Don’t got a lotta time, but more time than money atm.

I’m a stranger on the internet, so take what I say with a grain of salt. I was into your story up until you said planes and helicopters were flying low over your home. It sounds like you may suffering from some level of schizophrenia or other paranoia related condition. Get evaluated, or don’t, but I hope you find peace.

Judging by the responses, I feel I should convey I relate to the professor and absurdity is that the student would ask such dumb off-topic question.

As for the question itself, people like what they like, they don’t need to justify themselves. Which is what makes question dumb.

This image was saved way before AI image generation was a thing. This is a real McCoy.

Men be over here bragging about eating a woman until she squirts all over his face, then balk at this?

Get out of here.

I would eat both of them

Maybe this goes a bit deeper than the question intended, but I’ve made and shared two patches that I had to apply locally for years before they were merged into the base packages.

The first was a patch in 2015 for SDL2 to prevent the Sixaxis and other misbehaving controllers to not use uninitialized axes and overwrite initialized ones. Merged in 2018.

The second was a patch in the spring of 2021 for Xft to not assume all the glyphs in a monospaced font to be the same size. Some fonts have ligatures which are glyphs that represent multiple characters together, so they’re actually some multiple of the base glyph size. Merged in the fall of 2022.

Ah, the dichotomy of Dad groups vs Mom groups. You’re judging @[email protected] entirely on one tiny happy insight into their life. Maybe their kid has underweight struggles and calories are calories. Maybe by everyday they mean everyday they have them every other weekend, but that’s too painful to say. You don’t fucking know, and this isn’t a life advice thread. Celebrate they have a kid they want to be involved with.

Thank you. I saved this years ago and didn’t know the source. I’m going to swap this in.

I have to respectfully disagree with you there.

I’m not going to dig into the details because I can’t convince you your experienced reality isn’t real. Paranoia can stem from delusions, a key factor in your story is that most people, even those close to you, aren’t backing up your experiences.

I actually do watch the channel she blatantly rips off (not the dude pictured). I’m not normally one to accuse, but the channel name is a dead giveaway. Maybe it’s supposed to be a tribute or flattery, but the OG digital basement is infinity more entertaining for me.

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy Extended Cut back-to-back is the single greatest movie. Fight me!

I feel like both rules suffer from the same problem of spectrum. We can all point to a bad moldy/ai post and point to a good moldy/ai post. The issue is going to be those ones in the grey space between. It’s like the threshold test for obscenity.

"I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description; and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it, and the motion picture involved in this case is not that." -Justice Potter Stewart

I agree ai generation can be exploitative, but I don’t believe it’s only exploitative. I’m sure there are fine artists out there who can use it responsibly to make genuine art. I think it’s like the Unity game engine. There are plenty of games pumped out that are just trash trying to make quick money, but there’s also gems being made by people with passion.

As the parent of an ODD child thank you. I don’t have the energy left in me to try to explain to my “society”, let alone strangers on the internet, that my child is compulsively defiant due to an inflated fight/flight/freeze response. And no, your parenting opinions aren’t going to “solve” her behavior, if her psychiatrist, psychologist, and therapist don’t have magic answers.

I did it

Either I have a headache or some form of red/green blindness I wasn’t previously aware of.

This genuinely made me burst into laughter. Well done 196er.

When I had you it was one of the most joyous moments of my life. Right up there next to when your siblings came. We spent many years learning about the world with eyes of wonderment. It wasn’t until you were old enough to start asking the hard questions about human nature and the fundamental fairness of the universe, that I realized just how much my own parents had failed me. In growing older and wiser with you I had gained a level of maturity my parents never reached. I hope that my guidance to you will not leave you ill equipped for this world. But I’ll always be here to support you.