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redbuddi
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only-tiktoks
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fetus-cakes

sadly the switchbacks are not always obvious

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redbuddi

Yeah it's not like everyone has the time to just take breaks or do things a little at a time. This is a good thing she's proposing, but there isn't any recognition of the fact that switchbacks are a luxury, not some secret life-hack that no one has figured out yet.

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squablodiablo

This goes against my deeply held belief of grabbing as many groceries as possible to make as few trips as possible.

For me personally, some amount of effort sustained over a longer period of time is worse than a greater amount of effort in a shorter period of time. I want to spend as little time suffering as I can.

I totally see this metaphor making sense for stuff like piano, but not groceries.

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wickedcriminal
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sassylittlecanary

Read some actual comics, Kyle.

Superman is an incredibly kind and tender character. (If he’s not being written that way, then he’s not being written well.) He inspires hope not just through his heroics, but also through his kindness toward other people. That’s his thing. Don’t you DARE call tenderness a “weakness.” Get your toxic masculinity the hell away from me and go read a badly written Batman comic if you want a “tough” male character.

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krinsbez

Why on EARTH would someone think Superman being tough and Superman being kind are contradictory?

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frasier-crane-style

Is that a Snyder fan telling someone that “you’re wrecking the character, create something new instead of making an interpretation that’s so off-base”?

Because Snyder is the guy who wanted the Greek Gods to all be Kryptonians and the Amazons to be descended from them.

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simon-newman

Where's that comic where Superman comforts Billy?

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da-boy-o-kultur

I saw that tweet by Gunn and thought “So, like regular Superman?”

Kyle sounds like Lex Luthor who believed that Superman doesn’t have a Civilian identity because such a godlike being would see it as beneath him. Also here you go @simon-newman​

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dasha-aibo

These few pages legit make me cry

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ophilosoraptoro

That's not just for acting, that's life advice. Seriously deep wisdom right there.

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sunder-the-gold

Only the strong can be gentle, because the weak don’t have the option of causing harm. Gentleness is the virtue that Superman can best exemplify, by being so strong that the only thing stopping him is himself.

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demi-shoggoth

I am so glad that someone who actually likes Superman is writing Superman now

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givemebishies
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pugswithlasers asked:

How to remove the teeth:

1. Go to edit blog

2. Go to display badges

3. Try on the badge

4. Repeat on sideblogs if necessary

A cool lesbian I follow showed me how to get rid of the Teeth Curse so now I’m just going around trying to spread the word in case anyone needs it

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givemebishies answered:

Thank you so much for spreading how to cure this curse!! Everyone look!!!

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redbuddi
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math-memes
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missbaphomet

He should have a parenthesis around the 230-220 or else in the order of operations would default to 220x0.5, thus making the equation 230-110=120

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funkyness

that's the joke actually!

"5!" with the exclamation point is a factorial, so 5!=5x4x3x2x1=120

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retroactivebakeries

#ah. you are mother fucker?

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neil-gaiman
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myjetpack

My cartoon for the latest issue of New Scientist.

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neil-gaiman

Our world.

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squablodiablo

Having recently read “I, Robot” and looking at it with our current AI situation in mind, it’s shocking how much more conscious they are about the potential problems with fictional robots than we are with AI now.

  • The laws of robotics are laid out and implemented before any robots are even sold. These are basically hard-coded rules that will override anything the robot could do. The rules aren’t actually perfect, (this is shown with the hi-jinx that ensue in the stories), but at least it’s something! It seems like a lot of generative text AI is designed with producing responses in mind FIRST, and then adding safeguards around those results. See, for example, the granny exploit.
  • Robots are pretty exclusively used for labor or problem solving in the book. There’s no mention of robot artists or writers because, when you’re designing robots with the benefit of humanity in mind, why would you want such a thing? However, in real life, it seems like AI is MOSTLY being used to “create content” by learning (stealing) from other people’s work.
  • In the book, it only takes a couple years before robots are banned from taking human jobs on earth, due to the obvious socioeconomic problems this would cause. It’s funny, because in the book this is treated as being kind of backward, and it would be if people weren’t dependent on their jobs to survive! In real life, we’re facing a real possibility that AI will take over many fields (including creative ones), and I’m not confident the legislation to prevent that will be successful. As a programmer, I’m well aware that many of the tasks of my job will be handled by AI in the near future. If I didn’t need money to live, that would be awesome, but with the way things are going AI labor will only benefit those who are already rich.

Just some thoughts that came up while reading the book, and this comic reminded me of them. Despite how old the book is, if you just read “positronic brain” as neural network the whole thing seems a lot less silly.

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redbuddi
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shi-saa

In the remote Buddhist monastery of Haeinsa is preserved the Tripitaka Koreana, the most complete corpus of Buddhist doctrinal texts in the world, dating from 1251.

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givemebishies
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stars-and-birds

quick what is everyone doing right now

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etherea1ity

okay reblogging this again just to say that i love love love reading these,, like it's so incredible how we're all doing such vastly different things at the same time...ik it's an obvious thing but it's also insane to think about.

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