It’s not just me, there are tons of people who are susceptible to schemes like social media etc. it’s why we don’t let kids smoke and they shouldn’t vape nicotine either. It’s why we regulate gambling, and why we should regulate sugary drinks too.
We didn’t evolve for a world with instant satisfaction, and we can’t cope with it.
That’s not what they mean when they say states rights, everybody who can breathe knows it, and it’s frustrating watching journos and commenters say “oh look they should be happy they are getting states rights, haha, take that you hypocrite”.
Yes they are hypocritical, but it doesn’t matter, it’s intentional, practiced, premeditated, and widely understood as “good” by their voters.
You may as well cut through the meta-narrative and call them out on the racism, sexism, and general hate that they really mean by “states rights”. After all, they started saying that when the federal government forcefully desegregated schools, and they started talking about states rights as some dog-whistle post-hoc justification for the civil war (states rights to literally have slaves!)
I would also like to know. I drive a 4runner and there is a TON of aftermarket parts that have that black flag on them. Rear window stickers, bumpers, decals, cargo organizers, etc. what’s the deal?
Like does sanity exist on an entirely separate axis from stupidity and from ignorance, or can you be sane and stupid? I’m not sure, but I think sanity may be less relevant than competence.
I doubt you can be a competent voter in the middle. There isn’t really a compromise there, on any issue except maybe corporate welfare. Maybe you can be a reasoned centrist if you manage a hedge fund or something. Even then you are probably supposed to be sociopathically voting for tax breaks.
I have zero faith in the middle, and consider them all cryptofascists until proven stupid. Maybe that’s why both parties try so hard to court the centrist “swing” vote: they know centrists are enriched with gullible idiots.
Rather than genuine cultural change, it seems like a bunch of these dems just missed the southern strategy memo, and are finally catching up to reality 50 years late. Republicans are the party of racism, and if you want to represent your racists, you need to be republican.
Yes the entire process of training the models used in deepfakes requires building the detector in the first place… and then beating it. That’s what adversarial means. Keep training until you can’t distinguish any more.
Now it’s novel what they did here: they used a hypothetically orthogonal loss metric, something that the model’s discriminator isn’t actually looking at. The blood flow thingy. However, that could still be a latent variable in the real models, so they could be training to replicate it anyways. But apparently not because their detector worked when provided sufficient resolution.
Put soapy water in a jar and put the jar under the beetle. Push it in the jar. Sometimes they jump off the leaf when they sense danger, that’s why you put the jar below them.
They love Virginia creeper, so much that you should consider getting rid of any you have.
They live in the dirt during winter, and warm winters mean more Japanese beetles. We had a cold winter, so this year isn’t as bad as last.
We are currently trying to hold Thomas to quite low standards of conflict of interest; he did something really really bad (no, not Anita hill), compared to what sotomayor did, which is absolutely nothing by comparison.
Asking to hold Sotomayor to incredibly high standards is a distraction from the issue. It’s in bad faith, it’s whataboutism.
No, we can’t do both, because the public’s and media’s concentration is a finite resource. Even bringing up her books in the same thought as what Thomas did is false equivalence and distraction.
It’s like saying “yes, James stole $10000 from the orphanage. But Jenny jaywalked yesterday, they should both be held accountable”. To anyone but the most fervently autistic (not used as an insult), the implication and motivation for such a statement is blatant.
$2? I’d go back to 2012 or whatever and mine it using free electricity in grad school. Hell I’d use their cluster, call the slurm job something like “orbital_freq_prime_factors”
And I’d break up with my college girlfriend
And I’d bring my doctoral dissertation back in time so I didn’t have to write it
Even if the bitcoins didn’t work out, maybe I could buy Pokémon cards for cheap and sell them
The author can’t really be implying that in 4 years, many people somehow forgot movie etiquette. Are we really that eager to infantilize people, implying they have the memory of a goldfish? That they have suddenly become ok answering the phone in a quiet theater, and weren’t before?
No, the world has always been full of some fraction of dumb people. If we accept that rudeness is a random variable with some central tendency toward common decency, we must accept that there is a left tail to that distribution, composed of crude jerks.
These people have always been among us. And perhaps in the comfort of our own home theaters, private screening rooms, and bedtime laptop cinema adventures, we forgot about the jerks.
There’s a reason home video became so popular in the post VCR world. There have always been those who talk through films, throw popcorn, and yell at the screen “oh no don’t go in there!” We just forgot about them in those 4 years. They didn’t go anywhere.
Carrot cake should be called something else if it doesn’t have raisins or currants in it. They are so damn good.