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So, this is gonna sound weird, but I actually find a lot of these bands calming to listen to. I’m autistic, and have a lot of weird sensory issues because of it, so music that’s too simple (a lot of pop or punk or other genres that show up on the radio usually) doesn’t fully grab my attention. Like, there’s not enough happening at once for me to feel immersed in it.

So I’ll end up listening to Power Metal to fall asleep sometimes because I can hear every instrument individually, and my brain switches focus to each one at random times, and it’s stimulating enough that I can be completely distracted from my other senses and calm down. Dragonforce is my go-to because they even have two lead guitarists at the same time.

That said, I do have songs of every genre in my library, and if I do want something slower or simpler, there’s a ton of Metal ballads that aren’t necessarily high energy. Try something like Crimson Day by Avenged Sevenfold, Remembrance Day or Trail of Broken Hearts by Dragonforce, Christmas Truce by Sabaton, or Mother Gaia by Stradivarius.

There’s a lot more examples, but you can certainly have slow, calm metal. I could probably make a decent sized playlist

I will!

Metallica for a dark, thoughtful mood

Dragonforce for fun, energetic, silly moods

Mick Gordon’s DOOM soundtrack when working out

Avenged Sevenfold for a carefree, fuck the world attitude

Blind Guardian when I’m looking for high fantasy, “take me away” mood

Sabaton when I want some motivation for work

Rhapsody of Fire for when I’m cleaning alone and want to get into some classical feeling stuff

Killswitch Engage when I’m feeling edgy

Korpiklaani when I’m wanting to go on a run

Parkway Drive when I’m angry or sad

There’s so many more than this, and much of these have overlap with specific songs instead of general artists, but this gets the point across, I think

Just out of curiosity, does anyone know what model of car this is?

I do actually agree with his initial statement, which was “if my workers need a union to stay safe, I will consider it a personal failure.”

…absolutely agreed. His conclusion of that his workers shouldn’t need one though, is the problem. They should have one. However, if the union needs to step in because he’s being a dick, then he has failed indeed. Guess it was a good thing they had a union though, right? Oh wait…

Almost everyone I know with an SUV only has one because “I might need the space someday!” And 99% of the time either leaves random shit in the back or it’s just empty.

Same things with trucks. That bed is almost always vacant.

But the one time they actually use it for the space, it’s suddenly all “see??? I sure am glad I bought a (blank)!”

There are a few exceptions I know, but if the ratio is anything consistent across America, it would explain a lot.

Meanwhile my friend who drives a Prius can fit a surprising amount of stuff in that hatch and still has better acceleration and gas mileage than any of them…

Nah, they probably got Si models since they can’t afford the Type R but still want the red Honda logo

The electrical problems are overblown, that was a pretty specific few years (around 2005-2008 if I recall correctly) with a handful more recently with these latest generations.

Transmission have 100% been an issue since the 90’s, but like I said, have been pretty much all fixed (save for a few parking prawl issues) since 2006.

I will always say that Toyota has better reliability though, by far. They’re the golden child for cars staying alive.

“Last few decades” is a bit of a stretch. The only real issues up until 2005 were regarding the transmissions, and those got fixed in 2006. No significant problems until about 2015 or so when they started to make everything electronic, including key locks and such. The newest generations have been iffy, but my experience with Hondas up until then have been pretty solid, and you’d be hard pressed to find NHTSA recalls of any significant quantity or severity until then. 80% of recalls for Hondas in that era are for airbags (due to age) and exterior light bulbs going out (due to age) and the rest are usually regarding transmissions, with a handful of other parts thrown in.

I won’t say they were as reliable as the 90’s models per se, since those could take significant neglect and still be okay, but most things past that are really down to lack of maintenance for the most part. There will obviously be exceptions to this, but I would still take any Honda from that era over most brands except for Toyota.

The background behind this is very interesting.

So if you don’t know, Kangaroos are pretty aggressive, but they aren’t total idiots. They will start an encounter by punching or slapping their opponent to size them up. If the strength of the other Roo’s punch is too hard on them, they will rightfully imagine that their kicks will be much more devastating by comparison. In this instance, the Kangaroo with the weaker punch will likely be intimidating into retreating. If neither of them feel that the punches were strong enough, the kicking will commence.

However, Kangaroos are not particularly suited for punching. Sure, they can, but their body shape isn’t ideal for it, hence the massive legs. Humans, however, are very well suited for punching, and if you’re in decent shape, your punch will undoubtedly be stronger than most any Roo you’ll come across.

For this video, that punch made the Kangaroo realize something: “Dear god, if his punch was that strong, what the hell is his kick like?!” In reality, if you kick a Kangaroo, you will be showing your weakness, and the game is up. But the Roos don’t know that. As long as you can play their intimidation game, you should be alright, but don’t push your luck.

It’s a bold move to be sure, but it paid off in this instance.

I understand what you’re trying to say, but you have to acknowledge the flaw in your argument.

Unless you feed the AI nothing but raw mathematical data, (and therefore nothing to contextualize the data with, since humans live in a world outside of raw data) you will always have some bias in what you feed it.

Even scientific data can have biased contexts attached to them in research papers. With this in mind, any data fed to a neural network will always have some bias based on what data was fed to it. Even if you ask it to produce scientific results, they will likely in some way mimic the methods of scientists who created source data material.

That aside, from a political perspective, I gotta say I have no idea what you’re talking about, I don’t follow most modern political arguments if I can help it. With that said, every person who views the results of said data will have a political bias, so any results will further be “tainted” by whoever publishes the AI’s findings. Even with that, I still find that advancements in open source neural network algorithms are becoming more effective and more accessible for everyday people to use, so at some point, the only thing affecting the decisions will be sheer popularity, which is something on an entirely different scale.

Well, to be fair, it is being fed data made by humans, so realistically its conclusions will be made likely following the ideas of past human inputs, no?

And if those results are ideas that the creators would rather not progress with, shouldn’t they cull the outdated ones?

I’m not speaking to any topics in particular, but the concept of AI creators shaping their creations. After all, if an AI told you the world was flat, wouldn’t you want to change its data to prevent it from producing results speaking so?

Is AI really being handicapped that badly? I mean I knew certain topics were blocked off with the biggest public chat bots, but the machine learning data is still there, no?

The BatPhone is a project I set up myself, creating custom wallpapers, icons, etc., and I use a unified version of these variations for my desktop, laptop, iPad, iPhone, and Apple Watch, so it’s all consistent

Very close! I measured, it’s 88°

Or rather, more closer to 87.9°, but who’s counting?

Yes, I am a perfectionist, how could you tell?

It has a Pharaoh chin lmao

My dumbass reread this comment 3 times before I realized you weren’t looking into buying trailers