It certainly is in Uvalde.

Perhaps but it’s less permissible to speak out against the government.

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Pretty sure that’s a Bart Simpson phone prank

You gotta wonder what Mr. and Mrs. Cox were thinking naming their son Michael. Or Holden…

Say your prayers, little one

Mine lets me borrow eBooks and audiobooks via smartphone app, very useful and convenient.

Ever heard of a rematch?

No. It’s a taco.

Ketchup is a smoothie

How’s the smell though?

For LLMs, the already mentioned LM Studio does a good job as far as beginner friendliness goes.

For text-to-image, I like Fooocus, which is a custom Stable Diffusion setup with automatic prompt enhancement, which can comfortably compete with Midjourney.

Here’s a setup guide for first time users. There’s also an online version to try it out.

Okay, well don’t share them with people who you KNOW aren’t really your friends?

I mean, it’s fine to bring them up with people who you don’t consider your friends YET (because otherwise, you may never know their opinion and miss out on potential friendships), but if you get shot down or made fun of and it’s clear that there is no interest, just switch topics and look for someone else to be friends with.

Okay, I understand that, and that’s fine, everyone has people like that in their lives at some point.

But if you KNOW they aren’t really your friends, why would you complain that they don’t act like they are?

You can just ignore the first part of my advice (about not spending time with them) because it doesn’t apply to this situation, but you should probably still try and find people who you can actually be friends with based on your hobbies and interests.

Well, people you HAVE to see for professional reasons aren’t your friends, and you shouldn’t really care what they think about your hobbies or interests.

Once you’re an adult, you have no obligation to spend any time with your parents if they do not appreciate you for who you are.

Unless you still live at home, that is, in which case, you should probably fix that first.

What if I told you you do not have to be loyal to people who don’t respect you?

Definitely not, and the solution is to stop hanging out with people who ridicule or mock you for your interests and hobbies, and find those who admire and/or encourage you instead.

Worst evolution in history.

Thanks, you just gave a perfect counterexample to what I’m talking about.

First of all, I never said anything about it involving little to zero personal cost. Playing the lottery is the exact opposite because it’s 0.1% work and 99.9% hope. Personal responsibility is more like 90% work and 10% hope.

Yes, I was being somewhat facetious about people enjoying their suffering, what I really meant is that they enjoy it more than the effort required for making a change. Your second example is a great illustration of that, because rather than looking ahead and watching out for signs of sharks (like a tailfin sticking out of the water), they’ll just keep going in their comfortable routine instead of changing course.

Very often, looking ahead to check if you’re still on track to where you were originally going is all that’s required — if you notice the sharks (or the currents) before getting swept up in them, it’s still quite easy to change course. But people will rather commiserate over how difficult it is to wade through those currents instead of stopping for a moment to reassess their plans, and then complain some more when the sharks show up.