Has writing the novel changed in the last several decades? It used to be very rare that any given writer would hit the best seller list, everyone else was steered towards taking writing classes or purchasing somewhat pricey seminars. What is the motive to defend AI writing bots? AI isn’t going to be purchasing seminars or taking classes.

“Generative AI empowers not the artist, not the writer, but the tech industry,” Star Wars: Aftermath author Chuck Wendig said in response to NaNoWriMo’s stance. “It steals content to remake content, graverobbing existing material to staple together its Frankensteinian idea of art and story.”

All you young people need to know you’re gorgeous just as you are. You don’t need products to make yourself beautiful, don’t believe the advertising.

A well reasoned reply. With the exception of dementia and presuming they’re of sound mind, aren’t they free to choose to have end-of-life care? Or is such care too expensive, like in the U.S.?

Is PFAS why fatty livers are so common among humans?

Why is dying alone presented as something undesirable?

The agency hopes its report will shed light on the country’s growing issue of vast numbers of its aging population who live, and die, alone.

Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim & Offender - DARVO - Wikipedia

I’m struck by the similarities to Trump’s bible photo incident: Donald Trump photo op at St. John’s Church - Wikipedia

Edit: Link fixed, thanks to apfelwoiSchoppen

I grew up in a right-wing authoritarian family: physical violence is pretty routine, as is DARVO.

“Churches are not to be touched!” he added.

That would carry so much more weight if churches didn’t touch or otherwise affect people who don’t follow their particular faith.

…I’ve only ever read about grid-scale versions of such projects.

Your EV battery can now power your home, yes really. - The Washington Post

A bunch of the U.S. conservatism around sex is related to Abrahamic religion where sex is presented as sinful. Religious indoctrination begins at a very young age for some kids.

EV car batteries have been used for the purpose of storing daytime-generated solar energy to power a home during the night.

Puberty begins as early as 10 in girls and 11 in boys, so 14 may be a little late, at least for some kids.

It is unimaginable Trump is actually running for president, and yet here we are.

More than three months after a U.S. Air Force airman was gunned down by a Florida sheriff’s deputy, his family and their lawyer are demanding that prosecutors decide whether to bring charges against the former lawman.

If it had been anyone other than law enforcement and if caught the perp would be behind bars.

umbrella at lemmy.ml wrote:

i don’t know why people are so allergic to firefox…

To which I offered a possible answer. Does everyone have misconfigured operating systems?

The Best Web Browsers of 2024 | HighSpeedInternet.com

Mozilla’s Firefox browser isn’t known for speed. It falls into last place in most of our tests for Windows and Mac, and that’s okay. Firefox is more about security features than speed, which is ideal if you’re more concerned about blocking malware than loading pages in a flash.

Yep, I’d probably be wasting my time going down the uninstall-reinstall rabbit hole and would probably not find speed increases.

I love Firefox, used to use it all the time. Now it’s slower on Ubuntu than Brave. I mean slow as in irritating to use, click and wait.

Wasn’t what I had in mind. Why did the Crooks choose the AR15?

What other kinds of guns were found? I mean specifics. Handguns? Shotguns? Rifles?

…Believing he was being unjustly detained, he yelled and cursed at officers who put him in a restraint chair at the county jail.

When I was a kid my parents sent me to an upscale private boarding school. When we were speaking to superiors, we had to yell loud enough to shake walls. When we didn’t yell loud enough, we were punished. This yelling mandate/training went on for an entire year called the plebe year. Yet, when we yell in real-life adult situations, we are somehow considered insane and dangerous? Perhaps states should not allow schools to intentionally teach yelling as a compulsory-school training technique?