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Or to boost invoices on per capita contracts.

Yeah, the quickest way to tell was to look for things that AI wouldn't include, like brown tips on flower petals or broken sticks that have the right fracture pattern and don't just fade away. AI tends to generate things that are very averaged/ideal looking. The textures of ai images also look wavy with like a 10-20pixel periodicity when zoomed in. The noise from real cameras is much more speckly.

I also got 20/20, but only because it was an A/B comparison. If asked AI or real on each image indlividually, I'm not sure I would get much above 65%.

Two em dashes though.

Many player cat's cradle

So they speak dutch well most of the time then?

The existence of an article specifically about his opinions on a theoretical tax shows just how disproportionate the power of being wealthy is. When is the last time any of you were consulted on a tax policy that would affect you?

This doesn't sound good for the future of ARC.

You think those are made in an English speaking country?

Hunter's ed is basically the opposite of what you stated. It's not part of the state curriculum. It's similar to drivers ed courses for people to be able to get a learners permit before they turn 18. Similarly below a certain ages, most states require completion of a hunter's education course to be able to purchase a hunting license and legally hunt.

The courses go over topics like property rights, how to carry a weapon making sure it's not pointing at anyone, what high vis clothing is required, always knowing what is behind an animal before even aiming, rules about how a weapon must be unloaded when in a vehicle, and they strongly urge keeping an interference lock in the action of any firearm in storage.

Hunter's ed doesn't teach kids how to shoot, they teach kids how to not be idiots when hunting.

Farming isn't something that is easily picked up and takes years of practice. Which means that the ones who realize your point end up actually just becoming homesteaders and aren't really labeled as preppers. Off-grid living does have a fair bit of popularity as well. Homesteading is really difficult, and many fail. It isn't something that you can drop a few thousand in as a hobby and act like you've got it figured out. Homesteading means actually moving and living your ideals. So imo a lot of what you describe is that prepping can be treated like a hobby, something you obsess over and throw some money at to feel more protected. Homesteading requires reworking your entire lifestyle and can't really be done as a hobby. The ones who have made that lifestyle change aren't described as preppers, they aren't waiting for an event to suddenly change their lifestyle where they have to adapt. They have already forcefully changed their reality so they could make the changes on their own terms and timeline.

I agree with you, hoarding might help you in the aftermath of a storm, but isn't going to do much in an actual collapse. Even farmers would be in danger of starving if fuel became unavailable. Subsistence farming and modern mechanized farming are very different.

The ultimate preppers are just called Amish.

You gotta strike while the lead is hot.

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