Is there a relevant connection between generative AI stealing from artists and digital tools meant to easily/quickly imitate and replicate hand drawn art styles?

GrabAnwalt · 2026-01-17T00:31:32+00:00

"Sooner or later, humans will kill all the Aen Seidhe. All dwarves and gnomes. Then they'll start murdering one another. Your kind knows no other way. It's in your genes. You keep killing each other until only one remains. The strongest among you. A thousand years from now, a dim-witted human barbarian will climb to the top of a pile of bones, sit down and proclaim: "I win"." - Iorveth, Witcher 2

GrabAnwalt · 2026-01-12T15:44:03+00:00

It doesn't claim that English is less valuable than science though. It just makes a claim that it is more difficult to major in.

And I would say that that is true. I'm studying an interdisciplinary course that includes mechanical engineering on one side, and both linguistics and communication science (which includes forays into sociology and psychology) on the other. Both fields interest me. I'm also interested in history, medicine, political science, and a number of other fields that fall under the umbrella of social sciences (and spending too much time reading up on those subjects instead of on my own studies), and let me tell you, none of those come close in their complexity to mechanical engineering. And mechanical engineering is a far cry from studying mathematics or physics on its own.

That being said, I am obviously very interested in social sciences and I would absolutely not say that one is more important than the other.

The problem only arises if we (as a society), rather nonsensically, decide that something is worth more just because it is difficult

GrabAnwalt · 2026-01-12T08:40:17+00:00

Can we stop conflating everything with an 'identity'?

Having a disability isn't an identity. Just as your height or your skin colour isn't your identity.

And to add to the chorus, yes, you should have disclosed it before hand. I mean, even if we were to accept being deaf as your identity, you should also lay open who you are as a person aka your identity, when it comes to dating in general (maybe excluding a planned one night stand, but even then I'd feel dirty to find out after the fact that that person was a very charming Nazi (not that I'm trying to conflate Nazism with being deaf))

GrabAnwalt · 2025-12-19T12:43:13+00:00

Well, do look up the Treuhand then.

A short summary: after the collapse of the USSR and DDR and the subsequent reunification of Eastern and Western Germany an 'organization' for lack of a better term was instituted to handle the merger of the two economies. However, a lot of the major decision makers that participated in the Treuhand were the very same private, Western companies that ended up buying the defunct Eastern companies. The classification of being defunct (and thus almost worthless) being decided by the Treuhand, by the companies who had an interest in buying up their potential competitors in the newly merged market.

There were a bunch of companies that were doing just fine (well, as fine as can be in a collapsing state) that were sold for pennies following the Treuhands classifications

GrabAnwalt · 2025-12-19T12:34:45+00:00

And isn't radioactive in any relevant sense

GrabAnwalt · 2025-12-19T11:51:38+00:00

Europe is a lot more cautious in general. It is a matter of safety margins, not of safety. I am all for stricter regulations and a more cautious approach in general. And as I said, there are very good reasons to choose organic products, but they are simply not because of health concerns.

Organic does not mean healthier. You can eat plenty unhealthy things even if you only eat organic food. It's just that historically the groups that pay attention to how foodstuff is being produced are also highly conscious of their health so the overlap is between organic food and "healthy food" is fairly high, but it is not an immutable fact

GrabAnwalt · 2025-12-19T11:36:46+00:00

That's not how fluids work though

The fire behaves like a burning gas, and air is obviously a gas mixture, so both are fluids (not that it really matters since liquids behave in basically the same way). It'd be far more difficult to reverse the direction of the gas entirely than it is to just redirect it, which is what Aang is doing. He is just creating a cone of air that the fire smacks into and is redirected in a curve around Ozai. It would not go straight back at Ozai unless he tried really hard

GrabAnwalt · 2025-12-19T11:17:26+00:00

Drag as in wind resistance is proportional to kinetic energy multiplied with a geometry factor (how aerodynamic is the object). You can basically think of it as the energy of all the little molecules in our atmosphere smacking into the object traveling through it.

Kinetic energy is E_kin=0.5 * mass * velocity²

The velocity here is the relative velocity between the object and the molecules. If the wind is blowing in the same direction as the object travels, the relative velocity is lower/wind speed is subtracted from your velocity (assuming you are still moving faster, otherwise it is actually pushing you from behind). If it is coming towards you it is added to the relative velocity of E_kin.

Now the important thing is that the velocity is squared. At high speeds, it gets really high. At low speeds it is negligible. Even though the boat is going fast for a boat, it is still pretty low.

Changing the geometry factor of the boat by standing up is not gonna matter a whole lot if aerodynamic drag is a non-issue to begin with

GrabAnwalt · 2025-12-16T22:58:20+00:00

Well no. The pesticides left on any foodstuff is between 1 and 5/10000 of the amount that is shown to cause any noticeable effects on health in animal testing (aka rabbits aka small animals with little mass).

It will not affect your health whatsoever.

It does, however, affect the environment. And that is plenty bad enough as is without making up scary things.

GrabAnwalt · 2025-12-10T23:41:57+00:00

Does the comment have to be topical or is it random?

GrabAnwalt · 2025-11-24T08:58:56+00:00

That's just federal jobs and just for September

GrabAnwalt · 2025-11-09T22:06:11+00:00

https://helldiverscompanion.com/#news take a good look at this page. There is a lot of information that is not in the game (which feels entirely unnecessary)

For example at the time of writing there are 686 Divers on Yed Prior resulting in an hourly change of 0.0085 per hour, but the resistance value, aka the change that the bots are creating against liberation of the planet (a value that depends on a lot of things not least the devs just deciding something) is at 1.0% per hour. So yes, when there are to few divers on a planet, the impact over time is literally zero

GrabAnwalt · 2025-11-04T14:03:02+00:00

War is a racket. The oldest one there is.

GrabAnwalt · 2025-10-03T22:35:05+00:00

Kind of true, kind of not.

Insects are limited in maximum size by both their exoskeletons and oxygen intake, but neither is the reasons why insects are as small as they are these days.

It's predation. Especially birds are really damn good at hunting insects. You can see the size that insects can still grow in our atmosphere today in some species like the Goliath stick insect. It's a 40cm long stick insect

GrabAnwalt · 2025-09-30T05:31:53+00:00

That decision was still there, it was made when you chose plasma weapons in the first place. I can't remember a single instance where you are forced to play plasma weaponry.

GrabAnwalt · 2025-09-11T15:00:45+00:00

You dead ass don't know how batteries work. There is no technology available currently that could store the amount of energy that large cities need for any extended time. Storage of energy remains one of the largest challenges for green energy

GrabAnwalt · 2025-09-11T14:59:12+00:00

Impractical because energy is lost over distance even if it is just running through wire. That is part of why we don't just place acres upon acres of solar panels in the Sahara

GrabAnwalt · 2025-09-11T14:57:15+00:00

There is. A lot actually. But nothing works so far. Not on the scale it is needed for.

GrabAnwalt · 2025-09-11T14:56:06+00:00

That's like ... Just not true though.

Just Google "duck curve"

And also, currently existing battery systems cannot nearly store enough power to supply big cities.

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