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thedirtyknapkin

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  • surely your hobby can't be that expensive

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  • yeah, $500 is tough to get into astro with.

    plenty for general photography, but astro can get gear heavy fast. astro landscapes are becoming more accessible as more fast lenses get cheaper, but the kind of astro that needs a tracker is just pricy.

  • Marry someone who would do this for you.

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  • that's fair. I just thought this one was particularly obvious. like it isn't even trying to not be ai.

    I'm on the fence on this being a specific problem though. the individual tokens don't actualy take that much energy or water or whatever. the resource use is all in training. all of the infrastructure being built for ai right now is for training the next model. this looks like it was done with a model from a couple generations ago. like if you don't want to use a product that's bad for the environment then using an older model should be fine. especially if you run it locally, which is totally doable. this image looks like it used an older model.

    as for plagiarism, this is a meme with no profit potential. if the internet cared about copyright in memes we would never share any image macros. the chad face that this is based on is also stolen art that the internet has been sharing for years. that's what memes are. stolen art shared without permission with no profit motive.

    I'm a professional photographer/videographer who has directly felt ai hurt my career. it has also been trained off of my own images against my will. I generally hate ai, but i like to be an informed hater. all that said, there's really no moral grounds to hate this but not a version with the non ai Chad face.

  • Marry someone who would do this for you.

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  • i mean, yeah. they clearly asked an ai to make an female version of the Chad meme.

  • Every single time...

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  • and even then the problem isn't the individuals so much as the systems that allow them to accumulate wealth.

  • Every single time...

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  • ah yes, the most nuanced of political takes: the west is the devil and the cause of all evil.

    how is this take any different than the u.s. propoganda that would say very similar shit about communism. it's all the same team sports bullshit. politics is way more complicated than that. there is no great boogeyman that you can point a finger at as "the bad guy".

    every problem is more nuanced than side vs side. anyone that tells you otherwise is just being divisive and wants to push you to hate. not to support their ideas and solutions. you'll notice that takes like this never offer a solution or a goal other than blame. it's OK to just ignore the finger pointers. they never accomplish anything and are usually pushing hate.

    so basically, bring anything other than hate and blame and I'll listen. otherwise fuck off with your propoganda.

  • Gosh, I wonder why the US is so obsessed with Venezuela

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  • why does this graph have a 2:1 ratio of content to border? did you open it full screen on an ultrawide monitor to screenshot it then not crop or?

    I'm used to seeing lots of vertical borders because of phones, but this almost seems like it took more effort to make this way.

  • same shit every day, on god

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  • aah, but it didn't say steam, it said boiling water.

    smaller gas generators based on internal combustion engines don't boil water though, right?

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  • i need to switch but am being lazy. i joined world because when i first joined every other instance had major uptime issues. after like 2 weeks of jumping around and only getting it to load half the time i decided to say screw it and just join the biggest one.

    I'm sure it's better now.

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  • the promoun discussion blew up on that community because of a user that many accused of being a troll.

    they (drag) said that they(drag) had no personal pronouns and should be referred to as dragon (technically they [drag] wanted to be called dragonrider because their [drag's] partner was a dragon.) this meant that saying words like "you" or "they" or "your" was incorrect. to address them (drag) one would need to talk like "what is drag's opinion on dragselve's pronouns?". instead of "what are your pronouns?"

    i genuinely can't tell if they're (drag is) a troll, i just think that's too much to ask of people. it's legitimately hard to talk without using personal pronouns at all. that said, I'll still try when addressing drag or anyone else. i just think drag is setting dragself up for disappointment if that's how drag wants others to address drag.

    i can't get the ada post to open right now, and can't actually remember what their final stance was. i just remember when that all blew up. i had no real skin in the game, it wasn't terribly relevant or important to me, but i did try to talk it through with drag and see if i could understand it all better. the conclusion i came to was that drag and i should probably just hang in different circles haha. you don't have to get on well with everyone. I'm not trans or anything like that. my opinions shouldn't matter for the rules of trans focused community. i just found the whole situation interesting to see unfold.

