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@abandoned_roads
writes a lot in secrecy
Sydney, New South Wales Katılım Şubat 2011
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The Vance wing is enthusiastic about the preposterous Iran “deal” because it’s terrible for Israel. They don’t even mind that it’s also bad for the U.S.
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@blockhead4000 “Beyond trt”. Trt unfortunately is nothing but the normalisation of anabolic use in the vast majority of cases. What would be the % of trt users that actually have gonadal failure?
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The reality that young guys need to deal with is that drugs (beyond like TRT) are objectively bad for you, and if you're natural you can either be big (relatively i mean) *or* have abs. Not both. People have no idea what a non-enhanced male body even looks like anymore.
denguisis@isisw1ft
a romantização dos anabolizantes no fisiculturismo passou dos limites, criaram uma cultura onde o jovem tem vergonha de ser natural porque é rotulado de "frango", é triste como a musculação que nasceu pra promover saúde, virou uma busca obsessiva por um padrão insustentável.
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@xwanyex Whatever happened to cultivating taste? This is largely what gives people their richness and distinction
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You can say whatever you want about LLMs and I certainly have my critiques, but I think this is actually the first time since the iPhone where I feel like, “OK, this is something genuinely new and cool and useful.”
A lot of you seem really impressed by phone applications that call taxis, or online video stores that mean you don’t have to interact with retail employees, or food delivery applications for stuffing your already-fat faces at home, but I think quite clearly all of that stuff is extremely stupid and unimportant.
If you judge the technology industry by the creation of genuinely impressive new stuff, then LLMs are the first important thing in a very long time.
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@owenbroadcast Agree the disappearance of genuine, appreciable difference between AI and human visual art is imminent, if not already here.
Curious whether you think identifiability of text-based human art will also be lost? In some ways writing has a much higher ceiling of complexity
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yes, an AI could make a painting that is exactly like bob ross. no, it’s not the same, because bob ross didn’t paint it. correct. however this was also the defense against “my kid could paint that” accusations against modern art. congratulations. you are modern now. its okay.
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the people who thought “defending art” meant throwing away the modern idea that the artist, their story, the story behind the art, and the art’s place in history all matter as much as what the end result looks like are now going to embrace these principles as an anti-AI stance.
Jamian Gerard@JamianGerard
the hypocrisy is baffling
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@GrayConnolly Gray you are usually v reasonable but this aspect seems like a blind spot. This is the attitude towards Christians and their treatment esp. in West Bank the same. All that mattered here is the optics were so bad it was getting traction in the West so needed to be managed.
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Israelis immediately investigated & punished the delinquents esp as Israelis have Christians in the IDF ... meanwhile the very same media trying to stir outrage here were noticeably silent when Christians were being beheaded by 'moderate rebels' Daesh on YouTube
Israel Defense Forces@IDF
A short while ago, in full coordination with the local community of Debel in southern Lebanon, the damaged statue was replaced by IDF troops. The Northern Command worked to coordinate the replacement of the statue from the moment it received the report of the incident. The IDF expresses deep regret over the incident, and is working to ensure that it does not happen again in the future.
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i know a guy whose theory is that the angels were permitted some discretion in how to implement creation - this is why there is such variation: one tree like this, one tree like that: that's the range of their personal take on things while manifesting God's design for "tree".
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Seems like a problem with representation in art is that characters can’t just be characters but has to stand as avatars and role models of an entire group of people so that they can’t behave “badly” which is just as limiting and ridiculous as turning them into tropes
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@MaxDeez96744 I agree with you but that EOE frame is a banger
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Video essays should stop using that one End of Eva frame as thumbnails and use this instead
Dr Shrimp Puerto Rico ☘️🇧🇷🇲🇽🇯🇵🔻@LadPsycho
There are days where I think this is the greatest moment to be ever animated in anime history
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70 is old. But in general the "you won't see your child grow up" shaming is silly.
Dude who has kids at 55 or 60 today will probably have more time with them than was historically average.
I'm 44 and my dad is 96, still alive and doing well.
New York Post@nypost
‘Frasier’ star Kelsey Grammer welcomes 8th child at 70 trib.al/8WVJ6WV
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Hey, me and some of the other guys are going to hang out at the fascist McDonald's later if you want to pull up
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@DrewPavlou While this is stupid, it is absurd that this is a crime whatever your feelings about Hamas.
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Police can’t charge a man who brought a Hamas flag to a Palestine rally in Brisbane because Labor included a loophole in the legislation that allows anybody with a terrorist flag to get off if they say they didn’t know what they were holding 😂
UQ lecturer Kath Gelber comments in the full article: “Whenever a new social problem arises, governments try to introduce new laws and they become too unwieldy. We need to rethink this approach.”
Okay Katherine, we can just deport them then. We didn’t have this “social problem” 20 years ago. Islamic terrorism is an imported social problem to Australia because Australia was never built as a country for Islam.
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@magicinthealps It’s unreadably cheesy IMO but your mileage/tolerance may vary
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Is Brandon Sanderson worth reading, if you aren't willing to commit to absolutely everything he writes? I want to improve my grasp on contemporary fantasy.
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@Mangan150 Transferrin sat is falsely low in inflammation. Soluble transferrin receptor is useful for discriminating between decreased transferrin sats due to illness vs deficiency.
Re the papers above - I do wonder whether that relationship is genuinely about iron status or inflammation
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@abandoned_roads Not a doctor but seems you'd want to work up TF and % saturation, then you could discriminate between iron overload and inflammation.
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Excess body iron, not even what the experts would call "overload", is linked to osteoporosis.
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Ferritin, the iron storage protein, potently inhibits formation of new bone tissue
No doctor will ever mention this or test for this.
You're on your own
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@dbessner Alternatively, the culture became more soulless.
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If you were a man who owned so many books you couldn’t read them all in a lifetime and you always drank out of the same mug and wore your clothes until they fell apart or your wife threw them away, what would you want for your 64th birthday? Asking for a dad
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@ploughmansfolly You can’t go on overestimating the erudition of your audience like this
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