Well, it’s definitely unpopular!

I think you’ve made a mistake in your reasoning though.

There’s a difference between a digital artist and a graphic designer.

If you expect one to do the job of the other, you’re only rarely going to end up with what you wanted.

A graphic designer is what it seems like you wanted in your examples.

The key difference is that, even on commission, a digital artist is being paid to create something in their own style and way. Even when they use identical tools and techniques, the job comes down to that; a graphic designer is working to achieve your goal, the digital artist is working to achieve a finished piece that you requested.

The artist is not obligated to produce the exact thing you want to see. The designer is, up to a point. That point being that some people are idiots and will never be satisfied.

So, next time you’re looking to hire someone for a job, make sure you look for the right specialist. You’ll likely discover that ai can’t yet match either specialist in their field. Might some day, but isn’t there yet.

Being real, the guy is one of the most wholesome musicians in pop culture.

I’m not even a fan of his music (except maybe circles), but anything and everything I’ve seen the guy say or do is just so damn nice. He’s always staying positive and respectful to people.

I mean, unless I’ve missed something, the meme is just based on his looks, and that’s pretty fucking stupid

Ehhhh, I tend to think the distances are less important than the fact of the infrastructure being prohibitive to set up.

Trains like that can’t just be dropped onto the existing rail network. I mean, even if the rails p tracks we have would allow them to operate at speed, it would be a nightmare getting them to mesh with existing rail traffic. You’d lose the high speed factor, defeating the purpose.

So, even in individual states, where the distances are closer to what you’d see in japan, it’s not a net practical solution without some serious rejiggering.

You could likely get some lines done anyway, like from D.C. to a few major cities on the east coast. But would there really be a benefit? Would it reduce highway traffic significantly? Would it be safer and more efficient than existing passenger rail? I genuinely have no idea, but there would be a need for that kind of thing to make it worth building out. If it’s just shifting a small fraction of city-to-city commute, I don’t know that or would be worth the massive project it would take

Dude, not the fucking thread for that

Damn. Hard call. There’s only been a few that have hit me because I don’t really have a parasocial connection to anyone to any degree worth mentioning.

That being said, the three that made me actually cry were Vonnegut, Kris Kristofferson, and Chester Bennington.

Chester, I was listening to the one more light album when I found out, so it hit extra hard.

Vonnegut though, he more than any other writer made me think and want to create with words. He shaped how I view literature and think about writing. So his death hit harder than most.

Kristofferson, it’s that I had known it was coming. He’d already been lost to a great degree, but I had been low key dreading the news because he’s so damn iconic. He’s the kind of poet I wish I could be. And his music was also damn good lol. Also, he’s symbolic of an era of music that’s disappeared, and as the last of the highwaymen have died, with only one left there’s this hole in the world that isn’t likely to be filled now that the entire music industry has fallen into disarray. It’s much harder for that kind of poet bard to exist and have their music spread now. In any genre, btw; the same difficulties exist in folk, metal, rap, etc.

Anyway, those are the ones that made me cry as a grown-ass man. I suspect I’ll shed another tear when Willie goes, and I know I’m gonna fall apart a little when Dolly does. Luckily, the next wave of writers and musicians that I’d likely cry over are a good twenty years younger (or more) than them, so I’ll have a break after that. Likely be dead myself before most of the others would go.

Being normative is absolutely a good thing.

First, that kind of test is bullshit anyway. No accuracy, poor consistency, and dubious entertainment factor. If you aren’t taking one of the standard iq tests, all you’ll get is entertainment, and I doubt that was fun.

Second, even with a standard test, IQ is damn near useless. All it’s really good for is identifying people in need of educational support.

Third, again, being “average” doesn’t mean bad. It means you’re right in what is normal for the human race. You’ll be able to learn effectively, think effectively, and if you put in effort, learn to think well. That’s normal, that’s average.

You won’t have significant, if any, learning disability. You might not be a genius, but if you have a genius IQ and a quarter, you still can’t call someone who cares because you can’t make a call for a quarter even if you find a pay phone. At best, a great iq might help you turn that quarter into a phone call eventually.

94 is fine. It’s healthy. It’s going to get a person through life.

Not stupid at all!

Though I’ve heard that the path to being an NP is faster from RN than switching to PA. Might be worth looking at.

