Depends on how much complaining the OP does. If he is always moping about girls then he has no right to tell the parents to butt out. Because he is burdening them with negativity - so they have the right to try make things better.
If he mentioned it once in six months in passing, now that’s a different matter.

What is art and what is commercial product?
Most art is definitely divorced from the artist. Do you know the artist of your favorite App Icon on your phone? Do you have any idea where or by whom was your favorite car designed?
Where is the line when/where it is actually matter of the identity of the artist?
The other day I was reading magazines from the early 1900s. Some of the ad-art is 100% questionable by today’s standards, meanwhile they were put on paper with colored ink when both things were really expensive.
For some people it matters of what kind of sexual orientation the artist has. And you don’t have to go too far where woman’s art is not considered anything of value.
So at the end does it matter? Just vote with your wallet if someone’s ‘artiste’ persona is one that you don’t like.

That really sounds like fun. thank you!

Honest question from an older person who never had a box fan: how did you play with them?

Do not try Oxygen Not Included. :)

There are mods that can make the experience way better. For me the “save anytime” is one of the most important game play improvement.

SV is great, My time on Portia/Sandrock games also, but do not forget about Terraria :)

That still has a lot of possibilities :). Just rinse and repeat til you get everything right. A groundhog Day with superman powers hmmm.

Can you do the trick from the movie and turn back time?

Ohh if it was only lead … .
Long video, and scary as heck - btw basically the whole globe is affected

Thanks for correcting me. Messed that up. Have an excuse but don’t worth mentioning it :D

A small trick is to measure your own hand. How big is your fingers spread all the way? That will always be a good quick measure. Like this: 🤙and 🤘.

And for the hierarchy:
Kilo means 1000 of something
Centi means 1/100.
Mili means 1/1000.

kilo + meter = 1000 meter. centi + liter = is a cube of water that measures 1 cm all around, that actually 1/100 of a liter. And 1/100 of a kilograms if it is water.
Edit: 1cm cube is a mililiter, because 10x10x10 its 3dimensional as Moody pointed out.

My ICQ number…

Honestly I thought it was because of cultural differences in the way stories are told.
I would think if they are spending time to create something they would actually want to capture the audience instead of making subpar stuff. Especially if they decide to translate them to other languages…

I read online - translated ones.
My only note is that if a comic is Chinese origin, the story telling is usually full of holes, like they skipped 5-6 panels that other type of mangas would had. So it could be annoying for the readers who are not used to it. (I honestly dislike it, so I avoid them.)

Chop onions and cook them in a big pan til soft , add high quality roasted ground red pepper (the key to the recipe), pepper, salt, garlic.
Cook the potatoes in salty water (or microwave it), smash it.
Cook some pasta.
Mix all of this together.
Serve with pickled vegetables / coleslaw.

I do not agree that efficiency is good.
If its is good, we would live like we keep pigs and chickens in meat farms. More efficient is to eat bug based protein, and why waste time on eating instead of 100% meal replacement foods.
Why keep people with disabilities or with different “colors of skin” (insert any other thing there) from the most “efficient” ones?
The best way to think is Matrix-esqe pods for humans and living in a simulation.
Only bad part of that picture is that we are not needed at all.

And these are the dark points of unlimited change.
We all know capitalism is very bad for the majority. We know big money do not care about marginalized groups. These are all just numbers. And at the end you and I we are all numbers that can be cut. I’m probably not going to be alive, but I hope for a bright future for the upcoming generations. The problem is that I do see AI potentially darkening their skies.
Don’t get me wrong AI can be a great tool if you learn how to use it. But the benefits are not going to be in the people hands.

We need a general society overhaul where not the profit is the only thing that matters. Efficiency is good when you burn renewable wooden pellets and you want to get the most out of the chemical reaction. Efficiency is good when you are using the minimum amount of material to build something (with 3x oversized safety measures). But efficiency in AI and in social terms are going to be a problem.

Humans will not have worry free lives in current society. All the replaced labor keeps the earnings in the stockholders hands. But this went really far from AI. Sorry for the rant, but I do worry for the future.
I believe blindly accepting something before even attempting to look into the pitfalls not a great idea. And we never see all the pitfalls coming.

Good enough is the keyword in a lot of things. That’s how fast fashion got this big.

The worry is deeper than just different changes in production. Not all progress is good, think of the broken branches of the evolution.
The fact that us don’t teach kids how to write already took a lot of different childhood development and later brain development and memory improvement out of the run.
Qith ai now drawing, writing and music became a single sentence prompt. So why keep all those things? Why literally waste time developing a skill that you can not sell? Sure for fun…
And you are bringing up efficiency. Efficiency is just a buzzword that big companies are using to replace human labor. How much more efficient is a bank where you have 4 machine and one human teller? Or a fast food restaurant where the upfront employee just delivers the food to the counter and you can only place order with a computer.
There is a point where our monkey brains can’t compete and won’t be able to exist without human to human stuff. But I don’t need to worry in 2 years we will be not able to differentiate between ai and humans. And we can just fake that connection for the rest of our efficient lifes.
I’m not against improving stuff, but qhere this is focused won’t help us in the long run…

I’m not sure at this point. The sewing machine was just automated stitching. It is more similar to Photos and landscape painters, only it is worse.
With the creative AI basically most of the visual art skills went to “I’m going to pay 100$ for AI to do this instead 20K and waiting 30 days for the project”. Soon doctors, therapists and teachers will look down the barrel. “Why pay for one therapy session for 150 or I can have an AI friend for 20 a month”.
In the past you were able to train yourself to use sewing machine or learn how to operate cameras and develop photos. Now I don’t even have any idea where it goes.