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Or the relative of the "Worse" option:
"Oh, you're paying a little extra to limit advertising interruptions? Oh sorry! That only works on pre-roll and post-roll ads. Enjoy your fucking Mid(t)roll ad that you can't fucking skip!"
Worse:
"I'm aware that you're paying nearly $30 a month for our Ad-Free tier; but this content creator still demands we put Ads on this shit. Here's an Ad!" Crashes and refuses to begin playback again when your browser that's configured to block those ads blocks it.
I don't like the idea of a prompt being subtly manipulated like this to "force" inclusion. Instead the training data should be augmented and the AI re-trained on a more inclusive dataset.
The prompt given by the user shouldn't be prefixed or suffixed by additional words, sentences or phrases; except to remind the AI what it is not allowed to generate.
Instead of forcing "inclusivity" on the end user in such a manner; we should instead allow the user to pick skin tone preferences in an easy to understand manner, and allow the AI to process that signal as a part of it's natural prompt.
Obviously; where specific characters are concerned, the default skin tone of the character named in the prompt should be encoded and respected. If multiple versions of that character exist, it should take a user's skin tone output selection into account and select the closest matching version.
If the prompt is requesting a skin tone alteration of a character; that prompt should obviously be honored as well, and executed with the requested skin tone; and not the skin tone setting selection. As an example I can select "Prefer ligher skin tones" in the UI and still request that the AI should generate me a "darker skinned version" of a typically fairer skinned character.
Instead of focusing on forcing "diversity" into prompts that didn't ask for it; let's just make sure that the AI has the full range of human traits available to it to pull from.
Every time a brand falls onto the "socially conservative ban list" I just cackle evilly.
Yes. The death by a thousand cuts is very fitting for these people who seem to lack critical thinking skills and won't learn.
It's almost like people think children need to know how to be decent human beings and they know that some parents will refuse to teach that skill.
It's almost as if...as if society at large has already decided that the "status quo" they are vehemently defending needs to die. It's like society has decided people need to be better. So that we don't like; kill each other off stupidly over stupid fucking bullshit in stupid wars like stupid idiots being stupidly fucking greedy and unrelenting.
Yeah there's no reason why they should let him.
The UAE will shield him from extradition if he is allowed to return home because he is rich.
He is the very definition of "Flight Risk" because he has:
- Means - UAE will support him if he seeks asylum and/or legal aid. Binance is not based in the USA; so it cannot be dissolved by a US court finding. It will likely not fire him because of these charges, due to the nature of cryptocurrency.
- Motive - The USA will not be able to quickly extradite him if he flees, and fleeing is in his interest to avoid being charged or jailed and ensure he keeps his job.
- Money - He still has lots of money. Unlike SBF; he wasn't suddenly bankrupted by Binance failing. Binance still exists and will continue to do so Without the USA allowing it to do business in it's borders!
The only advice I can give is to ask yourself regularly if the people you are hanging around "suck". Pay attention when being around a person drains your social battery more than normal, or when that person can't seem to find common ground with you.
Surround yourself with people who support you, but don't let people who get you down remain around you.
You may need to explain that you have some version of neurodiversity to new friends (Please, substitute "some version of neurodiversity" with necessary information about yourself that you feel comfortable in sharing) and that you have a limited social battery. Assure them it's probably nothing personal; you just need to recharge. Explain that certain things or situations may drain your energy faster; or overwhelm you into having anxieties. Quickly cut out anyone who appears to be taking advantage of that.
Most importantly, be with people who have the same interests as you do. That breaks down more barriers than most things.
I get that one may be interested in using electricity when it's green(er); but I am curious...is there an ongoing reason or incentive to use energy during a "Green" phase as compared to a "Yellow" or "Red" phase that I am missing?
Or is this simply a fun passion project because one wishes to choose to only use green(er) energy than most do?
...I don't trust it; even coming from a Post-Jobs version of Apple.
Apple only ever cares about money. The fact that they make hardware that is beloved by many of the computer illiterate is unimportant...that's only the way they make money. By exploiting people who don't want to take the time to properly understand their computer hardware.