    (case and point: i just went through to try and re-proofread this to make sure i didn't misgrender drag and realized that i still had on my 4th sweep. then i realized that to change all of the personal pronouns in this comment that should be drag into drag would make it unreadable to anyone who doesn't already know the situation. i put those in brackets to maintain readability)

  • Not impressed

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  • I've only ever known Christians to think fish aren't animals. I'm pretty sure that's something random that the Vatican decided for bending lent rules or some shit.

    at least in my life most people do not have a "reasonably underseood line" where they arbitrarily stop considering animals as animals due to their perceived lack of communication. they have a line where they stop caring about them, but that's usually about how cute they are, not about how they communicate. if more people understood koalas better they'd be way less popular. they barely have a brain, can't communicate much, sound absolutely awful...

    most people just don't actually think that much about it. trivia is for the people that do think about things. and it certainly should at least have its answers checked on google.

  • China bans influencers from speaking on ‘serious’ topics like finance or health without university degree

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  • yes lol, look at any conservative influencer on American tv. they all have degrees.

    i don't think this law would actualy change much here in the states. almost every dangerous spreader of misinfo i can think of did in fact graduate college in some way.

    i can't possibly see this law s anything but a tool to control online speech rather than a tool to fight disinformation.

    if the goal of to reduce disinformation then this law will be ineffective.

  • China bans influencers from speaking on ‘serious’ topics like finance or health without university degree

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  • sure, but that's not what this is doing. it doesn't say they'll be held accountable. it just places a high barrier to entry.

    i understand the sentiment behind it, but I don't think this will be effective at curtailing disinformation. it would, however, be a very useful tool for controlling online speech. especially with a government that has so much control over its universities.

  • YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs

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  • oh wow, i thought for sure it came later. i should stop making snap comments when m waking up.

  • YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs

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  • no one cares about the plights of those living in backwater stone age dictatorships. the modern world must move forward on its own.

    we Americans have to get used to being left behind and left out of conversations by real adults now.

  • YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs

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  • there were very very very few platforms where you could post and share streaming video online when YouTube was new.

    it was certainly the only free option. the internet was quite young then if you don't remember.

    other platforms rose up around their success, but I'm pretty sure YouTube was more or less unique when it started.

  • Half the Country Sues Trump for Using Shutdown to Slash SNAP Funding

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  • i just think it's right that an organization takes care of someone that fought for it. ask other externalities excluded. i believe that is a responsibility that anyone that asks others to doubt for them ought to owe.

  • Hispanics’ support of Trump plunges since he started second term

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  • my point isn't that the stats are wrong. my point is that pointing fingers gets us nowhere. the point is that we need to look at the actual issues and not focus on identity politics, but i guess I'm fighting against every dollar that every billionaire pumps into every piece of media when i say that.

    we're all being whipped into a frenzy and probably going to kill each other over it. it will probably only make everything much worse.

  • Hispanics’ support of Trump plunges since he started second term

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  • you don't have to ignore with whom the problem lies, you have to keep going.

    that's not the end of the puzzle. that's not a solution. it's only anger and blame. demographics aren't a goal or an answer. they are a guidepost with which we can do further research.

    pointing fingers does nothing. we need ACTIONABLE solutions. otherwise you're just spreading hate and division. the who is useful to figure out the how and why. but if you stop there all you're going to do is incite blood feuds.

  • Hispanics’ support of Trump plunges since he started second term

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  • ok, so WHAT'S THE SOLUTION.

    if it fully falls to the feet of a race and i an to blame, what's the solution?

    reeducation camps?

    people's skin color didn't make them this way. to believe that IS racism. no matter what direction it's pointed.

    I'm not saying white people didn't vote overwhelmingly for Trump. I'm not saying it's not their fault. I'm saying that assigning fault is inherently the wrong strategy. it's not a solution oriented mindset. it's just anger.

    so, that's why i say we need to focus on the HOW and the WHY not the WHO. yes, the who can help us understand the how and why, but it's not the end of the path. it's just lazy to get to "the white people did it" and stop.

    and would you seriously argue that racism hasn't gotten worse in america since 2015? because as bad as it might have been, it's gotten so much worse. the political right finally figured out the internet and are using it to turn as all against each other.

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    when the cuddles just ain't enough yet.

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