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HD-Man Level 17

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9 hours ago, axeman61 said:

You know, I always thought that if I wanted to punch a hole in someone's face, it'd be a complete asshole. Nope. It's the nice guy at my job who's a project lead, but may be stupid on purpose just to fuck with me. Why, I don't know. But there's no earthly reason for how many times I have to explain stuff to him when on a task, or re-iterate an answer to a question I already answered. I've started making up reasons in my head for not just how the hell he got hired here, but got this far in life. He's old, so maybe he had a sterling reputation and good luck in his youth. Maybe a family member applied for him and pretended to be him at a job interview. Maybe he just knows someone. Either way, I've never been forced to work long-term with someone this stupid. It legit hurts me to talk to him sometimes.

 

This dude is affecting my life in ways neither of us could have anticipated. Though I've lost respect for Joe Rogan, I intended at some point to peek back in on his podcast at some point. No more. After hearing a real live idiot repeat the same stuff over and over again, I can't do that with Covid Joe and his dumbass republican talking points. I'm taking more risks in life, because I realize God or the universe isn't going to give me back the time I spend with this fool when I die. I'm trying to eat healthier and exercise more, because I'm deeply worried about becoming this guy when I get old.

 

Maybe I'm anti-social or something and he's just fine, but I've never felt rage like this.

 

@HD-ManYou better be so glad your captain is only trying to make you eat his "skull and crossbones" cooking. You can duck that at least.

Shit, nigga wrote a hit piece on mans. Thats the kind of hatred I can get behind😂

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AriesWarlock Level 18

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Spoiler

According to Adobe, what's new here is the company says it "may" (rather than "will only") access your content through automated and manual methods, and that it reviews content to screen for illegal content, including child sexual abuse material. If an automated system thinks something is illegal, then it flags the item for human review. The rest of the terms are apparently the same as they've always been, and the pop-up that appeared was a routine re-acceptance campaign for users to agree to the small changes.

 

Since that "access" was at the crux of the controversy, Adobe went into more detail in the blog post about why it needs it. The company says it needs access to user content for three specific reasons: to run standard functions in apps (like opening files or creating thumbnails); for cloud-based features, like Photoshop Neural Filters and Remove Background; and, as mentioned in the terms above, to screen for illegal activity or other abusive content.

 

Further, the company says it does not train Firefly Gen AI models on your content, nor will Adobe ever "assume ownership" over your work. If you're wondering why the company specifically says Firefly Gen AI models, and not a more general statement on training AI in general, that's because the company does use the content you store in the cloud, including images, audio, video, text, or documents, to train its AI. Any data you upload to Adobe's servers is fair game for this process, and is aggregated with everyone else's data in order to train Adobe AI to "improve [Adobe's] products and services."

 

This is not explicitly laid out in the blog post, but Adobe's support article says you can opt-out of this training by heading to the privacy settings of your account, then deactivating the toggle for Allow my content to be analyzed by Adobe for product improvement and development purposes under Content analysis.

 

What's the bottom line?

Adobe is likely not constantly scraping your work looking for insider secrets on your projects, and it flat-out says it won't claim ownership of your projects. However, the company can access anything you upload to Adobe servers: This access lets Adobe scan for illegal content, but also lets the company scrape your work to train its AI models.

While opting out of AI training is wise, the best way to continue using Adobe apps without worrying about Adobe's access is by keeping all projects local on your machine. If you don't use Adobe's cloud-based services, the company can only access your work for app-related tasks, like generating thumbnails—if the terms are to be believed.

These rules have also largely been in place for an undisclosed amount of time: The pop-up you may have seen this week was for you to agree to the small tweaks Adobe made to the terms, not to agree to sweeping changes. You already agreed to those policies—you just didn't know it. My recommendation? Limit your cloud-based work with Adobe going forward, unless you absolutely need to for work. The more of your content you can keep on your machine, the better.

 

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DoctaMario Level 17

DoctaMario

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11 hours ago, AriesWarlock said:

 

 

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According to Adobe, what's new here is the company says it "may" (rather than "will only") access your content through automated and manual methods, and that it reviews content to screen for illegal content, including child sexual abuse material. If an automated system thinks something is illegal, then it flags the item for human review. The rest of the terms are apparently the same as they've always been, and the pop-up that appeared was a routine re-acceptance campaign for users to agree to the small changes.

