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by spondylosaurus 1y ago
> Text editors (people that edit/proofread prose, not computer programs) will be replaced by LLMs. This is such a broad category that I think it's inaccurate to say that all editors will be automated, regardless of your outlook
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by spondylosaurus 1y ago
The first BART mascot has a little blue chibi goat next to the human girl, and I can't tell if the chibi is supposed to be an alternate form of the girl or a completely separate entity, but either way it seems like it could be a solid
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by spondylosaurus 1y ago
There's the old paradox about self-help gurus and how they're rarely successful because they take their own advice, but because they get paid to share their advice... I feel like the "mid-tier creative who's famous on
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by spondylosaurus 2y ago
Yep, and many cis women will remove completely non-diseased uteruses as a form of permanent birth control :P
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by spondylosaurus 2y ago
I mean, congenital limb differences are quite literally a spectrum. An entire limb can be absent, or just part(s) of it, or most of the limb can be present but irregularly formed... You can even mix and match with which parts are present vs
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by spondylosaurus 2y ago
Not transfem myself, but considering the risk of tears and other unpleasantness from a vaginal birth I know I'd probably opt for a C-section if I were in that position regardless... recovering from bottom surgery once is tough enough w
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by spondylosaurus 2y ago
Considering how many trans people who are assigned female at birth get hysterectomies (tissue that would otherwise be discarded), maybe there could be a "give a uterus, take a uterus" matching program...
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by spondylosaurus 2y ago
Fifteen or 20 years ago I remember seeing something about using bar codes to "check out" and "check in" all the tools so nothing was unaccounted for. Unclear if that system's been widely adopted, though.
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by spondylosaurus 2y ago
Oh yeah, I figured you and I were in agreement! I meant that as an addition aimed at anyone reading this thread, not in a combative shot at you, so apologies if it came off as such :P
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by spondylosaurus 2y ago
Indeed. Also I originally said "resident" and not "legal resident" because I think it's blatantly insane that anyone in the US, with legal recourse to be here or otherwise, is being captured and sent to a prison i
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by spondylosaurus 2y ago
If it's impossible to legally comply with orders to bring US residents back from El Salvadoran prisons (which I'm skeptical of, but let's grant that it is truly impossible), then that's probably a sign we should stop sen
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by spondylosaurus 2y ago
> Bill Ackman tried to cancel Ivy League graduates that protested in support of Gaza I mean, the US government is now actively (and illegally) imprisoning/deporting Ivy League students who protested in support of Gaza, so I think &q
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by spondylosaurus 2y ago
If you have the kind of autoimmune issue severe enough that people are offering you biologics, the answer to "is it worth the risk?" is almost always yes, imo. Unchecked inflammation is guaranteed to wreck your health, whereas tre
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by spondylosaurus 2y ago
Recent risankizumab convert here :) Definitely happier now than I was before starting, but I'm sure some of that comes from the Crohn's not ruling my entire life anymore, lol. [knocks furiously on wood] But I didn't know abou
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by spondylosaurus 2y ago
Sounds like gum-related misophonia. Which I can empathize with, unfortunately.
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by spondylosaurus 2y ago
So... I can speak to this because I've listened to almost the entire TAL back catalog, lol. The show has a stronger journalistic focus now than it did 10 years ago and _way_ more than it did 20 or (almost!) 30 years ago. It's alwa
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by spondylosaurus 2y ago
1000%, which drives me crazy whenever this quote gets trotted out without context. In the same video he basically berates the designers for using disability as the basis of a monster/zombie design, and then tells a story about his disa
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by spondylosaurus 2y ago
A cynical but imo largely correct take on this phenomenon: "People prefer A.I. art because people prefer bad art" https://maxread.substack.com/p/people-prefer-ai-art-because-... (TL;DR - AI art is by design a
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by spondylosaurus 2y ago
Another comment in this post mentions reactive arthritis and HLA-B27; there's some evidence suggesting "permanent" autoimmune conditions in HLA-B27+ people also might come from viral triggers.
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by spondylosaurus 2y ago
Copyright laws are pretty arbitrary, especially in the US. And we'll randomly extend copyright terms to appease megacorporations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act
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by spondylosaurus 2y ago
You can use Markdown in Google Docs, but it automatically gets converted to rich text. (When you copy/paste rich text out of Google Docs, there's also a "Copy as Markdown" option, but it'll default to a particular
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by spondylosaurus 2y ago
I recently used a different extension to translate some chapters for a pretty niche manga that'd been dropped by its scanlation team, and the results were definitely readable, but one area where it seemed to struggle a bit was with thi
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by spondylosaurus 2y ago
A related, longer read: https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-weekend-essay/the-hidden-...
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by spondylosaurus 2y ago
My partner's lost a fair amount of weight on GLP-1 drugs and continues to drink Diet Coke like a fiend, and same thing, it doesn't seem to hurt their progress. Very curious about that soda fountain and flake ice machine though...
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by spondylosaurus 2y ago
Not the aspartame specifically, but the phosphoric acid in (Diet) Coke can be quite soothing if you have a stomachache. Carbonation + phosphoric acid + a Gas-X or two will cure bloating very quickly... and very loudly :P
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by spondylosaurus 2y ago
I know of an artist who left Hiveworks years ago for various reasons, among them being controlling about what artists could/couldn't say on social media and trying to choke out the competition in arguably shady ways.
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by spondylosaurus 2y ago
Funny story about testosterone enanthate dosing... so, I take it for body image/dysphoria reasons (to make myself more androgynous, basically) but I'm not a cisgender man. My body produces very little testosterone on its own. The
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by spondylosaurus 2y ago
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/10/14/silicon-valley... > Rather, the person familiar with Fairshake said, the goal of the attack campaign was to terrify other politicians—“to warn anyone runn
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by spondylosaurus 2y ago
Agreed, and I think a key thing to note here is that discrimination against marginalized groups/minorities has historically run much deeper than hiring strategies, and so hiring strategies themselves provide a pretty superficial pictur
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by spondylosaurus 2y ago
> In 2020-21, the average young man earned £24,032 and the average young woman £23,021. Those figures cross the following year. Then, as male wages virtually stagnate, female wages climb significantly. By 2022-3, the average young man ea

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