Parrots are the most surrendered animals in US and probably other countries. There are always more senior birds available at shelters.

Parrots are incredibly smart, social and LOUD animals. They will require constant attention, care and enrichment. If not provided, they are very prone to depression, which comes with bunch of related health issues. They are fragile and require veterinarians that know how to deal with birds / exotic animals. They love destroying stuff and will destroy your house. For a bird that isnt just screaming all the time, you will have to feed them a balanced diet with fresh veggies, and ideally 12 hours sleep in a dark area.

I love parrots, and I took care of one for a time before, but I wouldn’t do that again until I am retired and settled down and know that I can dedicate myself to having one. You need to think about all the downsides and how to overcome them.

Have you thought about an easier animal with a shorter lifetime such as a mice or an hamster? They are also extremely sociable and smart animals and also can like to be handled. This would give you a “trial” run of sorts where you can think about how it would like to be have a harder to care animal.

Also, check out Clint’s Reptiles on youtube. He has a series of videos about various different animals and how easy / hard it is to care for them along with explaining their general personalities.

Really? I would love to see your pictures defending your democracy at January 6, 2021 with your guns. Or sure, you might not care about your government. Did you do anything at all with your guns to defend people getting kidnapped left and right, illegally mind you, by ICE? You know, since you are so ready to defend whomever you call “us”. Oh but by “us”, you mean yourself of course.

My dudes going to stop the right because he can get guns from Walmart lmao. Just say you like guns man, don’t hide behind some excuse when this issue is killing children at schools right fucking NOW.

"A total of 216 people have been killed and 643 people have been wounded in 169 shootings, as of May 31. "

That is 1.11 mass shootings per day.

Americans: “How are we going to defend ourselves without guns thouuughhhh :(:(:(”

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I think it was optimistic to think that GrapheneOS would survive long term while the only phones they worked with was made by, you know, Google. I understand their security requirements and respect that they did not make exceptions to be able to work with other devices, but I hope they now change their approach to this considering the alternative.

Ah yes, I can see how you can see the guy who used religion all his political career to his advantage and shat on the constitution just so he can stay in power longer, as a Kemalist.

/s

Sorry, I made the comment about being on Fuck AI because of your edit to the original message. I wasn’t trying to accuse you of anything.

Back to the AI stuff. I am sorry if I am a little sceptical about your claims about the “next generation of AI” and how “soon” they will outperform humans when even after all these years, money and energy poured into them, they still manage to fuck up a simple division question. Good luck making any model that needs to be trained on data perfect at this point, because AI slop that has been already generated and released in to the internet has already took care of that. Maybe we will have AGI at some point, but I will believe that when I actually see it.

Finally, I don’t know about modern art being absurdly simplistic. How can you look at modern animation or music and call it absurdly simplistic. How can you look at thousands of game UI designs in Edd Coates’ website and call them absurdly simplistic? All AI will ever create when it comes to art is some soulless amalgamation of what it has seen before, it will kill all creativity, originalty and personality from art, but businessman in suits will gladly let it take over human artists because it is cheaper then hiring human artists and designers.

I would argue it wasn’t just the refrigeration, but also the suburbanization of living and the cost effectiveness of delivering the milk from the farm to the store, which (in theory) made milk cheaper. You would still need the milkmen if stores and supermarkets didn’t exist. In an alternative world where we didn’t invent commercial / household refrigerators, you could still buy milk from stores daily without the need of a milkmen, becaue ultra-pasteurization exists.

I guess thats the problem with analogies and I don’t think either of us will get anywhere by further arguing about this one specific example.

I think the fact that AI sucks ass at even the most basic math proves that the difference between discovery and creation is, indeed, not arbitrary.

Unless you are the kind of person to use AI to do math, then yeah I can see how it can look that way.

This may come as a shock to you, but nobody was working as a refrigerator. Refrigerators didn’t replace the milk man, the stores did. Which was fine at first since those stores were supposed to buy the milk from the milkman and just make it more readily accessible. Then human greed took over, the stores or big name brands started to fuck over the milk man, and conspired with other big name stores to artificially increase the price of bread while blaming covid and inflation, and now some, although few people are trying to buy it back from the milk man if they can afford / access it.

