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fidodo ,

Almost nobody knows the academic definitions of most political ideologies, they’re just all cable news buzzwords now. If you took a sample of the population I’d be surprised if even 5% could give you the correct academic definitions for the vast majority of political ideology terms.

fidodo ,

Checks and balances are about preventing a small faction of the government from gaining absolute control of the entire government. It’s not about preventing a say, it’s about preventing a total takeover that prevents anyone else from having a say in the future.

fidodo ,

It made more sense when the United States was first being set up and the union was more like the European union, but it quickly became a full-fledged country government and makes zero sense now.

fidodo ,

Actually, the Senate can’t be gerrymandered because they serve the entire state and state lines don’t change. The problem is that it’s unequal by design.

Gerrymandering happens when redistricting gets taken over by a party and they for example make themselves a district where they comfortably win by 70% and in another district the other party wins by 90%. Had they been non manipulated then they would have lost both by 60%.

fidodo ,

I agree that the us is still on that spectrum between a union and a standard country, but I think it’s closer to a standard country than a union, but it’s a spectrum, and as you say, where it falls on that spectrum is an opinion.

fidodo ,

They’re easier to create and more realistic. The prevalence and magnitude of an immoral act impacts how it should be legislated. Personally I don’t care if people make these and keep it to themselves, but as soon as you spread it I think it’s immoral and harassment and there should be laws to prevent it.

fidodo ,

I think there’s a big difference between creating them and spreading them, and putting punishments on spreading nudes against someone’s will, real or fake is a better 3rd option. The free speech implications of banning software that’s capable of creating them is too broad and fuzzy, but I think that putting harsh penalties on spreading them on the grounds of harassment would be clear cut and effective. I didn’t see a big difference in between spreading revenge porn and deep fakes and we already have laws against spreading revenge porn.

fidodo ,

Why not blame the spread? You can’t ban the tool, it’s easily accessible software and that only requires easily accessible consumer hardware, and you can even semi easily train your own models using easily accessible porn on the Internet, so if you want to ban it outright, you’d need to ban the general purpose tool, all porn, and the knowledge to train image generation models. If you mean ban the online apps that sell the service on the cloud, I can get behind that, it would increase the bar to create them a little, but that is far from a solution.

But, we already have laws against revenge porn and Internet harassment. I think the better and more feasible approach that doesn’t have far reaching free speech implications would be to simply put heavy penalties on spreading nudes images of people against their will, whether those images are real or fake. It’s harassment as revenge porn, and I didn’t see how it’s different if it’s a realistic fake. If there is major punishment for spreading these images then I think that will take care of discouraging the spread of the images for the vast majority of people.

fidodo ,

The companies that host and sell an online image to nude service using a tuned version of that tool specifically designed to convert images into nudes are definitely a business model.

I agree it’s impractical and opens dangerous free speech problems to try and ban or regulate the general purpose software, but, I don’t have a problem with regulating for profit online image generation services that have been advertising the ability to turn images into nudes and have even been advertising their service on non porn sites. Regulating those will at least raise the bar a bit and ensure that there’s isn’t a for profit motive where capitalism will encourage it happening even more.

We already have revenge porn laws that outlaw the spread of real nudes against someone’s will, I don’t see why the spread of fakes shouldn’t be outlaws similarly.

fidodo ,

All governments produce propaganda, even all people produce propaganda. But to treat both countries the same is ridiculous. The magnitude of propaganda Russia creates is way greater than most countries.

College swimmers, volleyball players sue NCAA over transgender policies (apnews.com)

Former Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines was among more than a dozen college athletes who filed a lawsuit against the NCAA on Thursday, accusing it of violating their Title IX rights by allowing transgender woman Lia Thomas to compete at the national championships in 2022....

fidodo ,

It’s tricky because anabolic steroids are banned as performance enhancing drugs, but natural testosterone from being born male also has an anabolic effect, so you can argue it’s the equivalent of being given steroids during puberty and then waiting years for the current hormone levels to return to normal as an adult.

fidodo ,

Remember when they tried to make ninja, Rockstar, and guru a thing?

fidodo ,

Instead of lab grown meat they want meat grown in the most deplorable conditions with 14 year olds working there.

fidodo ,

Was about to ask what’s with all the shilling here but just realized which community this is. Have fun shilling for a mega Corp. Go tell yourselves that 30% cut isn’t ridiculous.

fidodo ,

Digital marketplaces use a near monopoly to extort developers into accepting these inflated cuts. I simply will never accept an inflated rate caused by a monopoly as a good thing. Without that near monopoly there is no way they could maintain a 30% cut.

fidodo ,

I think the high profit margin on digital goods is almost entirely due to the more efficient distribution of the Internet vs a supply chain, not because steam enabled it. If anyone deserves that cut because of the lower cost of distribution it’s the people that created the Internet, and thank God they were publicly funded scientists and not corporations.

