I can't really get into movies where someone super rich is having rich problems. What are the best "life is kicking my ass" struggle movies (or series)?

I'm looking for something like Shelter starring Jennifer Connelly and Anthony Mackie.

It looks ok to me?

Me: Ireland - Approximately 2 minutes until poll in hand is the longest.

I've been seeing long lines for the US elections even for early voting. Seems completely unnecessary.

Alvin and the Chipmunks come to mind. Pure 80s show right around the time where it was already thick with lots of other cartoons of it's time and just happened to be one of the popular ones. Ended in 1990, pretty much saying that it knew the 80s was over. Released a CGI film in 2007 that somehow spanned over 4 movies. All of which, while numerically looking good at the box office, was really criticized because it was one of those film series jerked out from the era it was in and fucked over.

For me it is the concept of registering to vote. I am citizen so I have the right to vote automatically and only thing I need to provide is some accepted ID.

What are the ethics of using machine learning (GANs and diffusion models) to change art styles of pictures?

Channel name

description of what it covers and why you watch it

Going to be quite scant on details but...

I was out and about, and was messaged by two friends independently saying they were surprised to see me in a YouTube video.

Confused, I asked what they were on about. Turns out, a guy I gave advice to had then started recording me towards the end of our interaction without telling me, and has, weeks later, uploaded it as part of a longer video.

I was pretty tired at the time and doing the guy a favour (out of annoyance), and I don't like a few things, one of those being that he put me online (which, within hours has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times).

What can I do? I have already messaged him to tell him to remove me, but this seems like a ridiculous invasion of privacy.

What site, stream, or channel?

When I was in school, I was always told "If you get a college degree you'll on average make 500k more over the life time of your career regardless of what you get your degree in!"

Then as I finishing school, it was all about "If you get into tech you'll make big bucks and always have jobs!"

Both of those have turned out not great for a lot of people.

Then whenever women say they're struggling with money online, they get pointed to OF... which pays nothing to 99% of creators. Also very presumptive to suggest that, but we don't even need to get into that.

So is there a field/career strategy that you feel like is currently being over pushed?

(My examples are USA, Nevada/Utah is where I grew up, if maybe it's different in other parts of USA even.)

suicide? appreciating the good moments of the day without thinking about the wider hell you're in, somehow?

They're just regular (prescription) glasses. The sky looks normal through them. What's the deal?

I have an iPhone, and I have recently been using Brave. Firefox is a favorite.

I’d like to get away from phones with a backlight, at least for my next non-smartphone.

Things in poor neighborhoods are done differently than in middle- and upper- class neighborhoods. People that grow up in poor neighborhoods develop behaviors, customs, and beliefs that are different from other neighborhoods because they are part of surviving in the struggle. When they move on up, some of those behaviors, customs, and beliefs are no longer necessary and can even be harmful (e.g. strong reactions to perceived attacks). Others may actually provide an advantage (e.g. living through power outages). Regardless, these changes can cause a sense of estrangement from their childhood and original culture, leading to some resistance. Given all that:

What did you change and what did you keep?

Why people keep saying that Ubisoft is no longer a good video game company, like they were in the past?

I want to hear what insults you have heard others using to refer to americans

Remaking as title wasn't phrased as a question (technically correct mod, best kind of correct).

So, having the abortion debate with a friend I’ve known for 10 years. He got sucked into the right wing Youtube algorithms in the last few years, we were roommates when it first started and it made me roll my eyes. Morally, I’m not going to be able to change his mind about valuing life at conception, vs my perspective of valuing human consciousness being the determining philosophical perspective. I’m of the belief it is morally wrong to abort a fetus at the point that relevant experts consider the baby “conscious”. So somewhere in the 2nd trimester. His mother started and owned her own defense/immigration law firm for 20 years, so he is familiar with how debate is supposed to be done. I am good friends with his mother, and after he debated her about it, she did change her mind from being staunchly pro choice to being more neutral on the topic. I haven’t asked her yet what he brought up that changed her mind.

However, to my knowledge, that doesn’t even matter. Abortion restrictions/bans are just, flat out ineffective policy. From my research, total abortion bans in the US were accompanied with contraceptive access being decreased, so using increased birthrates in red American states as evidence that less total abortions were happening is questionable.

He brought up Poland and a couple other Euro countries restricting abortion, and specifically in Poland legal abortions fell by 90% (exceptions in the case of mothers dying). However, ofc finding reliable stats for illegal abortion rates in such countries is going to be difficult. In addition to that, women in Poland and other European countries, are able to just travel to neighboring countries to get abortions (I believe, I haven’t seen mention of American style persecutions of those seeking care across borders).

His logic with the South American statistics I could find, the continent with the most total abortion bans was that despite them having x3 the abortion rates as developed countries with abortion being legal, he disregarded that as “they don’t have effective enforcement mechanisms”, and wanted to stick to developed countries. This is another example of determining the data/studies reliability seems... difficult, as I am not a statistician, and trying to find good data on illegal activities seems rough, though I am sure there are metrics to do so. I can provide my sources if requested if you guys are interested in taking a look.

These are the claims I am trying to prove:

“You inherently can’t have well enforced total abortion bans without infringing on women’s rights, to do so you have to treat women like second class citizens. In addition, total abortion bans are harmful to society as a whole in regards to maternal health outcomes and not actually accomplishing the goal of reducing the rate fetuses are killed at. I think the pro life movement has been pushed by either religious organizations, or nefarious, hostile to American democracy entities who have geopolitical goals in mind (ie, paralyzing American democracy with polarizing moral wedge issues).”

I figured Lemmy has probably had similar conversations in the past, and that you guys might have some helpful academic resources or arguments to point me towards. I’m trying to focus on the “the data shows this is garbage policy if what you care about (which he claims he does) is the optimal outcome for the most unborn fetuses and mothers, unless your goal is the cruelty, to be the sex police and trying to control women, then it totally makes sense to be doing what Republicans in America have been doing” angle. He claims for him it’s not about punishing women, it is about the potential lives being erased. The leader of the pro life movement in Poland said for them, it’s about upping native Polish birthrates, with him blaming ‘young women going out and drinking’ on falling birthrates. After the abortion ban in Poland, birthrates fell by 11%, making them the worst in Europe.

Anyways, if you guys have relevant data you’d like to share, would save me a lot of time, thanks! The dude claimed to be a “non religious abortion abolitionist”, so an extreme pro lifer. That shit pissed me, because he thinks he is in the moral minority that future generations will think were in the right, and instead he’s a fuckin’ part of the problem. I know data and statistics are a tricky thing to be definitive with :|

Edit: here are some sources I'm going to use. Will keep adding as I get time.

Study on countries with abortion bans having roughly the same rates of abortion as countries with few restrictions:

https://gh.bmj.com/content/7/3/e007151

Just curious since it seems so much easier and less stressful during any election cycle to fill out a form and mail it in during your free time.

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