You don’t have to be a sovcit to not be in a formal agreement with a grocery store.

m/d/y, so wrong by default

How do we determine which animals are sapient and which are food?

Not really, though it would help the environment. It would hurt them if people kept using it but stopped talking about it. The cost of running the things far outweighs the gains of any of their subscriptions, and the only thing keeping the bubble afloat right now is hype.

Is this that copypasta from the guy?

This tweet is clearly not about 4,000,000,000 men, but the significantly smaller subset of those men calling women “females”. It might help to read a post before getting angry about it?

the people most impacted by Trump can’t vote or don’t have accommodations in place to be able to vote.

So we’re strategically sacrificing minorities. Got it.

Neutral eldritch

Hey, I have a book written by the guy of the bottom paper. It’s called “de eendenman(the duck man)” and although he derails really quickly it’s a pretty fun and interesting read. I think he starts talking about penis shorteners halfway through and a guy who is legally dead at some point?

Ideally they hit them at the same time so there is no time to plan anything

I disagree with your points fundamentally, and I believe the difference is in how we interpret both art and the creation of art. I do not believe that a prompter is able to convey enough intent for it to count.
This could be compared to someone commisioning a drawing for, for example, a story. The story and direction they give, that would be the prompt or what lead to it, in this case, would display their intent. The drawing itself, however, would not display their artistic vision, but that of the artist they commissioned to draw it. Now, they might coördinate with said artist to get their visions to align as closely as possible, but as I said, models have no vision, and so none can be aligned with. You could ‘find’ an image generated by such a model that aligns with what you wish for, but there is no intent behind it.

The environmental damage is inherent to the technology, as matrix multiplications are inherently not very efficient, and any given model runs a lot of them. Running a model at home seems more efficient because you only generate for yourself, but if every user of diffusion where to do this, the cost would not be better.

I do not understand what you see in the video you sent me. It does not, to me, seem to carry a message. Sure, some of it’s imagery can be aesthetically pleasing, but I cannot interpret it as carrying any meaning.

Oh, and dw, I did not mean to call you stupid, I think the ideas about art you have specifically are stupid. That does not necessarily carry over to any other part of you.

I judge art on the basis of three things:
The intent of the artist,
The context surrounding the art,
My own interpretation of the art

A stable diffusion model is not much more than a set of statistical functions executed over a large array of numbers. Therefore, the model cannot have intent.
The use of the model to generate images damages the environment, makes use of work made by artists who, by design, cannot be credited for said work, and no or very little artistic effort went into the generation. Therefore, the context is pretty loathesome.
The third point depends on the image, although I find that most images do not have much in the way of creativity or artistic direction, and come off as “bland”, “samey”, “wrong”. The fact that there is no intent makes it hard for me to read intent. Therefore, my interpretation is usually not very favourable.

These are my thoughts. I believe your ideas about art and how we should judge it (which is what you are prescribing) to be quite stupid, but you live your life however you want, I guess.

Why use a d20 instead of a coin? Do you always have a d20 with you?

Only tangentially related rant. Sorry.

I do like the idea of getting an x gender marker on my official id, as that also kinda feels like the “none of your fucking business” marker. It moves you closer to gender being just a social factor. The non-specificity working in its favour there. I won’t change it because there is no option to do it selectively, and having a passport with an x is really inconvenient.

I feel like gender and even sex at this point is almost fully obsolete. Really the only reason to keep using them as constructs is because they are being used as constructs, and that needs to be resolved first. And yeah, there’s a lot of other social classes and constructs that need to be dealt with. There needs to be an overarching change, not just “let’s not use gender anymore but essentially keep everything the same”

Sorry for rambling

However, mailbox can still be encrypted with pgp, and has some built in supports which make this easier.

One problem I had with proton/tuta is that you cannot use a third party app due to the encryption, which you can with mailbox. A problem I have with mailbox is that it does not support fido2 for login or 2fa, which could be a security concern.

I’d like to see you try interpret a telepathic message this well

Idk what else you would mean by libertarian. The original (marxist) meaning is long gone and all the right-wing larpers are just as bad as Milei if not worse. There exists no libertarian who isn’t just an authoritarian fascist.

Capital is not that which makes the food, my friend.

Debian, devuan, arch, artix, nixos, guixSD, gentoo, funtoo, slackware, lfs

If that were to happen that would indeed be a bad idea, I agree.