Im so glad someone beat me to this. I feel validated lol
Ive been called out on the fidgeting thing a couple times. Mostly people asking if i had too much coffee this morning which then i realize both my legs are bouncing a mile a minute and im drumming the desk like a madman. Internally though i was fine, didnt even realize i was doing it. Anyway, good luck with your testing!
FWIW I have never seen this before. I get what your saying but theres always going to be someone who hasn't seen it.
Ive met guys like this before. I never could figure out how they always had a farmers tan but never wore shirts with sleeves. One of life's greatest mysteries.
This has nothing to do with Crocs but shoes in general. I recently got a pair online that advertised "super squishy" soles. Almost like memory foam but really really soft. They felt great for about 20 minutes then the super squishy, squished out to the sides and in weird places around my foot. They were horrible. If you've ever gotten sand inside the fabric of your shoe lining, its a lot like that. I should have returned them, but the pair I was replacing were literally falling apart and i needed shoes. 0/10 would not recommend.
Schwarzman’s pandemic splurge came just as his firm decided to double down on scooping up rental housing. During the housing crash of the Great Recession, Blackstone had snapped up underwater homes for cheap and eventually made a fortune. The Covid collapse offered Blackstone another bite at the apple. In 2021 and 2022, it bought up 200,000 new units of rental housing at bargain-basement interest rates, adding to a portfolio of more than 150,000 rentals and making Blackstone the nation’s biggest corporate landlord... and its rental portfolio has seen a healthy return of about $11 billion over the last decade, hiking rent on some of its properties by nearly 80 percent.
Fuck all billionaires but seriously fuck this guy.
I was watching a stream on YouTube last night (Ryan Hall) of the storm coverage. I had to just close the chat entirely because the amount of ridiculous statements and questions people were posting was legitimately starting to upset me. Some notable ones i remember "I hear theyre sending this storm to africa after florida". "this is the democrats taking out pockets of trump supporters". "Calling this a 'hurricane' is a way for 'them' to funnel 'dark money' into the state. its not actually a hurricane so it doesn't qualify for federal money".
It was maddening to read and the only way I was able to not lose more faith in humanity is just telling myself they were all disinfo bots. Anyways, hopefully those of you who were affected by the storm are doing ok. Remember your neighbors, people. We're all in this together.
The original has been on my whishlist since it came out and i just never got around to picking it up. I might have to just splurge on the remaster instead.
I was just recently laid off for doing that for several years at my last job. I wasn't "being a team player" and I "do great work, but I could do more" and my "attitude was affecting the team negatively" (read: your enlightening other employees to the fact we are taking advantage of them). Never mind the fact they fired my assistant 3 years ago and never rehired anyone so i was doing two jobs the entire time. Or the fact during my time there i improved a core function of the job by over 20% and saved the company 10s of thousands a year. No, i needed to do more for free. Fuck every employer who operates this way. /rant
Im taking doctor prescribed D2 and B12 along with Folic acid. My blood work always shows those as being low so maybe there is something to this. Ill have to bring it up to my doc next time, thanks!
Im hearing that meds only sorta help quite a bit in this thread. It sucks that they aren't more effective for people, but it does make me feel better about my situation. Thanks for your input!
Thanks for your thoughts on this! Ill be honest, I don't eat the healthiest and that has been something my doctors have brought up. Trying to figure out what is triggering me sounds daunting, but I will most likely have to do this at some point. Why do our bodies have to be so dumb sometimes? lol
I keep holding out hope that there will be some kind of magic bullet cure, but the more I hear from people, the more I'm starting to think Ive just got normal, bad allergies. Thanks for the reply! The (gross) comment you made, is something ive dealt with a few times this year, so that makes me feel better...in a gross kind of way, lol.
I have noticed that the first week or two that im on a new med, It feels like its working better. Maybe there is something going on where your body gets used to the medicine its on, and switching helps? IDK, I'll have to ask my Doctor next time. TY!