 

Since that "access" was at the crux of the controversy, Adobe went into more detail in the blog post about why it needs it. The company says it needs access to user content for three specific reasons: to run standard functions in apps (like opening files or creating thumbnails); for cloud-based features, like Photoshop Neural Filters and Remove Background; and, as mentioned in the terms above, to screen for illegal activity or other abusive content.

 

Further, the company says it does not train Firefly Gen AI models on your content, nor will Adobe ever "assume ownership" over your work. If you're wondering why the company specifically says Firefly Gen AI models, and not a more general statement on training AI in general, that's because the company does use the content you store in the cloud, including images, audio, video, text, or documents, to train its AI. Any data you upload to Adobe's servers is fair game for this process, and is aggregated with everyone else's data in order to train Adobe AI to "improve [Adobe's] products and services."

 

This is not explicitly laid out in the blog post, but Adobe's support article says you can opt-out of this training by heading to the privacy settings of your account, then deactivating the toggle for Allow my content to be analyzed by Adobe for product improvement and development purposes under Content analysis.

 

What's the bottom line?

Adobe is likely not constantly scraping your work looking for insider secrets on your projects, and it flat-out says it won't claim ownership of your projects. However, the company can access anything you upload to Adobe servers: This access lets Adobe scan for illegal content, but also lets the company scrape your work to train its AI models.

While opting out of AI training is wise, the best way to continue using Adobe apps without worrying about Adobe's access is by keeping all projects local on your machine. If you don't use Adobe's cloud-based services, the company can only access your work for app-related tasks, like generating thumbnails—if the terms are to be believed.

These rules have also largely been in place for an undisclosed amount of time: The pop-up you may have seen this week was for you to agree to the small tweaks Adobe made to the terms, not to agree to sweeping changes. You already agreed to those policies—you just didn't know it. My recommendation? Limit your cloud-based work with Adobe going forward, unless you absolutely need to for work. The more of your content you can keep on your machine, the better.

 

"We need to scan everybody's material on the oft chance that of the millions of you who use our shit, some of you might be using it to make CP and we're going to claim that that's a widespread enough problem to justify this kind of corporate surveillance."


😂
 

 

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MillionX Level 17

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So... I found out just now that there is a youtube channel all about Memphis gas station shootings... that's actually the name of it

https://www.youtube.com/@memphisgasstationshootings 

^perfect example of why it's just not smart to ever go to a gas station at night in that "city".

Nah, I'll never get tired of talking shit about this worthless, embarrassingly stupid ass trash-pile excuse for a city.  I'm not sure there's anything else I hate more in this world, actually.  The shocking, strange thing to me is when you realize how the typical Memphian has a sense of pride in being from there (and will be inclined to remain living there for life), though it just seems like it would be an embarrassment to me. 

Imagine being so proud to be from such a dumb, shitty place that has every negative stereotype you can think of with zero hopes for future improvement. (Not a single shred of hope----to the contrary, I believe things will only continue to get even worse with each new generation there.)

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BornWinner Level 17

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4 hours ago, RSG3 said:

Wine made into candy for pretentious winos?

 

4 hours ago, Jurassic said:

Gummi candy made with alcohol in the shape of wine bottles.

Apparently not. Wine candy is the nickname for Jolly Ranchers. And no, it’s not infused with wine or has ever been. It’s just called that for some reason. My dad knows, my mom knows, my aunt knows. Even my sister’s friend who is close to her age knew that Wine Candy is just a name for Jolly Ranchers. I had to ask you guys because I needed to know just how spread out this knowledge is.

 

You guys not knowing leads me to believe that it’s a regional thing.

