Oh you’re a luddite, you’re also a hater and about as intractable and strupid as a trump supporter. You can be many crappy things at once!

Hopefully this means the haters will shut up and we can get on with using it for useful stuff

Half of The Meg 2 is basically Jaws, but with Jason Statham Jason Stathaming the sharks

Again, we need to shift towards renewables. AI is not the problem you’re angry with here, stop railing against new technology and new artistic media and start railing against oil companies

And by new I meant “not over a hundred years old”, not “over three months old”

Okay, you’re a luddite

I would watch an all-Muppet True Lies remake!

That’s something of a red herring. The source of that energy matters more than how much is used (use renewables where possible) - your ire is directed at entirely the wrong place; and also how much is used in computers and datacentres doing other stuff? If I’m generating pictures I’m not playing games, which is using the same card and probably more constantly.

I gotta congratulate you though, that’s an argument that to my knowledge was NOT levelled against photography when that was invented. I mean like all the other arguments it’s bollocks but at least it’s new! <pretty much every other argument against ai art was levelled at photography and many of therm at pre-mixed paints before that!>

Peloton is introducing a $95 “used equipment activation fee” for bikes purchased from outside its official channels in the US and Canada, aiming to boost revenue and maintain onboarding quality for new subscribers.

Uh… what? No

Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle. I was expecting a trashy slasher with some queer elements and an autistic protagonist, what I got was a good supernatural thriller with some queer elements and a very believable autistic protagonist - I would genuinely recommend it.

The writing is the weakest part, it feels very kind of pedestrian, like “here’s some words explaining what’s happening” rather than being artistic or beautiful or evocative but it’s good enough for the story and characters to come through, and they’re great. So remove the writing quality from the equation and it could be absolutely excellent

I have a different brand of multicooker, and it’s excellent. The “boil” function goes down as low as 40C so I use it to sous vide things fairly often

I’m not sure how much of a scandal it was outside of those directly affect, but I was in the circle. A group of us, led by one of the younger drama teachers, went to the Edinburg Fringe Festival (a big literary, drama and comedy festival) with a bunch of short comic plays by Checkov (yes, really!). he was attractive enough that he had to make sure not to be alone in a room with a female student in case of rumours, but he was decent and would never had done anything like that. He got his wife and his brother involved too, which was cool, we all got on really well. We had a lot of fun, it was great, and, amazingly for the first time at the Fringe, didn’t actually lose money! (I think we made like fifty quid between twelve of us, so we didn’t exactly make a profit either, but it was an amazing experience)

Then his brother and his wife had an affair and ran away together

I mean… transvestigators are obviously batshit, but this is legit hilarious!

Don’t worry, you still haven’t, and apparently can’t!

I think this was NotTheOnion for a moment

Just wanna say Beats are the definition of half-decent. They’re not awful (I got given some) but not amazing either, they just cost a lot more than something of that quality should

Why are there so many tables???