Getting salmonella while breastfeeding sounds awful, that is just not fair

Well said, thanks for that little bit of measured realistic optimism I needed it today.

I want to hear that lecture!

I was just thinking about that series. I read the first three I think when it first came out. I saw someone talk about how they reread it and decided it wasn't as good at they thought it was when they first read it. But I've always thought I might still give it another go, mostly for nostalgias sake. Is this your first read through. Is it a concluded series?

Sorry that happened that must have been a real bummer.

I love these, wish they shipped to the states!

One thing I have been obsessed with is tomato bean soup. The recipe I base mine off is sopa tarasca, a Mexican dish that also uses a few ancho chiles. But you could use chile powder or omit that.

Anyways, I really like your idea of adding mushrooms and doing it in the pressure cooker. I might toss in a can of tomatoes and some onion and garlic. You could throw in other veggies too, like anything about to go bad. And add rice to really make it a meal. Beans and rice is so good when done right.

I would not be able to trust an auto translate. Look for someone out there who is adept at it and enlist their help, or a message board if you can find one. You do not want to find out your tattoo is a bad translation after the fact

True, this new tech is not going anywhere. And it is really amazing for certain applications. But the reason that AI is so good and looks the way it does is because it was trained on human made art. If it ends up putting most of these artists out of business, it would be a real shame not just for the artists and not just for all of us collectively, but it would be bad for AI as well.

AI is derivative by definition. We like our art to feel like it is fresh and relevant. Who will do that if all the artists go out of business because of AI? AI will only ever look basically how it is now until it's trained on new art. That's why it is important to have the conversation of compensating these artists. AI is generating a lot of money, and giving nothing to the artists and communities that they trained their models on. And if these communities are decimated by AI now, then these companies have killed the thing that they built their success on, and will have a hard time continuing to innovate without it.

Now, personally I don't think there is a risk of AI "killing" the art industry. Artists don't just make art to make money. There is value in the time taken. It is a good feeling to actually create something. And it's a great feeling to share that with others and feel like there's a small connection made between the artist and someone who likes what they made. That will never be replaced.

However, there is a risk of making many artist's lives, particularly digital artist's, harder than they already are. I think that might be what you are trying to get at. Don't just protest the new scary technology, protest the reason why you are struggling. And that is a really complicated problem and it's easier to just say AI bad. But we do need to support our artists, and dismissing their concerns without trying to understand where they are coming from is not helpful.

Honestly asking what does launch capability have to do with it?

Definitely some interesting thoughts here. I do think you need to ask yourself if you aren't romanticizing in the opposite direction.

I think there probably are some things that we could agree are universally disgusting , but it would still be a subjective opinion, just one that no one would argue. What I mean to say is that beauty and ugliness are human constructs, they don't actually exist. It would be kind of pointless to go back and forth with someone countering examples of beauty with examples of ugliness.