Definitely not on copyright grounds, since almost all state flags (except Georgia, Mississippi, and soon to be Utah) are old enough to have entered the public domain.

These images, while very intricate and pretty, are not fractals, and actually show a very interesting limitation with AI nowadays. Image generation AI tools such as Stable Diffusion or Dall-E don’t actually know the meaning of the words you’re using to prompt them, they just have a pretty good idea of what sorts of things pop up if you search for those words.

A fractal is, by mathematical definition, self-similar. You can zoom into part of the smaller detail of a fractal and find the original image, and do the same with the details in the zoomed image, and so on and so forth ad nauseum. Computers are pretty good at making these, once they’re given the rules.

What the image generation bot has given you is an image that looks like a fractal, and that’s what it’s supposed to do. In the same way that large language models like chat-GPT will be very confidently wrong about the information it tells you, and for the same reasons, image generation AI should not be used for important topics that the prompter doesn’t already have some background information about, such as generating a map of some place the prompter has never been in preparation for a road trip.

Thanks for coming to my TED Talk.

Honestly, I don’t see the problem with her answer if she’s applying for a minimum wage position. That’s pretty close to the answer I gave when I started working at the store I’m at now.

That’s a binaural microphone, they’re commonly used for ASMR streams. She’s currently whispering into the viewers’ left ears, via the microphone’s left ear.

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.

One thing the other comments aren’t mentioning that is relevant: this wasn’t free. A second-level spell slot was expended by someone to make this happen, and since this is your first big quest, it’s likely that it was a significant resource investment because you’re a low level.

Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!

when there’s not a recognised disability involved but just health issue/s (which could be “disabling”).

From the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, in regards to the ADA:

Under the ADA , you have a disability if you have a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits a major life activity.

Essentially, if you are disabled, you have a disability, whether recognized or not. If you are not disabled, then you do not have a disability.

Under this definition, something like asthma, which is fairly common, can be a disability when it comes to strenuous activities, but isn’t something that is immediately obvious to someone just passing on the street.

As far as it being ablist to assume that someone not showing signs of disability isn’t disabled? No, that’s silly. Not believing them if they tell you they can’t run a mile because they have asthma? Still no, that’s skepticism.

Ablism would be something like planning a company outing, and choosing the location up a tall, steep hill when other options were available, specifically because you don’t like the fact that your coworker has asthma.

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.

No, the problem is that Santos is both the Queen of Wales and the capital of Uruguay, so there’s a level of diplomatic immunity involved.

This guy is an idiot. I don’t have anything against LGBTQ people, but when it comes to medical stuff, you’re biologically male or female, because it matters for the sorts of health risks you might be susceptible to.

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.

I’m sure there’s an obvious way to make a hybrid boat work like a hybrid car, but it’s not jumping out at me. Cars can capture energy from braking, but boats have to accelerate in the other direction to stop, and generally aren’t in stop-and-go traffic all that much.

Maybe we put sails on the boats and only run the engines when the wind isn’t going the right way?

The rising tide lifts all ships.

If anything this should be the other way around. Bitcoin has traditionally been wildly unstable, pegging it to the dollar in some way would do a lot to legitimize it as a currency. Pegging the dollar to bitcoin is just asking for the dollar’s value to go out of control.

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

Graphics, as in graphical fidelity, polygon count, etc. are valueless to me.

Art style is everything. I don’t care if I can see the pixels in the game, I still play the same SNES my family had 25 years ago. The game has to look good, and graphical fidelity is a tool to help achieve that, but it’s only a tool, and useless without the appropriate art direction.

Yeah, but only around the time of sports matches. That makes it predictable, and the anti-hooligan magic can be more effeciently focused. It’s actually a little-known fact that Quidditch matches are timed with the solstice so that the anti-hooligan wards are at their strongest.

The Irish are much more unpredictable with their drunken hooliganism, so in the early days they used to break through the wards by accident and go on drunken rampages across Wales before eventually being segregated to their own, smaller island.