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Treatments for trans children and politics, world-wide
maarsen replied to Ormond's topic in General Chatter
Anybody looking to enforce their viewpoint onto the rest of the community because the rest of the community is WRONG! in believing in something different, whether it is religion, the books they read, how they dress, or even what they put on a tuna sandwich. -
Reny I have been on both sides of the problem you are now facing. Yes, it really sucks no matter how you look at it. There are people I have felt so much for, and some who have felt the same for me but nothing was ever going to come of it. Years later all I can say is yes I still think of them but there is more than that person in the world. Moving on is hard but it is what you need to do. We do have the ability to love more than one or more than once. Good luck.
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There is so much bad art out there that any addition to the volume of such art by AI will be like me hoping to raise the oceans by peeing into it. People seem to like bad art or even mediocre art. How else to explain the amount of it? Lets look at fiction books. Whenever I go to the local library I am astonished at the shelf space given to authors, who having read once I will never ever read again. Who does read that crap? If AI does manage to push out some of the drivel that passes for art in our culture then I will not complain. If all it does is add to the drivel and mediocrity, well there seems to be a ready audience for it. Even if an AI created a work of staggering brilliance, the audience is small enough that the hours of computing time used to create it will never be paid for by the limited number of people in the audience for it. The problem solves itself.
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maarsen reacted to a post in a topic: The Small Stuff That Doesn't Need a Thread. #8
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The Small Stuff That Doesn't Need a Thread. #8
maarsen replied to LongRider's topic in General Chatter
This wasn't just a bit of fix up around the house. Check out Acme -Gridley screw machines on YT. I used to repair those for a few years. 88 -
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maarsen replied to LongRider's topic in General Chatter
Spocky I have been working as a millwright/ industrial mechanic for almost 40 years before retiring and I still will not buy a cordless drill. Or a laser level. I have always found that a corded drill never has a dead battery and a string line never fails either. -
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UK politics, Truss me, I really am that mental.
maarsen replied to BigFatCoward's topic in General Chatter
When Britain entered the Great War in 1914, a huge number of men were called up and tried to enter the armed services. The problem was that at least half of them were so sickly and/ or malnourished that they were not even useful as cannon fodder. The Germans even noticed how small and stunted the British soldiers were compared to themselves. -
So would I as I would see it as a way for him trying to get back the money he was forced to spend on Twitter.
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Are citing sanctions an excuse to not say Russian armaments are not really that good?
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Off your meds?
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How about Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels?
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I have had this on occasion. I have had it while wide awake too.
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maarsen replied to LongRider's topic in General Chatter
I subscribe to her channel and yes she was very brave. It did need saying though. -
True genius lies in leaving stuff the fuck alone. The fake genius not so much.