Define “good”. The books themselves are (probably intentionally) written in the style of ridiculous queer slash fan-fiction.

If that’s your jam they’re actually pretty good. The writing is surprisingly self aware and the characters are well written … for what they are.

This review of Trans Wizard Harriet Porber And The Bad Boy Parasaurolophus is worth a watch to get an idea of what you’d be getting into.

For a browser, we suggest Brave

Yeah, no.

hoserhobbes covered what I meant.

OBS creates a virtual webcam you can use as input for whatever video chat program you’re using. In OBS you can switch between and composite “sources” including your screen, media files, actual webcams, etc.

There is a slight learning curve but it’s incredibly powerful and there’s tons of tutorials online. You also have a lot more control over what you’re streaming than you do in discord. Sharing your screen is fairly easy.

OBS studio with whatever you’re using for video chat.

According to the people that make the £70,470.00 speaker wires: yes.

Gold!? Oh boy, where to even start …

Silver is a far superior conductor, and everyone knows about the “skin effect” in wires. So obviously you want silver coated solid core copper. That’s not even getting into all the other factors involved in proper cable selection.

I recommend these cables for the entry level audiophile.

There the added difficulty of “real whistle blower, but changed the details so they don’t out themselves”.

I was convinced I wanted to go into a science or engineering from childhood through my early 20s.

Mid 20s was a complete turnaround for me, and I’m a firefighter/medic now. There’s a lot about the job that sucks: but the pay and benefits are decent enough and I’m (mostly) actually helping people without making some sociopath billionaire even richer.

“parental controls”

Yeah … I was the kid that knew how to bypass those and “helped” other kids out in that regard.

Or requiring school busses to have swing out stop signs and making it illegal to pass them when they’re deployed.

Actual “protect children” laws don’t get talked about because absolutely nobody has a problem with them.

Since the goal was to make money: I imagine some of the “guardrails” the AI was set up with included emphasizing that it’s exist to make money. I wouldn’t be shocked if the prompt repeatedly mentioned capitalism.

So you emphasize the AI is a capitalist, then point out the most successful capitalists give away free stuff all the time as marketing. So to meet its primary directive it needs to give away a bunch of free stuff with a snappy slogan.

My favorite of all time and winner of the 2010 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest.

For the first month of Ricardo and Felicity’s affair, they greeted one another at every stolen rendezvous with a kiss—a lengthy, ravenous kiss, Ricardo lapping and sucking at Felicity’s mouth as if she were a giant cage-mounted water bottle and he were the world’s thirstiest gerbil.

– Molly Ringle, Seattle WA

You weren’t around for it, but it was bad – you couldn’t avoid them. A few dozen trolls doesn’t sound like much, but they were coordinated and relentless. Blocking users didn’t work because they were constantly making alts, including on other instances.

Calls were made for instances hosting them to ban those users: most did, some refused to or couldn’t. Blocking instances in user settings wasn’t a thing yet, so those instances were mass defederated from. Lemmygrad and hexbear were the big two and home of the dirtbags that were upset their “fun” was over.

Instances defederated from hexbear and lemmygrad because a few dozen users from those instances were terminally online trolls. They’d relentlessly harass users they didn’t like (i.e. most people), spam threads with gross images, and were generally obnoxious shitheads.

Also, “Tankie” is an insult against the hardcore authoritarian left: people that cheer on repressive dictators and violent supression of dissent. The term was invented by communists out of disgust for some of their “fellows”.

Of course, if you ask a tankie they’ll try to argue the word is an insult to all communists/socialists/leftists … it’s not.

– and are being used by rich sociopaths to replace the very people that made that content.

The BBC Historic Farm Series?

You’re on the decentralized social media network that was created to get away from corporate bullshit and are surprised the people here don’t like posts containing AI slop?

AI reviewing medical imaging/labs and flagging abnormal findings for review by a doctor is awesome.

AI spamming social media to push fascist propaganda is not.

I know I’m late in replying (life) but I’d say it’s because most people’s experience of hearing criticism of Islam in the west is it coming from assholes of the white supremacist variety. They are overwhelmingly the loudest and most proliferate critics of Islam, so people start associating the two – and unfortunately that assumption is correct more times than not.

It’s a given considering most western leftists are fairly ignorant on the topic of Islam and have a tendency to diametrically oppose everything bigots claim. Now throw in assholes that will exploit those facts to push their fucked up beliefs.

I agree with you and would expand that to cover most major religions, particularly the abrahamic ones.

I also think bigotry is evil because it’s blind hatred of anyone belonging to a group. There are decent enough people that are Muslims, Christians, and Jews. Admittedly most don’t closely follow their religion (particularly the fucked up parts) – but they still identify as such.

There’s a difference between attacking a belief system and attacking huge, diverse groups of people. Somehow I don’t think Ultra Nuclear’s intent was the former.