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Jion_Wansu Level 11

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_travel_claims_and_urban_legends
 

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Andrew Carlssin

Andrew Carlssin was supposedly arrested in March 2003 for SEC violations for making 126 high-risk stock trades and being successful on every one. As reported, Carlssin started with an initial investment of $800 and ended with over $350,000,000 which drew the attention of the SEC. Later reports suggest that after his arrest, he submitted a four-hour confession wherein he claimed to be a time traveler from 200 years in the future. He offered to tell investigators such things as the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden and the cure for AIDS in return for a lesser punishment and to be allowed to return to his time craft,[27] although he refused to tell investigators the location or workings of his craft. A mysterious man posted his bail and Carlssin was scheduled for court hearing but was never seen again; records show that he never existed.[28]

The Carlssin story likely originated as a fictional piece in Weekly World News, a satirical newspaper, and was later repeated by Yahoo! News, where its fictitious nature became less apparent. It was soon reported by other newspapers and magazines as fact. This in turn drove word-of-mouth spread through email inboxes and internet forums, leading to far more detailed descriptions of events.[29]

 

The Chronovisor

Italian Benedictine monk Pellegrino Ernetti [fr] claimed to have used a time viewer which could film the past without sound called a chronovisor to obtain a photograph of the Crucifixion of Jesus and view scenes from ancient Rome, including a performance of the lost play Thyestes.[33][34] According to author Paul J. Nahin, a short story by Horace Gold (using the penname Dudley Dell) called "The Biography Project" published in Galaxy Science Fiction magazine may have influenced Ernetti's claim.[35] According to Guardian writer Mark Pilkington, "Ernetti's glory was shortlived. Another magazine revealed that Christ was a reversed image of a postcard from the Santuario dell'Amore Misericordioso, in the town of Collevalenza. More recently, doubt has been cast on his "transcription" of Thyestes, and an apparent deathbed confession has also surfaced."[33]

 

 

 

John Titor

Main article: John Titor

Between 2000 and 2001, an online bulletin board user self-identified as John Titor became popular as he claimed to be a time traveler from 2036 on a military mission. Holding the many-worlds interpretation as correct and consequently every time travel paradox as impossible, he stated that many events which occurred up to his time would indeed occur in this timeline. These included a devastating civil war in the US in 2008 followed by a short nuclear World War III in 2015,[19] which will "kill three billion people".[20]

In the years following his last posts and disappearance in 2001, the non-fulfilment of his specific predictions made his popularity decrease. Criticism has pointed out flaws in Titor's stories and investigations suggested his character may be a hoax and a creation of two siblings from Florida.[21]

The story has been retold on numerous web sites, in a book, in the Japanese visual novel/anime Steins;Gate, and in a play. He may also have been discussed occasionally on the radio show Coast to Coast AM.[22] In this respect, the Titor story may be unique in terms of broad appeal from an originally limited medium, an Internet discussion board.

 


 

The John Titor one with 2008 being bad due to other things came through. The 2015 war prediction might be just delayed.

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DangerousJ Level 17

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TMNT : The Last Ronin (2022) Review

Comic Miniseries 

 

No Spoilers....

 

Premise: After 3 of the TMNT and some of their close allies are brutally killed, a lone turtle vows vengeance and will end those responsible.

 

Notes:

 

This is set in its own continuity, not the Mirage or IDW TMNT. Despite that, you can follow most of the story if you have any familiarity with the franchise.

 

For those wondering , it is in full color with a handful of pages in black and white for occasional flashbacks.

 

Pros:

 

The tone and action. Most people in mainstream have forgotten but tmnt started as a solidly PG-13 indie comic. This series goes back to that. 

The protagonist does kill some villains and flashbacks to the deaths of the others are shown. 

He has survivors guilt and nightmares about the others. 

 

The art is done by some artists I am unfamiliar with Isaac Escorza, Esau Escorza, and Ben Bishop. IMO, the art is solid and reminds me of Michael Dooney. The black and white flashbacks are drawn by CO creator Kevin Eastman.

 

Cons:

 

The "worst" thing about this story is that it feels like Frank Millers "The Dark Knight Returns" was used as a mad libs template that TMNT was shoehorned Into.  There are some blade runner elements too.  I could overlook it if the story was more emotional for me but a certain "vehicle" , a female character, and the end of a certain fight stuck out in my mind as being too similar.

 

The main villain is pretty one note. He tries to come off as very "high class" and bad ass but it feels hollow. His direct interaction with the deceased characters is limited to 2/5 of them.   Also the final battle is intercut with  the allies  in a perilous situation in the sewers and it detracts from the urgency.

 

There is a two page epilogue with a sequel hook that feels clumsy.

