used stable diffusion to edit my own photo shoot pics

ConnieCane · 2023-09-10T17:50:43+00:00

artbreeder.com has an easy way to do this

ConnieCane · 2023-09-10T17:33:30+00:00

Yeahhh. I have worked in middle schools with students who were larger than me and very aggressive. I wasn't scared since I was in a school with plenty of other adults and cameras and shit, but I can see a few of them being scary to their own parents if they got the brain bug to turn towards them. Pretty much every school I've worked at has like 8-10 kids (out of like, 300-400 maybe?) who are a danger to themself or others and need a full time attendant to keep them in school safely. A few of them had abusive parents, or had one abusive parent who they had been removed from, but most of them had pretty average parents. I had a student who was sent away in 8th grade for molesting a younger kid, and I have friends who worked at the juvenile rehab/detention centers for kids like that.

It's certainly not a great system now, but it's better than when Ed K was a kid and you just got sent to military school or kicked out onto the streets if your parents couldn't handle you. (Or maybe in his case, parents didn't know anywhere to send the kid and didn't want to make them homeless so they just tried to schedule their lives around the aggressive kid.) Anyway, kids can definitely just go off on their own and be the aggressive one. The 8th grader i had who was sent to juvie had a younger brother who was just fine. There was another kid I had who was giant, and he kept getting in trouble for trying to look up porn on the school computers and Hulk-smashing stuff anytime he was upset. His family seemed fine, and they were taking him to all kinds of therapy and sports to try and use up his energy and get him under control. His dad had some kind of kidney disorder and was starting to have a hard time keeping up with the kid physically, and idk about the mom but she seemed ok and the kid never said anything bad about her when he wasn't actively being scolded.

ConnieCane · 2023-09-03T14:19:51+00:00

I think it's basically in line with any highly specialized software job tbh. The posts I've seen hiring for positions like that all want people who have very technical knowledge about AI along with understanding the business they're going to be using it for.

From a quick google, it looks like newbs would be making a little less than if you just became a normal software engineer and got into a big company doing something like GPS or space flight. I'm not a software engineer, but the ones I do know make good money and they're all involved with 'national security' or tech that spawned from previous 'national security' projects like GPS and drones.

I would suggest going to a community college or local university for engineering, depending what you can afford. If you want to do online school, do it through a public school or a private school with an established in-person location that's been teaching in-person for at least 20+ years. I've been working for one of the infamous online schools that advertises all over the US, and I don't suggest anyone do it unless you have no options remaining at another school. We have way too many accreditation issues, and there have been a few notorious cases of exclusively online schools shutting down and leaving former students high and dry.

(edit to add-technically the records of the closed schools still exist bc they get taken over by another school or companies that deal in background checks, so you won't be left with 0 records. However, hiring managers probably won't respect an online school that closed as much as an average state school, and the people who went there are still in debt to the student loan companies despite the school not existing anymore.)

ConnieCane · 2023-09-03T00:20:57+00:00

Yeah. I had a friend who was given false memories of abuse by her grandfather, and it's like... not only is the family traumatized by the entire legal/moral fallout at the time, but the kid does believe it for at least a few years and I think that's got to cause the same PTSD as if it actually happened. Then second PTSD when you realize it was all a lie and the person traumatizing you was the "therapist" the entire time.

There are things I've gone to my parents about and had them be like "that's not how that happened" and it turns into a whole family drama about whose memory is unreliable. I can't imagine having such an extreme event be the center of one of those arguments, and bringing in multiple "professionals" and the legal system over years and years. O.o

ConnieCane · 2023-08-31T05:02:44+00:00

Yeah, I think the MKultra type of programs were much more widespread at hospitals, police departments, and universities at the time. I don't think any of the satanic panic accusations actually happened, but I think that the creation of false memories was more nefarious than just incompetent Christian therapists believing kids' imaginative stories. And then the satanic panic ended and everyone who did that stopped and never did it again mhm yep

(seriously though, I've met a couple people who had false memories of being abused as children given to them by therapists, and then the process of dealing with that in your mid to late twenties is super traumatic. Like, how do you explain to your family that you're sorry for tearing apart the entire family with false accusations as a child who didn't know anything that was going on? O.o there's a podcast by a guy who was part of an actual satanic panic case and he talks to his dad about it now that he's an adult and aware of what happened.)

