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I like someone that is older than me but I also don't want someone twice as my age. How big of an age gap is too big when it comes to dating?

Hey dude. How's your teeth? A while ago I got my first cavity. Dentist said it's crazy I only got my first one now (25y.o.). Also still got all my wisdom teeth in-tact. Meanwhile I have a cousin who already had FIVE cavities and had a root canal done AND had to take out their wisdom teeth. Crazy.

Would you love a Barbie 2 ? Do you think it could happen ? This movie was so Iconic, funny, intelligent and beautiful, i want a Barbie 2 but do you think it could happen ?

I'm going through a lot mentally at the moment questioning so many things in life. Trying to find a real purpose that sticks but can't help feeling melancholic all the time and just overall sad about everything in this world. Why are we here? Are we alone in this whole universe? If so, why because it's freaking huge ? Why are we so mean to each other? Why do wars still exist in 2023? Why are we so selfish? Why do I only want to have sex but not fall in love anymore? Why are we so evil? Are we worth saving? Maybe this isn't the place.

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Poll: Hypothetically, let's say you can choose between the following options of post-tax income: $50,000 - 1 day per week $100k - 2 days per week $150k - 3 days per week $200k - 4 days per week $250k - 5 days per week Which one are you picking (assuming each day is a 7.5 hour shift?

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In just over a month, it’ll be the 5th year anniversary of the death of my father. My fathers death crushed me and left me absolutely devastated beyond words, but getting through that grieving period made me stronger beyond my wildest dreams. It’s incredibly hard for me to get upset about anything anymore. I rarely if ever cry, and I rarely if ever let anything that upset me linger anymore. I guess I’m trying to ask: if you’ve gone through extreme grief, did it to permanent damage to your mental health, or did it make you stronger?

1. The Velvet Underground and Nico, ‘The Velvet Underground & Nico’ (1967) 2. The Beatles, ‘Abbey Road’ (1969) 3. Patti Smith, ‘Horses’ (1975) 4. The Notorious B.I.G., ‘Ready to Die’ (1994) 5. Led Zeppelin, ‘Led Zeppelin’ (1969) 6. Pink Floyd, ‘The Dark Side of the Moon’ (1973) 7. Cyndi Lauper, ‘She’s So Unusual’ (1983) 8. Public Enemy, ‘Fear of a Black Planet’ (1990) 9. Elvis Presley, ‘Elvis Presley’ (1956) 10. N.W.A, ‘Straight Outta Compton’ (1988) https://www.billboard.com/photos/best-album-covers-of-all-time-6715351/91-nwa-straight-outta-compton-cover-1988-billboard-1240/

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Feels like there use to always be a hit GIF on OldTRL but there doesn’t seem to be popular ones these days. Have GIFs fallen off? Has .JPG taken over?

Hey dudes. Did you have Barbies growing up? One time when I was little, I came across a donation box full of Barbies and dozens of clothes for them. My mom actually let me take them home lol (she didn't want to waste money on new toys so it was a win-win). I think this had a huge positive impact on me. I never cared for trying to be stereotypically manly, and grew conscious of fashion and taking care of my hygiene. My favorite was a brunette with blue eyes, a blue dress and matching blue shoes. I low key learned from her that blue looks best on me. How about you?

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An image of a cosmic question mark is making its rounds on social media. It appears to have originated from a new observation by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), a team from the European Space Agency (ESA) released an image on Wednesday (June 26) showing a detailed look at two actively forming young stars located in the Vela Constellation, about 1,470 light-years away from Earth. Deep in the background and just below the subject of a tightly bound pair of actively forming stars, known as Herbig-Haro 46/47, lies the cosmic mystery that has astronomers and the general public yarning for more information. More stunning images of the mysterious object and other galaxies from the James Webb Space Telescope are sure to come, thanks to its ability to see light from over 13 billion light-years away and peer through cosmic dust clouds using infrared. Just last week, a new image of the famous Ring Nebula from the JWST was released, showing detail never seen before. https://spaceexplored.com/2023/08/07/mysterious-question-mark-object-spotted-by-the-jwst-what-is-it/ ?