 

Overall: 7/10.

 

Nice art/tone for a what if story that's a change of pace from most of the movies/cartoons,but a bit overrated.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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HD-Man Level 17

HD-Man

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As an adult it breaks my brain to see ppl my age and older who don't want to act like an adult. I'm not saying I'm a bastion of responsibility but I feel like I've done well and fought through most of my issues and took care of business while battling demons (especially last year). 

 

Its like I'm almost literally surrounded by kids at work and home. Ppl not carrying their own weight, expecting others to carry it and grown ass men who can't sit down and talk about their issues, just doing passive aggressive little bitch shit to each other until it comes to a boil

 

Im old, I'm tired and I'm surrounded by adult-children. Like dawg, manage your money properly or find extra work. When you have pressing matters in the near future, get pro active about having it taken care of ahead of time. Confront issues you have with others so you can get past it. Why do ppl make this harder than it needs to be? 😭😂😂

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TheInfernoman Level 16

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1 hour ago, HD-Man said:

As an adult it breaks my brain to see ppl my age and older who don't want to act like an adult. I'm not saying I'm a bastion of responsibility but I feel like I've done well and fought through most of my issues and took care of business while battling demons (especially last year). 

 

Its like I'm almost literally surrounded by kids at work and home. Ppl not carrying their own weight, expecting others to carry it and grown ass men who can't sit down and talk about their issues, just doing passive aggressive little bitch shit to each other until it comes to a boil

 

Im old, I'm tired and I'm surrounded by adult-children. Like dawg, manage your money properly or find extra work. When you have pressing matters in the near future, get pro active about having it taken care of ahead of time. Confront issues you have with others so you can get past it. Why do ppl make this harder than it needs to be? 😭😂😂

I didn't know you worked Disney too! 

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VirginDefiler Level 15

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speaking bout this story of 12 military peeps going to alien planet on foreign exchange program idea agreed upon by both races..which spielberg then made close encounters based on it. with dryfess being one of the visitor to alien planet.

yo.

this whole story. 

it. they should just write a part 2 of close encounters based on what we read after they land.

tho. it needs sprucing up because.

that planet was boooooring as hell.

no tv, no radio, no mags, no movies. no theater. no storytelling.

no fridges.

NO PORN!

nothing to entertain you. not even much nature to look at. ew. 

i m glad im here not there. that greys planet sucks. 

movie just needs embellishment for action sequences.  flyin car chases n shit. even tho in the story told by these whistleblowers...there wasnt even any crime to be doing car chases. just a bunch of unfun uncreative boring assholes with no drive or ambitions.

wow. sounds so fun. cant wait to hang with em for 10 LOOOONG years.

bro. id be taking the next flight home back to earth so fast.

my fav part of this story. is when the americans tried to explain what a 1965 am radio works after taking it apart for a grey. n homboy just scratched the top of his head, shrugged, then left the room uninterested in curing his ignorance. he knew less about electricity n how it worked than your alcoholic uncle.

waste of time going there. let alone stayin there.

hilarious as  fuck. which is why if they ever make close encounters part 2 where they depict what happens once they reach alien planet..that part about the alien not understanding how a old ass radio works is the funniest shit ever.

if i was one of those 12 soldiers sent to that planet, if i was there i would be like 

"waaait a minute, youre telling me, we traveled halfway across the galaxy, to end up only finding a planet of ignorant hicks

?!?! listen, i gotta go. whens the next flight outta here?"

 

 

unfortunately tho, richard dryfess is hella fuckin old. so it. theyd haveta find a new actor to play that role.

now that i think about it.

if spielberg had the rest of this exchange program story, which he did, not just the very 1st part which the og film revolves around and depicts.

why, did he not make a part 2 back in the early 80s? when he knew he needed richard to be pretty much the same age as he was in the 1s one since the story picks up right where they leave off in close encounters?

hmmm

could the govt somehow put pressure on spielberg to not pursue making close encounters part 2 and 3?

cuz. idk man. that story about the exchange program of 1965 between us military n the greys. is pretty darn top secret. i dont think the military would want the entire story out to the public just yet.

especially.

the part about the greys having had recently at that time just come out a century long war with one of the local interstellar neighbors of theirs.

over apparently territory disputes between the 2 races. 

