I’m sure there are stock images of actual people you could get access to, for a fee. That plus some image editing to get the style you want might be a way to avoid using AI for the portraits. I totally understand wanting to use AI for the voices though, that seems fair.

Well that certainly is an opinion

If you’re doing something like gathering research materials, a lot of times people will grab a bunch of stuff of the shelves at once then take it all back to a table somewhere to peruse. In that scenario it’s definitely likely you’ll forget where something went, or mix things up.

I agree that driving is unnatural and overstimulating, and that’s definitely part of it. I think another part of it is that it’s really easy to see other drivers on the road as “other cars” more than “other people”. Driving is dehumanizing, in the sense that it makes it harder for people to see other drivers as fellow humans rather than adversarial machines, and people act accordingly.

If you understood how it’s disrespectful, it wouldn’t be hard to explain. Here’s an example:

Sexual assault is disrespectful because it violates a person’s bodily autonomy, which is a fundamental human right.

See? Easy. Now, try that for “people who dress wrong”.

It’s disrespectful to the people who set it up and to everyone else who is there to have a nice evening.

How

I mean if you don’t find dressing like that to a black tie event disrespectful that’s just a reflection on you

How

I’m begging you, explain how it’s disrespectful. I don’t think you can, because I think you agree with me that it isn’t actually disrespectful.

Did we?

Please explain how wearing a hoodie to a “black tie event” is disrespectful, and who it’s disrespectful to.

He wears what’s comfortable, there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that. Adam Sandler is famous for shooting movies in exotic/fun locations so that it doubles as a vacation for him and the actors/crew. He’s beloved in the industry, and widely regarded as a good, friendly, loyal, down to earth person. Why on earth should someone like that be excluded from an awards show?

PowerShell seems like what you get when you combine the convenience and accessibility of a Linux shell with the annoying verbosity of Java

Which makes absolutely zero sense, and goes against the anime. Most of the Pokemon in the in-game world have already been caught by one of the various trainers, gym leaders, or elite four members you fight along the way. And in the anime, the Pokedex is used to identify some wild Pokemon before Ash or his friends capture it, not after.

Android is the way it is because Google is close sourcing more and more of what makes Android useful as a mobile OS. It would be infinitely harder for some megacorp to do the same thing for a desktop OS.

It was clear what you meant, but you left an opportunity for someone to be technically correct and they jumped all over it

Not historically, no, which is part of the reason why English’s spelling “rules” are the way they are

Right? Like “th” is one of the least ambiguous, most consistent letter groupings in English, a new letter for it doesn’t solve anything, and using the thorn character is actively worse for people with dyslexia. Let’s come up with a way to disambiguate soft-c vs. hard-c sounds instead, or make “ei”/“ie” more consistent.

“We’re at a point now where robots can move more sensually than Taylor Swift.”

What a weird fucking tagline on an article that insinuates a robotic dystopian future.

Although there are some weird horny undertones, so I guess it checks out. Still, weird article all around

Not supporting iRobot vacuums isn’t necessarily a bad thing, considering that at the price iRobot is asking for their vacuums, a lot of the other companies in the space offer much nicer models with more features.

I can guarantee you it wasn’t the engineers that wanted it this way

I forced myself to watch the first season, and then promptly started a re-read of the books as a palette cleanser. I’ve heard the later seasons got better, but I can’t see how they could recover from all the weird plot, character, and lore changes.

I’m not sure how people could read 14 of these books and come away thinking, “men are like this and women are like that” or some shit.

People that can only understand literature at a surface level, and don’t grasp things like nuance, sarcasm, etc. So basically, people who haven’t advanced past an elementary reading level.

The irony is that one of the more constant themes in the series is that the men think women are a certain way, and the women think men are a certain way, but those viewpoints are contradicted nearly every other chapter.