CNBC: Disney reportedly creates task force to explore A.I. and cut costs Walt Disney has created a task force to study artificial intelligence and how it can be applied across the entertainment conglomerate, even as Hollywood writers and actors battle to limit the industry’s exploitation of the technology. Launched earlier this year, before the Hollywood writers’ strike, the group is looking to develop AI applications in-house as well as form partnerships with startups, three sources told Reuters. As evidence of its interest, Disney has 11 current job openings seeking candidates with expertise in artificial intelligence or machine learning. The positions touch virtually every corner of the company — from Walt Disney Studios to the company’s theme parks and engineering group, Walt Disney Imagineering, to Disney-branded television and the advertising team, which is looking to build a “next-generation” AI-powered ad system, according to the job ad descriptions. A Disney spokesperson declined to comment. One of the sources, an internal advocate who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the subject, said legacy media companies like Disney must either figure out AI or risk obsolescence. This supporter sees AI as one tool to help control the soaring costs of movie and television production, which can swell to $300 million for a major film release like “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” or “The Little Mermaid.” Such budgets require equally massive box office returns simply to break even. Cost savings would be realized over time, the person said. For its parks business, AI could enhance customer support or create novel interactions, said the second source as well as a former Disney Imagineer, who declined to be identified because he was not authorized to speak publicly. The former Imagineer pointed to Project Kiwi, which used machine-learning techniques to create Baby Groot, a small, free-roaming robot that mimics the “Guardians of the Galaxy” character’s movements and personality. Machine learning, the branch of AI that gives computers the ability to learn without being programmed, informs its vision systems, so it is able to recognize and navigate objects in its environment. Someday, Baby Groot will interact with guests, the former Imagineer said. AI has become a powder keg in Hollywood, where writers and actors view it as an existential threat to jobs. It is a central issue in contract negotiations with the Screen Actors Guild and the Writers Guild of America, both of which are on strike. Disney has been careful about how it discusses AI in public. The visual effects supervisors who worked on the latest “Indiana Jones” movie emphasized the painstaking labors of more than 100 artists who spent three years seeking to “de-age” Harrison Ford so that the octogenarian actor could appear as his younger self in the early minutes of the film. Three years later, the company announced a major research and development initiative with top technology universities around the world, funding labs at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It closed the Pittsburgh lab in 2018. Disney’s U.S. research group has developed a mixed-reality technology called “Magic Bench” that allows people to share a space with a virtual character on screen, without the need for special glasses. In Switzerland, Disney Research has been exploring AI, machine learning and visual computing, according to its website. It has spent the last decade creating “digital humans” that it describes as “indistinguishable” from their corporeal counterparts, or fantasy characters “puppeteered” by actors. This technology is used to augment digital effects, not replace human actors, according to a source familiar with the matter. Its Medusa performance capture system has been used to reconstruct actors’ faces without using traditional motion-capture techniques, and this technology has been used in more than 40 films, including Marvel Entertainment’s “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.” “AI research at Disney goes back a very long time and revolves around all the things you see being discussed today: Can we have something that helps us make movies, games, or conversational robots inside theme parks that people can talk to?” said one executive who has worked with Disney. Hao Li, CEO and co-founder of Pinscreen, a Los Angeles-based company that creates AI-driven virtual avatars, said he worked on multiple research papers with Disney’s lab while studying in Zurich from 2006 to 2010. “They basically do research on anything based on performance capture of humans, creating digital faces,” said Li, a former research lead at Disney-owned Industrial Light & Magic. “Some of these techniques will be adopted by Disney entities.”

Is it? After analyzing many years of conversation with multiple people, I have to say it is. People seem to find it very off-putting. I think we should all be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwLRQn61oUY confident. Even if we are not, we should still pretend. We have to appear strong. Because the reality is that people in this dünya do not care about you. We really only have ourselves. What do you think?

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