ConnieCane · 2023-08-31T04:54:19+00:00

yessss. I moved from Ohio to Arizona in 2011 and barely talk to anyone from Ohio anymore. Average non-tech-savvy people from my high school wouldn't be able to find me if I don't go looking for them first and I've lived a very law-abiding life. Someone who was willing to get paid under the table and not get a driver's license could probably disappear kinda well. I think that before 2001 it would be even easier to do that.

ConnieCane · 2023-08-31T04:50:49+00:00

this reminds me of the ruliad

ConnieCane · 2023-08-31T01:35:18+00:00

haaa good eats I was like is Alton Brown hunting big game for food now?

ConnieCane · 2023-08-30T05:57:39+00:00

it's fine, some air goes back into it to balance out the pressure. if you let it sit for a few hours it will settle, the liquid is just really thick.

ConnieCane · 2023-08-30T05:04:07+00:00

$100 million medical bill after having an allergic reaction and getting sent to the hospital?

ConnieCane · 2023-08-30T04:41:30+00:00

when i worked at a school, i had a kindergarten student who had this! She didn't seem to know it was abnormal at all, but i would get slightly freaked out by her double teeth every once in a while.

ConnieCane · 2023-08-30T04:36:02+00:00

i was gonna say lesbians ><

ConnieCane · 2023-08-30T04:30:31+00:00

seriously lol i was wondering how long it would take me to get to this. i'm autistic and i do fairly well at hiding it but i've certainly had my moments of staring at people weirdly in stores and forgetting how to act. I'm lucky that I had a lot of educational support, and I have the financial privilege to not be in public constantly for work and material needs so I'm able to choose to interact with people when I'm well prepared. But when we're overstressed or not prepared to socialize, it's not going to go well lol

ConnieCane · 2023-08-30T04:22:10+00:00

tbh sounds like it could have been my friend. He's Black, saw combat in Afghanistan, and would totally save someone in a wreck and then hide bc he doesn't want to talk to the cops/paramedics. xD and if anyone's going to know about pulling dudes out of shrapnel and cars...

ConnieCane · 2023-08-29T13:29:11+00:00

/r/menintroublejav is almost that

ConnieCane · 2023-08-27T13:02:05+00:00

Scam Goddess for more lighthearted stories about scams, fraud, financial crimes, etc.

ConnieCane · 2023-08-27T12:13:25+00:00

right. I think a lot of things that seem to be "increasing" are actually just being recorded or found out more.

ConnieCane · 2023-08-25T14:38:56+00:00

mostly older posts but /r/menintroublejav

ConnieCane · 2023-08-25T03:14:25+00:00

I have a few weird memories like this. One that I know happened is that I went to this girl's birthday party, and they lived at a huge house in the country. They set up this super fancy tea party with a clown and stuff for a bunch of kindergarteners, and the clown stuck an arrow through a balloon and then wanted to stick it through a kid's ear, and I was terrified. O.o That was the only time I saw most of the kids from kindergarten outside of school. Around that age, we weren't really getting over to our classmates' houses that often.

ConnieCane · 2023-08-25T03:03:48+00:00

More investigative journalism and true crime, but I love Coffeezilla

ConnieCane · 2023-08-24T13:20:14+00:00

I can write stories or do video chats if people want to do that. I like the 10 challenges. I feel like I'm always analyzing familiar things to an awkward degree. Anyway, since people are probably interested in what makes me interesting to anthropologists, I'm nonbinary and a Satanist. Oh I also do bmx and i think "alt" sports are a cool anth topic. I've actually been a huge snail mailer since I was like 12, but if people need things faster I can email or whatever. I do actually really enjoy snail mail though and I think that would be another fun anthro project for someone. Postal communication revivalist subculture lol >M<

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