The only viable option to maintain the look is to seal up the flue and then you have to coat over the firebox if you don’t want the soot stained brickwork exposed.

That is probably a coal burning fireplace so it is very shallow, most I have seen are 14" or less deep. It is kind of silly to have a little nook fake real fireplace. I would have just walled it off and been glad to lose an inch on one wall if I couldn’t afford to renovate my century house.

Here is the thing about the fireplace.

On an old house like that where they burned wood and coal, it probably isn’t lined in any way. So it is raw brick without a ceramic “tile” going through it. Over time the mortar between the bricks deteriorate and creosote builds in the gaps between the bricks. That is a fire hazard and there is no way to remove that creosote. Using chemicals can dissolve the creosote, but then you also remove what is holding the bricks in place, which means the chimney structure is even more compromised and can cause collapse.

Selling a house with a known compromised chimney that is open and appears functional without disclosing the state of the chimney can open you up to legal issues. You can’t really feature the chimney/fireplace as part of the listing either, even if you disclose the state of it, because you will be dealing with lower offers.

So a gas burner, even a high efficiency one, can cause a fire hazard.

Leaving it open and just putting decorative wood on a log holder is a nightmare because creosote will fall down as the temperature changes and you may be constantly cleaning creosote or staining your carpet with difficult to remove stains. A lot of those old fireplaces are shallow and have the flue opening towards the front instead of being set back with a “smoke shelf” under it with a modern fireplace, so creosote can easily fall feet into the room.

Your options are to tear down the entire fireplace and chimney, ripping apart walls and spending tens of thousands of dollars, possibly reaching to the 5 figure range on a house like that. Alternatively you cap the top, throw some slate over the opening or wall it off and let some poor bastard in the future spend the money on getting a functioning chimney.

They made the practical choice, and I support it, even if it is not pretty.

They also are the dumbest generation with a COVID education handicap and the least technological literacy in terms of mechanics comprehension. They have grown up with technology that is refined enough to not need to learn troubleshooting skills past “reboot it”.

How they don’t understand that a LLM can’t be conscious is not surprising. LLMs are a neat trick, but far from anything close to consciousness or intelligence.

That is part of the motivation. They are a media company and need to keep releasing anything they can to make more money. They are seemingly unable to come up with fresh IP at an acceptable pace, so they just shit out live actions and sequels that are just financial black holes.

They are making movies to cater to a zeitgeist curated by a vocal minority via censorship, harassment, and emotional manipulation.

If they stayed true to the source material for live action or CGI remake, they would do fine. What they have been making is live action reimagining through a minority contempory lens that alienates the majority of their fanbase.

The worst part of their new direction is the pandering. Don’t just make an established character that was white a minority or alter the story to conform to some new philosophy, that is just lazy and everybody sees it. They need to come up with new stories with new new characters from a marginalized minority, like Moana or Lilo and Stitch. Nobody will honestly care about seeing a world through a minority charactersls view. Viewers didn’t care with Pocahontas or Mulan because they were an honest attempt at making an origional and good movie that happens to feature an American minority.

Don’t make Cinderella black, make an original story about a black character like Black Panther. Don’t make an empowered feminist, make an empowered feminist and tell her origional story like Mulan. Tell us new stories and make them appealing because they are interesting.

Also don’t beat a dead horse with a sequel that can never be as good as the first one because their story is told and trying to capitalize with “but wait, there’s more” after the book is closed.

They are going after low-hanging fruit one person asked for and wonder why few are satisfied.

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It isn’t that complex. The problem with current autonomous driving is the car can only infer what other cars are doing and what is around it, especially if we are talking about an autonomous car with idiotic vision mapping without lidar.

With a flying car that is directed by an AI that knows where every other flying object is, what every flying object is going to do, and the locations of every stationary object based on maps and lidar on the vehicle, you can keep collisions far less likely. Taking the human control out of the picture improves the conditions substantially.

I wouldn’t trust a flying car at all, but I would trust an autonomous one with AI ATC far more than an autonomous car going through a construction zone on a highway in a major city during rush hour.

