“AI first company”? What does it even mean?

Why can’t they just be a gay dating app that makes use of AI?

The word “first” implies that AI is going to the primary focus.

So, they want to change their core business from being a gay dating app to being an AI company?

With explanations like “AI is not a specific feature”, I have to wonder what makes them think their company is able to do anything competitive in the already saturated AI market.

Remember to say toodle-oo like an old lady while waving.

Just like many other good distros, Friends ended when the larger one ate the smaller ones.

That song was written in 1963 in New York.

They used to be.

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

When was the last time you ate more or less of something because someone in the government told you to?

This is an old Mandela effect.

The issue is that they don’t actually remember what the sun looked like, because you can’t really look at the sun.

Their memories are of the crayon drawings that they made in school.

Pro tip: Cut the baguette in a 45° angle.

It makes the first bite easier, and it looks better.

That looks like the Emerica G6 Wino slip-ons.

I wore those out in about a year just from walking. The bottom isn’t very good, which is a shame, because they’re otherwise very comfortable and durable.

Ideas can spread but also get corrected when people interact.

It used to be that people talked to each other and set the dumbasses straight whenever they spit out this kind of “politics”.

These days everyone is just angry online and they’d rather change their online network than to change their minds.

Someone should have told off Trump long ago. They didn’t, and since he chose to communicate official statements on Twitter, instead of passing it through advisers and secretaries who could advise him better, it’s only gotten worse.

Fascism is an idea that needs to die, but it’s really difficult to confront the idea when the fascists hide in their online safe spaces, like X and Truth Social, where they only interact with bootlickers and block everyone else.

I think the best way to kill fascism is to talk openly about it with other people offline.

It appears to be a bus stop in London.

Advertising in UK is mostly self-regulated and for it to be removed by someone else it requires that someone files a complaint.

The word fuck is usually not allowed in public advertising, but it’s not explicitly forbidden. The context and target demography is taken into account when the Committee of Advertising Practice (CAP) evaluates if anyone could be offended.

The GIMP user would never have paid Adobe for Photoshop anyway.

If anything, it actually helped people get into photo editing and ended up using Photoshop at their work.

Picking requires much more control than fretting once you’ve learned the basic shapes or movement.

Think of the timing in it. The fret can be pressed at any time between two notes, but the picking needs to be exactly on time. Fretting basically becomes muscle memory while the picking is the real decision making.

Also think of the expression. Once you’ve fretted a note, there’s little to do with that finger. Bending and hammer-ons maybe, but it’s nothing in comparison to what the picking hand does. The picking can change the volume, overdrive, pinch notes, muting and overtones depending on position. Also of course timing as already mentioned.

Traditionally, it was probably chosen because of finger picking though. A lot of classical music is based on very basic chord shapes while the picking hand does all the coordination of playing both bass and melody simultaneously. That requires a lot more rhythmic independence on the picking hand than the fretting hand.

The majority of wear on roads by far comes from trucks and busses.

Personal vehicles are almost negligible in comparison, regardless of what engine they’re using.

On every single skateboard post or short video, somebody will mention Mullen too.

But anyway, outside of skateboarding, millennials also know of Bam, Sheckler and maybe Dyrdek.

Gen-z probably knows of the YouTubers that show up in their feeds. SkateIQ (Mitchie Brusco), SkateNomad (Mike Boisvert) and probably Andy Anderson because he’s everywhere.

I think it’s safe to say that skateboarding isn’t as mainstream as it used to be when MTV was the main youth cultural feed, but it also allows for a lot more unknown people to rise up. Nobody cares about what young dude Thrasher and the industry wants to portrait as a professional. The skate scene these days basically consists of old men and young women watching footage on YouTube.

Makes sense for them to sell out.

I really loved Reason, but there’s only so much new stuff that can be added meaningfully. They’re way past that point and the subscription based pricing is a huge turn off.

That’s a valid point.

What I’m addressing is that after the EU mandated schools to include everyone in the same classes, things just don’t work.

It used to be one class with “normal” students and one class with *special " students, each with their own teachers. This was highly ostracizing to a lot of pupils who had a mild ADD diagnosis, and that number keeps increasing as parents become more accepting and take their kids for diagnosis.

The current strategy is include everyone in one class and then use supplemental teachers where it’s necessary. Big unsurprising shock is that it’s necessary to have a speciel teacher attached to every single class and they can’t find neither funding or qualified teachers. Surprised Pikachu!

It would be easy to say that we should go back to the old system, but that is also wrong. What they need is to educate every teacher to be able to include the “special” students.

I’m not saying there shouldn’t be a “special” class, but it should be reserved for the pupils who are further out on the spectrum.

When I was a kid myself, the special class was for kids with Downs. That hardly exists anymore, because of the option to abort after the chromosome test, and because these kids are funneled into special institutions to begin with. Kids with ADHD or autism would be in normal classes and failing because nobody recognized it as a handicap. They do now, but prior to the EU decision it was the opposite problem. The special classes were full of kids with mild diagnoses. The EU decision addressed this issue, but it wasn’t the right way, because there was no money given to update the qualifications of the teachers.

What I am suggesting is that we accept the inclusion, but also that we to ensure that all teachers are capable of handling it. We shouldn’t ostracize kids with mild diagnoses by putting then in special class or having special teachers. If we want to include them, which we should, we need to go all in on making the mainstream education include them.

I’ve come to the conclusion that everyone is somewhere on the spectrum.

The question of whether to get a diagnosis is more about handling any issues that come from it. Some people need medication, some people needs extra help with certain things and some people just needs to know about it - in order to function in the way that makes sense to them.

If you need those things to function, it will help to get a diagnosis, because it can make it a lot easier to get that help, especially if it’s medical.

But, make no mistake. Everyone has something. It’s only a question of whether you need to treat it.

In a perfect world where there was no prejudice, we could be screening all school children and hand out paperwork along the grades, so you’d get an 8 in Math class and a 4 in ADHD. You know, just to get a full picture of the person.

But joking aside, there’s no reason why teaching can’t be more inclusive of these issues and just teach everyone as if they have autism and ADHD, even if they do not have a diagnosis. More often than not it’s only a matter of being allowed extra time for certain tasks or a slightly more pedagogical approach. Everyone can benefit from that, so it’s completely wrong to place diagnosed kids in special classes, when what is really needed is better educated teachers.

“Nippon” isn’t hard to pronounce for Germans, either.

I don’t know about that. Even if Germans are not shy of pronouncing letters wrongly (using V as F for instance), the P in Nippon makes no sense in German. It would have to be spelled with an H to make the right sound.