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  • New Trump-Kennedy Center sign is affixed to building facade despite concerns about legality

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  • Putting aside the legal and practical stuff involved...

    How can anyone look at this shit as anything other than endlessly and hopelessly pathetic?

    Like... This guy is such a special snowflake that he needs to have constant praise, adoration, external validation, attention, participation trophies, empty gestures, gifts, and recognition for things he has nothing to do with? Such a sad little bitch that he can't even stand up to a single grain of criticism of a single drop of scrutiny? The type of guy who can dish out lame insults and then crashes out spectacularly whenever someone dares fire back with a joke?

    Is this dude really the best America has to offer?

    Putting this mentally weak, physically unfit, emotionally unhunged man-baby on a pedestal really speaks volumes about the American people.

  • New Trump-Kennedy Center sign is affixed to building facade despite concerns about legality

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  • My hate for them is focused and concentrated with laserlike precision.

  • I'm not an artist. If I sketch something, and have an ai upscale it for me, is it still slop, vs just asking it to do everything?

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  • Still slop, sorry amigo! (Probably not what you want to hear, but I'm just being real...)

    If I sketch something, and have an ai upscale it for me

    That's not an accurate description of what you did, is it?

    You didn't simply "upscale" your drawing. You had AI turn a rough sketch into an inked, colored and shaded but otherwise incomplete piece.

    I like to think I poured my heart and soul into it.

    Yeah, I'm sure you like to think that...

    But in reality you did part 1 of a 4 part process and told a computer to do the rest. I don't know how long you spent on your initial sketch, but in the end you relied on a gimmicky shortcut (based on the exploitation of other people's stolen art... stuff that they REALLY poured their heart and soul into before it was unceremoniously ripped off by mega-corporations) to do at least 75% of the work. I'm being brutally honest, but at best you can only really think of it as being 25% yours.

    Again, is this slop? I am not an artist. I drive a forklift real good, that's my skillset.

    Am I being too harsh? Why am I telling you this?

    Here's the thing you need to understand...

    If you made that original sketch then you ARE an artist. Sure you don't feel like you're as good as you want to be (no artist EVER does, by the way), but you are already 10000x more of an artist than someone who writes some text and gets an AI to slop out some generic shit.

    The composition and sketch is the hardest part and you already did it. Linework (if that's your style) is basically just tracing. Coloring is as easy as doing a kids coloring book. Shading can be a puzzle, but you'll get it in time if you keep the light coming from the same direction.

    You spent some time doing the hard part, liked how it looked, and then instead of just cracking on with the next part, you got lazy, turned your brain off and fed it to the instant gratification machine, turning it into slop. Taking your hands off the wheel entirely, you know?

    And for what?

    Now you have a "pretty picture", but you didn't learn a damn thing about taking your art from sketch to lines, or coloring, or shading. And to make matters worse, you can't even point to the picture and say "hey look at that, I MADE THAT", like you can with the sketch.

    In the end, I'm gonna call it slop. Ethical problems aside, AI generated slop art is a dime a dozen these days. I don't see any value in it at all. I think you have more talent for art than you know, and I hope that you keep it up and try to approach your work with more pride as a human being making something cool by hand.

  • Trump signs executive order fast-tracking reclassification of marijuana

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  • Trump signs executive order fast-tracking reclassification of marijuana

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  • Let's not throw cannabis under the bus because we're miffed the Democrats were stupid enough to tee this easy win up for Trump and the Republicans. At best, cannabis being schedule I was illogical, and at worst it was a grave injustice that was used to prosecute and punish people for something relatively benign.

    I mean, I get it... I hate Trump's stupid antidemocratic kiddy-diddling ass as much as the next sane person, but reclassifying weed was the lowest of low-hanging fruit that, for reasons I will never understand, the Democrats didn't simply pick and instead let Trump take credit for it.

  • Trump signs executive order fast-tracking reclassification of marijuana

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  • So, good news and I'm glad that they did it. Cannabis should not be illegal, and though this doesn't fix that, having it being Schedule I was insanity and totally out-of-step with reality. I'm sure that Trump will be getting greased by the weed lobby, but in the end of the day, this is something that needed to happen.

    The executive order directs Attorney General Pam Bondi to conclude the formal rescheduling process, which has been going on for more than a year, and move to publish a final rule that would reclassify cannabis.

    Effectively all this is doing is putting Trump's name on a process that was started by Biden in 2022.

