Exactly! It’s almost like stuff like this is actually pretty great when it’s a tool for the artist rather than an attempt to replace them. The accessibility angle would be amazing… If only it wasn’t powered by the damn Orphan Crushing Machine and didn’t need to steal all of the art/literature/whatever other data the corps can get their grubby little mitts on in order to train the models.

But that’s the entire point. They want to pay for a machine they can write off as an equipment investment rather than a team of competent and well paid human artists. Even better if they don’t even need some comparatively low wage “Prompt Engineer” to run the damn thing.

I hate the accessibility argument because it’s so disingenuous. Yes, technically if I used these models it would have allowed me to keep making art when my wrists were in such pain I couldn’t use my stylus for longer than 30 seconds. But the problems with AI way outweigh that potential good.

That’s usually why these kinds of people like AI. They are utterly lacking in creativity. The accessibility argument is such bullshit too. Yes, if we ignore the glaring theft issues with training these models, then in a certain sense it would’ve allowed someone like me to continue making art when my wrists were in such excruciating pain that I couldn’t even hold my stylus. But that’s not why these chuds like AI.

They like AI because they hate art and they hate artists. They hate artists because artists have those skills and they don’t. So they want to automate them out of existence. They want to make those skills that make them feel inferior worthless.

As far as I’ve seen their argument is usually something along the lines of “The West is so antagonistic, of course they have to cozy up to Russia. They’re pretty much the only country not trying to destroy them.”

It’s all bullshit of course. In reality it’s almost always just Campism. North Korea opposes the Great SatanUS therefore they must be good. Any evil they’ve done has to be actually our fault and not any kind of evil or corruption from them.

I don’t think it’s that deep. I think he’s just trying to dismantle any “Biden win” he can. Probably wants to drop it here and get them to normalize outside of that deal so he can say that it was all him.

I’m guessing some variation of “You don’t understand… The West forced them to go all those things with the sanctions or whatever” has definitely been said by that individual before.

Notice how the lines the 7/10" is attached to go from one side of the miniature globe to the other? This indicates that measurement is meant to be a diameter. Looking back at the paragraph before he talks about 0.35" being Earth’s Schwarzschild Radius. Radius is half of diameter so doubling that radius you get 0.7 or 7/10" across at which the Earth would become a black hole.

That’s what that mini diagram is showing.

More like if we let gays get married the women-folk might have an option beyond being trapped in a marriage to a potentially abusive husband (them) the way God™ intended.

That’s what they’re scared of. That women might choose to be alone or “be gay” rather than be with them.

It’s never been more true.

There are only two sexualities, Straight and Woke.
There are only two ethnicities, White and Woke.
There are only two genders, Male and Woke.

It would almost be amusing how baby-brained these chuds’ understanding of the world is were it not for the massive amount of harm they cause. Like how every accusation is a confession so it takes very little thought to work out what they think from what they accuse others of.

"They just say everything they don't like is Hitler." = Everything I don't like is Woke.
"Trans people are going to attack cis women in the restroom." = That's what I'd do with unrestricted access to the women's restroom.
And on, and on, and on...

The actual type of play on words is called paraprosdokian. Where the in this case punchline is surprising in a way that makes you reinterpret the setup.

In this case “I wanna be supportive but,” is kind of priming the reader to expect they’re gonna say some transphobic shit then you read “fucking Mildred?” and those expectations are subverted by the actual point being essentially “Why you taking names from 2000’s obituaries?”

To my knowledge there’s not like a widespread name for this as like a comedic genre because it’s just one of the basic ways you can structure a joke. I’ve seen some comics call it a swerve or an anti-climax but nothing widespread.

Usually clients have some option to do it but the steps might be different based on what client you’re using.

Right now I’m on Voyager for example and if let’s say I wanted to block your instance I could click your profile and click the options. One of the options on that screen is “View Instance” and from there I have the option to block the instance.

There’s also post filters but I know a lot less about setting those up. But iirc one of the things you can filter posts by is the instance the post comes from.

So you’re saying we must work it harder in order to make it better. Do it faster to make them stronger?

Knowing him he’ll probably allow them to get on that “Gold Card” track without the money as a show of “combating the horrible racial injustice” in South Africa.

Every accusation is a confession after all. So it would be very on brand for them to fast track granting these people status that allows them to vote so now they’ll be the ones with the “millions of illegals voting” for them.

I think I get what it’s saying? It’s saying that while your phone isn’t directly listening to your conversations in any meaningful way they collect crazy amounts of other data on basically everyone and can piece it together in such a way that they can make some scary accurate guesses as to the kind of ads to serve you based on what their systems have gathered your interests are and where/with whom you spend your time.

I’m not entirely sure. They didn’t really seem to present much more than speculation on it.

Funny how the cries of censorship always seem to come from people who don’t actually care about the topic and just want to be edgy debate perverts for the sake of it. Heaven forbid a group of trans people have a space where we don’t have to justify our existence.

It’s like the Old Man Yaoi version of Thanos trying to court Death by killing half of all life in the universe.

I made this for the halibut. I wanted something I cod use to beat the carp out of my anemones. Now I’m shrimp-ly bream-ing with excitement. I would have made it bigger but I don’t have the mussels for it. Whale, I suppose I should fin-ish up here. I’ve seem to have o-fish-ally worn out my welcome.

The creator of this hammer, probably. Idk

I remembered myself hearing about some interview where she said something similar. Went looking for it and found a Vanity Fair interview from 2006 where she says:

I slept with some nerd. I hope it was George. I took too many drugs to remember.

When asked about how she got cast in Star Wars back in the day. So not enough to say she got directly extorted sex for the role, or just happened to be sleeping around and whoever she slept with went “Damn, she’d be great in this movie.”

I always assumed it was more about the conveyors and such your bag goes through before even getting to those folks. Heavier bags mean more wear and tear and maintenance on those machines.

Honestly, it’s probably a little bit of both along with just deterring some cohort of people from bringing too much stuff because they don’t want to pay the fees.

And hell it seems like those 3 things all come back to raging sexual insecurity. Their misogyny always seems to come back to them not getting the amount of sex they feel they deserve. A ton of their racism reads like bad interracial cuckold porn. Their transphobia always sounds like they’re terrified that they’re gonna finally get a woman home only to find out she’s got a 12-inch trouser snake and is into pegging or some other psychotic shit.

It feels so weird to say. Like why does it always seem to come back to these chucklefucks not getting enough sloppy toppy and deciding to do a fascism about it?