My spouse yelled at me after she showed me too many AI videos, and I would watch it and 1) if it’s under 15 seconds, 2) too good to be true, 3) has unrealistic physics, and/or 4) has AI artifacts, I wouldn’t enjoy the video, and just say “yeah, that’s AI.”
She just wants to enjoy the videos, and didn’t care if staged or AI or what. She likes the concept of what’s on the video. AI takes that away from me, and not her, apparently.
Aaaaaaaaaand, there it is.
Typically these visas are for spouses of Americans, work visas, and adoptions. There’s a few other categories, but it looks like those are the typical big ones.
Sorry, MAGA, but your mail order brides have to come from Ukraine now.
Suspends immigrant visa processing. It’s a specific type of long term visa.
Stupid headline, how many people planned to permanently immigrate to the US for the World Cup? Likely none. Tourist visas are the category “Non-immigrant visa” so they shouldn’t be affected.
Ah, yes, the art of the deal. Publish the highest price you would be able to pay. Smart.
Does she work for ICE now?
We actually CAN have a candidate that’s not in the pocket of big corporate interests. But that person needs to also not look at both parties and think “well, these are the only options.” Ross Perot actually had a decent run in 1992, and he was fucking nuts. A solid governor that declares their own party corrupt and not a part of the future would be seen as a hero, and could build on a groundswell. Newsome just showed us all that he’s not that hero.
Both parties have committed sepuku over the last 12 months anyway. The bravery lies in being the person that has the guts to admit it.
I rocked a dual-boot with Windows 11 and Linux Mint for a year and some change before going 100% to Linux. I miss nothing, the machine works faster, and I feel less stressed and more secure about daily driver laptop.
Looked around at a few other distros…nope, still love Mint. 10/10, would do it all over again.
We vote in primaries to avoid that.
Prior to 2012, I also believed that. Please keep in mind that the Democratic abuse of Superdelegates in 2016 to screw Bernie was so egregious that they had to reform their system to curb their egos. Some. Now they only have a 15% party leadership stake. So sanguine. So benevolent.
Many states also have closed primaries specifically to keep the party entrenched. Like where I vote, the GOP set it up generations ago, and guess which party has in recent years not lost sleep over it? Certainly not enough to bother changing it.
Primaries are the same sham as local elections with no primary in heavily single-party constituencies. Which is that the entrenched party decides who can run under their brand sure to collect people who vote down the line, and for anyone else, even lifelong registered members of that party, to run as independents. Local elections matter. So do statewide seats. And both parties want nothing more than to be in power, not to represent you.
Thinking that the other party will somehow fix what you don’t like is how we have gotten here and been here since the 90s. Voting only to vote against someone else lets the slime disenfranchise you when you think it hasn’t. Relying on a party to maybe, hopefully, let your vote go to who they decide, isn’t democracy, and it doesn’t defend or uphold democratic values. Otherwise maybe we would have something a bit more coherent than Schumer’s strongly worded letters and Newsom being cautious as a lawyer “letting” one comms person tweet sass a few times for the media traction.
Maybe I didn’t make myself clear:
Fuck both these parties and everyone involved. Unseat them all. Fuck both the parties, they ain’t done shit but for themselves.
You’ve just described exactly why the Democratic party lost touch with normal people. They couldn’t resist wealthy donors. Or so says Bernie Sanders all the goddammed time.
Y’all. Stop fucking fooling yourselves. Don’t let others strongman our county into the ground by convincing you to gobble down whatever rancid dick a political party throws at you.
You want the Dems to win? People under 35 should primary every fucking member of Congress. Boomers did this to is, and they’ll keep doing this to us. Fuck them.
Well, yes, but it’s not the same thing as the acrtic/antacrtic circle.
The farthest south points of SA are around 34.4 degrees S. That’s actually very close to the equator, relatively speaking. The Northern hemisphere equivalents are Cyprus, half of Tunisia, Rabat, Tehran, and then in North America, just north of Los Angeles, the entire Texas panhandle, and almost Atlanta. I have family that live just above that line, and back in May 2024 they couldn’t actually see the northern lights, they could only see a faint red glow with their phones. Most good smartphone camera apps can take a slow enough shutter speed photo that it’s better in low light at seeing them than our eyes. If you see those pictures of a red curtain, that’s what you’ll get. And you genuinely might not be able to see anything with your bare eyes.
