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realitista OP , 11 days ago to Comic Strips in Frog transmutation

I demand perfect real world accuracy in my comics and nothing less! He should have listed the pros and cons of being a frog including statistics about time running from predators, a full list of predators, life span, climate issues, etc. With citations of course.

realitista OP , 11 days ago to Comic Strips in What did you bring to the table?

Look on the table

realitista OP , 12 days ago (edited 9 days ago) to Comic Strips in What did you bring to the table?

I was able to track it down to there but the content looked too varied for him to be the author of the comic. But I will take it on your word to put it in the header. Thanks.

realitista OP , 12 days ago to Comic Strips in What would your father say?

Trying to find a new man?

realitista OP , 17 days ago to Comic Strips in At the interview, Steve is asked if he can perform under pressure

Both

realitista OP , 25 days ago to Comic Strips in You're the Apple of my Eye

" I came into this game for the action, the excitement. Go anywhere, travel light, get in, get out, wherever there's trouble, a man alone. Now they got the whole country sectioned off, you can't make a move without a form."

realitista OP , 26 days ago to Comic Strips in You're the Apple of my Eye

realitista , 2 months ago to Technology in A 7,000-Pound Car Smashed Through a Guardrail. That’s Bad News for All of Us.

See my post above in the thread where I show the laws I am talking about and cite source.

realitista , 2 months ago to Technology in A 7,000-Pound Car Smashed Through a Guardrail. That’s Bad News for All of Us.

See my post above with citation.

realitista , 2 months ago to Technology in A 7,000-Pound Car Smashed Through a Guardrail. That’s Bad News for All of Us.

This article summarizes the subsidies I'm talking about. Here's an excerpt:

For now, the important point is that trucks generally are more profitable than cars thanks to two big government incentives, both of them historical footnotes.

The first is the so-called chicken tax, a 25 percent tariff imposed by Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964 on foreign-built work vehicles as part of a chicken-related trade war with Europe. If you’re making a pickup or cargo van in the United States, profits should be higher, because foreign factories can’t come close to undercutting you on price.

The second incentive lies in the fine print of Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards adopted in 1975, Gerald Ford’s reluctant response to a crippling Middle East oil embargo that sent gas prices soaring. To protect American commerce, work trucks and light trucks were subject to less-strict CAFE standards than family sedans. Trucks are also exempt from the 1978 gas guzzler tax, which adds $1,000 to $7,700 to the price of sedans that get 22.5 or fewer miles to the gallon.

realitista , 2 months ago to Technology in A 7,000-Pound Car Smashed Through a Guardrail. That’s Bad News for All of Us.

That's because the USA subsidizes bigger trucks as "work vehicles". This practice needs to stop and they need to be taxed more than smaller vehicles.

realitista , 3 months ago to Technology in "Tony Delivers" - just order your food and send him a screenshot

Until his profile gets high enough that they find some permit he doesn't have and he gets shut down.

realitista , 3 months ago to Technology in Tyler Perry Puts $800M Studio Expansion On Hold After Seeing OpenAI’s Sora: “Jobs Are Going to Be Lost”

I was working tech in the Bay Area in the '90s, I remember it well.

realitista , 3 months ago to Technology in Tyler Perry Puts $800M Studio Expansion On Hold After Seeing OpenAI’s Sora: “Jobs Are Going to Be Lost”

Probably you are right, but so far no one has demonstrated any LLM that can be controlled within these tight types of adjustments and it feels like it might be something that the technology just never is able to do. We might have to wait for a whole new generation of technology for this.

realitista , 3 months ago to Technology in Tyler Perry Puts $800M Studio Expansion On Hold After Seeing OpenAI’s Sora: “Jobs Are Going to Be Lost”

It will be really interesting to see how long it actually takes before this can be done accurately enough to execute a directors vision and high quality enough to actually make a film from. It could be anything from a few months to decades, it's so hard to know how much we are actually able to control these models to get them to do what we really want accurately enough.