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CertainlyWorse

No one is coming to help. It's just you.

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One of the great unwashed.

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The boys know who they are.


				

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CertainlyWorse

No one is coming to help. It's just you.

0 followers   follows 2 users   joined 2022 September 05 01:12:53 UTC

					

One of the great unwashed.

Friends:

The boys know who they are.


					

User ID: 333

Can I convince you to join the cult of Aubrey Maturin enjoyers? The original book series behind Master and Commander spanned over 20 books and I've enjoyed most of them thoroughly. The audiobooks have become my go-to 'long drive/fall asleep' listening for most of this year. If you can make it through the nautical jargon of the first book, it becomes smooth sailing. Also there's plenty of different versions floating around the place.

"It is the dawn of the nineteenth century; Britain is at war with Napoleon’s France. When Jack Aubrey, a young lieutenant in Nelson’s navy, is promoted to captain, he inherits command of HMS Sophie, an old, slow brig unlikely to make his fortune. But Captain Aubrey is a brave and gifted seaman, his thirst for adventure and victory immense. With the aid of his friend Stephen Maturin, ship’s surgeon and secret intelligence agent, Aubrey and his crew engage in one thrilling battle after another, their journey culminating in a stunning clash with a mighty Spanish frigate against whose guns and manpower the tiny Sophie is hopelessly outmatched."

I think full AI is first going to infiltrate areas like the 'kids cartoon slop' genre. I remember a whole bunch of bad 3D CGI cartoons coming out in the 00's and 10's. I actually think full AI would do a better job considering the quality of the man man garbage.

If you want to remain anonymous, but aware that some Australian states made a law that retroactively allowed donor kids to find out who their biological parents were (and it was considered a human right to do so). This opened up a whole can of worms where some donors who only donated under conditions of strict anonymity had their personal lives disrupted by donor kids looking them up.

In other words, a future government may decide that 'the best interests of the child' overrule the conditions under which you originally donated.