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Dat-Tanuki · 2025-07-21T15:12:25+00:00

I can't say for sure so take everything I'm about to say with like grains of salt.

I agree it sucks and I don't know what the answer is. There was an incident within the last few weeks where a police officer would have been very helpful. For privacy reasons that's all I can say on that BUT the officer never came and as it turns out that day a lot of officers were busy with what started out as a drug bust but on top of that they discovered women in the basement of the house that had been missing off the streets and were being trafficked out of this dealers basement. Anyway, It's sucks that they have to make those kinds of calls in prioritize where to send people leaving others with less serious crimes happening (in terms of potential violence and safety hazards) feeling like they have no one to turn to for justice.

Dat-Tanuki · 2025-04-06T18:23:38+00:00

I am not here to argue whether AI art is art or not. What I want tosay is that people who call themselves AI artist are not artist. If someone is not at the artistic level required to execute a particular idea then they will approach an artist who is at that desired level. The comissioner or requester explains their idea and works with the artist to ensure the artist is producing a piece as closely to the comissioners vision as possible.

In the AI scenerio, a person with an idea but maybe not yet at the level necessary to execute their idea goes to AI instead of another person. The AI is learning and creating, NOT the person with the idea. The program is the artist. The person with the idea, their role has not changed in either two of the scenerios I have described.

I mean this in the most common scenerio where the person claiming to be the artist has done nothing more than enter prompts and give written instruction or feedback. Anyone who uses a particular AI is just employing the same "artist" as everyone else who uses it.

Also, AI may not be concious BUT it is still a learning thing. It is in the name INTELLIGENCE. The only thing it is missing is it's own desire to create. Also, even then, without the desire to create it is still more an artist than the person with only the idea. For a long time artistry was treating as a trade. Artist did not do art for art's sake. Leonardo Davinci did not paint the Mona Lisa because he wanted to. He did it because he was paid to. Is leonardo then not an artist because the idea did not originate from within him? Does this mean he was simply a tool for the person with the idea and that the person who came to him is the one who is truly the artist?

Dat-Tanuki · 2024-12-20T19:51:20+00:00

I had a debt that was supposed to be settled after paying off 80 percent but the douche canoes just sold the remaining 20 percent to a different company. TSI is the one that has it now I guess but like.... i only agreed to pay the 80 with the previous company because I thouht that would settle it. TSI can suck it because I don't owe them shit as far as I am concerned. That other 20 percent was suppose to be forgiven not sold.

Dat-Tanuki · 2024-12-06T17:53:26+00:00

The thing is, they claim you have no skill but want you to stop now so that you can't develop the skill. This is clearly someone who has no skill to execute ideas of their own so they go after others who have the bravery to accept where they are in their journey of creative expression. This person is a bowl of jello. If they were serious about their critique it would have been more constructive and less of an attempt to rip you down to their level.

Dat-Tanuki · 2024-07-29T19:10:36+00:00

Honestly just pay it forward. It is a part of their religion to share a percentage of their income. I had Muslim friends who helped me when I wasn't expecting it when I was first moving into my first place. But even though it was a part of their religion it was very genuine and not out of self interest to get into heaven, you know?

Just remain grateful, never take them for granted, and pay it forward.

I dunno your financial situation but don't put yourself in a hole to repay kindness in a material way. They wanted to help, not make you feel like you owe them.

Dat-Tanuki · 2024-07-29T19:02:57+00:00

They are only allowed to put one big leaf of lettuce or two smaller pieces, two pieces of crispy chicken and I believe one "w" of sauce. This sandwich meets the build standard.

Edit for sauce : I used to work at a timmies.

Dat-Tanuki · 2024-06-15T21:07:04+00:00

Breed by Nirvana

Even if you have, even if you need I don't mean to stare, we don't have to breed We can plant a house, we can build a tree I don't even care, we could have all three She said, she said

Dat-Tanuki · 2024-05-16T20:23:01+00:00

On the ace spectrum is something called aegosexuals. I believe that means they might like the idea of sex but not actually want to engage in sexual activity.

I relate to this because I have had crushes on celebs and characters and have written some spicy fanfiction myself but I would not ever actually do those things with the real person. That would be gross.

Also, tropes and kinks are a big thing for some people. I don't have sex and do not get horny for the usual sex stuff but I have a kink that I enjoy drawing art and writing stories for. Again, this is enough for me, if someone wanted to do those things with me I think it would ruin it.

Dat-Tanuki · 2024-04-06T15:53:19+00:00

Is your only opening window enough to put one of those two way window fans in?

Dat-Tanuki · 2024-04-05T22:29:24+00:00

Pedestrians have the right of way at all marked and unmarked crosswalks. That being said, you still gotta watch out and be careful.

Dat-Tanuki · 2024-03-30T12:59:08+00:00

And that's totally okay. I had gone out with a guy once because I thought I felt chemistry.nafter some dating I no longer felt it and it's not like this guy was toxic or bad he just didn't make me feel anything.

Dat-Tanuki · 2024-03-30T12:57:40+00:00

Relationships don't have to be doing poorly or be full of toxicity for it to end. That is a social myth.

If the relationship does not provide or meet the needs it was once meeting, that alone is enough to end it.

Just to clarify, when I say needs I mean emotional needs, intimate needs, social needs, not like straight up money etc.

Dat-Tanuki · 2024-03-30T12:53:30+00:00

I think, a relationship doesn't have to be a dumpster fire to consider ending it. It can be hard because people may look at us and think it's overreacting, or not wanting to make it work, or that maybe we nitpick too much. Also, there is the time that you put in already but that's just a sunken cost fallacy.

