We’re still cooperating a lot with China, despite all she human rights concerns.

Some billionaire like Frenchman Bolloré are using the same strategy as Musk and Murdoch to push their propaganda and far right does well in elections

While we are a it more economically progressive than US, it’s not like gay rights or drug legalisation or even abortion are widely accepted.

We need more people here, so just have some fun with us.

A girl with braided hairs and a clockworks hat, in the cockpit, face a wheel, in 1888, over Paris, steampunk, sepia colour, high quality

Model is Blue Pencil XL

!imageai@sh.itjustworks for it’s weekly challenge (voting on the week end)

The big white light is used for landing.

Moreover, while it’s not legally required, most airliner would turn it on when changing altitude, in order to improve other planes siftuational awarness

(I was curious when visiting family living on a hill with a view on the airport down the valley)

With any VTT (including obsolete rolisteam), you can load an image as a map, and set up some fog of War.

No need to rebuy a dedicated module. Vanilla roll 20 does it

The whole “tech industry” naming is bulllshit, there is more technology let’s say in composite used to build an aircraft wing or in a surgerical robots, than in yet another mobile app showing you ads

The whole tech sector also tend to be over evaluated on the stock market. In no world Apple is worth 3 trillion while coca cola or airbus are worth around 200 billions

Shoes and clothe are the kind of stuff where you loose a lot by buying online.

In person you can see the fabric texture and colour. Not a photo where light, camera and then your screen altered everything.

Check how well it fits. For shoes you can easily get one size less/more depending on brand/cut and even for clothe you are not a standard person so passing them in the shop tells you a lot.

You can even ask a sales person opinion to get a feedback of course they want to sell but can help you more than a chatbot

A big change between the internet in the 90’s/00’s and today, is that today we don’t really have this internet with “all computer being equal”, we have a dozen of facebook/google/reddit/tiktok massive websites, and it’s relatively easy to close one of these.

in the 90’s a judge could ask an ISP to close the homepage of someone without impacting the whole internet

No, Please tell me it’s not in Elon playbook ?

US money is incredibly strong, so US$ is way more interesting.

15 years after it’s creation the bitcoin failed to meet the expectation of being a usable money or even “way to pay”

safe. But if it’s at low altitude (<1000 ft; 330 m), then it’s very easy for the flight to go sour.

When I talk about paragliding, normal people are weirded out when I tell that I am safer 1000m agl than 30m AGL. But we call the 5-50m aglthe death zone. If shit hits the fan, I have no time to react nor to pull the reserve. Lower, helmet and airbag would limit the damage,higher I can try something, but at low height you don’t have much time to react and need to be 100% focused

In flight?

1. Masks would fall down

2. The crew will start an emergency descent to a breathable altitude

3. The crew will call a may day and reroute to the nearest suitable airport

in my building, owner use informal tu and first name but when talking with renter they use vous and last name.

To be fair owner see each others at owner’s association meeting and have seen each other in the building for years while many renter move within 2-3 years

And for the fun fact, my owner association ordered a security audit, and the consultant recommended organizing a building/neighbour party/barbecue over installing security camera. As people knowing each other care for each other

He didn’t resurrected but was repaired

Prompt A robotic Jesus being crucified, on the cross, On year zero, biblical scene Model : Dreamshaper XL, Lora Robotic Parts Style link

Where is the line between being working class and not?

When thinking about where does the working class stops, it’s usually about people like engineers, doctors, upper middle management who earn way more than the median income, have some saving, and tend to benefit from “right wing policies”. However, it’s people who would need to cut-down their lifestyle if they work-less, it may not be as drastic as blue-collar, but they’ll need to work to preserve their quality of life.

When people have huge income, enough saving to make a “passive income” and could stop working tomorrow without drastically changing their lifestyle, they’re definitely not working class

A part of the solution is “government owned housing” rented at fair price. Most countries have such housing for “poor people” but not enough for everyone. Let alone the whole “cut-down in welfare budget” means that these building are badly maintained and that even if you’re poor enough but not homeless (e.g. full time minimal wage) you still need years for your application to be accepted. I believe that Denmark and Austria are the few countries where this model is common even for middle class. It may-be a model to follow, at least for lower middle class

A couple of a house as an investment is already a lot, and way more than the average person can afford. If you go from a leftist perspective, the fact that they make money without workings sucks. These people who own a couple of house for investment are also the one complaining about “public retirement system is too expensive, so we should cut-down retirement benefit for everyone”

More seriously, I understand that you want to play by the rule in today’s capitalist world. The problem is that in many places the rule are skewed. In some countries income from rent are less taxed than income from work, and the power-balance between tenant and landlord is favouring the landlord (and people see implementing stuff like rent-control and shorter notice for tenant as leftists policies). While it’s fun to say eat the rich including the landlord, you need to build a reasonable political program if you want to stand a chance.

Another big issue, is the lack of affordable rental properties managed by the government/municipality. It’s basically massively promoting either homelessness or bad housing

A couple of variants

Same prompt, I like how the girl look at normie, but the others don’t look enough like metalhead (Well may-be some forest metal)

With a variant of the prompt where kids play ball

Nobody talks with normies

In an alternate world where Heavy-metal music is the norm, a group of children play Hopscotch. These kids have long-hair, sleeve tattoos, black leather jacket with patches and look like metal heads. The scene happen in the school courtyard during recess. on the foreground, a blonde catholic girl wearing a blue dress sits alone on a bench as no other kid want to talk with her. It’s nice fall day, the tree already have their full autumn colours Using Flux Dev

I am a bit surprised by the premise. Indeed D&D misses a good faction play, but it’s one RPG among thousands of others.

Many if not most RPG do have faction/reputation mechanics. Vampire or L5R comes immediately to my mind. Playing any kind of cyberpunk game involve a form of faction as you need to manage not being arrested by cops or corpo, if you move to the 2010’s Eclipse phase has this pretty interesting reputation economics, and then Blade in the dark came with fun faction/downtime rule at the point for some players it’s mostly a faction management game