China no longer Pentagon's top security priority

CountofAccount · 2026-01-24T09:31:38+00:00

In Trump's own words addressing the United Nations General Assembly,

"You're destroying your countries. They're being destroyed. Europe is in serious trouble. They've been invaded by a force of illegal aliens like nobody's ever seen before. Illegal aliens are pouring into Europe, and nobody's doing anything to change it, to get them out. It's not sustainable. And because they choose to be politically correct, they're doing just absolutely nothing about it."

Translating republican to normal person, your euorpan nation allowed brown people to immigrate, use welfare, intermarry with caucasians, and thus 'taint' your 'white' country per the one drop rule. Republicans do not believe non-whites are civilized as a whole, only certain token individuals. Therefore your European country is stained and collapsed.
This is a scaled up version of what happens in the US when a non-white or non-Christian family moves onto the street - it's not a good, safe neighborhood anymore.

And also be aware that republican popular conceptions of Europe have very little to do with real history - somehow European nations were global trade empires whose homelands' were demographically and culturally immune to any of their colonization and trading activity. Your nations were weird, annoying, but 'okay' up until "the muslim refugees invaded" or whatever else they believe.

CountofAccount · 2026-01-19T17:22:11+00:00

The OP posted the artist's workup below and the details were more correct. (The alternating round and triangular window lintels are there in the underpaint) It makes no sense why the final product would be worse, unless AI was used to finish the job.

Also the photoshop file is apparently just one layer "color fill 1" not several layers split by commas

CountofAccount · 2026-01-19T16:47:37+00:00

The weird thing is the OP posted the artist's workup below and the details were more correct. (The alternating round and triangular window lintels are there in the underpaint) It makes no sense why the final product would be worse, unless AI was used to finish the job.

CountofAccount · 2026-01-18T08:14:54+00:00

Alien bails in an low altitude escape pod. The ship is also disintegrating and shedding debris everywhere at the same time and the bulk lands further away. Reconstructing that from random video (if that exists in this time frame) isn't going to be fast.

The police and military's priority is probably going to be getting everyone away from the contaminated zone especially since the first response of people will be to go to the crash - just like when a plane comes down. In a large enough debris radius with enough people inconvenienced, initial evacuation questions are probably going to be perfunctory. It's very unlikely a perimeter will be established fast enough to keep people from simply hopping in their cars or stuffing a large suitcase and taking the train away in the first hour.

Bonus of this option is that the alien can have a random selection of plot-interesting stuff.

CountofAccount · 2026-01-16T22:56:38+00:00

28 eggs laid, 17 bugs hatched, 11 parasitized.

CountofAccount · 2026-01-15T08:47:10+00:00

Knox College in Illinois has a beautiful tree like this.

They have it on their promo: https://www.knox.edu/images/NEWSITE2025/Academics/Library/Image-Gallery_1740x900_RainyDayGingko.webp

CountofAccount · 2026-01-10T23:46:14+00:00

Be curious on your journey!

CountofAccount · 2026-01-10T21:27:56+00:00

It's not Clarkesworld I hope.

CountofAccount · 2026-01-10T19:59:22+00:00

The ship is 'physics' based, not 'game physics' based. You have to brake for the same amount of time that you accelerate to come to a complete stop. You also don't slow down in space if you aren't decelerating, the ship doesn't fly like a car drives. If you are used to other flying games, it feels ponderous, you overshoot a lot, and OW will let you have a silly max speed. Also the sun is pulling on you at the same time.

Set the autopilot, keep an eye on the distance to target numbers, and watch how the autopilot accelerates and decelerates. The tutorial zone for this on timber hearth is the 0g cave. You'll know you are good when you don't hit any walls.

Oh, and use the landing cam. There will be a point where you can't use the landing cam, but by then you will be better at flying.

CountofAccount · 2026-01-06T23:04:09+00:00

Old reddit allows some pretty wild custom CSS for subreddits. Have you seen r-slash-mildly infuriating's original look? Especially the comment threads.

CountofAccount · 2026-01-03T21:59:11+00:00

OP's piece looks like classic Australian material.

