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[mack-mod]

I maaay have gotten into Warhammer 40k...

And I may have become hooked on painting...

I'm building two Chaos Undivided armies: Black Legion and Red Corsairs.

I plan to start a Thousand Sons army later this year. Back when Old World was the standard Fantasy, I played at a local hobby shop. But some of the people there were really nasty. Diehard sticklers who hated anything custom and treated people like me who didn't know the rules inside out as idiots. So I gave it up.

But now I play with my husband, my brother in law, my friends, and a really nice local group! Safe to say I am able to enjoy the hobby once more!

[willgrahamscock]

[janawijete]

[teaboot]

“Why are you scared of dating” I’m not scared of dating, I just haven’t found anyone’s company to be more enjoyable than my own. And also I don’t care

[justlightmeonfire]

I just don't want anyone to steal my very cursed amulet

[teaboot]

Also the amulet

[whimsicalmayhem]

Is that you talking? Or the amulet? Are you SURE a new hand doesn't want to touch the beacon?

[teaboot]

The amulet and I are not currently looking for a third

[madeofklay]

I saw this perfectly in my head and had to recreate it

[teaboot]

Holy Shit

[catchymemes]

Mr. Smitten's Sammich

[amvs]

[amvs]

same this shit rocks

[were--ralph]

this is genuinely one of my favorite videos

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[baddywronglegs]

The people who insist AI is smarter than a human are doing their fucking damnedest to manifest that

[im-phoenix-black]

This problem isn't AI. This problem originates with our terrible schooling system. It fails to prepare young people for existing in the real world, probably under the expectation that parents can do that themselves. The economy of this country has rendered parents basically incapable of spending hours and days teaching their kids how to exist, on top of those kids' ludicrous amounts of schoolwork.

Basically, the system has been designed to result in young adults with no ability to do much of anything besides basic manual labor, who rely on technology or other people's labor to cover the gaps in their own understanding.

[vaspider]

The problem is indeed "AI," though other factors may be at play as well. Programs like chatGPT are actively designed to breed dependence, and are actively detrimental to the decision making and imagination parts of the brain.

The thing that people really need to understand is that the "product" that chatGPT and other "AI" chatbots create is "more interactions with chatGPT." Everything it does is engineered with that one end in mind. Think about how it's billed, and you'll see that's true, and why it's true. What do "pro" subscriptions give you? More inquiries, faster answers, etc. So its entire thing is "getting you to ask it more things, more often."

Will it say "I don't know?" No. You won't ask it things if it answers that. This is why hallucinations are built in, and cannot ever be eliminated.

These programs are machines meant to generate more inquiries, which means they will generate dependence in order to generate them.

The purpose of a machine is what it does.

[beardedmrbean]

Beyblade heavyweight division

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

This is the most unsafe thing I've seen in a while

[justeliiijah]

@osha-unofficial

[osha-unofficial]

back in the 60s they let you do this on airplanes

[rudavoidish]

YOU DON'T NEED A MORAL REASON TO DISLIKE A SHIP. SOMETIMES YOU CAN JUST BE A LITTLE HATER. IT'S OK TO BE A LITTLE HATER. I PROMISE.

[mack-mod]

You hear that, Etoile? Fuck you!

[tall]

[mack-mod]

[blumineck]

When your blacksmith buddy says “hey man do you want a bardiche?”, the answer is always yes!

I have a website now!

[parkchanwoohoo]

Realizing that I am not employing enough of my free will to become a nuisance at work

[raine-of-auroria]

Me watching this:

[cowboybarbaryn]

I’m not letting this rot in the tags

[mack-mod]

It's a shame the school I work for has such small corridors, this feels like it would be a smash hit!

[waspdaily]

Today's wasp of the day is Ropalidia saussurei!

Credits: photo 1, photo 2

Most other wasps that have green on them are not a true green, and instead only appear green due to what is called "structural color"— the micro-make up and surface of the scales reflect light to make it appear that color as opposed to true pigment, which is a chemical mix that results in the color. This is why so many green wasps (and birds for that matter) have a metallic sheen to them, as the angle the light hits at will also effect the perceived color.

There are only a handful of wasp species with true green pigment, the majority of which can only be found in Madagascar.

[waspdaily]

The turaco is the only bird that has true green pigment. Bonus bird fact to go with your wasp facts, all apart of a balance diet

[mack-mod]

It is also the wasp that inspired the design of Waspinator

[segamascott]

[aquaheartgirl]

[ilaeriawitch]

[pantspissedinreverse]

[the-big-mood]

It's been years since you've heard this but somehow you still knew which sound was coming next

[mack-mod]

[blumineck]

Let me axe you something…

Would you like to see me test stuff like this in armour (Including the pole)? Or learn how it was made and fitted? Please help fund the Bluminarmour project if you can!

[aqueerkettleofish]

For those who have missed it, a tourist in Hawaii decided it would be fun to chuck a rock (a BIG rock) at a monk seal. He missed, but he was captured on video, and when told it was illegal to interfere with them, said "I'm rich, I can pay the fine."

Is the best part that he got doxxed? No.

Is the best part that he got tracked down by a local and beaten? No.

Arrested on state at federal charges, looking at up to 5 years and 50K? Nope.

The best part is the local city council's reaction.

And the best part of that is the look on the attorney's face.

[prismatic-bell]

I love that even city council is like "we're not fucking narcs, we have no idea who that guy beating the shit out of him is." Extremely hobbified behavior.

[pieklo]

Reblog daily for health and prosperity