All my dogs wear their collars at all times unless they’re getting washed. Don’t want to risk the situation where they get out of the yard because someone left the gate open.

They’re all microchipped, but that requires taking them to a vet to get their info. Much better to see the name and phone number embroidered into the collar.

My dogs can come and go inside/out back as they please: I installed an automatic door opener and hooked up motion sensors on either side, down low (dog height). They know to put their nose under the sensor to let themselves in and out (to the back patio).

Whenever another dog sounds the alarm barks, they all spread out and cover every area of the yard with additional alarms extra barking. Letting the whole neighborhood know that the visibility perimeter has been breached we’re getting a delivery.

We need oil to be more expensive but energy to be cheaper. Then more energy-intensive but more environmentally friendly alternatives can be used instead of (traditional) plastic.

Example: If energy was basically unlimited and free, suddenly the weight of glass as a product container doesn’t matter so much anymore. Same for steel and weirder things like products made out of thick, industrially-pressed fungus (which is a real thing, haha).

Republicans: Democrats plan is a non-starter because it just kicks the can down the road and does nothing to reduce health care costs. In fact, it’s likely to increase health care costs!

This is true!

Democrats: Republicans plan doesn’t actually do anything at all! It just takes people’s tax dollars and forces people to send at least $1000-1500/year to pharmaceutical companies and hospitals. Furthermore, it encourages people to pay for useless, junk insurance!

This is also true!

Neither of these proposals would prevent or solve the health insurance death spiral (that is currently accelerating into its final phase):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_spiral_(insurance)

The only solution is socialized health care. Anything that relies on capitalism is doomed to failure because health care is fundamentally incompatible with capitalism.

Neos, says the law is a “clear commitment to gender equality”, but critics say it will fuel anti-Muslim feeling…

If a religion is fundamentally incompatible with gender equality it deserves “anti… feelings.”

That goes for all religions. No reason to single out Muslims.

It depends… What color is your skin?

Couples that get roped into this hobby often tie the knot.

It won’t stop until you’re 64. The name was prophecy.

I’m confused: I thought heaven was not supposed to contain relentless conquerors, rapists, torturers, and murderers? The atheist has definitely been lumped with the wrong group.

It’s sad because all-electric cars should be the easiest and cheapest to maintain. Tesla has dug a grave for themselves with so much unnecessary bullshit that they’re now the least reliable.

It’s obvious what the problem is: Musk. Before he bought the company it was on a great trajectory. His influence has slowly eroded away its engineering prowess.

Well they didn’t cause an accident which is better than many drivers 🤷

They need a modern equivalent for vaping.

Mandate that data centers self-power via renewable energy already! It’s such a simple fucking solution that solves basically all the problems of data centers.

Relevant note: The research that came out a while back saying that a long conversation with an AI chatbot could use up to half a liter of water included the water used to cool the power plant that’s powering the data center. The same paper spelled out that the actual water use of the data center itself is only 12% of that. So if we force data centers to be powered via renewable energy a long conversation with a chatbot would only use 0.06 liters of water which is basically negligible. Especially when you consider that the 0.5L was a worst-case scenario (older data centers letting all the water evaporate).

D should be Dookie.

The shoulder fairy in Leadale, Kuu:

She’s not the cutest looking fairy ever but the way she uses body language to mimick/mock Caina’s speech is cute AF. For example, wagging her finger when Caina is lecturing her children who have been behaving badly. Or just generally popping out of Caina’s hair to stick her tongue out at an enemy 😁

Analog intelligence.

Atoms lettuce break the iceberg.

No, “your sick” makes perfect sense because it will become their sick when that employee brings it into work. Everyone can have the sick that way 👍

Upload it to Gemini and ask it to identify the font. It’s pretty good at that (even before 3.0 which is supposed to be better). I used it to identify the font used on some keycaps back when it was still on version 2.5 (which was basically the worst of all the AIs at the time).It might not have got it 100% correct but one of the fonts (of three) it suggested was close enough that I doubt laymen could tell the difference.

It’s not a shame. Have you tried this? Try it now! It only takes a minute.

Test a bunch of images against ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude. Ask it if the image was AI-generated. I think you’ll be surprised.

Gemini is the current king of that sort of image analysis but the others should do well too.

What do you think the experts use? LOL! They’re going to run an image through the same exact process that the chatbots would use plus some additional steps if they didn’t find anything obvious on the first pass.

I don’t think it’s irresponsible to suggest to readers that they can use an AI chatbot to examine any given image to see if it was AI-generated. Even the lowest-performing multi-model chatbots (e.g. Grok and ChatGPT) can do that pretty effectively.

Also: Why stop at one? Try a whole bunch! Especially if you’re a reporter working for the BBC!

It’s not like they give an answer, “yes: Definitely fake” or “no: Definitely real.” They will analyze the image and give you some information about it such as tell-tale signs that an image could have been faked.

But why speculate? Try it right fucking now: Ask ChatGPT or Gemini (the current king at such things BTW… For the next month at least hahaha) if any given image is fake. It only takes a minute or two to test it out with a bunch of images!

Then come back and tell us that’s irresponsible with some screenshots demonstrating why.