> Movie is called Weathering With You
> Look inside
> No particular focus on erosion

Yup, drunkards in a tram are annoying but they almost never kill people and cause tens of thousands in damage.

FYI: “Ball” refers to the spherical, 2-axis articulated part of the hose (not seen in the pic). It’s not for cleaning ball pits or after formal parties.

AI can stylize simple drawings so turning an MSPaint line/circle/curve tool creation into such a stained glass pic is easy. That can be composited with conventional tools (chroma keying) or AI on an existing photo if the original is close to solid color, or on an AI-generated one explicitly prompted with solid color. This process does not involve “dirty-worded” prompts so it can be done with commercial AI without triggering guideline violations. But that’s how I’d do it if I was tasked to make this with AI, and since I don’t use it I’m not well aware of current capabilities, maybe there are some services that can do it in one prompt.

Boomer meme. AI haters are not Luddites. If you can use tools to create higher-quality things without exploitation, go ahead. Especially inherently non-copyrightable things with utilitarian function. And 3D printers don’t inherently make anything that imitates creativity or ideas, only creating physical objects based on slicer instructions, which is why the AI backlash didn’t start 15 years ago to target them.

Biological sex isn’t binary. There are various markers, most of which exist on a scale, and they correlate with each other and gender, weakly (height) or strongly (genitalia size). Sexual arousal by stimulation and over time is one of them.

These markers can change over time or with medical intervention generally known as gender-affirming therapy, which helps people who feel their gender and biological characteristics don’t correlate enough.

Still, we use labels like “biologicaly male” as a shorthand for “the sex markers considered decisive by me or my culture correlate(d) with the male gender (at birth)” and for legacy reasons (some legal forms and people still ask about binary biological sex but I’m looking forward to this being abolished). Yes, as an ex-Christian I used to have the outdated view of gender too and it took me a while to learn all this (and arguably, I still have things to learn) but thankfully, I’m open to becoming a more accepting person and there are great free resources online.

Your meme is a bit reductive but no big deal, it’s on par with the format and you’ve demonstrated openness to the nuance in the body text. Just trying to prevent people from correcting you rudely.

Edit: thinking about if “legacy” is a good descriptor of many people’s understandong of gender, turns out pretty good − much like IPv6 is the modern standard but “legacy” IPv4 is still in wide use. When someone asks “What’s your IP address?”, you can supply them with IPv6, which provides extra nuance but is not as supported as IPv4, which on the other hand cannot cover the needs of more than 4 billion people. Some people refuse to learn hexadecimal and will refuse to connect while others are stuck in legacy systems that will not allow them to implement IPv6 (although they may have some levels of compassion, and will be ready to communicate via tunnelling protocols). While IPv6 covers everything one expects from IPv4 and much more and is arguably inevitable, the legacy is so deeply rooted in how we talk that it’s really hard to replace and some ISPs try to indefinitely postpone the update. If you choose to bottle up and say your IPv4 address though, you might be missing out on genuine connection options if the other side also supports IPv6. (This analogy works better with languages which don’t differentiate between “sex” and “gender” in one word and asking for pronouns instead is uncommon and/or impractical, like Czech.)

(My Czech pronouns are on-ten/něho-toho/němu-tomu/něj-toho/×-ty/něm-tom/ním-tím btw and nobody has ever asked for them.)

There are local AI image generation options. I don’t use AI so IDK if they’re this good but there’s plenty of wedding photos to train on.

Probably AI, the bride’s arm is sus, the altar furniture too (central pedestal with very narrow support, likely hallucinated to match table legs) and the stained glass is divided into uneven 4x4 segments with lines that are thinner than the design’s, which is unusual (and the dye blotches appear to “seep” between panels, you’d expect them to not correlate because the panels are made separately: the whole reason for panellation is kiln size). Also, no other images of this stained glass exist online, apparently, and it has been posted to some “cursed AI” groups.

Nokia is Finnish but I think they had closed EU factories by the Symbian era

It was feasible to download online images or WMV, AVI or RealPlayer videos to floppies. But it would take 8 minutes to download 1.44 MB over a mid-range 28k modem in 1999, and it could hold about 50 640x480 JPEGs or two minutes of 240p video.

Or did you mean “this was the internet back then” as in sneakernet or another non-computer alternative (not actually a connection between computers but accomplishing the same goal)?

Alternatively, “porn” could also mean lewd text, which load faster than one can read even on slowest modems, and a floppy can hold hundreds of pages printed on a dot matrix printer. Over two thousands with compression.

Zip disks were closer to floppies. Magnetic disks and tape are fundamentally different (random access, especially), although the physics behind the R/W operation is the same.

It would be still plenty fun to play PS1 games on a CRT as a poor kid in 2011, I suppose.

There are Facebook stone painting groups. They leave stones ranging from kitch to decent marked with the FB group and postcode and members are encouraged to pick some up and leave them along the trail on their next hike. I wonder if realistic gruesome ones have appeared…

DDG image search (with the major AI slop site filtered out) so you don’t have to open FB

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Bidet is puzzling enough. Then there’s modern portmanteaus like bussy (really, any word that has a more well-known P-word, like blot, will work) and NATO PA soundalikes like bike. And words with stress on other syllables that make the B less distinct, especially evil ones are before and benign for sounding like B4 and B9.

Nice, especially with a solar panel at the top. But street lamps near roads are prone to accidents, and I’m sure a big block of Li-Ion in the base would make these way more risky.

The teeth match! Everything in the picture must be true! /s

Technical Museum Brno has some 2000s stuff on display… Portable CD player, compact digital camera and a desktop inkjet printer, the same model that’s been our family’s primary one until 2019 and we still use sometimes. Of course, it’s just a minor part at the end of the consumer electronics section.

They also have a mini DOS SBC you can use (there is a C:\FEMBOYS and C:\UWU directory) and make extensive use of Raspberry Pis for web-based touchscreen infokiosks and emulation of Atari and C64 games.

Not factories and rural development. But yes. And bike access that’s shorter or equal than by car.

That’s how humans see stars. But how do we know this about pigs? Can they focus to “infinity”?