That’s largely what you see in China. Northern forests for paper, some hemp in the ag areas but mostly food. Finland and Sweden are major paper producers but they couldn’t grow hemp if they wanted. And Brazil grows eucalyptus in marginal soils(acidic post pasture that cant even support cattle grazing anymore, none the less hemp and what annual tillage would do for the erosion of already shitty soil) very quickly to produce a massive amount of paper(with it’s own ecological problems). None of these have anything to do with US drug laws or monopolies.

I’m aware of American market consolidation. None of that explains why hemp paper isn’t a global industry supposedly due to monopolists if it was four times as efficient. America is just one player in this commodity. The worlds largest paper maker, China, doesn’t particularly care about American industry lobbists. I think the economic differences between irrigated hemp farming and tree farming and logging are likely much more salient.

“Everywhere I go smells like shit.”

Nobody has a global monopoly on paper. That’s enough to prove this isn’t quite accurate. Hell Ancient China originated both paper and hemp and they still use trees(though they did use hemp for a time).

Edit: I’m not going to respond individually to the comments below other then to say the leftist version of American Exceptionalism is on full display.

Teratomas and reproductive organs, name an more iconic combo

The primary question here MoCo has is how. Notwithstanding Thomas’s deranged concurrence on how unacceptable it is the board is teaching this and not religion, the court doesn’t suggest how to pay for the costs of having separate atomized instruction and instructors. If the kids stay home for the day then whatever. But that’s not the ask in this case.

I don’t think the console market is okay for a variety of reasons. This particular issue however, not being able to publish whatever the fuck you want under someone else’s brand, is very much not high on them. The other reasons, the anticompetitive nature of the industry, is what makes it a problem. Most certainly not someone deciding they don’t want their product marketed with fucking around with corpses.

And relieving the developers of the agency of their own vision is specious. They made a decision. Obviously this new direction is within what they’re trying to deliver or they wouldn’t be doing it. The most salient point here is that the amount of changes they seem to be making are negligible. Dismemberment of living people fine, dismemberment of corpses gone. They claim they’ve preserved their vision through limited changes. Everybody else is playing like the loss of that is a fundamental betrayal. It’s fucking ridiculous.

Oh I don’t dispute that but my stupidity doesn’t tend to be crying about censorship over the fact that you can’t dismember bodies after they’re already dead. Company decides it wants to adapt to a particular market and people act like their personal vision of a world where you can dismember all the corpses you want was attacked.

Gamers really are fucking dumb

There’s so very much in that paper that doesn’t seem to suggest what they are saying it does. It suggests people are directly using those tools to create scripts for academic videos instead of their fundamental speech changing. They state that they manually reviewed for “reading vs spontaneous” and found about 30 percent were directly reading a script, but extrapolating the non “reading” samples to not have used AI copy edited outlines in this context is a leap. It would make more sense that they did. These lecture videos were not examples of natural language use in any sense.

Our study is focused on academic communication, yet we anticipate that similar patterns may extend to other communicative contexts.

Seems particularly unfounded (though it really has enough hedges to make it a non statement “similar” “may” with no reference to what context they’re thinking of). It’s also a preprint that gets most of its models from preprints.

Then the vice article takes every weakness of the paper and actually amplifies them to a really profound degree. We’ve got researchers trying to push an AI is transformative narrative and a journalist trying to push an AI makes you stupid narrative right off a cliff into “popsci journalists reporting on preprints make stupid claims” pit.

LaTeX no less. Make sure your safeword markup is correct.

The liberal brain, gentlemen. Tou Thao was convicted for keeping bystanders from intervening while not doing anything himself. He might’ve been less worse, but he still deserved to go to prison. And he remained unrepentant to the end. Of the four cops he got the second worst sentence despite never laying a hand on Mr. Floyd precisely because he refused to admit any culpability. It really is a good comparison, seeing this comment.

Watching this guy barreling down a waterslide while drinking whiskey with a pack of cigarettes at hand and a crystal ashtray while wearing a full suit with your family at your side is funny as fuck. Kim sure knows how to put on absurd state events.

The event’s budget was about $85,000 and a few dozen people attended,

Jesus Christ

Wait, back to back? And you got tired after 6 and a half hours of nonstop star wars? I don’t think this anecdote is that damning.

Thumbnail silhouette makes it look like he’s got a giant mustache resting on his huge knockers.

This is the bloke that grabbed me on the penis

And if you meet flourine out on the wild, you will be F’ed. It will bind itself to you without your consent or caring about things like essential biological processes for life.

It actually took place over laser tight beam so no.

Life is a game of burning but trying to do it slowly.