direhard.bsky.social
Your designated Dire. Any pronouns. Antipodean Artist.
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Also, despite trying it out, I go easy on make up because I feel weird about not looking like myself.
Kudos to any one who knows how to contour though!
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Maybe you could use a nice cotton cloth. and if you run cold water over it, it'll be good for puffy eyes. (doesn't help with snot I'm afraid.)
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you know you do have a fun job though, as a creative! Making art and stories is a great excuse to learn about everything!
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I'm so happy to know this even though it has nothing to do with my taxes, or my job.
If I were a non omniscient god, I'd want to spend eternity reading Wikipedia. Being omniscient is good too, but it's more exciting to learn than it is to know.
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Today I learned the Dimetrodon (my god it wasn't even in my online dictionary) wasn't a dinosaur or even a lizard! It's an "extinct genus of sphenacodontid synapsid"
An early precursor to mammals! And it already extinct 40 million years before dinosaurs.
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And if you're lucky you got one of the fun jobs, like a palaeontologist, scientist, or anything that works with animals, or lasers, or digging a hole.
I look around my coworkers and so few ever think about dinosaurs unless their kids and grand kids mention them.
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Wolverine took me several seconds to clock without his face points
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Oh was not expecting that accent from Foster. It's now occured to be every advert for this movie I ever saw while growing up never had her speaking???
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It came up because in the previous week people have said I am pale, have sharp teeth, and I ran into a girl from high school who told me I looked younger than I did back then. So I said if I turn out to be a vampire I'm gonna go hunt and eat creeps and bad guys.
Co-worker: Oh so like Hannibal
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18/66
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And then they would have us live in a world where the thinking is done by machines made by people who didn't want to think.
I'm sorry the complexities of the universe elude you, random internet boy. But my scope is not so challenged.
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They will forget to ask fibre artists about their whale bone tools.
They will forget to ask a mother about knives placed on high shelves.
They will forget to ask cleaners about the ways they use salt and vinegar.
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Just letting a computer handle all our thinking is incredibly short sighted.
Not because only humans are capable of making connections of logic. But simply because they will never have a comprehensive data set of all of humanity's knowledge.
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Imagine loading a computer up with every language in the world and then asking it to make English.
That is simply not how language works.
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And of course mentioned the advances in AI.
How can you possibly know that the conclusions are accurate unless a human double checks the output?
How could you even prove your language generator even worked if there is no way to cross check against the language you're trying to recreate?
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The encounter I'm reacting to is a techbro believing a lost language could be found by loading a quantum computer with data from every other language.
And then waffled on about the speed and efficiency the computer could calculate data.
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Sure the AI made for bear claws can detect cancerous cells. But it didn't become sentient one day and tell someone "look what I can do!" A human recognised a way in which a tool for retail could be reapplied.
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Deepcuts exist as an extant form of life
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Bruschetta.
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I honestly thought this was an energy drink or Arizona tea
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We've all seen it first hand over the last decade. Like all the game developer and media companies that fire a whole teams despite success and profits.
The upheaval caused by the tariffs will be used as an excuse to cut operating costs. i.e jobs.
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Not speaking as an economist or anything. But I have the pleasure(sarcasm) of being in retail for 20 years. 20 years of seeing upper management make choices that screwed over workers and customers.
Why, just a fortnight ago they blocked off a fire exit to build an Easter display.
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Product range will go down, so will product quality. Infact, I expect prices to even increase. Plenty of big corpos are American owned. Where possible they could spread the cost of operating in the US across the globe.
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I also pointed out we've already been watching the same thing happen locally. The stuff we sell has only gone up in price (drastically since covid) and we keep getting told to cut hours. Most departments are already on a skeleton crew.