Hillock

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[–] Hillock@kbin.social 14 points 7 months ago

would be like if someone an ethincally Asian UK citizen won miss UK and then got accused of pushing an Eastern standard of beauty in an ethnically Anglo-Celtic-etc nation.

I mean that is happening all the time. Especially if the winner is black. So the controversy isn't new. It's still racist and stupid.

[–] Hillock@kbin.social 10 points 8 months ago (2 children)

You could start as a ranch hand, especially if you know how to ride. You can work on both a regular ranch or on a "resort ranch" that focuses on tourism. You just have to find a ranch that has around that 20ish employees.

But then it would fit all of your points. You are spending your whole day with the same group of people.

Drifting between groups will depend a bit on your exact duties but no matter what you are going to get to know everyone and work with others occasionally.

New things are constantly coming up to do. Your duties also change with the season. And even if there is "nothing" to do you will still hang out with the other farm hands.

You have that authority over you in form of the ranch manager/owner.

Pay isn't great but it might come with free lodging, then it isn't that bad.

[–] Hillock@kbin.social 24 points 8 months ago (5 children)

It's not a legitimate competition, that's the entirely point. The claim is AI models rely on stealing content and changing it slightly or not all. And if a "regular" journalist does this, they would get into trouble. Just because the entity switches to an AI company doesn't make this business model legitimate.

A few years ago there was a big plagiarism scandal on IGN because one of their "journalists" mostly took reviews of other people, changed a few words, and published it. Obviously that's not fine.

[–] Hillock@kbin.social 2 points 8 months ago

Started playing yesterday, I can agree. I just need to get used to playing slower. It's so easy to put it on speed three and then suddenly I am falling behind and can't deal with the issues anymore.

[–] Hillock@kbin.social 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That depends a lot on the exact prison. Because many prisons don't follow guidelines and provide less food than they are supposed to.

In theory, inmates are supposed to get between 2,400-2,700 calories a day. The actual amount might be closer to 2,000 or even below that. For a small person that might be enough to sustain themselves but bigger people will lose weight.

Unless a prisoner has money. Then they can use the commissary store to buy additional food and eat as much as they can afford.

And that's for the entire western world. Some countries are better at enforcing guidelines than others but every country has a few prisons that are run terrible.

[–] Hillock@kbin.social 13 points 8 months ago

Scottish Highland clans would use something called the "Fiery Cross" or "Cross of Shame" as a symbol for a call to arms/war. Basically sending a person carrying the thing from village to village and every able-bodied man had to get ready for war or be shamed.

But whether or not they actually used a burning cross is very disputed. The main source for this is the author Walter Scott. He wrote Rob Roy, The Lady of the Lake and other Scottish mythology/historical fiction. While he claimed to try to be as historical accurate as possible, there are a lot of made up facts in his books. So not really a good source and sometimes even the only source for Scottish mythology.

The original KKK didn't burn crosses. But in the early 1900s Thomas Dixon wrote a book series that romanticized the KKK. He was very inspired by Walter Scott and included the Fiery Cross in his novel. Saying the flames symbolizing purity, purifying the people of their sins, and the light it gave is a symbol for "The Holy Light".

His books were the source for the movie " The Birth of a Nation" and that movie included the burning cross scene. And KKK members thought it looked cool and started to use cross burnings using the made up justification of purity and holy light.

[–] Hillock@kbin.social 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yes, Zeus, Poseidon, Hera, Hades, and Hestia are the children of Kronos and are the ones that killed him .

[–] Hillock@kbin.social 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Your calculations to get 100% are right but you are off for the 50% and. You are only considering one specific outcome. But it doesn't matter if the first question is wrong or the second so the chance is 0.250.75+0.750.25 which is 37.5 or double your answer. We can double check it by looking at it from the other direction.

The chance of failure is 0.75*0.75= 56.25%.

So there is a 43.75% of passing the first go around. Split between a 6.25% to get 100 and 37.5% to get 50.

Same mistake for the second calculations. 44.22% is the chance to get 50%

[–] Hillock@kbin.social 2 points 9 months ago

That's a fair point. But many of us are also tired in the afternoon or in the morning and we still do stuff.

I get not doing something because you have no motivation but if the motivation is there, take advantage of it.

[–] Hillock@kbin.social 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

You could still mop the place. Or at the very least sweep it. Or do all other cleaning tasks that don't involve the vacuum.

As I said elsewhere, I get it if you have no motivation. If you don't feel like doing something, it's hard to get started. But if are motivated it's better to do something than nothing.

[–] Hillock@kbin.social 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Kids being able to openly participate on porn sites would be a feast for pedophiles and groomers. We already have enough trouble with that on social media and dating sites/apps. And while in an ideal situation there just wouldn't be bad people, sometimes we need to protect people from themselves because of others.

So while I am open for a discussion about lowering the age requirement, I still firmly believe a minimum age is required. But whether that's 14, 16, or 18 I don't know.

[–] Hillock@kbin.social 10 points 9 months ago (6 children)

I know it's a meme but I don't understand why people don't just use night motivation at night. Nowadays there is only a very limited amount of activities that can't be done at night.

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