I eat the tails of shrimp
I eat the heads and eyes of fish
Classic .ml degeneracy
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Take heart, Comrade! For even in death, every scrap of your body shall live on in the flesh of all living tovarischista fighting the good fight against the imperialist swine who waste their uneaten fish heads!
Same
“I’m a centrist.”
wot? how do u liv wiv urself
skins a grape before eating it
drives with the seatbelt alarm going off every the minutes
I’m just a monster and monsters don’t care.
School is where the passion for learning goes to die and the desire to cheat is born
In this day and age, hobbies are the last bastions of passion and curiosity. One who is engaged in a hobby is intrinsically motivated to learn and apply what has been learned in novel ways, just as the scholars of old have done. School, reviled by many a student, has earned its reputation by perverting the concept of learning and exploiting students’ passions. The desire to cheat is most unnatural among students, a telltale sign that one’s passion and curiosity for the topic at hand has been extinguished, replaced with a desire to rid oneself of a burden, the burden of learning only for the sake of becoming learned.
also, we need 20h/week, 4 days/week schools.
What do parents do then when they’re working since childcare in the US is fucked
That’s only half the plan. We cut school hours so kids can work in the mines.
sorts by controversial
For Lemmy specifically, I don’t think police need to be abolished.
are you saying you don’t want to defund the police as a public service and have some sort of for-profit peace keeper mafia instead? what type of anarchism is this
Apparently arguing in favour of AI art is pretty controversial, but then the anti-AI luddites are about as intractable as trump cultists, and their arguments about as valid, so fuck 'em!
the luddites were happy to use the new tech, but not for less pay and worse working conditions, so they trashed the machines - and history has looked down on them ever since.
They are mostly known for having smashed machines and been terrified of technology. That’s where the parallel here lies, and what the term has come to mean. Whether they had good reasons back then is irrelevant, the anti-ai bunch don’t have now.
I drew out the luddite parallel deliberately: artists likely do not mind AI tools if they are credited and compensated for their work, but they receive no residuals nor credit whenever their work is used so using the tools amount to their theft.
No it doesn’t. It’s not theft by any reasonable definition of the word. No images are stored, no artwork is used directly to create other artwork. It’;s just not, that’s not how latent diffusion works. That’s one of most commonly repeated pieces of bullshit which has been refuted so often you would have thought it’d have got through a few of your thick skulls by now.
(thanks for the insult, stay classy) so the network training stage was pulled out of thin air then? Huh, I didn’t know these models could self-bootstrap themselves out of nothing.
I guess inverting models to do a tracing attack is impossible. Huh.The insult is justified because you are spouting bollocks. Again. You CANNOT pull any of the training images out of a latent diffusion model, it is simply impossible because they are NOT THERE and if someone says they did they are either lying or spent a fuck of a lot of time and energy on making it look like they did. Either way they are trying to con you. Also the training thing - it’s no different to art inspiring human artists except the neural network in the computer is a lot simpler. It’s a new medium being used by humans, by artists, to create art. That’s all it is.
I don’t have the time or energy to explain any more of this to you. Again. Learn how something works before you comment again. Or just shut the fuck up for good. That works too.
(nice ad hominem) Christ. When you reduce a high dimensional object into an embedded space, yes you keep only the first N features, but those N features are the most variable, and the embeddings they contain can be used to map back to (a very good) approximation of the source images. It’s akin to reverse engineering a very lossy compression to something that (very strongly) resembles the source image (otherwise feature extraction wouldn’t be useful), and it’s entirely doable.
Markdown is trash. It almost always comes in a fork that is naturally incompatible with other forks & never has the features you need for blogging or technical writing (leading to abuse of the limited features, unsemantic markup output, and/or embedding HTML which is both ugly & also ruining portability to non-HTML targets). This leaves you locked into some specific tool’s forked implementation & never looks good in other contexts. Markdown was also never the only or best option for lightweight markup at any time.
Downvotes here showing it’s controversial, but I am willing to bet these folk have never given AsciiDoc, reStructuredText, & LaTeX a spin in comparison (for ‘real world’ documentation, etc. with multiple output targets) to actually know what they are talking about 😅
You can embed LaTeX math formulas in Markdown with
$x = y$on many clients.Let me try: $f(x) = \frac{1}{x}$.