Those tools that did replace humans, did not steal human work and effort, in order to train themselves. Those tools did not try to replace human creativity with some soulless steaming pile of slop.

You see, I believe open source, ethically trained AI models can exist and they can accomplish some amazing things, especially when it comes to making things accessible to people with disabilities for an example. But Edd Coates’ is specifically talking about art, design and generative AI. So, maybe, don’t come to a community called “Fuck AI”, change the original argument and then expect people argue against you with a good will.

The opposition comes from us, the consumers who refuse to use Google products.

Ohh nooo. Poor her with all the stock options she got while working there from basically their startup days. Whatever this poor damsel will do with 20+ years of experience working in one of the biggest tech companies in the world.

I might not have the platform to bring attention to this issue, but hey, at least I don’t actively help them, do their work and then reap the benefits of all the evil they do anyways.

Unlike her, my issues with Google does not end with the Israel issue. Google is evil regardless of this single issue.

She is still working there. Yeah, sure, maybe she is taking a risk now that her name is out there publicly criticizing, but this article is just for her to feel good about herself. “But look guys, I think Google sucks too, I am not bad like them. I just help them accomplish their goals and get paid for it 🙃”

Bruh, who the fuck is being rejected “hundreds, if not thousands” times? Maybe some people are, but thats such a red flag that I would argue then maybe they should change their approach in the first place.

Maybe you are exaggerating (it just makes you sound a bit like an incel, apologies), and I probably would argue men do get rejected more then woman, because men are still (mostly) expected to make the first move, but like you don’t need experience handling rejection to not have a violent rage fit.

Edit: I have read another one of your replies down the chain, and uh yeah you definitely do sound a lot like an incel.

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And how does average sales per release correlate to development costs? Your argument was “development costs are now higher so game prices should also increase”, and now you are talking about average sales per release.

You might need some comprehension skills before offering other people tips.

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Got some bad news for you chief.

Huh? What does this has to do with game prices? More games being released doesnt change the develepmont cost of a single game (it might even make it cost less because you could share assets, functions, animations etc between different games). But selling more games = more income directly since you don’t even have release those games physically anymore.

Imagine calling putting 2 tablets together “an exploit” and then banning people because they used it. Its criminal to do this after not banning the people who exploited the temporalis dupe last patch.

GGG, my brother in christ, you put those mods there yourself?

I don’t think anything I said can be dismissed as “eh its just early access”. I am not complaining about the fact that they didnt “fix” things YET, I am complaining about their overall stance in some aspects. I hope the game doesnt become another poe 1, because then what the fuck was the point?

Cmon, are YOU telling me that you are happy spending 20+ hours every league just to level your first character to reach the endgame? Are you happy spending 30 minutes in infested barrens or wherever the fuck it was looking for different objectives? We had this complaint even with poe1, which has much lower play time at around 12+ hours for leveling. Not only they did not adress this from poe 1 to poe 2, they made it waaaay worse. Has nothing to do with early access.

I haven’t heard or saw a single person that likes current map sizes (both in leveling and maps) or the fact that you have to do so much backtracking just to find a single rare monster you missed, and instead of adressing this and acknowledging the problem, they go “uhh achtuallyy, it’s not the map sizes, its the white monster health and your movement speed guys, just get better”.

I feel like there are 2 sides working on PoE2 right now, the player experience side that are triying to add cool mechanics like parry, or to give hammer skill attacks +1 sec flat so that the weapons feel actually different to each other, and then there is the monster balance side, where they have no idea what players have to do to make their builds work and instead just focuses on monster difficulty in a vacuum only using numbers. The result? You go in a map and then die to a single magic pack that has the quick modifier because they swarm and kill you way before your 1.4 seconds hammer attack finishes. And no, its not a monster health balance issue. If they want the game to be slower, then the monsters need to be slower too.

They also for sure reduced the item drop rates, at least during the campaign, which I think was a universal complaint for both poe1 players and new players during 0.1.0. Again, during 0.1.0, you could say its just early access. I dont think you can say the same thing now.