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SlothMama

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  • President Biden tested positive for COVID-19.

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  • I'm saying it is more likely they knew he had COVID but thought cancelling / delaying would be a bad political move, and now are announcing it because it might achieve the opposite, concern and understanding.

    This also might be a prelude to him stepping down in favor of another candidate or Harris.

    So I think it's more likely it was known, and this is a calculated release of information.

  • President Biden tested positive for COVID-19.

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  • This explains the debate, it was COVID! That's why his voice was strange, people were saying he seemed like he was sick.

  • ‘Hard to argue against’: mandatory speed limiters come to the EU and NI

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  • Exactly why won't take root there

  • Heathens!

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  • This made me read her name, not as Heather, but like Heather, like more Heath.

  • Heathens!

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  • *heathing up

  • TIL the term Redneck likely originated from the sunburned red neck of those working in fields.

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  • Yeah, I thought everyone kinda intuitively understood this because redneck and farmer used to be synonymous.

  • Video appears to show gang-rape of Afghan woman in a Taliban jail

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  • It's hard for westerners to understand honor based moral codes, but that's exactly how it works. You can disgrace someone's honor by doing bad things to them and it's not really a fault thing, it's more about protecting honor and it's preservation a virtue.

    This is how honor killings work, it's part of systems designed to restore individual or family honor by killing someone who is disgraced.

    There are several models of morality, not just the individualist morality models we understand intuitively.

  • Spain introduces porn passport to stop kids from watching smut

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  • How can you be against porn? It's neither good or bad, it exists and I basically don't watch it, but I recognize that others do, why is that a problem that needs solving? To be clear, I'm reading your response as against porn in all forms and for all audiences based on your wording, is that what you mean?

  • Japan warns US forces: Sex crimes 'cannot be tolerated'

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  • Does Japan even acknowledge what happened in Korea?

  • AI art steals from the poor and has no place in modern society

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  • You said this very well. It's no more stealing than you looking at a piece of art and remembering details, and producing output from that input no more immoral.

    It's clearly necessary to have the broadest possible training data in order to be useful at all. If it isn't familiar with Spider-Man it can't create art depicting an accurate representation of him.

    If anything I'm proud of the pioneers ignoring the legal implications and pushing forward, instead of letting copyright limit what AI understands.

    Every single picture on the Internet, ever created, unless specifically licensed Creative Commons or equivalent via licensing has an implicit copyright. AI art is impossible under international copyright framework at written, so thank God they ignored the insanity of intellectual property fuckery the US has imposed on the world.

  • What did your parents refrigerate? Mine refrigerated bread.

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  • Apparently some people refrigerate butter

  • In the US, did Amazon kill the mall, is everyone too broke, or a combination of other factors?

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  • Honestly malls are thriving where I live, and I go regularly to extremely large crowds. I know it's a trend worldwide, but if all I knew was my local city, I would have no idea.

  • Sony will cut around 250 jobs from the recordable media business manufacturing hub and will gradually cease production of optical discs, including Blu-ray discs.

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  • If you think the demand isn't there, you're out of touch. It's certainly true that many consumers are choosing digital content, but it's largely driven by it not having inconvenienced them so far too.

    Everyone I'm seeing who lost the 3DS and Wii U stores, or lost access to all the games in their account, or even people who purchased media they can't download and access again is realizing how big this problem is.

  • Sony will cut around 250 jobs from the recordable media business manufacturing hub and will gradually cease production of optical discs, including Blu-ray discs.

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  • I mean, except it's not a conspiracy. The death of physical media is an actual tragedy because digital media is nowhere near as free.

    It's to the point where much of the media I love is actually not available legally and officially for physical ownership, in some cases becoming actual lost media physically, and not available for purchase or even download anymore.

    Companies absolutely want to control the consumption of media in more restrictive ways that they can control, it's not a conspiracy, it's the actual truth.

    DRM, always online, digital only, subscription services - they are all designed to remove you further and further from being an owner.

    Everything from video games, music, movies...all entertainment media is moving in this direction and it's an actual tragedy.

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  • I mean, even Google AI says it's not bad, and in concept I kinda agree. I've had bacon donuts before and it was legit

  • I put my number in a secure form for a trusted bank and immediately got spammed

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  • I took out a loan, but the service request was in my partner's name. It's my phone, but now I'm getting crazy crypto spam WhatsApp stuff in her name, along with home security spam and other spam I never got before. Since it's coming to my phone, in their name, either or both companies sold me / us out and we were getting calls within days.

  • Why do some Americans get angry at other people for not speaking English?

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  • You got voted down, but this is absolutely real. I speak multiple languages, but none with the nuance and clarity of context as I do English. I communicate with folks all across the world that are all English speakers, however, the variance in comprehension is so drastic that at times we're really not using the same language, even if we're using some of the same words.

    If you emigrate to a country, it's a reasonable expectation that you'll learn the language. The United States doesn't technically have an official language, English is just de facto, but from a practical standpoint it's absolutely occupying that role, and will in perpetuity.

    I can absolutely agree with the premise that being frustrated with language barriers isn't racism, it's an actual real and realized impediment to understanding.

  • Hey there both good

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  • Poor Starbound, forgotten to the ages...

  • US Record Labels Sue AI Music Generators Suno and Udio for Copyright Infringement

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  • Actually technically covers require royalties, whether they're on a CD, or performed at someplace seedy.

    They're not the time honored tradition you think they are.