from my central european perspective, currently there is not much we could do. It is an matter of internal US politics, and on the grand scale, it’s not like your whole country is on fire. Sure, we can send harsh letters or something, but i don’t think our input would even make it on the topics debated in congress. And everything else like military action would just make us the enemy. i don’t think there is anything that would unite the US faster than that - under TACOs banner, so thats the last thing you want (ignoring that we couldn’t even pull something like this off without help from China, noone else comes even close in military strength. don’t forget, you guys have the strongest airforce, and then the second strongest airforce, and i think the 4th strongest airforce is US too)

so, you have my moral support, and i can post in your support, but i think thats about it until you are deep into civil war territory. sorry 😟

“Repeat after me: Memes … are … not … created … by … artists”

“Memes … are … not … created … by … --breathes in-- AI IS STARVING CREATORS”

Sorry to cut in, but I have to hard disagree here.

The post in question has given someone the possibility of creating an image on par quality of any other *ball meme and saved about 20-30 minutes of work. It is an artistic expression, isn’t more or less ugly than other *ball memes of similar type, enhanced the expression of OP (who would had worse results for more work), and no artist can subsist on the creation of memes.

Also, it is very possible to create stuff like this on consumer grade hardware, taking not much more power than running a video game.

I agree that AI CAN be used to create piss-poor excuses for art or to push artists out of their work, but it’s the corpo’s doing that, not the technology. I also groan everytime AI gets shoehorned into another thing where it simply does not offer anything useful, but it surely makes a difference if a corp uses AI as cost-cutting measure, or a private person uses it to enrich their life, which - we shouldn’t forget that - the technology should be there for.

if he has the arm lowered and just uses his forearm to hold the fishing pole, the upper arm isnt visible

hey, that’s me too! the same with losing the entire morning for stuff in the afternoon, being overly on time for first time appointments, but once it becomes routine, i am so late, including the “i post 5 mins before i have to go, and i’m not even dressed or showered yet”.

The comment i made before this one was one of those comments. Glad to be home again.

I really should get diagnosed (in my 40s) and medicated if possible, but i’ve got so much medical stuff going on already, i really don’t want to add to it.

I agree with your acquaintance - your neurologist does not give sound advice.

hmm maybe headphones with transparency mode would help? you can still listen to music while having the call on speakers. just an idea, don’t know if it’s feasible

At my last workspace listening in on the call recordings (which were binding agreements with clients) was only allowed with the employee giving the ok and no way to force it, with a strong union support preventing retaliation against employees.

Since they were very open about this, it wasn’t needed often - mostly when clients made complaints differing from what was logged by the employee.

• Stellaris
• Kerbal Space Program
• Dead Cells
• Grim Dawn
• Against The Storm

Honorable Mentions:

• ΔV: Rings of Saturn
• We Who Are About To Die

I would make a case for creation of datasets by a international institution like the UNESCO. The used data would be representative for world culture, and creation of the datasets would have to be sponsored by whoever wants to create models out of it, so that licencing fees can be paid to creators. If you wanted to make your mark on global culture, you would have an incentive to offer training data to UNESCO.

I know, that would be idealistic and fair to everyone. No way this would fly in our age.

I thought Frucade was Austrian too, but it’s bavarian. I connotated it with Austria because of Hermes Phettberg Nette Leit Show.

Klingt jetzt aber auch nicht so, als ob man sich auf Familie verlassen könnte, sondern nach Cliquenbildung, vorspiegelung falscher Tatsachen und Verrat.

Hab mich übrigens nur auf deinen Schlusssatz bezogen, wo du meintest dass Bruder OP nicht töten würde.

Der Verdacht liegt nahe, dass Brudi nicht OP an die Gurgel will, sondern dir, @tetris11@lemmy.ml - Brudi’s Verhalten klingt nämlich schwer nach AfD-Kernwählerschaft.

Es freut mich sehr, dass es Menschen wie dich gibt, die sich voll und ganz auf Ihre Familie verlassen können, aber bitte mach nicht den Fehler von deinem Einzelfall auf die Allgemeinheit zu schliessen.

In anderen als deiner Erfahrung ist es so, dass man verlassen ist, wenn man sich auf die Familie verlässt. Und ein Familienmitglied, dass andere Familienmitglieder als “Hippie-Fotze” bezeichnet, und andere wegen Veganismus und Mitgliedschaft bei der Linkspartei aburteilt, hat sich schon selbst ins aus geschossen und hat eine Bringschuld, wenn er wieder “den Rücken gestärkt” bekommen soll (bei was eigentlich? Frauenfeindlichkeit? Schnitzel klopfen? AfD wählen?). Da kann der Papa flehen was er will, das muss der schon an die richtige Person adressieren.

Oder ihm ist klar, dass dein Bruder sich nicht von seinen Ansichten abbringen lassen wird, und er hofft, dass er bei dem Kind, dass wesentlich menschlichere Gesinnung aufweist, mehr Gehör findet. Vielleicht solltest du ihm klar machen, dass das das Gegenteil von dem ist, was er erreichen wollen sollte.

for the modern child with liver cirrhosis

as a pedestrian i have to say that i never use my blinker.

joke aside, there’s not much that aggravates me more than drivers not using their signals when they can turn either left or right, but cannot continue forward, like near the street i live in that i frequently have to cross. since they HAVE to turn, i have to wait for them to either remember that they have turn signals, or wait until they have enlightened me about their decision by making them a fact.

don’t be an ass, use your turn signals to make your intentions known for the weaker parties on the road.

yeah, i didn’t want to get into the private tracker stuff, since i never used one before; i described pretty much the ressources you have as a “commoner”. I am aware that there are many specialized sources out there, where a lot more obscure material is available, but most of those take special effort to gain access to.

If it’s hard to find, first i try searching via jackett integration into qbittorrent. if unsuccessful, i go over to xrel.to and search for it there (its a pure information site, don’t ask for downloads there pls). You can verify if there has ever been a release of the specific title, and if, you can see the exact name of the release. if you can’t find it there too, you can be pretty sure that there never was a release, neither p2p nor scene. if it’s newer content, you can try to search later; if its older content, go buy it and upload it yourself (safely!) so the next person doesn’t have the same issue.

I don’t have any opinion on them regarding their performance. with proton there exist case files which show that they do not keep logs when not court ordered to do so (in the case i know about, they had to be court ordered to activate logs for login attempts to a specific mailbox). I haven’t heard anything bad about Mullvad either.

Windscribe seems to be fine, but they had at least one big misstep where a private key for OpenVPN was saved locally on a server that then was seized by authorities. PIA, on the other hand, had no issues hiring a criminally convicted CTO and merged with Kape Technologies, which was in the business of creating browser toolbars containing potientially unwanted programs.They have been audited in 2022 tho, so maybe they are alright now…