“We recognize that, in the next four years, our decision may cause us to have an even more difficult time. But we believe that this will give us a chance to recalibrate, and the Democrats will have to consider whether they want our votes or not.”...
the original post suggested not worrying about appeasing certain people on the issue as there is a significant support from all sides.
That’s different than whether people who didn’t vote for Biden can be blamed for anything. When democracy itself is on the ballot it’s hard to justify voting against it, regardless of some foreign policy grievance.
So they will help put someone in power that will remove fair elections? That makes no sense as a long term plan, imo it’s more likely they are trying to push democrats a certain way but are not truly entertaining the notion of voting for a fascist.
I said there’s significant support on both sides, not insignificant.
I think your confusion is coming from the blame part, anyone who didn’t vote for Biden who was able to has some blame imo. We’re literally talking about a vote to preserve democracy, any subsequent vote is pointless.
But that’s my stance, others may assign blame differently. As you noted, some people might try to put blame specifically on this set of voters, to each their own.
I sympathize, it’s a flaw of our 2 party system. If one party goes off the rails the other one has a low bar to clear and it can stagnate real progress.
Not sure why the lol, I totally agree with this. US democracy has flaws that should be addressed, big ones being gerrymandering, electoral college (which will eventually go away due to NPVIC), and our judicial system.
Recent events have highlighted on a national stage weaknesses that must be fixed. Let’s get to work instead of throwing in the towel and allowing fascism to rise.
Recognizing some judges are biased does not equate to “the entire judicial system is rigged”
It’s not surprising Trump pushes that rhetoric given how many crimes he has to answer for, cases which are quite legitimate and not just political point scoring.
You would think that but it isn’t always so clear. My college had a sizable chunk, if not a majority, of foreign Chinese students and they were extremely patriotic/nationalist.
But to be fair maybe those who never left China are even more patriotic, I wouldn’t know.
We should never deny justice because the criminal has a possibility of being elected president. Not sure what you’re suggesting here.
Also he lost against Biden last time, seems even stranger to assume Trump would win. He may, anything is possible, but it’s quite the gamble he’s making.
Why not? Same as a person being inspired to reuse certain aspects. Artists reuse other artists work constantly and usually more blatantly than what AI does.
I wouldn’t want to copyright every visual pattern conceivable, everything would be a copyright violation of some sort.
Hard disagree, the neural connections in the brain can be modeled with matrix math as well. Sure some people will be uncomfortable with that notion, especially if they believe in spiritual stuff outside physical reality. But if you’re the type that thinks consciousness is an emergent phenomenon from our underlying biology then matrix math is a reasonable approach to representing states of our mind and what we call thoughts.
I actually do work with AI but whatever, if you have something specific you’d like to argue go for it. Otherwise let’s not get into a pissing contest over credentials
Aside from the fact that your comment applies to photography as well, I think it’s fair to point out image generation can also be a complex pipeline instead of a simple prompt.
I use ComfyUI on my own hardware and frequently include steps for control net, depth maps, canny edge detection, segmentation, loras, and more. The text prompts, both positive and negative, are the least important parts in my workflow personally.
Hell sometimes I use my own photos as one of the dozens of inputs for the workflow, so in a sense photography was included.
I think you’re missing the point, those who lose their jobs to automation are somewhat random / due to environmental factors and not up to choice so it’s a bit weird suggesting that.
What they are suggesting is politicians will only act once enough people are suffering in the streets. Not necessarily saying it’s morally justified, just that’s what it takes for governments to take action. Nobody is defending how our politicians are failing us.
Sure feels like it. I’ve seen countless low effort propaganda posts from Throwaway and their complaints anytime critical thought enters the discussion.
This community doesn’t appear abandoned, it just isn’t a locked down echo chamber like r/conservative on reddit, the place where users are banned, posts are locked to specific users, and topics which go against the narrative are taboo. That’s straight up unhealthy, unproductive, and dangerous. We can do better here.
Full disclosure: I am not a conservative myself but I appreciate an open community which doesn’t shut out discussion.
A lot of the posts seem low-effort, near propaganda level posting. We’re talking r/conservative babylonbee type shit.
As for this post? Smith and Wesson are largely disliked for their promotion of a Proud Boys brand formed on Jan 6th under the name Perceeption. That put the gun maker off many enthusiasts list, it’s not tolerable no matter how much the company backpedeled - it signaled support for a dark part of our country.
So I’ve been using youtube ad blockers since pretty much when ad blocker extensions were first available. Lately though I’ve been getting hit more and more with these messages that YT was sending out every 5 or so videos telling me that adblockers aren’t allowed. No problem, just gotta wait 5 seconds to x it out and then...
EDIT: Ignore the following, the next day the popup message returned unfortunately
I can confirm, I was getting the popup message yesterday with ublock-origin and was able to fix it by not only updating my filters but also subscribing to all the optional filters. It seems the default lists don’t have a fix yet but one of the optional ones does.
The lists are fortunately pre-installed with ublock-origin, just need to enable all lists within options: Built-in, Ads, Privacy, Malware, Multipurpose, and Annoyances
Muslim Americans in swing states launch anti-Biden campaign (www.axios.com)
“We recognize that, in the next four years, our decision may cause us to have an even more difficult time. But we believe that this will give us a chance to recalibrate, and the Democrats will have to consider whether they want our votes or not.”...
Vote against Trump 2024 (midwest.social)
Trump’s 48-Hour Manic Rant Had Immediate Consequences (newrepublic.com)
The former president covered a lot of ground during his recent posting binge, most of it is insane.
‘The Marvels’ Meltdown: Disney MCU Seeing Lowest B.O. Opening Ever At $47M+ (deadline.com)
Overwhelming majority of Russians now want to end Ukraine war (www.newsweek.com)
Donald Trump tells court he had no duty to ‘support’ the US Constitution (www.the-independent.com)
I imagine it lurking in the shadows, waiting to strike (lemmy.world)
There once was a programmer (feddit.de)
AI rule (media.infosec.exchange)
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Fears of employee displacement as Amazon brings robots into warehouses (www.theguardian.com)
Seeing as this community is abandoned by the mods, I've made a new conservative community on lemm.ee
!conservative
Smith & Wesson celebrates new headquarters opening in gun-friendly Tennessee (abcnews.go.com)
I totally forgot how terrible a non-ad-free YouTube experience is
So I’ve been using youtube ad blockers since pretty much when ad blocker extensions were first available. Lately though I’ve been getting hit more and more with these messages that YT was sending out every 5 or so videos telling me that adblockers aren’t allowed. No problem, just gotta wait 5 seconds to x it out and then...
South Korea has jailed a man for using AI to create sexual images of children in a first for country's courts (edition.cnn.com)
China ridicules Taiwan's defence goals as island unveils new submarine (www.abc.net.au)
The submarines will use a combat system by US defence company Lockheed Martin Corp and carry US-made torpedoes....