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well now I have something to do this weekend if the weather is poor, thank you!

ah ok, I have some experience hosting Ollama and of course stable diffusion, but haven’t really messed with too many others, thanks for the insight!

Yeah in my experience the better your input (original writing) and prompt, the better it does, although I think it really depends on what you’re looking for.

I can be a bit… Verbose…? So when there is a character or text limit I will use an LLM to shorten or condense my thoughts, which has turned out fairly well, but I bet the quality degrades quickly as the inputs degrade in quality.

For context and to your knowledge of the field, is Qwen 3.5 supposed to be cutting edge?

The Expanse sheds one I believe to be a plausible picture of our future, although it seems optimistic on some fronts.

funny how the toolbox makes their one whisker look loooooonngggg

Maybe? I think they used to advertise based on the content and expected demographics for the website, which is an alternative method that doesn’t require invasive digital fingering.

wow, seems like I probably heard that story before and internalized without realizing, although I would love to believe I guessed correctly.

Super cool piece of history, its easy to forget often people are just flying by the seat of their pants despite the way history and photographs make it look / feel otherwise.

I don’t think they were doing EVAs or anything, so I don’t really know how impressive the boots need to be, although I am thinking the construction boots / loggers on the middle two are not the regulation ones.

I am picturing them realizing they didn’t bring their boots or they were still being made on picture day, so NASA engineers running around trying to find people who had a pair of boots they were willing to let them spray paint LOL.

Looks like left and right are wearing the actual boots btw

https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/boot-left-mercury-schirra/nasm_A19721158005

Yeah but the people on their left and right are wearing different boots, that is what I was referring to.

Right? Like I remember a day and age when the ads were not obtrusive and awful, I would happily go back to a middle ground with normal sidebar/in video ads.

I mean isn’t there a world where we have unobtrusive adverts that are for products people actually want, and can sustain the reporting?

I think people would use less ad blockers if the ads were not designed / placed in a way that feels almost seizure inducing at times.

Unfortunately I think threads/twitter might be the future as a type of open source reporting, as everytime I hit a pay wall I turn around and leave.

The boot discrepancy is interesting, I wonder if that has to do with fit, mission assignments, rank, role, or personal preference.

False, it clearly says NYD (New York Diving) on their gear.

(/s)

To make sure this isn’t entirely a shit comment it looks like their helmet has a flip down welding protection filter maybe? Also, is that yellow thing a dive knife?

I cannot imagine how hard I would shit my ocean if I was out swimming and one of these dudes rolled up on me out of the water, as I have submechanicaphobia and thelassiaphobia, this is such a terrible and good meeting point of the two fears, and is spine tingling-ly creepy in the best way.

I’m only half of the decision tree, but I really appreciate your kind words of encouragement :) we’re trying, but cautiously.

yeah definitely a meeting point of factors.

also this is global, so I thought there was a strong correlation between agrarian societies, having low or depressed wages, and having lots of kids to help with the farm labor, or because there isn’t much else to do for fun.

This could be a regressive imperialist view, idk, but its what I was always told about the correlation between wages and children, especially on a global scale - would be interested to see this same chart for singular countries, the USA for example.

Other commenter pointed out that typically higher incomes generally come with rights for child bearers… So that also could have something to do with it too.

Anecdotal, but partner and I have put off having children multiple times due to affordability, IE who can take that much time off work and still pay food/rent costs?

Honestly the credibility of the NYT sinks every single day, it is a real shame how far mainstream media has fallen, and I think it honestly helps cause a lot of the Youtuber reporter BS

Market go up, market go down, missile go up, missile go down.

don’t worry we will save our rgb blessed children.