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Not a horse person, but I did look this up once. My understanding is basically what you were assuming.

There's no way to tell the horse to not walk on the foot and the options they have to keep a horse off the leg can only be used for a limited time without causing death anyway. (You can't put a horse in a suspension sling long enough to heal the leg as it supposedly does bad things to their organs)

So it's feasible a centaur could recover as they're smart enough to take things easy without needing to be physically restrained the whole time.

'How to treat a sprained neck'

So not sure if I'm the one with the neck injury or if I managed to get killed treating someone else

High schooler in anime: is horny, girls begging to get in pants, refuse because reasons?

High school in real life: is horny, girl makes what she thinks is obvious pass at you, be completely oblivious, realize 20 years later you completely missed it.

Yep. My 2025 resolution is to be as uninformed as I can possibly be. My mental health can't handle it and I stress out and obsess over things that I can't fix.

15 years of being informed did fuck all for me. I'll go vote when it's time (where I will do a minimum of research on my vote), but otherwise my goal is to entirely ignore all politics and political figures for at least the entire year, but hopefully longer than that.

If there ever comes a time where I can actually make a difference, I'm sure it'll be obvious and widely spread. All the outrage, pointless and ineffective protests and 'awareness' campaigns were utterly worthless. The last 10 times I called my local rep they laughed at me for being from the opposite party and told me to go pound sand.

I do not have the capacity, competency or mindset to run for politics myself, so as far as I'm concerned there's nothing of value added by being informed and involved.

I think for many purposes, regular people just like cool art. We've very much become accustomed to a near overwhelming tide of reasonable quality, but ultimately transient media.

'Content' has a much lower value than it once did, simply by benefit of sheer quantity. Even ignoring AI, I have access to endless art, music, video content, etc.

AI art is not really different from the non-artist perspective. It's just accelerating the flow. But do people really even care where their current art comes from in most cases? The average person might download some art for their phone or computer desktop. They'll be exposed to marketing and cover materials (that they'd have no clue or care about how they're made), and they might buy some art for their house. Either from a home goods store of cheap, mass production art, or perhaps on a vacation or art fair for something a little more personal. Beyond that, I doubt most even think about it at all. AI art will be largely invisible to them because the human artists already are.

I do think you'll see a similar surge of 'human' art niches like we have for Vinyl collections today. A small subset of people will pursue the story and mystique of hand crafted art, but this will be a drop in the bucket compared to the entire industry. Only a small few will be able to fit into that new niche.

Currently (well in the summers at least) using a noctua fan attached to a length of 6" diameter duct that's taped to the output of my portable AC unit to put cold air into a windowless room that doesn't get much air. Works remarkably well to distribute the air even though the duct is pretty long.

This was my interpretation as well

In my comment, I was the guy on the other side. If you're going to write me a small novel and try to debug something via dozens of messages, I'm just going to call you. Clearly you're available if you have the time to write out those messages I'm not interested in waiting for you to type everything out.

I've spent an astronomical amount of effort trying to remove as much depressing and outrage content from my feeds as possible. It's a sisyphian task with new things constantly slipping through the cracks. Which has made me mostly check out of all but a very small list of online spaces (and even then ads and other impossible to turn off 'recommendations' show up).

Outrage and depressing content fuels the web and it's best to recognize that. I've been a lot happier in my ignorance so far and would recommend it to anyone who's privileged enough to get away with it. It's not like being informed and engaged did fuck all for me in the last decade except give me a variety of mental issues.

Maybe I'm just old and out of touch, but honestly if it takes more than like 3-5 messages, yes I'd prefer a call. I got shit to do, not write a small novel in messages on my phone.

Honestly feels like we got the worst of both options. The petty censorship, puritanism and lies of 1984 mixed with the lesser and trivial entertainments of Brave New World.

I feel like especially in the last few years at least the part of the left that was so concerned with certain issues with problematic media and addressing issues with overly sexualizing women has joined in some unholy union with the prudish and moralists on the right to spawn a general censorship of a vast swath of concepts backed up by both the lefts moral high ground and the rights religious teachings.

Where before there was the nuance to recognize that women were too often presented as sexual objects in popular media, as well as the fact that we shouldn't kink shame consenting adults or the sex workers providing what should be seen as legitimate service. Now that nuance is lost in favor of simple discrimination and censorship, only disguised in the original movements language.

Did I miss 6.0? My new motherboard only has 5.0 and I hadn't even heard anything about 6.0 yet so why are we already on 7?