how about a wait and see model that i like with all megacorp pushed updates now. that way i can decide if i want their latest batch of ai bullshit, or read the headlines about which cpus their vibecoding bricked this time before it’s too late.

unfortunately automatic updates require a small amount of trust that the update will not break things or change things without permission. Microslop currently has negative trust.

maybe this is good for the average end user, but dissallowing powerusers from doing stuff like this is exactly what annoys me about apple. now microslop is even worse about it…

i just want to actualy control the things i own and not be told how to use my computer.

when’s the last time a retail worker ended someone’s life in the course of their duties and got away with it.?

the point is that we give these maniacs guns, minimal training that focuses on making them scared for their lives, and damn near immunity from prosecution, then act surprised when they panic and shoot innocent people. how this shit happens is blazingly obvious and a matter of public concern. the anger comes from the adamant refusal to even admit that there is a problem, let alone do anything to fix the red hot glowing issues.

but also, yes retail workers could do better, but that’s more up to their employer. the reason we feel we can affect police is because these are public employees who’s checks we pay for. these changes need to be systemic. they need to change the basics of who how and why police get trained and deployed. that is government reform. that is a voting issue. walmart employees could also do better if Walmart payed them better, gave them more time off to be with family when needed, gave better health insurance, provided better training and outside opportunities to their employees. but we know walmart won’t do this things because they only care about profit. the police have no such obligation. their only obligation should be to us, but right now it’s mostly just to the people with the money.

i could probably keep tearing your argument apart for 5 more paragraphs, but that woulf be obssesive. point is, you’re conflaiting the point. it’s not about individual gumption that year good cops should turn others in. it’s just a counter argument to “don’t let a few bad apples spoil the bunch”. we know that good cops speaking up won’t help, that’s the point. they get squeezed out when they try. that’s why the changes need to be more systemic. the bad cops are entrenched and defended by moneyed interests.

the blame can fall equality on both. it’s not all or nothing.

he probably went in as a true believer in the justice system and needed a lot of proof the break down the decades of propoganda that he grew up with. he might have thought prisons were for evil criminals that deserved to be there. he might have thought criminals are inherently dumb and that he could educate them on how easy and good it is to be good. a lot of cops and prison workers believe all this shit whole hearted and are too dumb to ever have another thought about it.

many of them just base their lives on a religious “authority is moral and just” style of beliefs and think it’s inherently morally wrong to question the rules. the authorities (their preachers and politicians) tell them these things, so to talk back against that would be sinful. even just thinking about how they might be wrong is sinful.

figuring out that the penal system that your core belief system always told you was right and good is actualy a tool of oppresion is simply too much for most of them. it’s not a simple matter of logic, it’s an assault on their very reality. to them the world is defined by the word of others. they don’t ever have to wonder if something is right or wrong, they have authority figures to do that for them. to tell them that said authority figure is wrong is to tell them that they can’t trust that up is up or down is down. it’s also how they feel no cognitive dissonance when doing things that their religion would say are wrong. the Bible and other Abrahamic texts are very clear that God’s plan is mysterious and unkowable. they’re also inherently vague and open to interpretation. Christian specifically are largely discouraged from deriving their own enterpretations from the texts. they don’t base their beliefs on the Bible, they base them on doing what they’re told. they do what God tells them, but most people can’t hear God so they do what the priest tells them. the priest tells them what politics and politicians are right because one side wants to pander to the church. so in their mind God talks through the priest to say that Donald trump and his ilk are just and good and godly. don’t worry about what they say or do, just trust that they will bring God’s will to America.

oppresing poor and brown people with the prison system is a primary goal of these politicians. their followers often believe that they are right with literal religious zeal. this guy probably had to have his entire world shattered before he could believe this.

that or he believed it the whole time and is just using the time he spent there to lend weight to his argument. or maybe something else entirely. idk, i made a lot of assumptions there.

hell, taking a picture of the screen with a phone would have been better. this is literally the only way to have fucked this up that i can come up with. like maybe if they used too thin of a sharpie on physical paper, but even that probably would have blocked parts of the text.

that said, i can see the average technologically inept person making this mistake. if it wasn’t on purpose, it would have to be someone that didn’t grow up with computers. either someone trump’s age, or someone who grew up with only smart phones. Iwould bet the latter knowing trump and his cheapness. this can’t have been done by an existing professional in the system, they’re too experienced normally. I know this is a lot of assumptions, but i bet it would have had to be a young intern from trump’s camp. and i do bet that over intentional malice towards trump. anyone that did this on purpose would be smart enough to see far enough ahead to predict themselves get arrested or killed as soon as people figured it out. also, hanlon’s razor.

i think i actually made almost this exact mistake once. difference is mine was for an assignment in high school 20 years ago and the consequence was getting snickered at by my peers. it’s a genuinely easy thing to overlook if you’re not used to using tools in a word editor or most other software. it’s also entirely unsurprising that trump’s camp would botch a project. he doesn’t pay people and is a menace to his employees. no one compitent wants to work for him unless they’re true believers.

so yeah, jumping to conclusions about this being intentional is conspiracy nut thinking. if someone’s reasoning includes bits like “it just makes too much sense” and “think about how much they have to gain/lose” they’re just jumping to conclusions without evidence. remember that correlation does not imply causation. just because something happened near a powerful person that affects the world or that person significantly doesn’t mean there’s a conspiracy. just because the motive for an action exists or makes sense that doesn’t mean it happened. i have a motive to want to kill Trump, but if he dies while I’m near d.c. that doesn’t make me a suspect. 90% of the people near d.c. at any given moment have motive to kill trump.

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.

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.

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

sure, but people want to see characters that represent them in books to feel validated. if you reveal that a character was lowkey gay years later that does nothing for the thousands of gay kids that read the stories when they were actually popular.

besides, it’s just lazy. a good writer can make a character gay without it being a major facet but also make it obvious to the reader to help gay kids feel validated and seen.

if you really just want to write a straight character but also want the liberal cred of saying you do positive representation you can just have them mention their husband and it would at least show a forethought and like you weren’t just reacting to trends on Twitter. something a certain famous author has shown a penchant for in years that have come to pass.

alternatively, you can actually write a good gay character. it’s not impossible. look at that one episode of the last of us with nick offerman. it was really gay. it was also very human and relatable. it was very much about their gay romance and yet their gayness didn’t effect them in important moments. they didn’t love or die any differently than the rest of us, but it wasn’t a straight romance turned gay either. shit was beautiful.

though if my experience with my gay friends tells me anything what they really want is extremely raunchy stories about problematic, abusive, and neglectful relationships. specifically weird Chinese gay romance right now, but that’s just what’s trendy i guess? maybe my sample size is too small…

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

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.

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.

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?

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.

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)

ooooh got it. just someone illegally leaving their trash.

yeah, this is clearly some large business operation. I’m not sure how trash is usually handled over there, but if this were in the states i would assume it was just some large company thinking they could get away with anything again. organized trash crime is not where i would expect that to go. more just some manufacturing plant saying fuck it and deciding the fines will probably cost less than properly disposing if it, but hoping they save even more money by not getting caught.

it does seem pretty incredible that they could move all of that waste without people noticing. i get that most people ignore heavy machinery, but this has to have taken quite a few truckloads.

what the hell is a fly tipper? read the entire article and feel no closer to understanding.

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.

ten weeks vacation is a pipe dream in the states.

just telling you how i know lol.