Sure, AI photos have their merit. I believe manual and ai generated photos are their own categories and can be appreciated seperately as such.

Why limit AI photos to being a clone of real photos? Push expression of the subconscious, the psychedelic, the eldritch, etc. Make something creatively unique from the photoreal, something manual photos would struggle to recreate.

The stated point listed in the article was to prove that manual photography has merit and that ‘nothing is more fascinating than Mother Nature herself’, which he proved by winning the people’s choice award. He didn’t say the disqualification was inappropriate nor did he criticize the contest for inconsistent rules? It seems quite clear that he expected to be removed from the contest after making his statement, actually.

Personally I hope this doesn’t become a trend of machine generation and manually shot/created work spoiling each other’s contests.

I’ll never understand the evolutionary advantage of nature developing the friendliest fluffy soft ears and putting them on a 200kg apex predator.

I honestly thought Malcolm in the Middle made this sport up as a gag

Maybe you’ve just grown out of gaming. The Steam Deck has it’s issues, but the sheer amount of different great games playable on it is debatably it’s greatest strength. Hades, Armored Core, Persona, Dark Souls, pokemon romhacks, etc.

He gotta post something, because he doesn’t have an argument.

Most vanilla kink

From the view of the actors too - if you had to pick a kink to act in/start in, it would probably be this one. Not too extreme, not too niche, but spicy enough to attract attention. Doesn’t need extra props or locations, all you do is change the term you call each other by.

Basking in the sauna at sunset in the bay is now in my bucket list

The ancient Egyptians knew. To err is human; to cat, divine.

If the hardworking coworker secretly resents you, she’d be unlikely to be sharing this with you too at least. I used to have a similar situation, over time I opted to work harder with the hardworking one and just laugh off his bitching, somehow the three of us managed to get along in the end with minor backroom complaints. Dude just wanted to vent so only pushing back gently when the complaints got silly worked well. The slower worker just wasn’t a problem even if it felt tense between her and the dude.

No idea if this anecdote helps whatsoever, but I wish you the best. You sound like you’re in a rather uncomfortable situation.

My guess is strong language like ‘mind break’ and ‘shatter’ imply a leading question. Sex and gender transition are sensitive topics - with the use of suggestive language - it can look like an anti-trans dog whistle in an uncharitable state of mind

I’m just reaching, got no idea otherwise. I got no horse in this race

If your gender was very important to your values and identity then there would be a significant psychological impact in ‘rediscovering’ yourself

But if your biological sex was the only change, I believe most people would adapt (could be happier or unhappier, but they would adapt). With improved empathy for the opposite sex, too