Ziggurat

With copilot included in Professional-grade Office 365 and some politician claiming that their government should use AI to be more efficient. I am curious on whether some of you did use "AI" to get some productive things done. Or if it's still mostly a toy for you.

Alexandre Portier a affirmé mercredi 27 novembre que le programme n’était pas en l’état « acceptable », qu’il était hors de question de « laisser faire n’importe quoi » et qu’il s’engageait, comme « élu et père de famille », à ce que la « théorie du genre » n’ait pas « sa place à l’école ». Et le cabinet de la ministre d’utiliser les mêmes termes, dans les éléments fournis dans la foulée à la presse, ce vocable de « théorie du genre » pour justifier les « modifications » qui seront bientôt opérées sur le programme.

La « théorie du genre » est l’un des totems préférés de la droite dure et de l’extrême droite depuis plusieurs années. Ce concept, jamais sérieusement défini, charrie toute une série de paniques morales autour de la sexualité et de l’identité, et sert le plus souvent de paravent à une homophobie, une transphobie et un sexisme décomplexé.

« L’idée est de faire croire qu’en parlant d’identité de genre, d’égalité fille-garçon, de sexisme ou encore de discrimination homophobe ou transphobe à l’école, on essayerait de pousser un agenda pour transformer les enfants en de parfaits petits LGBT, c’est n’importe quoi », s’indigne James Leperlier, du mouvement Inter-LGBT,

A common critic we hear about an EU wide army is What language are they gonna speak but let's forget Europe 2024,

Rome had a huge empire over the whole Europe, I may be wrong, but I don't think that commoner spoke proper Latin in remote province. What happens when they join the legion ? Would the units be split by origin region (Dacian with Dacian, Lugdunumese with Lugdunemese) with only officer speaking latin ? Or would you merge legionaries from different province (So you have Tingitanian, a Lustitanian and a Thracian in the same unit) and give them a crash course in military latin (the way the french foreign legion does? ) Even going as far as Rome, Karl the great empire also spread over half of Europe, and modern European nation used to be way more multi-lingual than they are today, and most likely a random southerner/northerner in Britain, France or Germany couldn't talk to each other.

So how did ancient armies managed the language question ?

Ands some extra

A strong man stands in the snow, wears a fur cape, at his feet lies a woman and a wolf, a large swords, epic ambiance, power-metal album, high quality, manowar

Using Pixel Ahuskay https://civitai.com/models/537844/pixel-ahuskay

All the mess around the US elections make me think : What are weird stuff you've seen occurring during election days no matter whether it's incident, crazy voters/questions or even straight-up fraud ?

Also thanks to all of you who volunteer to run/observe an election, you're keeping your country democracy alive.

Great, we could sleep one hour more, but suddenly, it's getting dark at 18.

Great we have one hour more of sun on the morning, but instead of being pitch black when starting to commute to work it's just still dark and by the end of November it'll be pitch black anyway.

I've seen picture of US lemming already voting, How does that even work

I volunteered a few time to run a voting station in France, one of the first stuff I learned is always have two persons near the ballot box. If a dishonest person is alone, it's pretty easy to add a few ballots in the box and sign near the name of persons who are too sick/old to go voting in person.

Logistically speaking, it's in general not too hard to find enough volunteers (especially on a Sunday) to keep an eye on the vote from Let's say 7:30 when the empty box is sealed to 22:30 when counting is done and you've signed the paperwork. But this work if the vote occurs only over one day.

I see US-Americans voting almost 2 weeks before the election, how does it happen practically, do you have enough volunteer to run ballot station for 2 weeks ? Are civil servant paid to do so ? How do you make-sure nobody tampers the box at night ?

Wanted to get some Halloween image, so I played with some models, using the same prompt all the time

Prompt

One girl, weird white hair, witch hat, blue fancy dress, sits on an creepy grave, holds a large pumpkin, candle light, a red moon brighten the sky, high quality, Halloween

Anime models

Blue Pencil XL

JRU

Artsy models

Pixel Ahuskay

Art Universe

Generic model

Albebo base

Dream Shaper

Zavychroma XL

I hope this little gallery will show how models behave