The place I was at was 68.7 degrees North, so above the Arctic circle which is at 66.5 degrees. Up there the magnetosphere is more vertical, so the ions come straight down, which is why you get more dramatic ribbons. At lower latitudes the magnetosphere is more of an angle, so the ions slowly hit the atmosphere and give up energy slowly, not all at once. (At the equator, the earth’s magnetic field is basically horizontal, which is so weird) Even Tasmania and southern Chile are, respectively, as far south as Marseilles and Edinburgh are north (or between Toronto and Ontario and the upper half of Newfoundland). Not exactly known for their aurora viewing spots unless there’s a crazy solar storm.
If you look at the aurora ovals on https://spaceweather.com/ you can see that most of the action is close to Antarctica. Sadly, the Southern Sea really makes it hard to see good Southern Lights other than from Antarctica.
Here’s a video from directly beneath one band, but it moves not exactly slowly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDSkj8Ns6H8&t=15
And this one as well - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIZeEoC4TuY&t=14
So it might depend on the day, but sometimes the bands will wobble or split or something quickly. And I should clarify that I say “quickly” and “fast” also because I was expecting the time lapse thing like you said, like it was going to be a static, barely moving curtain of green. It was “fast” not like some inflatable tube man thing, but more like the pace of a stream or small river. You can watch it change in front of you. It moved fast enough that other people staying where we were were outside maybe 10 meters away, and then a band would do something and they were cheering it and shouting “whaaa?!?!” It was quite the show, and it wasn’t just me that thought so.
In terms of access and availability, if you’re in the Eastern hemisphere, you can probably take Turkish airways to Finland in 2 flights for less than trying to get to Tasmania or Chile from the same place.
Yo, they charge the non-Prime people fucking $10 a month for it. Is that just the “ad-free tier” now?
Same. I did find a recent substack that acknowledges that this phrase as a reprisal war crime was not verbatim used by Nazi Germany, it was just “in the spirit” of how the Nazis did their war crimes.
https://brendonbeebe.substack.com/p/one-of-ours-all-of-yours-origins
Because it’s a building that optimizes people in small rooms in a finite space. Built on a budget that asks for durable plain construction by the lowest bidder. In some cases the same construction firms might very well win contracts to build either.
Why doesn’t most office space look like prisons? Office space is general use and can be leased and it’s intended to be torn up and modernized every few years.
It shocked me how fast they move. Stone cold sober, staring up at the sky going “what the fuuuuuuuuck?” Because it’s low light, it’s hard to capture on video I guess.
I hate saying it like this, but this kind of thing reminded me: every 5-10 years take a legit amazing, wonderful photo of yourself. A for real glamor shot. Dressed awesome, good lighting, lovely background. Make the effort.
Not only for your funeral, but if you get killed in a public fascist escalation and every news outlet news needs something to run, give them something beautiful to define your life.
Now let’s all go have a cry real fast.
I’m a big fan of making big batches of something like lasagna or enchiladas and freezing extra portions. I also don’t want to eat lasagna every day for a week. So once you have a couple batches of stuff frozen, you make big dinners with leftovers, and swap out.
So you have 4 lasagnas in the freezer. You make butter chicken and pop leftovers on the freezer, take out 1 lasagna.
The lesson of 2007 and 6 months of 2008
Hands down, the Northern Lights are just crazy magic. I saw a particularly active night in Lapland, even the Finns said it was a good night. Full cinema-style wavy green bands in the sky. Undulating like snakes. Fast. So fucking fast. In terms of natural phenomena that should be mistaken for gods, this is the peak.
27/10, would see again all the time.
Yeah, that’s what I was thinking as well, with the comparison to hand drawn animation. Honestly, I’m not sure, but I expect that would not hit quite the same way. Claymation…maybe the same, actually. It might also be just no glasses scrolling and quick reactions without discernment.
I’ve explained how to recognize AI videos, and she knows how to ID most (I hope), and I have noticed that she shows me fewer AI clips now. Not none, but fewer. I think she knows I don’t like them, and doesn’t want me too be the killjoy.
I even made a clip in Sora of our cat doing stuff, as an olive branch. I think that sort of made the point you were making about the friend getting an award.