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If anything this should scare the Democrats. Imagine if the Republicans nominated someone even slightly decent?

I said it after 2020 with all the trouble he had getting elected, Biden probably should be a 1 term president and not run for re-election.

I'm not the guy you originally responded to, but I was saying the points your making are an issue, and "This isn't a conversation" seriously, wtf is wrong with you?

Grow up.

I'll be honest, I wish I could look half as cool as Simu Liu does. He's probably my standard of "handsome man" and I have learned that I'll never look like him.

many stable diffusion models are trained on pictures of Asian people

Yeah, but what if we want want the people wearing clothes in the final results. /s

Media: "I don't understand technology" even though writing about the technology multiple times.

AIs are completely based on the training data that they'll use. If they only loaded professional headshots of Asian people, a white person would turn Asian if added.

Besides which you run it multiple times, and choose the one you want, I'm sure if you did that, it'd change her eye color multiple times.

Really blame the AI, not AI in general. Or blame the media for making clickbait articles in the first place.

It costs penny on the dollar to archive the final code base of these games.

Saying it's fine is like saying a artist shouldn't keep copies of their work on the wall because there's no money it's it.

Companies should have pride in their accomplishments. These companies only care about profitability, and care nothing about what they have done in the past unless it makes them more money. It's why modern gaming feels soulless.

It wasn't a success because of that. People just don't care about the Facebook Papers and the Twitter exposes.

They either already suspected it, and this just confirms it, or they don't give a fuck, they just want a place to post inane statuses and talk to people, because it's social media.

Sadly they are sheep and they never will wake up.

Others were doped against their will or even without them knowing.

I've heard rumors about this, and I doubt it. Especially when there was an American athlete who claimed that's what happened to her...

But I'm sure it has happened over history and my god that must be heart breaking, the people you put your full trust into has betrayed that and both put you are risk, but destroyed your credibility when found out. Fucking heart breaking.

So if I pointed a gun at you and told you to rob someone with a fake gun... I hope you'd agree I should be in trouble not yourself. So if your correct (and you are) and these athletes were forced to by their government to use performance enhancing drugs (or not be part of the programs) why are you blaming the athletes instead of the government that forced them to do so?

The idea is actually that nearly every single one of their athletes are doping

If you had proof of that, I'd suggest you publish it. Not just someone saying that, but actual verifiable proof of it.

I'm sure some people who were doping (remember many were forced to under their doping programs) weren't caught, but the big thing is there's limited proof to the size of it.

Then again, do you honestly 100 percent believe every other country's athletes are clean? There's many ways to "beat" the test, but experts guess it could be between 10-40 percent of the athletes who competed in 2020 might have been cheating with performance enhancing drugs... that's bad, but worse, the results can be so delayed they come a decade later due to new drugs, and new tests to detect it.

The idea is the majority of their athletes are proven to be clean. There are definitely a decent number who got caught, and more scrutiny should be on Russia athletes than any other (Though all should be fully tested), but I believe it exposed only a subset of the Russian team was caught. 70 percent of the Russians were allowed to compete under the Olympic Flag.

Do I think IOC caught everyone who was doping? Of course not. Do I think every Russian was doping? I find that equally hard to believe.

Then again the fact it was only a four year ban for a state sponsored scheme? WTF.. but it just show IOC is still just one of the worst governing bodies in sports.

Read up about this, because you're mistaken. This wasn't just because she's from the "Wrong country". She's an outspoken advocate for the war. Kharlan's brother is defending the Ukraine in the army.

Yeah I wouldn't be able to shake her hand either.

"reinstated"... I mean her win exists, but she still was kicked out of the tournament. She'll get her place, but I would bet hard money on the fact she would have preferred to stay in the tournament and compete for real.

This is IOC saving face, something they have to do far too frequently.

It sounds like the IFE is also making the right move to remove the handshake. I won't say all Russians (under the Olympic flag) have to be banned. Though this pro-war piece of shit is make a hell of an effort for me to change my mind on that. But forced sportsmanship needs to stop being a thing, because then it's not sportsmanship, when it's a rule, it's just a requirement of what you have to do.

Falling under what I said before, one of the biggest series of all time, with massive marketing budget (After GTA 3, Rockstar really started to spend that for advertising.)

Then we see the game and it's a completely white guy. "What? White guys can come from Africa too". /s

When I was working in games we had VERY long discussions about using a black main character, and ended up going with another White main character, simply because women and black men do not sell as well as white men. And before you quote a long list of examples that prove that wrong, first realize there's hundreds of games that fail with both. And many of the success are stuff like Metroid (They hide her face for the entire first game, rarely show her, and is by Nintendo who could make a game about Peaches PMS cycle and it still sells... and did) or Sony (Who has enough money and clout to advertise the fuck out of something like Horizon), or overly sexualized character (Tomb raider's first titties... sorry Titles)

It's still likely a wrong assumption but there's a lot of proof that the race of the main character DOES matter.

Tumblr scared, there's porn on the Fediverse...

Also I have a feeling they lose something valuable (The ability to serve ads) for something not as important (Access to more publcly available content)

PS. They can of course serve ads, but what stops lemmy.world from connecting to them and sharing the same content ad free?

If they were able to save up enough to buy land, and build housing... they wouldn't be poor.

I also don't think you understand poverty. Almost half of Americas have less than 500 dollars in the bank, and 18 percent have nothing.

A. They don't know about such things. This isn't as popular as you seem to think. Let's talk about that after.

B. There's no way that works the way you seem to imply. If they have to get the land for it, they probably aren't poor, but even if they were given stuff, how much are they given.

C. People like things. So how is this mutual aid group supposed to afford, let's say a car per person? Are they buying everyone a home, and a car? Or are they making cars. Similarly, how does this work with skilled individuals. I'm a programmer, I can make computers work, who makes my computers, or more importantly my daughter got sick last night, we had the ER in society, in this alternate society is there a doctor on call 24/7?

But let's go back to A.

I think you linked www.mutualaidhub.org, so I'm using that. I just looked up a listing of mutual aid networks near me. The only ones I found in LA and San Diego (county), after clicking through 10-20 I stopped because I got a good idea about what they are. Someone on here said they're like communism and communes. The mutual aid networks I found were minor help, a few were food services, one was just a nightly call, and so on. Quite a few were now defunct as well, which kind of tells how they went.

The one that was taking help was asking for VOLUNTEERS, not people who partake in all the services, and none of them offered all the services. I could quit a job and volunteer there, but I still need money, housing, I like games, I like electricity, I like computers. Again how are we getting those? I haven't even touched on the idea of taxes as well.

Really the point is... From what little I saw when I looked this up Mutual Aid Network doesn't seem to mean what you are implying, but even if they did... well I'm doubting most of those have enough skilled individuals that joining them even as a poor person would offset the problems.

I have no problem if people elect a NEW senator that's 80 years old. But after two terms your service is done. Thank you, but you gotta go.

First McConnell and now Feinstein, maybe it's time to implement term limits? These two should have retired long ago. (Feinstein before SOPA) Enjoy your golden years....