Worst case scenario, you end up having to job jump between PA and nursing until you find a job that lets you settle into a specific practice/position. Which is harder in middle age, but isn’t prohibitive imo.

From the patient side of things, an NP or PA with practical experience as a nurse is like gold. An MD might have more education and a broader knowledge base because of that; but nobody can match the hands on, dedicated skills of someone that’s done what you’re proposing. The best providers I have ever had in twenty years plus of disability have been the ones like that. You’ve not only been there and done that, you could teach all of it purely from experience.

So stupid? Hell no! The only stupid part is that the industry is so fucked that an experienced nurse wants to stop doing that job. What you’ll bring to the table is going to help people. That’s never stupid. It will be a harder road for you in some ways (though not as physically brutal as nursing for damn sure), but at least it will be different.

If you decide to go that route, good on you :)

My opinion is that, if you ignore the judeo-christian prudishness, it comes down to two things.

First, some jealousy. It looks like easy money, and they’re having sex (in the case of porn actors), so there’s this almost subconscious anger that someone else found a trick to “get rich”. Thing is with that, the only people getting rich in porn were/are the producers. Only fans shifted that a little, but the company takes a cut like any asshole pimp would. I’ve actually heard people irl express things that lead me to believe this is a common factor.

Second is the fact that a large swath of people, even though otherwise open minded and unconcerned about sex issues, still think that the only reason one would sell their sexuality is because they can’t do better. It’s the whole thing where humans like to piss downhill. Anyone doing something that a person considers “below” them is gong to be seen as inherently flawed. That doesn’t apply only to porn, btw.

Hell, I fall prey to the trope that anyone doing porn must have some kind of trauma, if I don’t pay attention to myself. It is true that porn as it exists in this world is marginalized, and heavily staffed by sufferers of trauma. It actually is one of those jobs where people that have serious mental health problems and/or drug dependency get drawn to because it’s relatively easy to find and keep income compared to other jobs when you have those issues.

Since porn is marginalized, there is a significant portion of the on screen workers that don’t have many other options. It’s super easy for someone young, undereducated, and desperate to end up being paid to show their body or fuck. Since someone in that situation is going to get paid less doing anything else they could find, the industry is heavily weighted towards that population (partially because of the ease of finding desperate people, and mostly because the desperate are easier to exploit and abuse).

Only fans runs closer to neutral since it is based in individuals. So while abuse occurs, and there’s a lot wrong with the company, the real abuse only happens when an outside person is forcing a model or models to perform. Not that porn is free of trafficking and forced labor, but it’s less useful to do that for porn when there’s easier ways to exploit someone there.

That’s my take anyway. It’s based on casual conversations with people that object to porn in its various guises, and the rest from casual exposure to interviews and conversations with adult performers

Great post! Fully unpopular opinion, and done without attacking anyone.

Looking through the answers so far, I think the only thing not covered is why not the po white folk or other groups.

The simple answer really is that they aren’t black, because when it comes right down to it, any excuse they found to target black people would have excluded other groups except by accident.

But, that misses out on the other factor. The Appalachians aren’t a hotbed of protest and opposition. Folks up in the hills are too poor, too spread out, and too disconnected from external policies on a national level. There’s simply no need to destabilize those communities because they’re not a problem to the people making laws and decisions.

Same with the asian populations you asked about.

Black folks in cities have an advantage that rural people of any color don’t. Numbers in concentration. Even a minority can be a disruption to oppressors when there’s enough in one place. So keeping that population off balance becomes a priority for oppressors. That it’s black people in the U.S. is largely a matter of detail because the same principle would apply everywhere, with any given minority population being a target where that population group is a potential difficult to enforcing power. Like the rohingya or uyghur peoples as recent examples that were in the news.

Now, being real, black people across the world have been oppressed and abused for hundreds of years. So pretty much anywhere they exist, they get shit on in some way.

That would be “everybody” with the context being that the agreements regarding refugees were built by international effort in 1951.

It’s called the refugee convention.

It happened post ww2 due to the massive displacement of people because of the war.

A refugee has a set of rights, and have a status that ensures those rights in international law, and with any given nation having others as well.

Since refugee status isn’t the same as permanent residency status, or citizenship, requiring them to swear to some kind of integration is essentially impossible, and would also be not only impossible to enforce, but absolutely stupid as well.