Doesn’t seem to work on Lemmy. Maybe a bug/missing feature?
It’s always a series of extensions nonstandardized but said to all be under the same umbrella. It would be better if these things called a spade a spade & say Markdown-like or Markdown-inspired instead of giving a false sense of compatibility.
Probably “we should eliminate cars as personal transportation”
I think that’s about as controversial as saying “We should abandon industrialized meat production”.
Try saying it to your family. I see that you’re on the terminally online instance ;)
trains are great but motorbikes work really well too. living in a society dominated by two wheeled vehicles, every traffic jam you see is caused by some third dingus in a car
No they don’t, motorcycles encourage the same city design (my fundamental problem with cars) and are even louder. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdDYVjDwgwA
they make far better use of existing car infrastructure
You’re thinking of a bus.
they work too, yea. personally i get bus sick. it’s light rail or two wheels for me
Using a word incorrectly 1,000,001 times shouldn’t change the actual dictionary definition of the word.
Must be embarrassing to not understand that living languages evolve.
That’s so fetch.
“Literally” officially meaning “figuratively” radicalized me.
Lear Welsh or French. They’re both Prescriptive languages where that is (officially) true. English, however, is a descriptive language which means the dictionary is there to record how language is used not to define how it should be used
But if everyone is using it to mean something new then we need to record that.
But that is literally why we have many of the definitions accepted as standard today.
I think that’s polarising because using a weird incorrectly does not change its meaning; it’s far more subtle than that
People considered woke often only focus on institutional racism and make every other form of racism seem unimportant, including those targeting so called “whites” / Europeans. (And I’m not trying to victimize perpetrators here, I’m aware of the current and historical situation in Western countries.)
I see that institutional racism is a huge problem, especially in the West, but that doesn’t make any other form less important or significant.
For comparison: just because in sub-saharan Africa people starve on a daily basis due to extreme poverty caused by Imperialism doesn’t mean that poverty inside industrial nations with less harsh effects is less of a problem, especially to the individual.
I have a few. I’m not the kind of person that says controversial things to attract attention, but I also don’t refrain from putting them out there.
A selection of the ones I use in my political activity:
- knowing things doesn’t change things
- work should be abolished
- atheism and rationalism are a scourge on the ability of the Left to reach people
- hacker culture is intrinsically gnostic and reactionary
Some others:
- suicidal and self-harming people should be listened to by understanding and validating the motivations behind their desire to hurt or kill themselves, even entertaining with them their own plans. Anything else would likely put a wedge between the two of you that will prevent from addressing the causes and ultimately do what’s good for them.
- mathematics is just narrative with rules/arbitrary opinions with rules
- nurses, doctors, teachers and other professions of care attract the worst psychopaths because they are put in charge of vulnerable people. On top of that they are by default perceived as caregivers, so it’s harder for them to raise suspicion of doing fucked up stuff.
hacker culture is intrinsically gnostic and reactionary
Do you nind elaborating a bit?
It would be quite a long argument, but I suggest TechGnosis by Erik Davis and this article: https://www.are.na/block/24206425
tl;dr: hacker culture is grounded in gnostic, individualistic californian hippie culture, and shares root with what is now the dominant, reactionary ideology of big tech moguls, ketamine cryptocolonialists, business white supremacists. One key tenet of hacker culture is the power of the individual super-human brain power to reshape entire societies through the production of disruptive technology. Mr. Robot tv series is one such example of said mindset. It preaches the superiority of the world of minds and the virtual over the material. The material is subject to the virtual and the virtual is where the real stuff is happening, where there’s a real confrontation of power (the hacker vs the system, disruptors vs established businesses, out-of-the-box thinkers vs corporate drones). This mimics gnostic beliefs very closely. It is reactionary because it is individualistic, because it erases material conditions and collective action, but it also just operates from such a simplified worldview that it is impossible to adhere to if you have a very basic understanding of disciplines like sociology, history or politics. It’s just not how the world works.
