I was thinking of self-cleaning mode, which is basically just cooking at max temp until all the greasy crud turns to ash.

cook my oven

Hoo boy, wait till you learn how oven cleaner works!

You're not wrong. But the exact same point could be made about mapping the workflow of 3D printing a custom part to having a machinist prototype it for you.

In both cases, you tell the machine what you want, and it executes it more or less faithfully depending on how well you describe the thing. There is a direct parallel to the 3D printed "art" and copy/paste gizmos slopping up marketplaces--but we rightfully don't claim that the affordability and accessibility of 3D printers is a problem.

You're comparing apples and oranges a bit here. Sure, using a robot to lift weights at the gym is analogous to using AI to create art, if your goal is to get better at being an artist.

But if you're a person with no painting or drawing skills who uses AI as a way to express your ideas visually, it would be a little more akin to being a shitty machinist who uses Sketchup and a 3D printer to manifest their mechanical ideas in meatspace.

99% of AI "art" is absolutely a cringey slopfest, but I'm not going to lie and pretend I can't relate at all to people who use it as a tool to supplement their own practical deficiencies. Whether art should be more about the output or the process is a whole other philosophical debate...

If you liked The Expanse, For All Mankind is pretty much its spiritual prequel. Not quite as good IMO, and leans a bit heavily into the drama at times, but it scratches a similar itch for me.

Don't hold your breath...

The debt is skyrocketing because Trump is slashing taxes, but the demonrats won't stop spending. If we want to get the debt under control, we need to kill every social program and let private enterprise provide those services more efficiently.

If I could whip that out so quickly, imagine how it's being spun in the maga echo chambers.

We played the crap.put of that game back when I had an Oculus rift. I assume there is a non-VR version (?), but having the defuser working in VR was a riot!

Credit utilization /= carrying a balance. I put most purchases and payments on CCs, pay them off completely every month, and my credit utilization is typically something like 10% without paying a cent in interest, and I have an excellent credit score.

From years and years of first-hand experience, there may be a swing of a couple 10s of points when you get closer to that 30% utilization, but it has nothing to do with whether you are carrying a balance and paying interest. Further, that 20 or 30 points basically background noise when it comes to qualifying for new credit.

People get so fucking hung up on whether this or that will change your score by 15 points and how that signals some grand conspiracy. Open a line of credit or two, use it responsibly to demonstrate that you can manage access to that credit--pay on time and in full--it really is that simple.

It does kind of suck when your options are:

A) Early flight that gets you to your destination 5 hours before hotel check-in, and requires getting up at 2:30am

B) Late flight that leaves at a convenient time, but means you waste an entire vacation day to arrive at 10pm

C) Convenient flight that costs 3x more than option A or B and suddenly eats up half your travel budget

A usually ends up being the most attractive option.

I had a friend I would have described that way. The kind of dude who seemed to know and be friends with everyone, and comfortable in any large social setting, but also seemed to genuinely enjoy just hanging out 1 on 1 and watching a movie or some other low energy activity with my introverted ass. It felt good to have someone with those great people skills who was happy to match my energy now and then.

So yeah, I know exactly what they meant, and I can tell you from experience how much they appreciated you!

It was all about the push-ups for me. But only if they are the kind with a plastic plunger in a cardboard tube.

I don't recognize those fakers in spot 26-27.

Not jabbing at you in particular, but how often does the average 4-door sedan owner use their back seats? If you'd reqire a truck bed more often than rear seats, the argument for a small pickup is logical.