Excuse me for being out of the loop, but is there a path towards AI photo manipulation coming for gimp? (Or already here?). Basically doing things like generative fill and other AI editing capabilities?

(I use affinity photo for my photo editing at the moment, so it’s been awhile since I’ve been paying attention to gimp.)

This is a bit of a weird question to answer because it depends a lot on context.

At its core, the purpose of life is to reproduce and guarantee your bloodline passes on to the next generations. That’s kind of the heart of evolution. That’s great and all but that just means we’re here and we have a lot of time in between all that if we even want to follow that purpose.

Beyond that evolution purpose, I believe that the goal in life is to get as much enjoyment out of life as possible. A lot of that is based on experiences and personal growth. But the reality is that’s all a personal choice. You get to make up your own purpose, and that’s just one I’ve made up.

You do you, but life is short and we don’t get a second chance.

I was thinking the same thing, but if the goal is to get from point a to point b then the real question is what gets you there the safest.

For example, if you wanted to know what the safest way to get from Los Angeles to San Francisco was or what the relative danger of each travel method was, this would be the right way to frame the data. The fact that it takes longer to travel with a car than a plane doesn’t factor into the safety of the travel. You still go the same distance.

Holy shit. I feel like I live in a different world than everyone else who’s responded to this question.

Yes, of course I love the kids who reciprocate my love more. It’s one of the most endearing things about kids is when they say that I love you and provide that emotional feedback. That doesn’t mean if they didn’t that I wouldn’t love them, but it does mean that if one or two of my three kids got distant that I would probably love them less. That doesn’t mean zero, it just means less. I left all my kids in different ways based upon each of their personalities. It always fluctuates and I see it pull on my heartstrings whatever they do things that are loving and kind and giving…

I guess what I’m really saying is that I’m not 0 to 100% love, I’m talking about going from 70 to 100% or something like that. I will always love my kids, but I love them even more when they give it back.

Honestly, no, I can’t really say I have. I’m also not someone who loses my temper very easily and when I do I never start screaming or shouting.

I agree. I collected those comics when I was a kid. (I actually still have a bunch which my kids have all read through at this point.)

I feel like the amount of people who know who Groo is are few and far between.

In my opinion, guy friendships need to be doing something together. We don’t call each other up out of a blue and talk to each other about deep things. We don’t share our emotions other than on a high level or in extreme cases.

The good friends I have. I always do stuff with. I have one really good friend who I always hike with every weekend. I have another good friend group that plays video games together most nights. If you remove those people from my life, I don’t have a single male friend left that I talk with more than once a year.

I always figured that’s why watching and playing sports was so important to guys. It’s the glue that holds male friendships together. (Or in my case, playing online video games)

Good. I hope bad things happen to bad people.

At the moment it’s about racism. The goal is to make America less friendly to immigrants. They haven’t started to really hit “nuisances” yet. That’ll come later once this is all normalized.

I honestly don’t get how he lived this long. It was so obvious that he and Bush lied us into the war in Iraq. If my son or daughter was killed over there or massively injured, I would have made it my mission to kill the guys who lied and profited off of it. I’m not advocating for that, it just seems a logical consequence of those actions.

Somewhere between half a million people and 5 million people died as a consequence of that lie and the invasion. Cheney is a piece of shit and there is a lake of blood that this guy is responsible for. I only wish there was a hell for him to go to.

I feel like what some of you guys miss. Here is understanding what makes life fun. Certain superpowers would make life criminally boring and the goal would be to get power so that you can do what you want with your life, try different things out, be safe and secure, but still have a life that has meaning.

If you are too overpowered or have things that allow you to see way past what being human is, then you’d be stuck all alone looking at humans that look like ants to you and you’d be bored out of your skull. I kind of feel like that’s what Dr. Manhattan was except I think the reality would be worse.

You have to look at what phase two of this super power would be. I kind of like the save point one or something that gives you control to do what you want, but you still have to deal with the consequences. That way you gain a lot of control over your life, but you still have to live it with consequences. It would kind of be like winning the lottery. It would be turning the video game on easy mode, but not making it so easy you don’t want to play.

You know what, I think it was OG Oblivion and I just mixed it up with Skyrim… It got me to quit playing the game after a while.

One of the worst game mechanics ever found in a game was where the enemy got harder as you gained levels. The same enemy. It basically defeated the value of having more levels. I think it was Oblivion Skyrim where I found this, particularly annoying.

Yeah, let’s put a label on it because we really have to smear someone somehow. I think the messaging must have gone right over your head.

Fuck that, give me a thermostat any day of the week.

Can someone steal man the other side? This isn’t making sense to me.

Meh. My wife and I had kids based upon our own thoughts of how we wanted our life to go, not based upon some reproduction drive. The sex drive is a totally different thing, but there was no urge and pull to have kids for us.

We’ve had three kids and it’s been an incredible experience with very few downsides and massive upsides. I was not a “kid person” before having kids, but IMO it’s one of the peek good experiences in life.

Don’t do it man. I live in the US (born and raised) and I’m uncircumcised and I’ve never in my life been challenged about it. There is zero reason to do it to fit in culturally. And fuck any culture that encourages you to mutilate the genitals of your child.

Don’t do it.

Even if it’s for your religion, let your kids decide whether they want to be circumcised at the age of 18.

I have an echo show in my kitchen. It displays ads, but they’re super easy to ignore. They’re just basically text pictures on the screen when it’s not being used and on topics that I selected.

I’m pretty massively against ads, but the echo show’s don’t bother me in the least. If Alexa Plus starts giving me verbal ads or injecting them into things then it will quickly find its way into the trash can.