So this might be a weird one because I can just look this up anywhere, but Ive been dealing with some vexing medical problems the past year and I just want to see how allergies affect others. Maybe hearing from regular people instead of doctors will ease my mind a bit. A little back-story on my issue (though I'm not looking for a diagnosis), almost exactly a year ago I developed sever constant chronic rhino-sinusitis. I am constantly having to clear my throat and snort/sniffle. Its non stop every 30 seconds or so and no matter what combo of meds I take for allergies, nothing really helps. I have never had allergies before (that i know of) and all of a sudden, after well over 40 years on this earth, I'm allergic to everything. And I do have allergies. According to the test I took a few months ago, I tested positive for 45 out of 50 allergens they tested for. To make a long story short, every doctor I go to says its allergies. Says to get allergy shots and keep taking sprays and pills everyday etc. Nothing brings me any relief. I'm on the strongest sprays that are killing my sinuses and multiple 24hr allergy pills (Doctor ordered), and its almost like I'm not taking anything. So my questions to you wonderful people:
- What do allergies feel like for you?
- Are they constant or do you have flareups?
- Do meds help you significantly?
- Am I just being a big baby and how I feel is just what allergies feel like?
I know this is subjective and everyone will have different answers and that's fine. Honestly, I don't really have anyone to bounce ideas off of and talk about this, so this is as much a way for me to scream into the void and vent, as it is to gather info. Again, I'm not looking for a diagnosis, just your personal anecdotes so I can put my own situation into perspective. Love all of you peeps, thanks in advance for any replies!
Edit- Mods, I realize this kinda flirts with rule 3, please feel free to remove it if you so deem.
I recently set up a LLM to run locally on my desktop. Now that the novelty of setting it up and playing with different settings has worn off, I'm struggling to come up with actual uses for it. What do you use it for when not doing work stuff?
Mod removed my first post because "AI 'art' is for Borgs". So here is a real life version!
Happy Halloween everyone! Had some fun with a random Mad-lib style prompt and inserting "holding a sign saying Happy Halloween". The Text, of course isn't the greatest but, not that bad actually. The AI really likes jackolanterns with the Halloween keyword. Every image had tons of jackolanterns even though I didn't tell it to. The Prompt was "Adj Adj Random-Monster, holding a sign that says happy Halloween. By Random-Artist and Random-Artist." Here are a few more of the better ones:
I was generating a bunch of random monster and scifi related stuff using only wildcards, and got this image. I felt it needed to be shared.
Prompt and model used
A fearsome semi-abstract Psychedelic bigfoot. by gregg booth,david s. goyer, cyberspace, science fiction science fantasy, Dazzling, Realistic, high detail, photo-realistic, best quality, Highres, Natural lighting, early morning, shadow play, HD, Absurdres, 8k UHD, best quality, sharp focus Negative prompt: dull colors, monochrome, blurry, out of focus, grainy, bad quality, bad anatomy, pubic hair, disembodied limbs, merged body parts, bad teeth, too many fingers, body-hair, tattoos, dull eyes, mirrored images, makeup, fake,, watermarks, grainy, artifacting, Steps: 50, Sampler: DPM++ 2M Karras, CFG scale: 7, Seed: 1441120469, Size: 1024x768, Model hash: 886c73d806, Model: perfectdeliberate_v40, Token merging ratio: 0.2, NGMS: 0.7, Version: 1.6.0
Trying out a Goblin LORA with this one. was going for more of a spread of weapons for sale with this Goblin arms dealer, but love his expression. Heres a couple more I liked.
