Enterprise high-end model of any brand from five years ago. Whatever's selling second hand.
I'm a cheapskate, I admit, but the bathtub curve is real. Let the first owners weed out the lemons...
"Available now, no up-front!" is not a slogan an intelligent woman is likely to personify, but I daresay its a large component of short-term attractiveness...
It is true that some women will deliberately dress dowdy to make it firmly clear to observers that they got their position on merit not favouritism.
And it is also true that useless airheads invest a lot of time in their appearance if its all they have going for them.
Possibly we are looking at different forms of attractiveness - "short term" and "long term" for want of a more technical term.
>>Both in the British and American samples, physical attractiveness is significantly positively associated with general intelligence, both with and without controls for social class, body size, and health.
Both in the UK and in the US, the association between physical attractiveness and general intelligence is stronger among men than among women. In the UK, physically attractive men have higher IQ by 13.6 points, whereas physically attractive women have higher IQ by 11.4 IQ points.<<
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0160289610001315
Full text of Sci-Hub: https://sci-hub.se/10.1016/j.intell.2010.11.003
Very well done, those researchers. The only criticism I can manage is one the researchers raised themselves - their measures of attractiveness are ratings by teachers who know the participants well. Potential halo effect, they called it, but its more than that.
We've all met attractive members of the sex we're attracted to who suddenly become... less attractive on opening their mouths.
But if we accept that their measure of attractiveness is inherently the longer-term and stable form of the concept, then it's an excellent study with strong and robust results.
Interesting...
I have no interest in your digital photos, but by making them digitally available you destroy all scarcity.
Failed 1990s concepts like watermarking wouldn't stop me for a moment. I could run a few iterations of Stable Diffusion over anything and dare you to prove SD didn't come up with it on its own.
(And yes, there are NSFW SD models, and I can easily train a custom one)
Truth. More self-discipline than Trump. Awkward when unscripted, though.
His numbers were already pretty poor, and I'm guessing the donors just dried up...
Magnetic reconnection, lots of proton-y goodness moving at supersonic speeds in the inner solar system.
Bad time to visit anywhere without an atmosphere, I'm told, but I can't afford the ticket anyways.
LEO satellites are deep within our magnetosphere and avoid the worst of it, but GEO satellites will take a beating.
Do we have one incoming?
A great Projection in the Force, I sense
Installed on my "work" browser.
I can feel my Social Credit Score rising by the minute! (Still negative, I'm sure!)
#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=1420x946&blurhash=rEBfb59G6B%3Dw%3FIE2%253X8V%5B%7EBNbJC%251t8Rjt8W%3BWCITxuIUW%3DsSjZNwsooMr%3BRPEeni%24%24I%3AfkxZWYxGR*Wqs9baS4xFazNvRkozs%3AofR*s%3ARjR*od&x=f1f538303e9c3f15c0972d18c7a413f758e1fa739083419ebb58600bc296f5e1The bad guys can still send you image DMs to harvest an IP - but the IP will be your Tor exit node, not the IP your ISP gave you.
For most purposes, that should be enough anonymity
Well done! We're here whenever you need proofreaders!
GN! Also where can I find that hot spring full of Capys??? Asking for a friend
A speech by Israeli Cabinet Minister Ben Gvir, where he calls for respecting human rights and the Geneva Conventions.
I'm kidding. He doesnt say anything like that, he reiterates his demand for genocide: "those who hand out candy, those who support, those who sing". Live on free-to-air TV.
Here is a speech Himmler made under similar circumstances:
"I shall speak to you here with all frankness of a very serious subject. We shall now discuss it absolutely openly among ourselves, nevertheless we shall never speak of it in public. I mean the evacuation of the Jews, the extermination of the Jewish race.
It is one of those things which is easy to say. 'The Jewish race is to be exterminated,' says every party member. 'That's clear, it's part of our program, elimination of the Jews, extermination, right, we'll do it.'
And then they all come along, the eighty million good Germans, and each one has his 'decent' Jew. 'Of course the others are swine, but this one is a first-class Jew'. Of all those who talk like this, not one has watched, not one has stood up to it.
Most of you know what it means to see a hundred corpses lying together, five hundred, or a thousand. To have gone through this and yet - apart from a few exceptions, examples of human weakness - to have remained decent fellows, this is what has made us hard. This is a glorious page in our history that has never been written and shall never be written..."
I am not comparing Ben Gvir to Himmler.
That would be wrong.
Himmler had to make his speech in secret to his officers, and feared the German people finding out.
And Ben Gvir is not plagued with letters from fellow party members asking clemency for their favourite "decent Palestinian".
Original-flavour Common Law had very little role for government - juries did most of what a modern judge does, and communities did most of what modern police do.
It worked despite no budget, no marketing and no political program, because the people closest to the ground have the most interest in making sure crime is stopped and stays stopped.
Original-flavour Common Law wasn't good at covering up failure, running large scale extortion, or persecuting political opponents, though.
"Sad!"
"To protect" was always BS, since it doesn't prevent infection. Had my mother in my ear warning me not to have the vaxx, that mRNA was too unproven to be safe. Retired nurses tend to be pretty conservative about treatments, they've seen a lot.
But I did some reading (I❤️🔥sci-hub.se), decided on balance it was likely a net plus.
Think its too early to tell if I made the right call, but certainly my two COVID infections have been mild.
(I nearly died of pneumonia secondary to influenza when I was 17, still have the scarring to prove it. Rare, but it happens, don't really want a repeat)
It makes image loading Sloooow, but text is the same
#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=1080x447&blurhash=Z66t%3Ar_3oGxVt6ayM%7BRkIV%7Ep%3FHxZxuxaaxWBRkIoM_t6j%5Djbt7ayogayWBD%2BM%7DM%7BInWCWCt6t7xu&x=8c66906daf59b9111d572df0d8f4ed920b03433102f83e8a5ca7d2415f1fb339If you or someone you know has access to relay logs, you could determine if he shares an IP with the bots.
I usually suspect these characters of being empty braggarts. The level of skill required to set up follow bots is very low, but still too high for most of these...
Some men will object to anything just to have something to say to get attention from a woman. Negative attention is still attention.
Changing whatever they objected to will never fix this.
(And yes, this also happens with the genders reversed)