a real war. 

between 2 alien races. 

a 100 year conflict that ends with the destruction of an entire civilizatiion. 

the greys won. but barely.

all that scares the shit outta me.

there are.

potential hostiles out there.

so just like on planet earth.

the milky way galaxy.

has bad neighborhoods.

straight outta zeti reticuli

aintz no tellin when a grey, is down for a jack move.

motherfuckin milky way galaxy...

iis the ghetto of the universe.

i hope we dont get drafted in some interstellar war in the future.

i just wanted to watch STAR WARS.

not be in it yo.

pew pew my ass with all that jivetalk

im out if i see a fleet of space ships descending, cuz i aintz gettin drafted into no star wars at my age.

i'll  stay on earth and. supervise from a safe distance.

let a young buck get sent to the constellation orion instead of me. hes young, he can do anything. 

 

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28 minutes ago, VirginDefiler said:

speaking bout this story of 12 military peeps going to alien planet on foreign exchange program idea agreed upon by both races..which spielberg then made close encounters based on it. with dryfess being one of the visitor to alien planet.

yo.

this whole story. 

it. they should just write a part 2 of close encounters based on what we read after they land.

tho. it needs sprucing up because.

that planet was boooooring as hell.

no tv, no radio, no mags, no movies. no theater. no storytelling.

no fridges.

NO PORN!

nothing to entertain you. not even much nature to look at. ew. 

i m glad im here not there. that greys planet sucks. 

movie just needs embellishment for action sequences.  flyin car chases n shit. even tho in the story told by these whistleblowers...there wasnt even any crime to be doing car chases. just a bunch of unfun uncreative boring assholes with no drive or ambitions.

wow. sounds so fun. cant wait to hang with em for 10 LOOOONG years.

bro. id be taking the next flight home back to earth so fast.

my fav part of this story. is when the americans tried to explain what a 1965 am radio works after taking it apart for a grey. n homboy just scratched the top of his head, shrugged, then left the room uninterested in curing his ignorance. he knew less about electricity n how it worked than your alcoholic uncle.

waste of time going there. let alone stayin there.

hilarious as  fuck. which is why if they ever make close encounters part 2 where they depict what happens once they reach alien planet..that part about the alien not understanding how a old ass radio works is the funniest shit ever.

if i was one of those 12 soldiers sent to that planet, if i was there i would be like 

"waaait a minute, youre telling me, we traveled halfway across the galaxy, to end up only finding a planet of ignorant hicks

?!?! listen, i gotta go. whens the next flight outta here?"

 

 

unfortunately tho, richard dryfess is hella fuckin old. so it. theyd haveta find a new actor to play that role.

now that i think about it.

if spielberg had the rest of this exchange program story, which he did, not just the very 1st part which the og film revolves around and depicts.

why, did he not make a part 2 back in the early 80s? when he knew he needed richard to be pretty much the same age as he was in the 1s one since the story picks up right where they leave off in close encounters?

hmmm

could the govt somehow put pressure on spielberg to not pursue making close encounters part 2 and 3?

cuz. idk man. that story about the exchange program of 1965 between us military n the greys. is pretty darn top secret. i dont think the military would want the entire story out to the public just yet.

especially.

the part about the greys having had recently at that time just come out a century long war with one of the local interstellar neighbors of theirs.

over apparently territory disputes between the 2 races. 

a real war. 

between 2 alien races. 

a 100 year conflict that ends with the destruction of an entire civilizatiion. 

the greys won. but barely.

all that scares the shit outta me.

there are.

potential hostiles out there.

so just like on planet earth.

the milky way galaxy.

has bad neighborhoods.

straight outta zeti reticuli

aintz no tellin when a grey, is down for a jack move.

motherfuckin milky way galaxy...

iis the ghetto of the universe.

i hope we dont get drafted in some interstellar war in the future.

i just wanted to watch STAR WARS.

not be in it yo.

pew pew my ass with all that jivetalk

im out if i see a fleet of space ships descending, cuz i aintz gettin drafted into no star wars at my age.

i'll  stay on earth and. supervise from a safe distance.

let a young buck get sent to the constellation orion instead of me. hes young, he can do anything. 

 

I would happily fight in a war because I am bored.

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