell, there's a TON of ways to stay in touch that weren't there when I was young....you only had phone calls and snail mail growing up and if they were real friends....you stayed in touch.
Today it's a piece of cake to keep in touch.
When I grew up, most people I knew hit the road at 18yrs or so and often it was to a different state for college and jobs....no one had to stay in same town as Mommy....but then again, we never too "Mommy" out on job interviews like they apparently do today...
Simple really.....believe it or not, people used to do this type thing without a 2nd thought....
Can you use the hardware without any Meta services? Can you use competing hardware with Meta's services? And then beyond just services, can you fully replace the whole software stack?
Any "no"s above will make the utility dubious, such that there's little point in spending much time getting to know the product (except for RE purposes). OTOHs "yes"s will indicate that these types of wearables are starting to become viable.
Then I regularly shorten my neighbors lives (and mine) whenever I fire up my log burning offset smoker for BBQ.
I don't generally have any complaints....quite the opposite reaction in general (I share and offer to throw things on for them too, since it is large and I often have extra room).
"Who wins it?" - I tend to agree with you about the right's geographic advantage, but there are many ways the conflict can unfold, and it doesn't necessarily take the form of a classical military engagement.
"Who wins it really?" - Russia and China. For the vast majority of Americans who just want to go about their lives this will have extremely negative impacts.
Disney surely still has trademark on all variants of Mickey and key characters of their old animations. Using those characters in a commercial context could be construed as linking Disney and that commercial enterprise, when there is no such affiliation. They will NEVER approve of it.
Because it's out of copyright, one could freely broadcast the animations, include them in an anthology of old animations, play them on a projector for the neighborhood, etc. That does not mean you can adopt Mickey as your company logo.
The core principle here is that Americans should believe that Elections are Free and Fair
I do not care what camp you hail from, but those are wishy-washy lawyer-speak level words I cannot abide. Most Americans believe some mighty retarded shit at the end of the day, and if they believe elections,
as we know them, are free and fair then they have good company in the people who believe sky daddy wants the Jews to slaughter civilians--and that we should be complicit in the act by paying for it--and the people who believe men can become women and vice versa and that EVERYONE else should follow that delusion, and that everything our civilization offers should be free to foreign invaders.
Replace "believe" with "have" and I will vehemently agree with you.
I think anyone saying that the shooter clearly belongs to one party or the other at this point is lying. And I've seen plenty of it on both sides, including you, right now.
If you can't see the shooter is FAR LEFT...then you are either willingly blind or not listening at all.
His notes, his relatives telling his history, FFS he's fucking a gay furry guy trans.....
If it walks like a duck, talks like a duck....
You had mail. Paul read it, so ask him what it said.