The problem with an air ambulance idea is you need to make it big enough to work on a patient and it needs to be big enough to hold enough battery to have enough range. You could maybe have one big enough for working on the patient, but with a shorter range, with the only advantage over a helicopter being a smaller area needed to land.

I think it will be a Segway of the air, meaning only “rich” douchbags and sightseeing companies use them in America until enough people die. Opulent presenting countries will use them for headlines like Dubai and SE Asian countries will have them for the police tactical units.

Special licensing that is on-par with a helicopter license is needed immediately. They also need to establish travel corridors for commercial drones and flying cars. Delivery drones and flying cars without corridors just means debris fields.

The alternative is autonomous AI trafficked flying cars that is networked with all commercial drone traffic, but that is 5-10 years away from being reliable and possible.

Regardless, the big issue is safety, a helicopter can land without the engine running. A flying car can also land without power, but not as softly and with less survivability.

Preppers without guns are just a loot box that costs ammo.

Happens to most of us.

Me: “You ever have sex in a recliner?”

Her: “No”

Me: Do you want to?"

Her: “Sure”

That resulted in her attempt to break a condom to force a raw fuck, which she failed because I had two condoms and don’t give second chances to unknown raw pussy. She wanted me to cum in her a few times raw.

She was fun for the time. I wouldn’t hit on strippers or OnlyFans girls ordinarily if you want a relationship of value because they are utterly broken people.

The photos are a quality that is expected with a real estate agent having a listing at that tax bracket.

If the photos were practical, that agent isn’t going to be of a quality that someone of means “deserves” to work with.

There is a giant psychological game that people in a sales position has to play and real estate mind games for high net worth are batshit. Imagine trying to sell shit for Patrick Bateman when the deal could not happen because they got the wrong impression.

Entertainment stand/cabinet thing under the TV.

You could be artsy about it and attach the cables to the wall in straight runs with 90s, but the execution of that is harder.

They didn’t say “please”, nobody is being polite to the AI.

It’s like y’all don’t like the basilisk, and that is problematic, for you.

The moon has colors, not just shades. A modern camera can adjust and capture what the moon actually looks like, unlike the cameras they had in the 60’s and 70s.

We can do this, the problem is interface.

Right now, there is the possibility to have AI create exactly what you imagine, if you can convey what it is you want and have the processing power available to generate the output.

Without a psychic magic wish type interface, we fall short of being able to say “Do the thing” and get what we want. It takes a novel worth of outline to create a worthwhile output that meets expectations.

That being said, I would probably create a false reality to escape into in order to cope with the realities of a meaningless and pointless existence that is wrought from the apathy inherent to prolonged misery from existential dread and the general state of things.

There is nothing wrong about an IQ difference.

Where there are problems is when the higher is annoyed by the other needing explanation or the lower having a complex about needing the explanation.

If you love it when you don’t get it and they can explain it in terms you understand and they love it when they can fulfill your curiosity, perfect.

If you hate how they make you feel stupid or they are annoyed that you just don’t get it no matter how they try to explain it, that is a problem and either party can be at fault in both cases. There is the old saying that if you can’t explain it properly, you don’t understand it fully, I feel that applies.

Talk with them, be honest and raw in your thoughts. Express your concerns about how you, as you are, may be less than they deserve. If they love you, they will try so damn hard to express themself so that you understand.

You shouldn’t be asking the internet, ask them. Your insecurity or anxiety is not for us to cure, your partner is the only one that can beat that into your thick little skull. I joke, but really, there is no comfort or validation strangers on the internet can provide that beats your partner saying how much they love and appreciate you for you regardless of your flaws or shortcomings.

Did you assume the sand as having no velocity relative to the object going C?

They are wanting to raise new game prices to $90-100 because prices haven’t kept up with inflation and dev costs, which will push more people to game streaming or subscription services.

Avowed could have been $30 and still sold the same because a $30 game is priced like a mediocre or shit game when you are talking open world ARPGs not made in Asia or offered as early access. I don’t even think the nothingburger controversy did anything to the sales of meaning, it just doesn’t seem like an interesting game from the announcement trailer to the launch trailer. The coolest thing in the trailers was the magic and that is a pretty disappointing aspect of the game.