Real Christmas tree, fresh from a farm about 2km from here.

If you play more regularly, you get quickly used to this message.

Water with a hint of lemon or lime.

Somewhere over fourty years ago, i was fed up being bullied by a rich asshole in school again and again and again. So I hit him, just once, decking him and making him lose a number of front teeth.

At least he learned that lesson. He never bothered him again.

Depends on what the company does. Moving feed bags from the left to the right? Might work in that constellation. Design and develop the next big thing? Unlikely.

I did touch windows in my life, but did a lot with OS/2, Solaris and Linux. I currently also use windows because some tools have crappy license management that do not work in VMs.

Did a few jobs while still in school, since then I was basically handed over to new jobs by reference. Never had to write a CV or ask for a job, always “when you are done here, I’ve found you someone who needs your skills”.

Yep, they did indeed sand. But I never expected this antique fuc-er to stop on a stamp like that. I’m glad it was still slow at that point, or it would have been a big problem.

In their eyes, this is theft. If you want to own it, buy a CD.

Why should any comic artist make his or her art more copyable and abusable?

I have been sitting in a tram that emergency breake’d. It was all seriously fast: Ring of the warning bell (like an overgrown alarm clock) towards the driver of the car, and next thing was that I was leaning over an old lady sitting in the opposite side. They accellerated like a snail on dope, but breaking was applying ACME Insta Stop.

Yep. The “Uncanny Valley” is deep, and it is not limited to robots and mannequins.

I see a difference between e.g. restorative cosmetic surgery, e.g. after an accident on one hand, and creating cow tits and Mar-a-Lago lips on the other.

Thats on top of the large pile of shit.

Publicly accessible does not mean it is free of copyright. Yes, copyright law in it’s current form sucks and is in dire need to get reformed, preferably close to the original duration (14+14 years). But as the law currently stands, those LLM parrots are based on illegally acquired data.

Yes, I am. But i don’t expect them to do that.

All current AIs are based on stolen content.

In school, my PE in the senior years was rowing. You basically gathered a crew with one experienced steering person, put the boat on the river, did the predefined round, put the boat away, and you could go home. Be there early, get you boat out quicker, row a bit faster, and you were done early.

One day, the teacher stopped boats going out shortly after we left because of the weather. We were at the farthest point when we noticed the thunderstorm. I can tell you, in a thunderstorm you don’t want to be the one high point in the middle of the river! So we ran the boat home, pulled it out of the water and carried it up the ramp to the boat house. When we were in the middle of the ramp, lighting struck the flag pole about 5-10m from the ramp. Light and sound effects simultaneously, and it was LOUD!

I don’t remember the moments after the impact, but we were told that no group ever had carried their boat up the ramp and into the building that fast.

Esthetics is important. I leave ugly and simple to those who can’t any better.

Gaspacho? At least it is cool and savory…