We had a bumper crop rhis year. Highly unusual. Often it’s hit or miss. Last year was pretty mild. Year before was almost none. We just moved here 4 years ago. I only spot fertilize individual plants. I don’t do “whole lawn”. I don’t clear all leaves, just mulch them in place. I don’t clear the edges so perfectly with the weed trimmer. I never use pesticide.

Makes me wonder if the previous owner did and they’re recovering.

Ads have ruined the internet. Truly.

Ah, I remember this image. It received some kind of award or something and created a stir when it was revealed to be AI gen. I can see why that would be incentive to want copyright.

I play with AI image generation all the time. No way do I see that as my work, there’s no skill other than positive and negative prompts, maybe feeding it a a starter image set or something.

Where it might be more concerning is if you use AI gen to create an 2D example of something, then an artist creates a 3D physical representation of the thing. Who owns it? AI famously is not good at creating “whole” things, but one can certainly interpret that image to make a whole of it.

It’s absolutely not a joke.

Abstract: *Violent far-right extremists have targeted critical infrastructure to radicalize and recruit members, promulgate their narratives, and sow chaos, all in an attempt to precipitate the destruction of political systems and society writ large. Accelerationist ideology, conspiracy theories, disinformation, and far-right extremist narratives have played a key role in the prioritization of critical infrastructure as a target for the violent far-right.

They’re more than inconveniencing people or causing damage and expensive repairs, they’re killing people.

The death of a woman that occurred after firearm attacks on power substations caused a massive power outage last year has been ruled a homicide, newly released autopsy records show.

Isn’t that the kicker? Probably less than a year’s pay for that guy.

Wild guess that he may have had more skeletons in the closet than just this one.

Seems like they knew what he’d done, so hopefully they’ll be able to undo the damage.

It doesn’t rehabilitate, either. Cheaper and more profitable to warehouse people than to offer psychiatric and educational care. Yes, before some pedants tell me that prisons do offer some of these things, I know they do. But they are not the default, and they are not always easily accessed.

Interesting reading the responses here. I set static addresses all the time and have had zero issue over a decade +.

Because the conservative machine, despite the love of Elon’s right-wing antics, never stop talking about how bad EVs are. Funny, the only time they act like they care about the environment is when they talk about how bad the EV batteries are to manufacture. While they roll coal and drive gas-guzzling mall cruiser bro-dozers all over the place.

Unpopular opinion…

Man, I wrote a whole WoT about this. Deleted it. Fuck the cheaters. I don’t know why it’s so hard to stop them. The kind of people that will DDoS a company for blocking them are the same ones that will cheat. No gold star for any honest players that DDoS, either. If there’s a server problem or a bad patch that prevents me from playing my first thought isn’t to DDoS the company and fuck up everyone else’s game in a fit of petty revenge too. That said, it’s sad that honest players are the only ones harmed after the cheat coders found their workaround so quickly.

Interestingly the stripe along the east coast follows the I-95 corridor.

What a disappointment this guy turned out to be.

Yeah, he’s soft-supporting trump. This quote plus the “trump is going to be strong” line are definitely pro-trump in some fashion, then not wanting to “mansplain”.

People can refuse to bake a cake for a gay couple.

People get punished for not delivering hate mail.

Why is it so easy for hatred to do things but so hard for decency to push back?

A race to see what will kill the most of us first. The plastic or anthropogenic climate change.

Even though your edit clarified it, I wish we’d stop calling them “exploding batteries”. The battery isn’t the explosive, it’s the explosives that were hidden in the device. I’ve already encountered far too many morons describing conspiracies where the big bad government could make your iPhone explode.

Think I kinda agree with this. Yesteryear’s software took training and experience, and business either hired or trained that experience. Now businesses don’t want to waste time or money on training, so thy hire experience, contract it out, or find some kit that is “easy” with minimal learning curve.

Perversely the rules that make cars more efficient and environmentally friendly have incentivized manufacturers to make absurdly sized trucks.

Are the “oversimplified chalkboard economics” basically the businesses winging about having to pay people more?

Have we not known this for years?