Oh, I’ve played with them all (maybe not Bob Ross, but that’s fun). It’s really remarkable, with everything from cartoon styles to classic art to photography. ChatGPT is best with art; Grok is best for video. It’s fun for those of us who have an eye for art and photography but zero actual skills.
Example: I took a pic of Dani walking the dogs then asked for a couple of different styles (Disney, Cyberpunk):
And here’s Tim Patterson, Biotest bossman, as an action figure:
Right. I dropped them when I just finally faced the fact that they made me feel like crap for 24 to 48 hours and I could just do other exercises. It only took two decades for such a realization.
Same. I loved the standard deadlift mainly because I was good at it. These days, I use a landmine setup: same movement, less wreckage. Somewhere, Mark Rippetoe is mad.
I like the trapbar.
I’ll pull from the floor once every 2 months. It honestly makes no sense to use that one specific ROM ALL the time. The plate diameter is an arbitrary standard.
Rip A. Toe doesn’t approve.
Nice. I stick with hack squats, split squats, RDL’s, stiff-legged deadlifts, hip thrusts, and back extensions, (not in the same workout obviously).
I even recently switched to RDL’s in a Smith machine (gasp). I do hip thrusts in it, followed by RDL’s. So one day I thought, “OK, I’ll just stay here”.
I used to be very close minded with exercise selection.
Don’t care.
Saw this article yesterday:
How do people feel about cloned pets?
I think my main beef with it is that there are thousands of needy shelter dogs out there just begging to become part of a family. Cloning is like saying, “Let those dogs suffer, then kill them. Because I have lots of money.”
And, of course, a cloned dog isn’t really the same animal.
That’s exactly what I was thinking as well….it’s not the same dog so why not just get one?? Rich ppl are weird.
I bet it’s going to become kind of a flex. Brady is the same guy who wears incredibly ugly expensive watches so he can flex about basically having a nice house on his wrist.
I agree that you should always adopt a shelter dog. That includes never buying from a breeder. HOWEVER, I have one dog that is some kind of mutt that I would almost be willing to pay the $50,000 to see what he looked like as a puppy. He’s the cutest damn thing.
I do see what you mean there. We have a rescued Jack Russell mix that we got at age 5 or 6. Would’ve loved to see her as a pup. I mean, a Jack Russell puppy might’ve also killed us with its excess energy, but she’d have been cute when asleep.
Yeah. Its like an affront to the uniqueness of the original creature.
My last dog was a big happy cannonball of love, which she would demonstrate by taking us out at the knees as often as possible. Great nursemaid to my infant son and companion as he grew up.
But therein lies the rub. You can’t just replicate those times and emotions. They were what they were at the time that they happened. If they were able to be redone they wouldn’t be that special now, would they?
From an article I read about how someone recently tested this fellow’s DNA:
"After analysing Hitler’s DNA, experts who feature in Hitler’s DNA: Blueprint Of A Dictator have found that the mass murderer had a rare condition that affects development of the sexual organs. Symptoms of Kallmann Syndrome include abnormal sexual development and low testosterone.
So for a mass murderer so obsessed with genetic purity, it is somewhat ironic that Hitler himself would have been a target for the eugenics-obsessed Nazis had they been able to look at his DNA.
The new research, based on a strip of blood-stained fabric taken from Hitler’s sofa after the dictator shot himself in his Berlin bunker in 1945, also found that he was in the top one per cent of people at risk of having schizophrenia, bi-polar and autism.
Hitler may also have had a ‘micro-penis’. Up to 10 per cent of boys with Kallmann Syndrome end up with very small genitalia."
When we had Buttons, our late senior rescue and the goodest girl ever, I often pictured her as a puppy and felt pretty anguished to think about the neglect she must have experienced (seized by the sheriff for cruelty, we think maybe one of those crazy hoarders). So a do-over for her would be my motive, but of course that wouldn’t be a do-over for Buttons. Just a nice life for a whole different dog. While another dog - our current senior rescue, Louie - continued waiting in a pen for someone to come get him. He was at the shelter for two years.
So to answer: cloning dogs makes an already-bad situation worse.
I have heard it said that Himmler had something similar.
Is there any chance Tom Brady is trying (maybe even unconsciously) to use the cloned dog as a way to return to the past?
We’ll know for sure if a 28-year-old Gisele Bündchen turns up.
Its like some kind of megalomaniacal form projection. My sister was really into the mensa thing and along with some others bought into the idea that they should create a superior race of really smart people and sort out all of the others with mental defects and deficits. And she is definitely bi-polar/schizophrenic, but their plans never came to fruition.
I asked her point blank why she thinks she’d be an exception to her own rules but all she could really do was deny and deflect from her long history of being institutionalized against her will.
That and- damn! they were about as ugly a group of socially inept weirdos as I’ve ever seen.