    Looking at just the politics of it, the Democrats absolutely fucked up by teeing this up for Trump when they could have just done it themselves. Weed legalization is popular and it's already been happening across the country for over a decade. Even if you don't think it's totally fucked up how cannabis is treated as a Schedule I substance, it's really not hard to see which way the wind is blowing on this politically.

    This should have been something that Biden did before leaving office, whether the reclassification process was over or not. Instead they wrapped it up in a nice little gift box and tied a little bow around it before handing it to Trump. This is the type of thing that drives your voters and supporters fucking insane, Democrats.

  • Trump expected to sign order reclassifying marijuana as a Schedule III drug, sources say

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  • Well, credit where credit is due I guess. It's not actual legalization, but it's welcome progress.

    This was low-hanging fruit that the Democrats should have done under Biden but failed to for reasons I will never, ever understand. Anyone with eyes can see that this was eventually where things were headed.

    Unfortunately for Trump, I still hate his guts. My opinion on him has been solidified after a decade of dealing with his bullshit, attacks on my community, and attacks on our democracy. He could send me a jar of premo buds but I wouldn't be able to get over the fact that he's a child raping shithead moron scumbag who is selling our country out and ruining people's lives. On the bright side, at least I can give an honest answer when people dare me to say one positive thing that Trump has done.

  • Trump’s White House ‘Walk of Fame’ mocks former presidents

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  • Sure, but raping children is among one of the worst crimes that a person can do. It's not his "involvement with Epstein" that's the scandal, it's his involvement with abusing young girls.

  • Trump’s White House ‘Walk of Fame’ mocks former presidents

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  • Who cares. Bullshit designed only to distract his base from the fact that Trump rapes children.

  • Nvidia plans heavy cuts to GPU supply in early 2026

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  • What is your choice for a dedicated Linux audio player?

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  • Fooyin is my local player, it's basically Foobar2000.

    Finamp is what I use to stream songs from my Jellyfin server.

  • Trump says he'll deliver prime-time address to the nation on Wednesday

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  • Is he gonna announce that he's a pedophile or is he trying to avoid spoilers?

  • Suggestions for first C project

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  • I'm totally with you on this.

    C is a fantastic language for people who want to develop for existing C projects. But there are very few reasons to develop new software projects in C today. As such, for anyone learning C, the best first project would probably be whatever existing C project you want to work on.

    Maybe the main exception to that is probably embedded systems stuff for microcontrollers and the like, but I don't know enough about that space to say whether that is even still the case or whether you'd be better off with something else.

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  • Oh, I'm "passionate" about AI, alright.

  • China equips traffic police with AI smart glasses for real-time vehicle checks

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  • If you need technology to help you read a license plate then I'm not surprised you don't understand the ramifications of sweeping AI identification and tracking being used, especially in a country with poor civil rights protections.

    What really blows my mind is that some people have such a shallow, surface level understanding of the potential impact of technology on society.

  • China equips traffic police with AI smart glasses for real-time vehicle checks

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  • Imagine sacrificing everybody's privacy to "make jobs easier" for cops in an techno-authoritarian police state.

    Personally, I'm not interested in how easy cop's jobs are, only how good the quality of people's lives are.

  • Denmark wants to ban VPNs to unlock foreign, illegal streams – and experts are worried

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  • Some US States

    None of the even remotely good ones. Why is Denmark trying to be Alabama, again?

  • Denmark wants to ban VPNs to unlock foreign, illegal streams – and experts are worried

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  • Gotta give Denmark credit, they're really going for the Shittiest Western European Country Award. Granted, I'm from the USA and we're obviously an unmitigated disaster, but like, what the fuck are you guys doing? Competing for attention?

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  • Bad take for two reasons:

    1. Being consistently funny requires intellect and general cleverness. You can't be quick witted if you're stupid.
    2. More importantly we are all mostly ignorant. You could have a PhD in 3 topics and have spent years in higher education, and you still know only a tiny speck of all that there is to know.

    I'm not a fan of Jimmy Carr, especially after the Saudi shit, and I fucking hate AI. But the idea that we shouldn't value the opinions of artists is pretty dumb. There are plenty of smart artists with interesting things to say and unique perspectives.

  • Linux 6.19 Features: LUO, PCIe Link Encryption, ASUS Armoury, DRM Color Pipeline API & More

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  • Yeah. I'm not sure why the AI clipart shit has to be everywhere these days. It's all very low quality shit.