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you'd think they'd be disqualified for that, but trying to cheat the system to get research funding actually adds a lot of unethical points

"Shadow, it's me, The Devil(TM)."

The worst part of this is that it'll probably actually work knowing how fascinatingly stupid the Republican voterbase is.

Lindsay Ellis put out a Nebula Original video on Parton a few days ago. It's a solid watch.

GILFs*, to clarify. Benny was talking about post-menopausal women. See:

But if you will not take this Counsel [to marry], and persist in thinking a Commerce with the Sex inevitable, then I repeat my former Advice, that in all your Amours you should prefer old Women to young ones. You call this a Paradox, and demand my Reasons. They are these:

i. Because as they have more Knowledge of the World and their Minds are better stor'd with Observations, their Conversation is more improving and more lastingly agreable.

2. Because when Women cease to be handsome, they study to be good. To maintain their Influence over Men, they supply the Diminution of Beauty by an Augmentation of Utility. They learn to do a 1000 Services small and great, and are the most tender and useful of all Friends when you are sick. Thus they continue amiable. And hence there is hardly such a thing to be found as an old Woman who is not a good Woman.

3. Because there is no hazard of Children, which irregularly produc'd may be attended with much Inconvenience.

4. Because thro' more Experience, they are more prudent and discreet in conducting an Intrigue to prevent Suspicion. The Commerce with them is therefore safer with regard to your Reputation. And with regard to theirs, if the Affair should happen to be known, considerate People might be rather inclin'd to excuse an old Woman who would kindly take care of a young Man, form his Manners by her good Counsels, and prevent his ruining his Health and Fortune among mercenary Prostitutes.

5. Because in every Animal that walks upright, the Deficiency of the Fluids that fill the Muscles appears first in the highest Part: The Face first grows lank and wrinkled; then the Neck; then the Breast and Arms; the lower Parts continuing to the last as plump as ever: So that covering all above with a Basket, and regarding2 only what is below the Girdle, it is impossible of two Women to know an old from a young one. And as in the dark all Cats are grey, the Pleasure of corporal Enjoyment with an old Woman is at least equal, and frequently superior, every Knack being by Practice capable of Improvement.

6. Because the Sin is less. The debauching a Virgin may be her Ruin, and make her for Life unhappy.

7. Because the Compunction is less. The having made a young Girl miserable may give you frequent bitter Reflections; none of which can attend the making an old Woman happy.

8thly and Lastly They are so grateful!!

Thus much for my Paradox. But still I advise you to marry directly; being sincerely Your affectionate Friend.

I'm 100% with you. Bad art with genuine effort put into it has a charm of its own. I understand the team's mistake, but it's still a mistake.

"The truth is, we spent a long time trying to tell this game's story with cutscenes made entirely by our own hands," the statement goes on. "The results were devastating every time. We came to believe we could not properly deliver this game's complex, difficult narrative that way, and that is why we turned to AI. But if that choice hurt your experience, the fault is not in the tool. It is in our own shortcomings."

Man, if this is true – that they agonized over the cutscenes but decided they couldn't and that AI would be better* – then I feel legitimately bad for them.

I went in assuming it was strictly a lazy "ah, fuck it" kind of thing, but even though this still wouldn't be acceptable, it seems like this team really is hard-working, cared about the final product, and actually did think AI could deliver a good experience. Deluded, but that seems like part of a larger culture of delusion in SK.*

* Notably, the article remarks on how sentiment around AI in South Korea is vastly more positive than e.g. the US.

Context for those who've never heard the reference.

(Original was by Jimmy McHugh and Dorothy Fields, and a ton of other jazz artists have covered it too.)

In Indonesian, it's "lastborn tooth".

Incidentally, we keep track of translations on Wiktionary, and we recently added a picture dictionary so you can see the names of the other teeth too. ^_^

Edit: Also, incisors in Japanese are "gate teeth", which I think is lovely.

Sanitation, this news is over three months old.

The journal article and a press release from the university instead of just a claim and a JPEG'd-as-fuck image.

Adam Hamilton, a liberal megachurch pastor, is challenging incumbent Republican Senator Roger Marshall in this year’s midterm election

Oh, good, so it's already lost regardless of who wins. I mean still vote blue, but that's awful.

Highly recommend "A Concise Histoy of Korea: From Antiquity to the Present" 2nd. ed. (2016) by Michael J. Seth. It's an undergraduate treatment of Korea's history until 2015, so it's a bit lengthy, but Korea's history is utterly fascinating, and the book is very engaging and well-written. I'd say you might be a little bored by the first chapter (prehistory), but even that was interesting enough to get me through and fall in love in the second and third chapters.

And yes, they recorded everything. The amount of recorded history Korea would have without the Mongols, the Japanese, and eventually the civil war would be staggering.

it's the AIs fault for not being good enough to hide it.

"if that choice hurt your experience, the fault is not in the tool. It is in our own shortcomings."

The director literally outright says it's their fault for using the tool.

And what do you mean "got caught"? It's very obvious. They mistakenly thought most audiences would enjoy it, not that audiences wouldn't notice. Which makes sense given the overwhelming difference in the perception of AI between SK and the West. He even outright says he expected people to notice: "I expected some of you would be disappointed by our use of AI. I did not expect it to become this big."

The open-access Nature Communications article instead of the (class of article I like to call) "university sucking itself off over its own research" article.

Think OP might be an undisclosed bot btw with their post frequency.

(Original Christian Post article, since MSN rehosts tend to drop like flies within a few months.)

Please open this article, Ctrl+F down to "% who say the increased use of artificial intelligence in daily life makes them feel ...", and tell me which country is at the very bottom, with 16% "more concerned than excited", 66% "equally concerned and excited", and 22% "more excited than concerned".

It's like you're refusing to understand the concept of a cultural barrier.

You did, sanitation? Or was this part of your spam mass-reposting from Reddit and you were too fucking lazy to change the title?

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overthrowing the democratically elected government

The democratically elected(TM) government was already dissolved by the time Luke joined the Rebellion.