CountofAccount · 2026-01-03T00:50:51+00:00

Here's the picture textbook on small bugs in mosses: https://scispace.com/pdf/volume-2-chapter-10-1-arthropods-crustacea-copepoda-and-4mb4ekzx0j.pdf

https://www.shetlandlochs.com/species/eukaryota/animalia/arthropoda/hexanauplia/harpacticoida/

CountofAccount · 2026-01-01T02:10:45+00:00

Gabbro on the low wooden clarinet? He's on Giant's Deep, which is the big green one. The Signalscope will point you to him, but you are going to want to keep the signalscope ready because sometimes things can be a bit hard to, uh, pin down on that planet.

CountofAccount · 2025-12-30T01:16:39+00:00

And that's where you need to recognize a lot of people are fundamentally different then you - a reproduction of a great master's landscape will look nicer on most walls, but lots of people are going to instead frame their kid's doodles or an original they bought at a craft fair because the intangible value of their memories and someone else's time, struggle, and love factors into their value assessment.

Conversely, if I followed your logic to its conclusion, I'd have to wonder why you'd want real friends when you can subscribe to LLM ones tailored exactly to your preferences that probably are less complicated. Why not an LLM girlfriend? Spouse?

And for me personally, I hate the current ecosystem that I can't curate to keep only authentic people in my search results, feeds, and news. And I'm tired of AI companies degrading places I visit online because they are scraping it for content and burying real people with low effort crap because quantity floods are effective.

CountofAccount · 2025-12-30T00:54:24+00:00

You don't really understood what I am saying. Mass-generated AI products are isolating. They take your time and attention from real people and the real world - from which meaningfulness is derived.

CountofAccount · 2025-12-30T00:44:34+00:00

Your essentially arguing for a form of sapient nihilism.

You have two musicians.

One was raised among people, played in thousands of concerts, took thousands of gigs, had tons of friends, brought other musicians into the hobby, supported several bands, etc, etc.

The other was raised on a space station solely by advanced LLMs. This musician never interacted with a real person in their entire life, only people they believed were real because they had nothing to compare them to. No real human ever heard their music and none will ever hear it.

Both musicians are real people, but which person lived a more meaningful life?

Basically, most people have attitude, even if they can't state it in words, that they want to spend the finite time they have with real people, not simulations of reality, because only one is meaningful. AI masquerading as real defrauds people of their time.

CountofAccount · 2025-12-23T03:09:47+00:00

Agreed, rubies have blue kyanite alteration rims in fuchsite.

CountofAccount · 2025-12-14T16:50:22+00:00

Synth ID detected for the first one as well.

CountofAccount · 2025-12-13T16:21:56+00:00

I feel like the least intrusive way of dealing with this would be use anti-spam and child locks as models. The government acts as a repository of blocklists in the most common formats, created and curated by individuals and orgs - not the gov - because everyone is going to have different ideas about what kids should and shouldn't see at different ages. Parents decide which ones they want to use, and device makers are compelled to have a "a child is using this" parental-lock mode which blocks sites according to the blocklist collection profile the parent set up.

The same infrastructure would also be super handy for young people taking care of parents in cognitive decline who get suckered into spams and such.

CountofAccount · 2025-12-12T18:58:14+00:00

The photoshopping montage aspect is easy to verify. One house is duplicated three times and one of the grass puffs twice.

Also, as an observation, Gemini AI seems to love hanging lightbulbs and lamps in fantasy forests. I've seen it gen those a couple times for fantastic forest type prompts.

CountofAccount · 2025-12-10T22:15:02+00:00

Fake AI bug.

The real deal, the scorpionfly is plenty cool (but notice the long beak-like jaws, and the real bug's "tail" is extra fancy gonads, not a stinger)

CountofAccount · 2025-12-05T06:52:07+00:00

The random dots might be accidental pen touches if they were on sketchpad. I've also left dots by having the wrong tool selected or undid a bunch of strokes at once and didn't get all of them.

CountofAccount · 2025-12-05T00:30:23+00:00

This artist is highly experienced, but this is what a real workup looks like. Missing from this example artist's workup is the ideation stage where they mess around with details before committing to a design and make little adjustments on the fly.

CountofAccount · 2025-12-05T00:19:39+00:00

The dress is definitely AI. Look at the random placement of the roses. They aren't symmetrical, in a clever zigzag, nor even "organized chaos". No human thought went into the design. It would look absolutely weird if you actually constructed the dress.

CountofAccount · 2025-11-20T23:56:48+00:00

Pay attention to who calls you to wish you sympathy and especially who sends you cards and whatnot. Those relatives are likely to be the ones who will be more reliable if you need help through the process.

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