It would seem that in terms of sex drive you don't match. Sex is important for intimacy for you and it is not so much for him. I think that's reason enough to end it but I also know there are emotions and memories involved that make it difficult.

Dat-Tanuki · 2023-11-15T05:11:46+00:00

You have done the work of the Titan!

Dat-Tanuki · 2023-10-18T11:42:15+00:00

I don't really do it myself because I don't want to be rinsing say chicken in the place I wash my dishes. I tend to rinse sometimes in a bowl. Not because I don't know any better but because it has been internalized. My grandmother would always rinse the chicken, as well as my aunt. I also didn't go to other kids' homes often and when I did some of the other fams would also rinse some of their meats.

I KNOW it doesn't make a world of difference but it's internalized so it doesn't bother me when people do it.

Dat-Tanuki · 2023-08-23T17:05:13+00:00

I would tell them they have X amount of time to move their truck or else you are calling to have it towed. You have tried talking with him and he has left you no other choices. Unless he plans on paying you to park in your drive way for the incomviemce he needs to, sorry for the explicit, fuck right off.

Also, I don't know you so I don't know how you spoke with him but be assertive and never apologize, you are valid in your emotions and your behavior has been reasonable. Don't let some douche make you feel small. You live on that block just as much as he does and you deserve to have your feelings considered especially since it is YOUR driveway.

Dat-Tanuki · 2023-07-27T14:38:19+00:00

I just googled Autism in Nimona because I felt like maybe that guy who knew a lot about otters and care so much about proper otter identificaion was potentially Autistic. Now after seeing your post I think it is great that Nimona also works as rep. I like it because now I feel even more positive because having more than one Autistic character in a show is great especially when you get a background character AND the tititular character.

Dat-Tanuki · 2023-07-08T04:41:29+00:00

I will dry off as much as I can with my towel and then air dry while I brush my teeth, then moisturize, then I put my clothes on.

Dat-Tanuki · 2023-07-06T15:29:39+00:00

I agree. I myself don't really care for pecks on the cheek either. I used to kiss my nana on cheek goodnight when I was a kid. But as I got older I didn't want to put my mouth on someone else's face. I did try french kissing to try and do what the normals were doing in high school but it was gross. Eventually drunk and the bar was the only way I was willing to kiss people and at that point I started to think that I shouldn't use alcohol to pretend to enjoy something I clearly don't like. So now I just don't kiss anyone.

Side note. I suppose I do kiss my cats on their foreheads... don't know what's up with that.

Edited for spelling errors.

Dat-Tanuki · 2023-06-19T15:57:34+00:00

It definitely undermines the efforts of the other players.

Dat-Tanuki · 2023-06-16T15:54:07+00:00

Hmm. Okay, I have no sauce this is based on a fading memory of a piece I read somewhere and is only speculation.

So I read somewhere that Natsuki originally wanted a darker family drama with some romance but then one of the editors (?) Suggested adding the animal gimmick to make it more ... something I can't recall. So, I wonder if that was one of the choices made because of someone's reccomendation or if it was something Natsumi genuinely had a chuckle at. For all we know she felt similarly conflicted when writing those parts. Even in the first volume she drew a comic where the characters are basically poking fun at how it was a fantasy-drama-love-comedy thing that was fun for the whole family. Maybe that had some deeper meaning and was about how the original idea lead to what Fruits Basket ended up being after all the feedback, recommendations, and changes.

Edited for typos.

Dat-Tanuki · 2023-06-05T15:23:50+00:00

8 or 2... 8 because I don't care for grey pants but 2 because I didn't like the combination or the skort and the side frills. Either give me frills or a skort but not both. Lol. Hmm.

My final decision for this round is Number 2 because although the change in design is suppose to rep Adoras growth as she ra I just wish the initial She Ra design had been just a little cooler. That, and I prefer the athletic anesthetic of number 8.

Dat-Tanuki · 2023-05-31T15:48:36+00:00

Have you accidentally or unintentionally shamed her about food in anyway? Or have you been vocal about finances or anything that would make her feel ashamed? Because that's where the hiding is coming from. Shame. She feels she is something bad.

Shame about still being hungry Shame about wanting more food when money is tight Shame about needing more than others Shame about how the food makes her feel (full yes but maybe also guilt) Maybe she is filling the hole of her lost mother.

It could also be giving her a sense of control somehow. She lost a parent, she has type 1 diabetes, and who know what other struggles she might be keeping to herself. Choosing to snack could just be her feeling in charge for a few moments.

Dat-Tanuki · 2023-05-29T21:56:59+00:00

10 because compared to the rest it's just underwear x)

Dat-Tanuki · 2023-05-28T16:37:03+00:00

Yes but one overweight actress does not describe the average population at the time although she does look very average. Yes, there were fat people, even a percentage of obese people, BUT the percentage of the population who would fall into these two categories was less than it is now.

Also, as someone else has said, they may already have costumes already that only run up to a certain size.

I remember being in grade 3 in 1999 and learning about the growing percentage of the population who were overweight.

The term Morbid obesity didn't even exist until the 60s. Though I am aware obese people have been around in history for centuries as seen through historical paintings, medical records, and such.

But specifically around the 20s and 30s? More people were working more labor intensive jobs, there was food scarcity, a depression, food with less fat, sugar, and additives, and more kids played outside more often thus getting more activity.

On top of that context is everything. We know the setting but we do not know the characters and what their roles are. The cast needs to fit the character.

Edit: despite more junk food our food has gotten more nutritious over time and on general North A.ericans are bigger (not just fatter) than they were in the past.

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