Also keep in mind that the infrastructure of the Internet charges a usage fee, not a percentage of profit. If I change $5 for a game on steam vs $60, is steam really doing more work to justify a percentage fee?

fidodo ,

@jdickler in case you want to let her know what you think of her article

fidodo ,

I guess, but it’s like a 2 foot high fence

fidodo ,

There’s some studies that found that bone density could be affected, but considering the suicide rate of trans people I’m going to say that’s a tiny sacrifice for the assurance that you can have the body your brain wants to be in.

fidodo ,

It’s just a silly story.

fidodo ,

People are impressionable to the rhetoric around them and these are people in communities that have had a concerted anti LGBTQ+ propaganda push.

fidodo ,

It’s a Google office building, they definitely considered Wi-Fi before building it but they made a mistake. Compared to that building in England that turned into a glass death ray I think this was a less obvious mistake.

fidodo ,

Oh they for sure fucked up, I just mean that it was likely a mistake as opposed to them not caring. Pretty crazy for a huge corporation to overlook it though.

fidodo ,

Recommending things when you’re not logged in means they’re tracking you without your consent. Why would anyone want that?

fidodo ,

Oh, I interpreted “recommended” as recommended as in tailored to your preferences. What they mean is that youtube won’t show popular videos anymore. Still, doesn’t seem like the wrong choice to me necessarily, but I’m personally not interested in the type of videos that have the highest popularity.

fidodo ,

Are there interesting powers? I want a hack n slash that has more physicality to the powers so there’s more strategy to positioning and mob management. Like cleave powers that send enemies flying backwards, or wind powers that blow open a path forward, or time bubbles that slow enemies and projectiles in an area. I’m kinda bored by games that just have numbers tied to an animation.

fidodo ,

Most jobs are terrible at distinguishing between requirements, responsibilities, and nice to haves. Most requirements are actually responsibilities which means you’ll need to learn those skills but don’t need to already know them. As long as you think you can pick them up you should be fine.

fidodo ,

I wonder if there was some kind of technological revolution that made it exponentially easier to generate text that happened recently.

fidodo ,

Search for FDA compliant epoxy. I wouldn’t worry too much about the strength, whatever epoxy you get should be stronger than the factory bond. If it’s FDA approved then it’ll be up to the same kind of standards that the spatula was built to.

Elon Musk v OpenAI: tech giants are inciting existential fears to evade scrutiny (www.theguardian.com)

In 1914, on the eve of the First World War, HG Wells published a novel about the possibilities of an even greater conflagration. The World Set Free imagines, 30 years before the Manhattan Project, the creation of atomic weapons that allow “a man [to] carry about in a handbag an amount of latent energy sufficient to wreck half...

fidodo ,

The logic ain’t logicing

fidodo ,

Russia waving the white flag would end the war equally as fast

fidodo ,

I’ve been waiting for them to finish the Aldi’s near me for over a year now.

fidodo ,

I guarantee you there are tons of these already

fidodo ,

Let’s just create a variation of this that has the same image for everything

fidodo ,

There are other sources for UFO sightings so they can’t know if they were responsible. For example, sometimes it’s aliens and not the US government, but that’s a lot more rare.

EA just added classics like Dungeon Keeper, SimCity 3000, and Populous on Steam (www.theverge.com)

There hasn’t been a lot of good news out of EA lately, but here’s some: the company just launched a bunch of classic games on Steam. The new (old) releases include nine games in total, spanning franchises like Dungeon Keeper, Populous, and SimCity....

fidodo ,

I really want a modern old school style city builder. I tried cities skyline but it was too complicated. Like parkitect is to planet coaster.

When you're writing a song, how do you know it isn't just a song you've heard before but don't recognise?

I’m currently in the process of writing a song. I’ve got a tune and I’m putting the lyrics together but I’m always concerned that any tune I think of might just be another song I’ve heard somewhere randomly that I don’t remember hearing....

fidodo ,

I think I heard that there’s software to help you find similar songs that some pros use, but it’s probably only something that really big companies need to worry about.

The job applicants shut out by AI: ‘The interviewer sounded like Siri’ (www.theguardian.com)

When Ty landed an introductory phone interview with a finance and banking company last month, they assumed it would be a quick chat with a recruiter. And when they got on the phone, Ty assumed the recruiter, who introduced herself as Jaime, was human. But things got robotic....

fidodo ,

This sounds like it makes it worse for applicants

fidodo ,

Sigh, I find this too sad to be funny

fidodo ,

In my experience it’s normally frontend programmers that go full stack.

fidodo ,

A reunified Ireland could benefit from being in NATO in case England loses their God damn minds and tried to take them back at some point in the future, but I guess those days are over.

fidodo ,

If Russia somehow won a war against NATO and took over all the European NATO countries, which is the vast majority of Europe, what would prevent them from just taking over the leftover bits at that point?

fidodo ,

That’s not

fidodo ,

This is the same company that had cinemax, HBO, HBO go, HBO now, HBO Max, and Max. Naming isn’t exactly their strong suit.

fidodo ,

I agree that we shouldn’t be tolerant of the intolerant, but I don’t think censorship is the right tool to use in that fight.

fidodo ,

Looking it up, it was never banned, it was just prevented from being reprinted due to the government holding the copyright and not making it available. It’s now in public domain.

pbs.org/…/hitlers-mein-kampf-to-go-on-sale-in-ger…

The German state of Bavaria has held the copyright for Adolf Hitler’s autobiography since 1945 and has withheld publishing the book, preventing any reprints in Germany. But in 2016, the book becomes available in the public domain, which will make it widely available in Germany for the first time since World War II.

That means it was perfectly legal to have it, you just couldn’t be printed in Germany.

fidodo ,

Twitter people pointed out that Mein Kampf is sold there, but it’s a historic book and valuable to read to understand the roots of fascism to fight it.

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