u/WeirdIndication3027

Ive tried Google image searching. I am lost.

Has anyone actually done the math on how much food a dragon would need? I think the “800+ sheep/day” estimate may be way too high.

I saw an Instagram reel arguing that a large, flying, fire-breathing dragon would need something like 800+ sheep per day just to meet its energy requirements.

I’m curious whether anyone here has actually tried modeling this, because I feel like some of the assumptions could massively inflate the number.

For example:

• Why assume mammalian metabolism? Dragons are usually depicted as reptilian. Snakes, crocodilians, etc. are ectothermic and don't spend enormous amounts of energy maintaining a constant internal temperature the way mammals and birds do.
• They could have an extremely low resting metabolism. Large reptiles can go surprisingly long periods between meals. A dragon might spend most of its time essentially doing nothing and dramatically reduce its metabolism while inactive.
• Something analogous to brumation like in snakes could reduce energy use even further. If dragons spend long periods sleeping in caves, their average daily energy requirements could be very different from their requirements on a day when they're actually flying or hunting.
• Flight doesn't necessarily mean constant powered flapping. Huge birds can exploit thermals, ridge lift, wind, and dynamic soaring to stay airborne for very long periods while expending surprisingly little energy. A dragon with the right wing geometry might spend much of a flight gliding rather than continuously powering itself through the air.
• Body size itself changes the calculation. Metabolic rate doesn't scale linearly with mass, so simply scaling up the food requirements of a smaller warm-blooded flying animal seems questionable. (There is a veritasium vid about this)

Obviously there are some enormous problems on the other side of the equation too — getting something that massive airborne, generating fire, having sufficiently strong bones/muscles without becoming impossibly heavy, etc.

But if we temporarily grant that the dragon can physically exist and fly, what would a defensible lower-bound estimate for its food consumption actually be?

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DbBY2vQufy5/?igsh=MXZoN3poZmQ1ZmEyYQ==

My Geekvape Aegis Legend got so hot in my bag doing nothing that it melted my airpods to my keys and a bottle of eye drops. The same thing happened a couple months ago where it melted a hole in my bag. I'm lucky the batteries didn't explode. The device was locked, so it didn't accidentally turn on in the bag. I threw the mod and the batteries away, but this was pretty scary.

I can't tell if I manifested this - as Ive been increasingly scared of lithium ion explosions over the last year.

Has this ever happened to anyone else.

My Geekvape Aegis Legend got so hot in my bag doing nothing that it melted my airpods to my keys and a bottle of eye drops. The same thing happened a couple months ago where it melted a hole in my bag. I'm lucky the batteries didn't explode. The device was locked, so it didn't accidentally turn on in the bag. I threw the mod and the batteries away, but this was pretty scary.

I can't tell if I manifested this - as Ive been increasingly scared of lithium ion explosions over the last year.

Has this ever happened to anyone else.

My Geekvape Aegis Legend got so hot in my bag doing nothing that it melted my airpods to my keys and a bottle of eye drops. The same thing happened a couple months ago where it melted a hole in my bag. I'm lucky the batteries didn't explode. The device was locked, so it didn't accidentally turn on in the bag. I threw the mod and the batteries away, but this was pretty scary.

I can't tell if I manifested this - as Ive been increasingly scared of lithium ion explosions over the last year.

Has this ever happened to anyone else.

The antis have seemingly lost the plot.

Hundreds of people gathered in a thread to berate a small business owner for making posters and collateral materials with AI and made it clear that they boycott businesses that use AI.

My favorite take has to be the people saying "why doesn't she just use a sharpie and Microsoft clip art to make all her marketing and signage". 🤔 Idk, probably because she doesn't want to spend 10x longer to have it look like shit?

A couple times in the past I've made prompt engineering tutorials in response to people saying that all AI content looks the same, because most of it DOES look like slop if you don't really know how to use AI and there's so much slop floating around everywhere that I can't blame people for being ignorant - but they rarely have any interest in learning.

I tried not to get involved but I couldn't resist getting one zing in to the person who suggested taking your own photos.

I don't even think it's been 3 years since I got mine matte wrapped, and it's already turned to shit. I got a few panels redone last month, but that just highlighted how bad the hood and back hatch are. It was also ceramic coated twice. Which they tried to charge $1000 for and claimed would last 3 years 😂. I've never had a car painted so I can't really compare - but the wrap cost like $4K and it took weeks. I kinda thought the appeal was supposed to be that they were quick and cheap. Granted I have it parked on the street all year round so I wasn't really expecting it to hold up that well...

Has anyone gotten theirs custom painted? I'm wondering what the cost and turnaround time would be.

I've seen these as skylights and its even stranger.

This is so depressing. 😆

Why do I keep seeing ads for this?! How is this company even able to afford advertising?
This obviously could be - AND IS - an app that theyve just made into a physical device for no apparent reason.

Someone posted examples of bad design and a lot of people were blaming AI so I said if Chat gave me those designs I'd slap it, make it write me an essay on why they suck and then use that as the basis for a new prompt. I thought id share the chatgpt conversation with them so they could learn that bad design with AI is usually user error and that you can give feedback to chatgpt conversationally like you would with a person. Instead of learning anything or critiquing what chat made they decided to go for more personal attacks. 🫩

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We can't give up, but I'll admit it's exhausting.

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[I was curious if he could desloppify.](https://chatgpt.com/share/6a387b1e-972c-83ea-b22b-c5fdec6580d9?ogimg=plain)

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Overall not bad but nothing revolutionary.

But liek look at that reflection

I want to make a 26 minute 90s romcom that is a content platform for pharmaceutical marketing strategic initiatives.

I can post a link to the chat because it was partially a voice convo. I asked Gemini and ChatGPT to remind me the name of the Google product that can be used to train custom AI models. I told them it begins with a G and has a 4 in the name. They both guessed a bunch of random AI tools, most were products from other companies and none of them met the criteria I described. I had search mode on. I was using pro mode for both.

This can't just be incompetence, there must be an explanation.

I can post a link to the chat because it was partially a voice convo. I asked Gemini and ChatGPT to remind me the name of the Google product that can be used to train custom AI models. I told them it begins with a G and has a 4 in the name. They both guessed a bunch of random AI tools, most were products from other companies and none of them met the criteria I described. I had search mode on. I was using pro mode for both.

This can't just be incompetence, there must be an explanation.