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You cannot use a domain name to resolve DNS. Quite literally it's the Domain Name Service, it's the only thing you can't use a domain for. Just set a static IP on your pihole to something memorable like 193.168.1.2 or 10.10.10.10 or something.

Okay that's true I admit, I'm well educated, and I want others to be too. Just like Idiocracy told us though people who don't see how bad it is won't be bothered and will have children anyway. 200 bucks ho boy let's get busy!

Very good article. I wish it would have connected the dots just a bit more though. You know what stops me from having children?

• That daycare is unaffordable so one of us would have to work fulltime just to pay for childcare.
• The public school system is constantly being underfunded or worse, defunded, and if I had a child they would deserve an education.
• That PBS is being defunded so the few actually educational programs (the ones I even grew up with) are at risk
• College is completely unaffordable without massive parental help
• The job market is at best, iffy over the next few decades
• Housing is so unaffordable that it would take too much away from my child to pay for mine, let alone if they want to have a home
• The giant huge fucking elephant in the room of the climate disaster - sitting here in a heatwave that is somehow again "Once in a century" for the umpteenth time while we do absolutely nothing to curb it. I'm not bringing a child into a dying world for their profit.
• I want us to be able to get an abortion if it comes to that, I don't want to see my spouse die just because she's pregnant and some politician says that the unborn child's life is worth more than hers.

Seriously, all of these are fixable problems and they've been doing the exact opposite! If they implemented even half of these it would completely change my mind about having kids, but no I guess having a 200 dollar annual tax credit bump is enough in their minds after defunding everything else I would depend on.

Wow this might be the first time I disagree with the anti-AI folks here. The big two arguments I see about using AI is 1) It was generated from stolen art and 2) It takes money out of the hands of real artists.

For 1, Pandora's box is open. It's done. It doesn't make it right, and I'm all for backing lawsuits against companies who did it, but I'm not going to pile onto a person who just had a joke idea and wanted to get it out there. "But he shouldn't use it at all" - yeah, except that gets into 2.

For 2, This was a silly thing that they wanted to make quick. Let's be very real, there was no way they were going to commission an artist to do this for them. In this way I think AI has democratized art a bit more in this sense. No, it's not winning any awards, but I'll admit I've had a lot of ideas to make a joke or meme, and I've felt left out because all I want to do is post it quick but I don't have the ability to draw. I have a lot of other skills, but I can't draw. So yeah, I don't get why this is such a big deal here, no creators lost out on a commission because of this.

Those who went to Art School, I fully believe in your craft and I value it, and I gladly pay for art around my house. This isn't that though, it's a silly comic strip I got a quick 3 second chuckle out of and then could have moved on if it wasn't for the endless comments below that made me want to post this comment. To me, this is a perfectly valid use of AI. Person had a silly joke idea, made a visual for silly joke, put it online.

Yup it's already proven to be cheaper, easier to make, lowe maintenance. It's why even the reddest of states and their electricity concerns have already switched huge chunks over. The Midwest is covered in wind turbines for that exact reason. It's better for them to do it, even if oil is being paid off. At this point we're just handing out subsidies and essentially bailouts to big oil because they're refusing to modernize.

I'm sure it will be just as good as the movie.

Agreed, also wonder how many people it proves that Linux is now perfectly valid for a gaming pc

Same, the entire point is going into their world. If I want to see a movie in this world I'll watch any of the other 80% of all movies ever

Good modding in my opinion. Let the downvotes do the talking

1-3 are all just complaining, not a single solution or idea given out here. Some of the best advice I ever got was "Bring me solutions, not problems". Just complaining like this causes people to skip and say "Well this is a waste of time".

4 is just... what.

Now if this was a post that called out specific things and how you would improve them, that would garner engagement and could make really interesting comment, get upvotes, and maybe even get the attention of people who make changes. Negativity begets negativity

I hope st peter reads that line back to him at the pearly gates before pulling the big lever

I don't know why they can't just say "sorry visa are a bunch of prudes so you can't buy this game with that card". Rather than the entire site completely