Well, iirc, thc and cbd aren’t what you’d call water soluble.

So you wouldn’t get much in regular water, but you might get a little more in a soda what with the various other chemicals involved. Thing is, I think the acidity would break the two main weed products in vapes into junk. But I don’t have enough chemistry in my brain run be sure.

So I suspect that what you’d end up with is crappy tasting soda that picked up the other components of the vapor.

I yeet all the fucking things!

Most recently I yeeted a rooster.

I prefer to use what’s on the box, no matter what its orientation. That’s because the box usually has a cutter of some kind built in, and the position varies between brands of a given wrap.

Now, I have noticed on average that when the cutter is on the box under the lid (and thus you’d pull down against the box) I get less tears and fucked up edges overall, regardless of quality or brand.

So I guess that’s my preference overall if I could wava a wand and make them all the same

Something, something, broken clock

I dunno, definitely unpopular in the sense I’ve never even heard or seen it before!

But I suspect it’s like any unit. The one you’re used to is the best. If you’re familiar with joules, then it’s best. Someone familiar with miliamps is going to find it best.

Seriously. Familiarity out ranks any other factor for quick understanding of a given thing being expressed in units. Doesn’t matter if it’s feet, meters, pounds, kilos, clicks, miles, or knots. What you know is going to be way more important than even an objectively more descriptive unit.

Now, that does mean that if everyone isn’t familiar with a given unit, communication can be snafu. But when it comes to battery capacity, nobody is going to be familiar with anything until it comes up. It isn’t like a mile/kilometer where having a distance be known is so day-to-day useful that even kids will pick the unit up in their heads eventually without being instructed.

For whatever reason, miliamps got picked, and that’s what’s on most labels. So us RC nerds and electronics geeks have become familiar with what amount of capacity is useful for a given application. Given enough time, you will too.

I don’t know if joules would be better or not, since I’m not familiar enough with using them to compare, much less estimate how many joules a given battery might have. But it’s no difficulty to estimate how long my e-maxx will run off of a given battery pack that’s X miliamps. I used to even be able to guesstimate how ambient temperatures would shift run time per battery swap, and how it would change as the motors heated up. Couldn’t now, but I can still estimate basic run time for that truck, my stampede, and a few others.

Same with power banks and a given phone.

Familiarity matters

I’m pretty basic. Van Gogh is top for me.

Mind you, Gonsalves ranks right up there along with Magritte and Monet.

I reckon you can guess what “schools” I tend to respond to most lol

In that context, it comes from “crunchy granola”, aka the sort of hippie/hipster that tends to embrace that kind of trendy natural diet. Granola entered the hippie sorts back in the sixties and the terminology came around somewhere in the mid seventies to early eighties.

By the time I was in my teens, it was in use for those retro-hippie sorts that also tended to the more idealized parts of hippiedom. Those kids are now the uncles and aunts (and sometimes even grandparents or great aunts/uncles) referred to.

In that specific context, adding in the aunt/uncle part, it is a positive. However, it’s also a tad condescending, if unintentionally so. That those aunts and uncles are something that needs an extra label to lump them into an outside group is often done because the person doing the lumping thinks they’re better.

Truth? Some of the crunchy granola sorts are dipshits. They’ll eat “natural” even if it isn’t actually healthy. They’ll rattle on about stuff that nobody else present cares about not because that’s who they are, but because they’re evangelizing. So some of the reputation for being hippie-dippie if you’re also crunchy granola is deserved. Same with being a skeevy stoner hippy being often linked to the other labels.

Huh.

You know, I think I agree.

The physics of flight are way easier to grasp than weather, if only due to the scale of the system.

None of my fucking business.

See, that’s the thing about people being grown-ass adults. They get to decide what does and doesn’t work for them.

And, despite people that want to knee jerk the matter, there’s less difference between those two ages than there is between a 21 and 25 year old.

Personal development is heavily front loaded. By the mid to late twenties, most people are who they’ll always be. Friendship, romance, whatever. The only real barrier to age gaps are cultural touchstones and a handful of probable experiences (like job stuff, kids, etc) that aren’t even guaranteed to not be present.

Folks just get all het up over it because they’re morons that can’t look outside of themselves long enough to realize that their motivations and concepts towards other people aren’t actually universal.

Two consenting adults are just fine, and nobody else has an opinion that matters about them