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Not just water, but also resources: electricity, RAM and Flash memory, other things being over-consumed by the AI development explosion. This war doesn't have geographic or national boundaries, its the (heavily funded) AI companies vs everyone else.

Not mine unfortunately, she is cute though

She got spayed on Tuesday and finally got a good appetite back. She was really struggling to eat from her big bowl with her cone on, so I took it off. I'm going to leave it off for a bit and see if she can be trusted to leave her incisions alone enough to not need to cone. Anyway, she ate her fill then came to me and started rubbing all over me and purring and just being crazy affectionate lol. She even rubbed up on the dogs but didn't bait them into chasing her like she normally does. She just gave them affection and they licked her head and went about their evening.

That's it. Lot of people with different distros in the discord have been able to play with little to no issue.

Proton GE 11-3 and experimental seem to be the top recommended.

I am having many friends over and we wish to play games on PC, there will be just one PC available but 8 controllers connected to it. Looking for recommendations!

I created this set up specifically to play killer queen black, but if there are other arcade style games that are fun and can accommodate the player count I would love to know about them!

Microsoft has apparently found the free time to build a standalone app whose only job is switching your default search engine to Bing across every browser on your PC. It is not force-installed through Windows Update yet, and it is not available in the Microsoft Store either. It is a standalone executable hosted on Microsoft’s official download servers, and we wonder why it even exists.

The app is called Microsoft Recommended Search Settings, and once installed, it prompts you to add extensions to all your installed browsers, which does the job of switching to the Bing homepage experience. After finishing installation, you also get redirected to the Microsoft Rewards page, which is basically a bribe for switching.

Kate Mulgrew acts her best Janeway with the cast from Frasier.

Hi! I (23M) am recovering from complex developmental trauma in childhood. I've considered myself an outside observer to human society because I was unable to bond with or relate much to other people until this year.

I grew up in an environment with abusive parents where any kind of softness or vulnerability in men was considered "gay". Subsequently, I encountered a lot of male peers in school who had the same attitude. It seemed like the entire world had the same message: wanting to be vulnerable as a man represents a sexual perversion because it is a "feminine" trait. I was bullied for the bits of vulnerability that I showed, echoing my abusive parents punishing my vulnerability. This sent me into a suicidal spiral that I thankfully made it out of.

I had this inexplicable desire to be vulnerable that I couldn't suppress. It made me believe that I was somehow "gay" despite only being attracted to women, and that women who like men could never find me attractive because they were only attracted to "straight" masculinity -- invulnerable, competitive, and dominating -- consigning me to a permanent ontological friendzone. Ultimately, I decided to take the Faustian bargain of trading my sexual potential for the freedom to be soft, releasing me from the internal pressure to conform to patriarchy.

Through healing from my trauma and talking to friends years later, I'm starting to think that this belief was kinda bullshit? Like for one, how is oral sex on men considered culturally ubiquitous despite the fact that the guy is literally putting his schlong at risk of being bitten, therefore making him vulnerable? How can you avoid being vulnerable when merely existing in the presence of your partner opens you up to their potential judgement? How can you avoid being vulnerable when you ask someone out, knowing they can reject you? It's almost like I actually didn't want to be vulnerable despite thinking otherwise, and refusing to even appear in front of people actually made me the most invulnerable and therefore manliest man who ever manned.

But most importantly, love requires both partners to be emotionally vulnerable, right? So then under gender roles, men can't love women, only objectify them? Wouldn't this make society one giant trauma factory where men are traumatized into detached sociopathy and women are traumatized into servitude? So what the hell are conservatives doing in relationships? Are they all loveless relationships, or did all of the men cheat their gender role to develop romantic feelings? If men didn't cheat a little in the past decades where gender roles were the strongest, shouldn't we see a kind of generational trauma so severe that violent crime is rampant and secure attachment is very scarce?

I'm not the artist, this person is: heresvix

@freyahartas

Commission member Philip Carr wrote that Mr Duong had 33 years of working life ahead of him that would be affected by his loss of capacity. 

Mr Carr determined that Mr Duong should receive a "significant buffer" for the uncertainty around future loss of earnings, which included the impact of AI.  

The tribunal did not find that AI had cost Mr Duong work, or predict that it would, only that AI may create more job market uncertainty that could disproportionately affect an injured worker with need for greater accommodations.

author: Cam Wilson @camwilson@mastodon.social, posted on his Fediverse account