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!2
Model and Prompt used
width: 600
height: 800
model: dreamshaper_7
count: 4
guidance: 7.0
steps: 30
sampler: dpmpp_2m_karras
seed: 615447110
upscale: 1
lora1_strength: 0.7
lora2_strength: 0.7
prompt: a (devious scheming greedy tricky pockmarked very-short goblin) (at a weathered black market stall) (selling his wares of wicked rusted swords and daggers)+ In a dimly-lit alley of the goblin city, Isometric view, gritty texture, shadows and highlights, urban environment, atmospheric setting, candid capture, candid moment, moody atmosphere, detailed composition, D&D, dramatic lighting, rugged weaponry, tarnished armor, ambient illumination
negative_prompt: ugly, tiling, poorly drawn hands, poorly drawn feet, poorly drawn face, out of frame, extra limbs, disfigured, deformed, body out of frame, blurry, bad anatomy, blurred, watermark, grainy, signature, cut off, draft, censored, anime, cartoon, fake, plastic skin, doll-like, fake hair, plastic, toy-like, not real, drawn look, large ears, filters, animated look, painting, cell shaded, digital art, pixar, cgi, porcelain, statues, monochrome, black and white, grayscale, colorless, greyscale, black and white, black-and-white, without color, not in color, tintless, drab, fat, pregnant, removed, omitted, multi-color eyes, malformed, misshapen, partner out of frame,
lora1: A65D6C01FA4DC26FEDA4B00B3566ECAFCD1E27EDE4C3A44509
I really like how this came out, I didn't originally want the fire but the AI kept adding it with the Tanuki keyword so I leaned into it. It took a while to get though, it kept trying to make the Tanuki a horse and getting the fairy to ride it without it turning lewd or just ignoring the prompt was a pain. Anyone have any tips on that? anyways, heres a few more i liked.
!here
Model and Prompt
width: 600
height: 800
model: nightmareshaper
count: 4
guidance: 7.0
steps: 40
sampler: ddim
seed: 1015036689
upscale: 1
lora1_strength: 0.7
lora2_strength: 0.7
prompt: a (beautiful powerful pixar-style fairy)+ (Traveling astride an) (armored blazing tanuki) action shot, close up, HD, Sharp Focus, DSLR, high detail, natural lighting, shadow play, High Dynamic Range, Light Falloff, realistic, detailed face, (realistic detailed hair), realistic skin, Artstation, Masterpiece,
negative_prompt: ugly, tiling, poorly drawn hands, poorly drawn feet, poorly drawn face, out of frame, extra limbs, disfigured, deformed, body out of frame, blurry, bad anatomy, blurred, watermark, grainy, signature, cut off, draft, censored, anime, cartoon, fake, plastic skin, doll-like, fake hair, plastic, toy-like, not real, drawn look, large ears, filters, animated look, painting, cell shaded, digital art, pixar, cgi, porcelain, statues, monochrome, black and white, grayscale, colorless, greyscale, black and white, black-and-white, without color, not in color, tintless, drab, fat, pregnant, removed, omitted, multi-color eyes, malformed, misshapen, partner out of frame,
Its not exactly what I was looking for but I really liked it so I thought Id share.
Prompts and Model
width: 600
height: 800
model: nightmareshaper
count: 4
guidance: 7.0
steps: 30
sampler: ddim
seed: 1117925415
upscale: 1
lora1_strength: 1.2
lora2_strength: 0.7
prompt: a (beautiful fair angelic elf sorceress) make a gesture and concentrates and (many glowing floating magic symbols encircle her) while (dark brooding storm clouds with lighting and rain) begin to form over a (dark gloomy gothic castle in the distance). fantasy, sorcery, magic, high detail, natural lighting, shadow play, High Dynamic Range, realistic,
negative_prompt: ugly, tiling, poorly drawn hands, poorly drawn feet, poorly drawn face, out of frame, extra limbs, disfigured, deformed, body out of frame, blurry, bad anatomy, blurred, watermark, grainy, signature, cut off, draft, large ears, pointy ears, big ears, filters, animated look, painting, cell shaded, digital art, pixar, cgi, monochrome, black and white, grayscale, colorless, greyscale, black and white, black-and-white, without color, not in color, tintless,
lora1: Epic Realism A08670315FC5B150FC00279413840CF0353DB778A436B4A
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1735258
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When I'm scrolling through my main subscribed feeds or all, Id like to be able to hide posts Ive read/voted on so I don't see the same posts for days at a time, but still be able to visit an instance directly and see all posts made there. In smaller communities, hiding read posts can turn that instance into a ghost town. Its also nice to go back and read new comments on posts your interested in and hiding read posts makes that difficult. Right now it seems like its hide everything everywhere or not and no in between.
Edit- after creating this post I went to view my profile and didn't see it there. Turns out hiding read posts, also hides your own posts? Am I missing something here?
Ive always loved the more realistic concepts that look like they could exist today.
Glad this community exists on Lemmy to feed my spaceship addiction. Heres one of my fave wallpapers ive collected over the years.
