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GBassNorth said:
Good point. This whole CGI and AI thing is getting out of hand. At first glance it’s difficult to tell what’s real and what isn’t. As the technology becomes even more sophisticated it’ll likely be impossible to tell what’s real and what’s fake. :rollno:
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Tell me!

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Ellery said:
Can’t be real. Doesn’t have any tags on it.
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It's all part of my "way back" machine, the real car was from the late '60s, the model is as it appeared in '76, so, no tags - One of many reasons I model those years :)
 
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RedVee said:
Or Chad Morgan

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@GonePlaid

Bit of a shock hey? Yes, they are his real teeth! Consequently he went a bit towards the comic country route.

He had a long career, 70 years, and has a monument in Tamworth NSW (which is where the Australian Country Music festival and awards are held every year, and the Golden Guitar centre is).

Chad Morgan | Monument Australia

<p>The bust commemorates singer, Chad Morgan, who was born in Wondai, Queensland in 1933 and raised by his grandparents.</p> <p>He was discovered through Australia’s Amateur Hour radio program and started recording with Regal Zonophone ( a subsidiary of EMI ). Chad, known fondly as “The Sheik...
www.monumentaustralia.org www.monumentaustralia.org
 
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GBassNorth said:
Looks like a Pex piping and Sharkbite fitting installation to me. Pex is pretty freeze friendly, unlike copper it will expand vs burst when freezing. Pex has some advantages and disadvantages over copper. Generally speaking, if you live in a winter freeze area and have exposed or easy access piping in the basement or crawl space you might want to use Pex, or if you have water lines inside an exterior wall.

It’s cheaper to install, very easy to fix or replace and protects against uninsulated space and pipe freeze concerns. I wouldn’t use it in difficult areas to access (inside of interior walls or under floors or concrete slab) because the life expectancy is about half that of copper. The jury is still out on the effects of micro plastics on human health, so if your concerned about that then you should stick to copper.

I do find the elbow terminating at a floor joist puzzling. Not a normal or recommended penetration point at all, and not a standard method of bracing. Looks like someone was being paid by the hour to install pipe. It does offer a great dead leg situation for debris and crud to build up in, not a good piping technique.
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That last bit is why some of us believe AI made the image.
 
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GBassNorth said:
Looks like a Pex piping and Sharkbite fitting installation to me. Pex is pretty freeze friendly, unlike copper it will expand vs burst when freezing. Pex has some advantages and disadvantages over copper. Generally speaking, if you live in a winter freeze area and have exposed or easy access piping in the basement or crawl space you might want to use Pex, or if you have water lines inside an exterior wall.

It’s cheaper to install, very easy to fix or replace and protects against uninsulated space and pipe freeze concerns. I wouldn’t use it in difficult areas to access (inside of interior walls or under floors or concrete slab) because the life expectancy is about half that of copper. The jury is still out on the effects of micro plastics on human health, so if your concerned about that then you should stick to copper.

I do find the elbow terminating at a floor joist puzzling. Not a normal or recommended penetration point at all, and not a standard method of bracing. Looks like someone was being paid by the hour to install pipe. It does offer a great dead leg situation for debris and crud to build up in, not a good piping technique.
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Sometimes a leaky joist just needs a drain.
 
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Engle said:
That's a huge topic. As a tool made available to me, I am open to trying it out.
Technical diagrams? It just generates gobbledy-gook.
It does speed up searching through the company SharePoint for specific info.
I have also used it to summarize a brochures into a few paragraphs. I always need to edit the result, but it does save time.
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My biggest issues with the entire concept are that, fundamentally, it confuses the ability to manipulate language with "intelligence," and that it has no prerequiste that the results concord with objective reality, only that it be consistent with what most-frequently appears in its input data, and with what the user wants to hear.

Think on that long enough and you come to the conclusion that it implies conmen and politicians (BIRM) are the very pinnacles of human intellectual achievement.

I'm not willing to accept that premise.

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GBassNorth said:
Looks like a Pex piping and Sharkbite fitting installation to me. Pex is pretty freeze friendly, unlike copper it will expand vs burst when freezing. Pex has some advantages and disadvantages over copper. Generally speaking, if you live in a winter freeze area and have exposed or easy access piping in the basement or crawl space you might want to use Pex, or if you have water lines inside an exterior wall.

It’s cheaper to install, very easy to fix or replace and protects against uninsulated space and pipe freeze concerns. I wouldn’t use it in difficult areas to access (inside of interior walls or under floors or concrete slab) because the life expectancy is about half that of copper. The jury is still out on the effects of micro plastics on human health, so if your concerned about that then you should stick to copper.

I do find the elbow terminating at a floor joist puzzling. Not a normal or recommended penetration point at all, and not a standard method of bracing. Looks like someone was being paid by the hour to install pipe. It does offer a great dead leg situation for debris and crud to build up in, not a good piping technique.
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All great points, including the micro plastics.

It's the direction of supposedly going through the joist that got me. Sideways, yes--vertical, not so much given without extra support it drastically reduces the structural integrity of the joist, likely by 80%, at least at that point. Just a guess, I don't have any engineering skills to know what math to use or how to do it if I did! Oh, I bet ai can do that just fine!
 
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GBassNorth said:
Good point. This whole CGI and AI thing is getting out of hand. At first glance it’s difficult to tell what’s real and what isn’t. As the technology becomes even more sophisticated it’ll likely be impossible to tell what’s real and what’s fake. :rollno:
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AI has some good aspects to it, but I find you need to know what you are looking for or at and not assume what ai says is correct. Thus you have a person at the water company getting a pic from ai and not seeing a problem. I'm certain if I showed that to my wife she would notice it as well. Beyond pictures, it's often just wrong on information. I Claude for some things, but when it goes and gathers information you have to know when it's giving you nonsense. It may be worse that most others.
 
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