Our kitchen is tiny so cooking is a solo sport in this house. I simply won’t go near when she’s cooking (95% of the work). Won’t even come close when she’s cleaning. Doesn’t bitch at me, but her body language is clear, does that shooing-away-a-fly thing, “You’re in my space and I’m busy.”

When I’m up to bat, “GET. OUT. I got this.” She didn’t think men could cook, never having met such a male. (Asian thing?) Took me some time to prove her wrong. She no longer tries to help. :)

In either case. Sit down. STFU. Await dinner.

Pretty sure my first wife said exactly that. And we cooked well together! But yeah, get the fuck out of my workspace.

Bones and tendon attachment points give us a clue as to their weight. Plus, no escaping the square cube law, they could only be so massive.

Earth seems to have topped out with the Blue Whale. Guessing the fatty pictured would mass more and not have the benefit of being suspended in water. :)

Interesting question, but no way this could be implemented fairly.

Your mom ever say, “Stop making that face or it will freeze that way!”? Well, there’s truth in that, especially as we age. Couple of anecdotes:

Saw my ex-wife for the first time after a custody battle lasting a couple of years. I was horrified! Instantly thought, “There is a woman who never smiles.” Her facial muscles that control smiling had atrophied to the point her face was sliding off.

Contrast her with a woman I was dating that smiled constantly. She smiles so hard her eyes turn into slits, so many teeth a chimp would feel threatened. She had well developed muscles under her eyes (don’t know the anatomical terms). Even her slight wrinkles showed it. Ever heard of laugh lines?

My wife smiles almost as hard, same facial muscles. Former gf was white, wife is Asian. I can see the resemblance in facial structure though they share nothing else alike.

Even at 54 I’m not too wrinkly (it’s coming!). Just looked in the mirror. There are clear lines between my eyebrows from frowning too much. Tried frowning, smiling, blank expression, little difference, those lines are there for good. Apparently I am a man who spends a lot of time frowning.

So while there’s truth to the thing, I cannot imagine a trustworthy business case for this. For example, maybe I frown a lot because I’m always concentrating on solving tough problems. Not the case here, I’m stressed and angry, but you get the idea. Maybe my ex-gf smiled so hard to compensate for being a bitch? Again, not the case, but still, I bet you get it. Maybe my wife smiles so much because she’s a contented human being? That is the case.

And having said all that, how in the hell could this be used to judge a young person’s personality?! They haven’t had time to develop or atrophy facial muscles, let alone get wrinkles.

What about dark-skinned people who are hard to photograph, having less contrast and more subtle lines? Would pale people fare worse, especially with age?

(gods this is getting long-winded) Humans devote a load of processing power to judging the tiniest facial expressions. I cannot see AI coming with better results than our gut instincts.

tl;dr: Yeah, I can see some science coming out of this, it’s not phrenology. I see no way it’s useful IRL.

Keep fighting the good fight!

Two dozen viewings and I’m still finding jokes. I am not a smart man.

So, the breakage was due to storms, which we’re assuming were driven by global warming? Seems to have been an unusual glacier, hence the fragility?

The whole higher ed thing has been blowing my mind. How does an Ivy League college not have the means to stand on it’s own without federal money?! State and local colleges, sure, I get it. And I’m a believer that the federal government should fund science and education, but how did these monster universities fall into dependence on the government?

Don’t mind if I do!

That’s what I’ve been wondering about! Is he narcissistic enough to truly believe he can hit these goals? Or does he have a fallback plan to sue his way out of it?

People will comment that he’s narcissistic enough, but he’s not Trump’s level of narcissistic, not even close. Plus, he’s smarter, which ain’t sayin’ much, so he’s gotta know this won’t fly.

Maybe it’s not about scoring the whole trillion, but pumping his net worth up to that number? No idea how the payout works as the years go by and goals are unmet.

Upvote if you think it’s an unpopular opinion around here. Up and downvote comments as you see fit.

Yes, women were treated a second-class citizens! American women couldn’t even vote until 1920. And I think that’s exactly where the artist is coming from, highlighting these changes without judgement. One more time, he could have made the flapper unattractive. (I’ll allow maybe my personal preferences are at play here. :) Long, thin, knee-high hose, cute headband, small breasts, independent, parties, sexy jewelry, yes please!) I feel you’re mixing Victorian, Gilded Age and Mauve Decade (much the same) women’s rights into the thing. The 1920s were a breakout point for women. The next advance would be women in the WWII workforce and the next being birth control in the 1960s.

Very radical times not only for women’s rights, but for all of us. Often commented that the first two decades of the 20th century was the Cambrian Explosion of mechanical items. Look at all the idiotic inventions of the time. Nuts. And we went from Kitty Hawk to dogfights in a mere 10-years!

We’d just come off our first taste of mechanized warfare, worst war in history yet lost more lives to the Spanish Flu and had just gone into Prohibition. Party hearty, but keep it on the down low.

I feel privileged as GenX. Much like 100-years ago, my generation straddled a radical divide in tech and social norms. Guess that’s the new normal though. 🤷🏻

You kinda lost me. I’m saying the terms of the contract are absolutely impossible to fulfill.

If one more person on here lectures me that AI isn’t actually intelligent, 🤬. Yeah, I know. Like these posters, I am non-retarded, but I don’t need to flaunt my lack of stupidity.

These motherfuckers would be running from a bank robbery,

“Hit the gas!”

“aCkSHuallY this is an electrical vehicle and does not employ an internal combustion engine to explode refined gasoline.”

Wait till they find out “dashboard” isn’t an actual dashboard from a horse drawn buggy. The mind boggles.

Tried that book 3 or 4 times. No idea what it’s about, just can’t care. Saw it on my tablet for the 100th time while looking for a new book. Just don’t think I can try anymore, but I feel I’m missing something great.

If you come to a solution, and remember me, can you ping me with any success you find? I’ve got a single-shot Gamo and my hits are all over the place like yours. I’ll dial it in, pick it up a month later, all over the place again. And this is with multiple scopes over the years!

Once again, non-issue on my Win11 install, can’t find any evidence of Recall. No idea why I don’t deal with all the crap lemmy tells me I’m dealing with, but I don’t have these issues.

Inclined to agree, but I’ll give the argument a shot.

As with reddit, the vast majority of visitors don’t comment or post at all. All we hear from are the loudmouths like me.

The President of the United States of America is running his own, personal social media site and not only fails to earn enough to pay the bills, he’s actively hemorrhaging money.

Combine that with what I’ve said of Trump for the last few years, he cannot get more popular, can only lose supporters. Can you imagine anyone investing in this fiasco? Guess it’s a money laundering thing? Buying favors?

total revenue $972,900 for the third quarter

Fucking pathetic. I worked for a small software dev, 130 souls, and we clocked that much a month. And our products and services we far more complex than a social media site.

Sometimes I use needle-nosed pliers to pull my combat boots on. 🙄