My, I’m hallucinating, sorry. I could swear I read 30% sexier in one of the screenshots and 20% on the other… The result potatoes do look different though.

I find it very interesting how it preserves the curve on the top left side of the potato for the 30, but doesn’t for the 20. 20 only is good enough to remove dirt and some wrinkles, seems like it needs the extra 10 for curves to appear.

I feel weird the pope is saying something that resonates with me… Stop

Love it

I need to start using this in my life somehow. I’ll snatch the pic for myself for now

As a child, I wanted to be a zoologist.

Later during my teens I wanted to be an artist. And I did.

I pursued the arts for a very long time. Started as a silversmith while I was still in my teens, a career that lasted about 15 years give or take. Meanwhile I kept studying arts. I managed to get some illustrations published but it wasn’t a lot. As my silversmith era was ending, I got into 3D design/VFX. I managed to work for a small studio for two years. Best job in my whole life, unfortunately it ended too roughly with a mix of industry collapse, burnout and personal relationship problems all entangled.

That was a couple years ago and in spite of my best efforts I couldn’t get a job in 3D ever again. This in turn drove me into depression, of which I’m crawling out of, currently holding a job in retail ( I jumped from one retail place to another until I found a decent work environment) but unfortunately my creative side is not giving any signs of life. The current AI debacle adds insult to injury, discouraging sharing new work at all if I had anything substantial to produce.

It’s shit. But it used to be great. I wonder if there’s something of Phoenix in me or if I’m just a pile of ashes. Only time will tell but the years keep piling up and things don’t improve.

If it did get dirty I would have to try it. As it is though, not interested, and slightly put off.

Hi, turns out I made a post about data not too long ago if you’d like to see what people consume/pay and chime in. Or not.

https://mander.xyz/post/45669283

Brilliant

That’s too true, thanks for the reminder

I’m still on Baldurs Gate 3 and loving it

Good for hygiene, but, are you expecting someone to force you down the toilet anytime soon?

Shame you’ve already blasted music and you are pretty certain he’s feeling it. I would have slipped a note under his door asking him to at least get a mat or something to cushion the weights falling

But Sylvia could scavenge a cow some other animal hunted and left. So…

When they get withdrawals, even if mild. Some people get a bit cranky if they don’t get their daily fix (and yes, it has to be a daily habit). That’s evidence for me of an unhealthy dependence.

Of course, if they always have alcohol available it’s going to be difficult to see the withdrawal and it’s also difficult to draw the line because not all people tolerate it in the same way.

Okay the key here is what you mean by “constantly”. Telling a story about something so life changing once a year hardly goes as “constantly” in my books.

What may come across as manipulative is you mentioning she’s trying to get you to do as she says or trying to get guilt or compassion from you. And this with a pinch of salt, because it’s very hard to tell from what you share here. I would have to become a fly on your wall for a long time to have my own opinion about it.

You tell me she’s telling you this every week and making reference to it every day, several times a day, and now that’s what I consider “constantly”. That she hardly has anything else to share about her past or that she somehow finds a way to spin everything to a framework of scarred pregnancy mother, or similar.

My own mother has told me about her pregnancies several times a year, I heard her stories so many times. Hundreds. Yet that was never the only story she had, and it was always brought up more or less naturally in conversation. The same happened with several other favorite anecdotes of her own past and me and my sister’s childhood. I would consider this aspect to be normal.

I never felt manipulated by her retelling of a story though. And I know she could manipulate pretty well. She also had a few topics she would constantly harass me about, yes, daily or nearly to a point. But retelling the past was not part of it, even though she did frequently.

Exactly. Arn, brothers

My, it almost feels as if training data should be paid for and not taken for free

What? Nova has tracking? Also I never heard of this company that acquired it before

I’m here to say Jasmine /Jazmín in English and Spanish, because I haven’t seen it mentioned yet