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the_hypotenuse124 karma

Isosceles, Equilateral, or Scalene,

We all care not for Charlie Sheen,

He likes lines and so do we,

Nothing like some good geometry

Edit: I think I'll stick to not doing poems.

the_hypotenuse83 karma

So does DC feel different to AC?

the_hypotenuse63 karma

I'm an Iraqi who's parents migrated in 1990. My father was sent to Oklahoma by the Iraqi government in the 1970s so he could get an education in aeronautical engineering. Afterwards he worked for Iraqi Airways up until 1990.

Back then Iraq was extremely wealthy with oil money and there were no wars being waged, so there was a large amount of surplus cash that was spent on educating the next generation. Unfortunately that surplus ended up being used for tanks, planes and weaponry.

The students that did get to study abroad in western countries experienced a whole different world. It did definitely clash with some of their ideology, but it was an eye opener into how a nation should be run, and gave them a taste of what it would be like to live there. All types of political, religious and economic freedoms, opportunities for wealth creation, excellent schooling systems, the sheer amount of greenery (yes this was a big deal!) amounted to an unfortunate demise for Iraqi society. Although there was huge amounts of emigration on a national level due to the suffering of war, there was a noticeably massive exodus of the intellectual class for these draw factors. Growing up in the west in the 1990s, all of my parent's friends were doctors, engineers and lawyers. There is little hope that the educated who have found new hope in western countries will return back. People like myself have assimilated with western society and have given up on ever moving back to Iraq. The older generation still speaks of pre-war Iraq and have these romantic desires to go back, but everyone who remembers Iraq in its golden ages of the early 1970s is now coming close to retirement.

Without an educated citizen base the road to recovery is going to be long and troublesome.

the_hypotenuse31 karma

https://github.com/serp-ai/bark-with-voice-clone

Bark recently came out and it's very good. By default they did not release the voice cloning feature. Within hours this fork was released that enables the clone feature. If you're familiar with python it's pretty easy to set up

the_hypotenuse-8 karma

Photoshop and guns are not in the same league. One is a productivity/creativity tool and the other is a weapon designed to kill or injure.

Your quote is hyperbole used to incite an emotional response.