Fanish Meanderings

like you can block people for whatever it's totally fine that they decided to back out of the interaction that way

i'm just finding it very funny

Or give me a ward of little criticals. Bitty babies that need subbies and tubing and someone watching them all like a hawk.

I'm so good with neonates the shelter had me teach a class for all the other techs.

*edit* I will say that critical care babies would be a lower number but I'd still peg that for around 12 to 15 if they are not yet weaned. New gown, new gloves, easy to change out. Been there, done that.

Panleuk and ringworm babies is another thing entirely, which was not part of my hypothetical perfect job.

It's the FUCKING WEANING. So messy.

(Hard Node: No ingredients from Asia, or The Americas.)

Also I do just like plain bread. So I can have nice plain bread and butter. But I think every culture with some form of dairy has a variant of that. Or plainly cooked beef with lots of salt. Everyone has salt.

I personally cook it with brown sugar in it, but I'm like 90% sure I could cook it with honey and it'd be just as good.

The list is just Wikipedia's List of Deserts by Area. Hopefully that covers the most likely candidates.

This is Josie. She wants to be a lap cat, but she is 9 months old and has too much energy for it for very long. She gets bored. She'll probably be a lap cat in a year or two.

I had a bonus grandfather who was a trucker.

"god forbid people need 24/7 access to therapy to-"

THAT'S NOT THERAPY

THAT IS A PROGRAM DESIGNED TO TELL YOU WHAT IT THINKS YOU WANT TO HEAR

IT CANNOT PROVIDE YOU WITH THERAPY

DESIGNED TO TELL YOU WHAT IT

THINKS YOU WANT TO HEAR

Would you, or do you, watch a show where a majority of the cast have passed away?

Yes

No

you can watch movies where everyone's dead. i mean not a lot of them, our early film archives are kinda spotty, film as a physical object tends to spontaneously combust. but yeah.

you can listen to music made by dead people! our tapes and vinyl have actually held up pretty well!

tv shows are a few decades younger and the early stuff is not super well preserved unless it was INCREDIBLY popular but. we're already there.

i mean take Star Trek: TOS. Leonard Nimoy's down, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, Nichelle Nichols, Majel Barrett Roddenberry. Majority of main cast. And that's not even early TV. Hell, it's in color.

M*A*S*H has tipped over 50% with Loreta Swit recently.

What else does tumblr like? Columbo? Peter Falk is no longer with us, I can't tell that anyone else was a regular on the show, so mark that one down.

They put them down. Especially if you've made sure to let them know you never have to finish a library book. You can just stop, bring it back, and get a new one.

(Partly I think it's been a bit of guilt for "making my mom so worried" - she was with me for both hospital visits, and she was pretty deeply disturbed by how I was acting due to the pain of the gallbladder thing, especially for the few hours it took waiting in the ER. Also deeply illogical, but definitely still there.)

((Huh, maybe I have some more work to do with my counselor on the impact of my chronic pain issues than I thought I did.))

I initially rated gallstones at a 7, maybe an 8, at the hospital, and had rated early gallstone attacks at a 5 (which probably contributed to it being missed, in addition to a gastro who sucked).

This is because I know what a full 10 is, as in I have hit a level of pain so bad I blacked out and remained unconscious for more than 20 minutes, something on a lot of descriptions of what a 10 is. Without any head trauma. This involved the sudden traumatic dislocation of multiple joints after falling 12 ft (shoulder, wrist, hip, knee, both ankles). I have EDS so I self reduced them. Then I blacked out. The pain of the shoulder in particular was something else. Out of body experience.

Of course, I also went back to work the same week I had my gallbladder out.

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So are all you people cheering for Disney.

"This only applies to exact likenesses!"

Have you NEVER put your FOOT in a DOOR? Have you never seen someone with power use one concession to get another...abortion, trans rights, censorship? Abuser/groomer/cult tactics work this way too. We all hate those, right? We all see that for what it is, right?

Also, they're making their own deal with a different AI company. This was never about what you want it to be about! Never! They're in the paperwork saying they care about workers, that this will affect jobs, be bad for the industry. Then they turn around and are trying to make a fucking deal with OpenAI? WHILE suing Midjourney! On top of their horrendous track record of treating artists like shit? They have the gall to invoke concern for employees? All that and you still believe Disney cares about its workers? Where are you people actually standing?

DISNEY IS ALWAYS IN THE WRONG and the idea that in suing Midjourney they would somehow take down AI and do us all a favor was invented by y'all and was not actually their intent.

You should not be cheering this. Not because Midjourney should be defended, I don't give a fuck about the company itself. I give a fuck about the legal precedent this sort of thing sets. If they get someone to say that they can seek damages if something is capable of reproducing their work, they can come for any graphics program. Adobe would no doubt be GLAD to bend over for them with just a little urging. And since people can make art without AI, it came free with their fucking humanity as everyone seems to like saying, and since it was people who made official Disney art in the first place, people are capable of reproducing an exact likeness too. One individual just like you is even less valuable to them and easier to crush than a company of any size. Midjourney could at least be beaten down and acquired; the corpse could be useful to them. You are not useful as anything but an example to others. The best you could hope for is just being so small they don't notice you.

I'm not defending the wrong things people and companies do with any sort of technology, including using AI to replace humans. That idea makes me sick to my stomach. It HURTS me.

I'm just saying that obscenely wealthy companies like Disney are not and never ever ever will be defending the rights of people like you or me or the individual artists you love and want to protect. Especially with a government in the USA that has active motivation to crush the first amendment like a bug. Courts here are not going to uphold your rights to make not-for-profit art or transformative works or accidentally similar work under copyright law. Disney WROTE a lot of that copyright law.

Also, they steal people's art. Which I thought is a thing most anti-AI people are specifically super mad about.

The White Company? His favorite book? Is fucking terrible. It's a slog of pointless added detail. You think Moby Dick is a bore? White Company is worse, and I have read both. I say this as someone who read the unabridged Les Mis and Hunchback by choice.