Any soup is cool enough to eat on a first date. If your date gives you crap about something as inconsequential as what kind of soup you’re eating, your date should be discarded at your earliest convenience, because they have shown themselves to be an opinionated twat that will bitch about things that don’t matter in the slightest.

Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!

Maybe it does, maybe it doesn’t.

Maybe it costs less than paying enough for employees to give a shit about shoplifters, so it lowers shrink in that way.

Walmart became one of the richest companies in the US because of stuff like this. There’s a whole penny-pinching mentality built into their company structure that I haven’t seen at any other retailer I’ve worked for, and they argue that it’s how they keep their prices low.

Because they’re trying to make something that doesn’t exist. Ai is really good at making stuff that already exists, or even merging traits from multiple things that already exist. It can’t create stuff that doesn’t exist, though.

So, what the creator does is point Stable Diffusion at a prompt that says something like “Jesse from Breaking Bad, but Russian”, point a voice generator primed on Jesse’s lines at what he wants Soviet Jesse to say, and point a third one that mimics face movements to the picture and the Ai-generated voice line.

Now he has a picture with a moving face that talks and says whatever dumb shit he wants it to, for minimal effort but all the internet points.

The problem with this line of thinking, as well as the point the OP’s meme makes, is that it’s drawing a line between the two in the first place, when in fact there can be significant overlap.

A quick dictionary lookup yields this for terrorism: “the unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims.” Note that “especially against civilians” doesn’t mean it has to be, just that civilians being involved makes it a stronger case.

Now, you may have already spotted the issue, but here it is anyway: this is an incredibly broad definition. Laws don’t bind those in other states, so ANY act of violence or intimidation is unlawful.

So…freedom fighters fight using violence, against the laws of the country that claims sovereignty over them… so they’re terrorists. Full stop. This doesn’t mean that we should or shouldn’t support them, it just means that the definition of terrorism is pretty useless.

My first thought was “trumpet”, so I’m on board with toot.

No, it’s very clear why people use Spotify. They use Spotify because they’ve heard of it and it’s pre-loaded on their phones. Most people dont think at all about what the company behind the app does behind the scenes.

This is exactly why I usually say it means “Something’s wrong” instead of “I want something” because the cat is perfectly capable of occupying un-pillowed laps, it just chooses not to.

I suppose in that respect, it does mean “I yearn!” but I’ve taken it to mean “Something’s wrong!”, with the nuance being that he’ll want his food bowl filled even if he’s not hungry or me on the couch even if he doesn’t immediately want a lap.

My cat knows exactly what it wants when it yells at me. I just had to learn how to speak cat.

The meowing is just to get my attention. Once walk over to him, he’ll walk over to the place he wants me to go. At that point I have to figure out what he wants me to do there, but it’s usually food dish/water dish/couch for lap sitting.

Not a goddamn chance. Killing that many people all at once essentially wipes out humanity.

We’d need to find exactly where it “passes over”, which could depend on who you ask.

No, we don’t. It doesn’t matter when that is, because you and I both agree that it’s out there somewhere, and that at the point in time referenced, a non-chicken laid an egg and a chicken hatched out of it. That’s all we need out of that point, and neither of us are disputing that part of it.

If you define a chicken as hatching from a chicken egg (“every chicken must have hatched from a chicken egg”), then the egg came first. If you define a chicken egg as an egg that was laid by a chicken (“all chicken eggs must have been laid by chickens”), then the chicken came first.

Agreed. I, personally, use the broader egg definition you reference in the last paragraph, but a definition of “chicken egg” would put the whole thing to rest, and I propose this: Not every chicken egg contains a viable chicken. We all agree that these eggs are still chicken eggs when we buy them at the supermarket, though, so my proposed definition is that a chicken egg is laid by a chicken. Otherwise, we end up with unclassified eggs in our omelettes, and we can’t have that.

In such a case, we would simply need to look backward in history until we find an ancestor that doesn’t meet the chicken criteria. Fowl as a clade were separated from other bird clades before the K-T Extinction Event, and many such species before the event had teeth, which means they weren’t chickens.

I see what you’re saying, and I agree with it, but the question isn’t asking “Which egg was the first chicken egg?”, it’s asking “Did the egg come before the chicken?” Determining the exact point is a way of answering the question, but is a lot of work that isn’t strictly necessary to do so.

We can use the Theorem because we don’t care when that point actually was, the question doesn’t ask that. We just need to prove that there was such a point, and the Theorem does that.

To use that text as an analogy, we don’t care which is the first purple or blue word, we just know there is one because the gradient starts from red, passes through purple, and ends up blue, so it must have a first purple word and a first blue word.

chicken would also be able to defined as it’s ancestor

This isn’t the case, and there’s a mathematical theorem describing this called the Intermediate Value Theorem. Basically, if you have a function describing a line you can draw without picking up your pencil, at some point along that line the value takes on every value on that line. Makes sense, right?

If I draw a line separating Chicken-birds from Not-chicken-birds, and show the evolutionary path leading from non-chicken to chicken, at some point it crosses that line. We don’t have to know where that point is, we just know it crosses the line at some point.

At that point, wherever it is, we have a bird that meets the criteria of “chicken” hatching from an egg laid by a bird that doesn’t.

Besides, this is all pretty moot. We actually know when and where chickens originated. They originated about 3000 years ago in China and India after being domesticated from Southeast Asian Red Junglefowl.

Period flow can happen without warning, and even if there is a warning, it’s not usually something that girls are comfortable enough with to want to announce the reason in front of a classroom.

For real. Just because Putin is a Bond villain doesn’t make every citizen of Russia one of his goons.

Same. Arizona’s great with the flavors they have, but they don’t have a peach tea, which is my go-to if I want iced tea.

I started cradling him when he was just old enough to be adopted. Every time we crossed paths, I would say “Scoop!”, scoop him up with a hand under his chest, roll him over backwards with my other hand on his butt, and lay him down on my arm like that. Then I’d scratch his tummy and give him kisses, then let him go after a little bit.