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Video game strategy in a real nascar race.

https://twitter.com/NASCARonNBC/status/1586851910878957574

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Since Sleepy likes AI art so much, I generated images for all the songs on his latest album. https://www.flickr.com/photos/wtf242/albums/72177720301805976/with/52330698592/

Dudes, got hit by a car while road biking. Very not excellent.

The guy turned right in front of me, but I was able to take off the majority of my speed before I hit him. I basically just got knocked off my bike at slowish speed and landed on the pavement.

Bad road rash on my elbow and a bruised hip and knee, but fine otherwise.

The real drama was that this mother fucker who hit me tried to run!

He got out of his car to check on me, and when I suggested we call the police to get a report done for insurance purposes, he jumped in his car and drove off. Sadly for him, we were in an area with limited access and one way roads, and I was able to intercept him on the otherwise of a grass median where the road came back around. I basically blocked him in, and when he realized he couldn't leave without literally running me over, he started claiming that he was just looking for parking and that he wasn't running (disregarding the fact that he drove by 20 open parking spots in the process of trying to run).

I wasn't even going to mention his attempt to run when thr police officer arrived, but this piece of shit had the gall to attempt to blame me for the accident. I then told the officer about his attempt to run and the video that a bystander took of the whole thing, and she basically yelled at him for 10 minutes as he attempted to bullshit his way out of feeling guilty.

Bonus not-eye-safe gore photo:
https://i.imgur.com/VAo9iY0.jpg

biking thread

I got hit by a fucking truck this evening. I was riding on a non busy residential street going about 15-20 mph(because it was a hill) and a big ass texas truck going the opposite direction turned left right in front of me and i smashed into his truck about where his rear wheel is. flew off the bike. my front tire/rim is destroyed.

Thankfully I am ok. no blood or bruises(yet). My hips, neck, and right palm hurt. I got very lucky. I was wearing a helmet. The guy was very nice and drove me and my crashed bike home and gave me all his info and said he would pay for bike repairs.

I am mostly just pissed that I can't ride for awhile. I have a feeling i am going to be very very sore tomorrow.

have yall had incidents with cars? I've had close calls before on multiple occasions. I try to stick to residential streets. I am definitely going to be more paranoid now

Day 1 - Epcot: Tried wearing masks indoors as much as possible. Our 12 year old starts coughing a little at the end of the day and says his throat hurts a little. Test him at the hotel and he has a very faint positive line. He probably caught it the previous week in his end of school trip to Toronto. There goes any chance of knowing if we catch Covid from him or from the other guests.

Day 2 - Hollywood Studios: Kept wearing masks indoors, positive kid doesn't mind keeping his mask on even outside so we let him (but don't force him). After a few coughs the day before he now has ZERO symptoms. If we hadn't tested him the day before we would have assumed it was the air conditioning causing him issues.

Day 3 - Magic Kingdom: Same thing, but with how little mask wearing we see everywhere, we stop wearing them as much.

Day 4 - Animal Kingdom: My throat starts feeling funny by the end of the day. At this point my feet hurt like hell with us walking 12 miles every day.

Day 5 - Universal: First day at Universal, and I feel hotter than I should. Resting heartbeat is 20 above the previous days. Guess I got it. Take some pills to get the fever off and I feel perfectly fine. During the night I have trouble sleeping due to the fever, but nothing critical.

Day 6 - Universal: Wake up with my throat hurting and an headache. I`m sure the headache is due to the 3d rides at Universal moreso than covid. I tell my party to leave and I'll join them if it goes away with the meds. 30minutes after they leave I feel fine and join them at the park. The 10 year old's voice sounds scratchy today but he tends to scream alot. He says he's hot midday so we give him some meds in case its a fever. He looks fine otherwise.

Day 7 - Hollywood Studios: The flu meds I'm taking definitely make my symptoms disappear. My hurting feet have been a bigger problem to deal with than anything else.

Day 8-9 MK/AK: The wife and her sister finally start complaining about scratchy throat. They both cough a little at random times.

Day 10: Time to leave so we test the entire family. Everybody comes up positive except the 12 year old who had it day 1 and the brother in law who had gotten Covid back in January. You can hear alot more coughing in the plane ride home compared to when we flew in.

Summary:
The kids never looked sick or were affected by it. I was worried about them staying sick at the hotel a day or two but you would never know they had gotten it.
For me the only symptom that was a problem was the fever during one day but the meds took care of that quickly. Never felt sick enough to think I was pushing through it just for the sake of continuing the vacation. Same for the wife and here sister, They felt a bit more tired but that could have been from the vacation itself for all we know.

I felt bad not wearing masks at first, but I guess that's how the US wants to roll and you have to respect the local customs and such. Quite the contrast in how we are isolating and masking up since coming back home versus how we basically ignored it back in Florida.

Yo, sorry, I pressed the wrong button

https://twitter.com/jdchristopher/status/1533089680274731010

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This shit is bonkers

https://youtu.be/U1cF9QCu1rQ

AI generates photorealistic images based on text prompt. Not only that, it can generate imaginative landscapes that don’t exist. Like girl climbing infinite staircase made of cookies into the clouds.

I thought my role as a programmer was safe for some time to come. But if AI can generate shit like this, I think all our days are numbered… artists… musicians… engineers and programmers…