LwL

Tbh yes but I think as long as EU countries still send then weapons it feels like a hollow gesture that distracts from the real issues. Russia is being sanctioned and has generally been disconnected from the rest of Europe in many ways, meanwhile Israel can just genocide palestine and get some stern words.

It's sad, but sadly not actually inconsistent with general foreign policy.

Northern Germany, had that book as a kid as well and read it many times.

It's the result of weird ethical standards, which make the side effects justifiable for women since women experience all sorts of effects from periods that can in some cases get better with hormonal birth control. The fact that someone (many people I'm sure) might choose to deal with these side effects in exchange for their partner not having to, or just for additional safety, doesn't factor in there.

I honestly think it's rooted in the same beliefs that also make it hard to get any permanent body alterations done if not deemed "medically necessary". Things like a vasectomy or HRT, both of which reportedly have tons of hoops to jump through to get them.

A lack of trust in people to be able to decide what to do with their own bodies.

It is more appropriate for llms, but not for diffusion models (imagegen). Those are more throw shit at a wall and refine it a thousand times (whereas llms just grab shit that looks similar to what they want). It's why generated images usually look normal at a glance and fall apart the moment you pay attention to details, because the AI judges the whole image to be close enough to training images that match the prompt instead of having any intent behind individual parts.

Does AI just generate a font now and use that for text? I'm asking because the letters seem to be entirely consistent which I don't think would happen if the text was image-gend.

There's also a good chance it's just the image that was AI generated and someone did manually add the text, easiest check might be to reverse search without the text.

Ime with ublock it's not nearly as easy to manage allowing only specific scripts to run on each website to make it work but with less garbage added on compared to noscript

In what fantasy world do we stop using it large scale for any reason other than supply dries up? Freight ships run on oil, planes run on oil, both do not have economically viable alternatives yet. Cars run on oil and it will take more than 2-3 decades until 95%+ of global cars are EVs. Plastic currently uses around 10% of global oil supply, so even if everything else drops to 0 we still need a lot.

Have you considered that it could not be making fun of it but rather them genuinely thinking it's aesthetically pleasing? Because I kinda agree those photos look great.

Also the concept that something historic HAS to be preserved isn't universal across all cultures, even though it's very common. Personally I think it's nice trying to do that, but things will eventually be destroyed and that's how it goes, might as well find some beauty in it.

Reactions like that aren't unexpected but they do make me think the responder is an idiot anyway

Thanks, I'll have to check that out

Bowling stemmed from a gambling ban. It's gambling if you play a game where you wager money, it doesn't have to be purely or at all luck based (and technically chess has a luck element since white has an advantage).

Though there's a good chance this is just a pretext to stop people engaging in things that might make them too good at thinking for themselves.

Sometimes I get clickbaited into watching one because yt doesn't let me hide them forever (is there an extension for that maybe? Surely it's doable with css or something), and they've been alright. Though the ones I clicked on have only been from one creator and I don't mind fast talking (not sped up) and those didn't have the fast cuts.

I also really don't get the appeal of the format. I've been sent shorts from other creators and it just feels worse than the same thing as a proper video. It doesn't overload me because it's essentially how my brain operates anyway, but that's also why I want things that make me take a break from constantly thinking in overdrive by simply being slow.

Might be because of local accent as well, I don't speak a word of spanish but I'd be very surprised if there's no difference between spanish in spain and spanish in colombia