It’s not a fun answer, but without an invite your best bet is to keep the site open in a tab and refresh it every day. Or use a change tracker to watch it for you. One day your patience will pay off and they’ll open registrations. Hop on it immediately when they do, sometimes it’ll only be open for a day or less.

Geek is a great place to start though, it’s a solid indexer (trackers are for torrents FYI, usenet has indexers for nzbs). Dog is overrated imo, I wouldn’t worry about getting in there.

Yeah, seriously. This kind of hype is incredibly stupid to me.

I don’t want to pile on too hard, because hopefully you’ve internalized some of the other criticisms in the comments, but this is actually a great example of why “AI” art makes so many people so angry.

On its face, this is a nice-ish comic strip with a joke that might get a smirk or chuckle in response. The moment you look at the image critically, that all falls apart. And don’t you want people to look at your art critically? Don’t you want people to zoom in and enjoy every part of what you created? Thing is, this isn’t your art. You didn’t create it. You wrote some sentences, and then an algorithm (without permission) used the real, painstakingly created artwork of artists from all over the world and throughout history, to spit out some pixels that look like this. You didn’t pick up a pencil or stylus, you didn’t ink the lines and labor over the facial expression or color pallets. You didn’t build on a lifetime of artistic experience to create something new in a style that you’ve been developing for yourself. And then you signed it to make it seem like you had actually done all that. That may seem okay to you, but it’s deeply insulting to lots of people.

I’m a shitty visual artist. I couldn’t draw to save my life. And that’s totally okay, not everyone is Van Gogh. I find other outlets for my artistic impulses.

It sure looks like he tried to cover up a bug bite or some other kind of rash to me, but two things:

1. Who the fuck cares about what T-bag’s hands look like? He’s an unhealthy elderly man.
2. It’s just another example of how sad, disturbed, and insecure this fool is. When most people get a big bug bite on their hand, they just forget about it until it goes away. Maybe put a bandaid on it if it’s really gross. He’s such a deeply strange man.

I loved coming across the various hot springs in Ghost of Tshushima, especially the ones that are really well hidden.

As I was reading this, I was thinking to myself, “Huh, this is written really badly. Huh, I’m pretty sure they repeated the same point a bunch of times. Huh, this sure sounds like bullshit LLM slop.”

Lo and behold, when I got to the end:

For this story, Fortune used generative AI to help with an initial draft. An editor verified the accuracy of the information before publishing.

So yeah, you should skip this story, it’s not worth your time.

This is exactly it. Unless we get really specific, this shit is more of the same middling platitudes, and different audiences will only hear what they want to hear. Seriously disappointing, and not at all helpful.

Ex-politicians like Obama (but not just him) need to shut the hell up unless they have PRACTICAL ideas that we can use. Someone like Obama should understand that his words have gravitas (love your username btw, fellow Banks fan I presume?), but his rhetoric goes straight in the garbage unless it’s backed by actionable ideas.

Agreed.

This is super helpful, thanks for the explanation.

Much of the camp was built in a high risk flood zone, a zone where building is strictly illegal in many states with responsible safety measures. Since Texas doesn’t give a shit about human life, they not only allow building in dangerous flood zones, but they clearly don’t have the infrastructure to make it even remotely safe.

The camp never should have been built there. This tragedy is exactly why planning for future risk when building something (especially something for kids, but that’s pretty much irrelevant) is not optional.

That’s pretty fucked up. PTO should be irrevocable. Once it accrues, even if by accident, it should be permanent until you use it.

My company has a maximum PTO policy, where once you reach the max they either force you to use it, or cut you a check for the equivalent balance and then it resets. It’s kind of annoying, but at least it accrues automatically every pay period so there’s no risk of a mistake like yours. And I’ll always get the money associated with it even if I don’t take the time off.

I’d be furious if I were you, and I would definitely let my HR department know how angry I was. They owe you something for this fuckup.

Yeah, this is what I came here to mention. Environmental damage and power consumption are what bitcoins cost, but those costs don’t give bitcoins any inherent value.

It’s actually a pretty appalling example of human ingenuity. We’ve managed to invent something that has a disproportionately terrible impact on every person on earth through its environmental effects, while simultaneously producing no practical value to anyone other than those wealthy enough to be in control of it.

Clyburn arguably shares a big chunk of the blame for our current situation. He’s the reason Biden was resurrected from the bottom of the primary barrel, and why nearly the whole establishment fell in line overnight. Biden had almost no chance of winning the 2020 primary, until Clyburn.

So fuck this, fuck Newsom, and fuck the DNC’s inevitable force-feeding of a candidate nobody wants. They are incapable of learning the simplest lessons.

Such a pretty cat.

Mine makes a very specific sound when he’s hunting bugs in particular. Anyone else’s cat do this? The closest thing it sounds like is a squirrel chippering/barking, but it’s totally different from his meow. He never does it any other time, even when he’s hunting his mouse toy, it’s freaking adorable.

The Citadel of Qaitbay, which is now an excellent maritime museum, was interestingly built on the exact spot of the ancient lighthouse, and even used some of the lighthouse’s original blocks in its construction.

Yeah paywalls suck, but that’s probably why their journalism remains consistently high quality. I listen to their podcast every so often, and it’s clear that they work their asses off. They just took their first week off since founding the company, because they were worried if they stopped constantly releasing new articles they would quickly go under, so they waited a long time until they were sure they had enough subscribers and had built enough trust to survive a week’s vacation without pissing everybody off.

I certainly don’t have that kind of work ethic, and I still expect my paycheck.

If you intend to profit from the murder of innocent people by helping governments develop weapon systems, then you don’t get to feign innocence and act like a biased dictionary when the world notices the evil you’ve contributed to. As a fellow Jew, I wish he would understand that we don’t have a monopoly on being the victims of genocide.

Cool, I enjoyed the first one, it was pretty different from any western and Japanese animation I’ve seen. The English dub was pretty weak though, so I’m looking forward to this release.

I very clearly remember watching this movie when it came out . . . who decides what’s been “forgotten?”

It had an excellent cast and was a novel and creative concept. Not a great movie by any stretch of the imagination, but solidly enjoyable.

Fuck, that man is charming.