Interesting, thank you for the reply. I am not a hacker nor a gnostic but I have a slight fascination with the latter. But on hacking: while there’s merit to your position that hacker culture is reactionary I have to ask what do you think of hacker collectives like the one that leaked Project 2025 or other noble computer nerd activities? It seems to me like a hacker is exercizing another avenue of power over her world like jumping or singing. Thinking the online world is seperate and intangible from our non-online experience seems to be making the mistake of dualism in upholding one sphere of reality over the other/s.
Work should be abolished in favour of what?
You probably want to replace “atheism” with “antitheism” in that context. I would disagree either way, but I think you’d have a point with antitheism.
Unschooling.
Elaborate on this a bit. What are the benefits in your opinion?
First I want to make clear that it is not an option for everybody and I understand what a huge privilege it is to be able to do this in our terms. For some families/ kids, school is/ can be beneficial.
I worked in schools for many years as did my SO, we did our best and had rewards and dissapointments alike and when we decided to start a family we knew we wanted different for our children.
It was a very unpopular opinion to not send our offspring to regular school, both our families were strongly against it and that filled us with doubt at first since we had never heard of anyone doing it. But we kept strong knowing the things we didn’t want and understand that people can be afraid of new things.
It was also hard to find a community that had what we wanted: Non religious, science based, Non violent parenting. We found out the hard way that some families use unschool/homeschool as an excuse to abuse their children in horrific ways.
Socializing was another concern at first, but we sorted out easily IMO with play groups and whatever classes they needed/wanted. Our rule was to choose one class for fun and one for a must so there has been a high rotation over the years: Swimming, gymnastics, theatre, painting,scuba diving, sculpting, horse backriding, yoga, ballet, judo,violin,karate,piano,etc. Last year kid started attending Scouts meetings and is loving it so far.
For achademic learning we let kid choose whatever they feel like learning and tailor lessons around the whole thing: One time for biology, for example, when insects were the interest, we went ahead and volunteered at the local botanical garden and got one on one time wih an enthomologist who taught us many interesting things. Me and my SO both have Phd degrees in our areas and that has helped too in a way.
This way of learning has worked beatifully! Kid is eager to learn different kinds of stuff and has passed the obligatory governement evaluations with flying colors, not that we care about grades, but for some people those are super important.
As far as making them do this, we don’t. School is always on the table if they feel inclined to go at any time but so far, we have been school free for years.
The only downside I can see so far is that a lot of content in media is designed/catered to te school experience because that is what most people’s experience growing up looks like so sometimes, especially when they were little, we had to explain what a hallway pass was, for example. This has gotten easier with time and since kid has friends who attend regular school it is not so foreign anymore.
ETA that this choice has not been a walk in the Park at all! Doing it entails much more work than we thought at first and it can be frustrating at times (mostlystuff regarding bureaucracy) , but the benefits surpass the downsides by far. Economically speaking it is also a challenge, some people have the idea that unschooling is cheaper than sending kids off to school. It is not. Emotionally speaking, it can also be a challenge for sure since, as a parent, you have to be always “on”. That is why we have “me” days around here so nobody loses their minds.
Being born to narcissistic parents was extremely controversial in my childhood home. I was the selfish little ingrate in the house who kept asking for things even though they already provided a house and food most of the time, and that was very polarizing for my parents.
Ever?
The SNES is better than the Genesis.
Screw you, Douglas, I was right!
Motorcycles should not be street legal. If I can get a ticket for not wearing my seatbelt, why do motorcycles get a pass?
Cars should not be street legal. If I can get a ticket for not wearing my helmet, why do cars get a pass?
Because they’re 2 different types of vehicle
You’re inside the moving vehicle and should you not be attached to it you’ll bounce around the inside or go flying out the window in a crash
A motorcyclist is not contained, and thus it’s dumb to attach them to the dangerous and heavy metal should a crash occur. We instead require protective gear (unless you live in a shitty state) so you get less injured if you go flying
You shouldn’t get a ticket for not wearing a seatbelt.
On the one hand, it’s a victimless crime, at least roughly. On the other, people have been shown incapable of making the obvious correct decision on their own.
I used to think that too, I until a friend pointed out to me that I might bog down the healthcare system with injuries that could have been easily avoided if I had.
Because (in NL) you’re supposed to wear a full protective suit with padding and a helmet, or get a significantly worse ticket and potential loss of head/limb.
