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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • Yeah people just care about bread on the table and the roof over their head. Telling 150 million voting Americans to care about the world is falling on early 100 million deaf ears.

    75 million don’t care, or actively dislike anybody outside the US.

    Another 38 million only care as long as it’s convenient. And right now it’s not convenient.

    Maybe 10-15 million are anti Republican because they’re lgbtq+.

    Of the 150 million voters, 80 million are voting on a single issue. And for many of them, it’s either for or against abortion.

    We’ve been supplying the West with a military for decades. We put more in to our ministry, and by extension every NATO member country’s military than the rest of NATO combined. We don’t have social programs, no healthcare, no child care, under funded education, no paid sick leave, no parental leave. We have a big shiney military.

    People can’t afford to take a day off for the flu and they’re supposed to care about Europe?

    Big ask mate. People here care about how they’re doing today and tomorrow. Not Ukraine 6 months from now.



  • A: all models are trained on something

    2, you’re building your own straw man here. You’ve set up an extremely narrow condition under which this particular type of pedophilia is acceptable. Prove to me that that’s the norm, that it’s a typical use scenario, and that people looking at that crap are exclusively looking at loli, and not images meant to look like real people, and there’s a debate to be had there. But if you think any of that is true you’re lying to yourself. Sexualization of others is not going to happen in a vacuum under sterile conditions, it’s going to bleed in to real life.





  • That’s far more than I want from a flashlight.

    On/off. That’s literally all it needs to do. I’d like to be able to plug it in and charge it but quite frankly if I can’t get that without it just going on/off with the single press of a button I’ll replace batteries until the day I fucking die.

    I use a pocket flashlight daily. It is an integral part of my job. I use flashlight in a wide variety of light conditions and different levels of reflectivity.

    I have never wanted my flashlight to flash on and off, change brightness, or any of the other random crap they force in to what should be the simplest tool in my toolbox.

    Press button. Change state of light. That is literally the only thing it needs to do.





  • The pencil does not make the art.

    There’s a fundamental difference between AI image generation and an artist creating something that is both inherent and obvious.

    If you can’t see that then I’m not sure there’s much help for you.

    More than that, art being created by an artist has a style and a feeling behind it. There’s a nostalgia present in every painting. An artist saw something, and recreated it in a way that spoke to them.

    An algorithm can recreate images that look similar but with no understanding. It’s just an image and lacks all the things that makes art what it is. By removing humanity from art you literally remove the reason for it to exist.

    Flatly, it isn’t art. It’s slightly better than random. But as it happens, humans are better at that too.