The only reason why they care now is that there's a big enough group of those customers who are technically savvy who are holding their feet to the fire and loudly informing the rest of the masses who are less knowledgeable about this kind of exploitative behavior and reminding everyone that they're not the only ones losing massive amounts of data and time to spontaneous hardware failures that were made intentionally irreparable by design because it benefits Apple's profits.
Yep. It's official. Google is straight out bribing it's way to dominance just like the Ferengi do.
They will blacklist your device.
I'm mentioning that it's a bad idea to Only use that account for Aurora Store and microG services.
You need to log it into a few other apps on the web too. This gives the account more "livelihood". Of course nothing you use the account for should be anything you care about; you just need to occasionally log into it through a browser and browse YouTube while pretending to be someone entirely different from yourself for a bit and check emails or compose a Google Doc, full of nonsense of course, for it.
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As I outlined in my comment; humans attempting validation of email addresses like this using patterns and words and domains that they know about is doing things incorrectly. Guide them as bluntly or as gently as you feel is necessary and or proper to educate them on what modern email addresses can look like.
You maybe able to inform someone who might be expecting your email address to be at a common domain name that they should not make that assumption and that they should be double checking them regardless of what provider(s) they assume the person they are helping is using anyways.
Someone asking you to repeat your email address again is a GOOD THING! It means they're paying attention to inputting it into their system(s) correctly; It is mildy annoying when people assume that I use a common provider anyways, as they might inadvertently attempt to incorrectly "upgrade/update" my email address to the domain they use or know.
An example I've experienced: I owned an original @googlemail.com GMail account. Until they mothballed the @googlemail.com domain I used it in that format. Inattentive people would attempt to substitute @gmail.com. Another issue would be that My actual Username on said GMail account is a direct mispelling with one letter transposed into an incorrect position. This Misspelling is intentional, and it used to work to my advantage to dodge spambots using dictionaries to guess email IDs. Therefore for a short time people would attempt to "correct" it and I would always prefix my email address explaining they need to input it exactly as I spell it out.
I suppose when dealing with E-Mails it is simply critical to make sure they repeat it back to you before submitting it. This is simply to avoid your E-Mails being mis-delivered anyways; which in some cases can be a Massive Headache when it does happen.
Realistically I've never been banned, rate-limited or affected when using Aurora. I would recommend at least using microG installation as well though. I suspect that phones that look most suspicious would be ones that never formally "logged into" Google Play Services normally as well, so make sure you've logged into your chosen Google account once with the phone in it's stock full OEM Google Play Services configuration.
Critically, Do Not Use the "Built in Anonymous Accounts" In Aurora! That's just painting a target on your backside and would probably make your device look even more suspicious to whatever AI is swinging the banhammer these days.
Setting up a fresh, new, Google account is critical. Then go about "hardening" the account by setting up TOTP 2FA and disabling all the unwanted tracking options in your Google Account page. You can even generate "app passwords" here that can work for logging into Aurora.
My advice to you is to use this one new Google account across any Google Services you need to log into. Do not just log into microG and Aurora with your new account! Throw it a bone and log into a Youtube page or some other Google Service like GMail every once in a while, even if you do so from the phone's browser only.
The more suspicious and single purpose the account appears to be; the less it blends in and could potentially be suspended by some wayward AI.
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how is yourname@tuta.com "more legit" than yourname@tuta.io ?
I genuinely see no factual or social difference in the domains; tuta.com is a new domain even; and in the world of E-Mail that may even be a problem in rare cases.
Realistically tuta.io is shorter than tuta.com. The .com TLD is not better than any other, and all TLDs; including gTLDs are 100% valid for email addresses. Any Software or Human entity that assumes otherwise is doing things incorrectly; and should be promptly complained about loudly.
The Constitution is definitely clear. Due Process of Law is required to deprive a citizen of their Constitutional rights.
Do Civil proceedings pass the bar of "Due Process"? This is what the SCOTUS must decide.
Personally I don't think they are sufficient enough Due Process alone. I do however suspect that if criminal charges are filed and one is convicted of violence, a Civil court judge may still be within their rights to suspend the rights of the accused to own a firearm temporarily to protect someone.
Rahimi was issued a restraining order in 2020 after a violent altercation with his girlfriend in Arlington, Texas. A court found that he had “committed family violence” and that it was likely to occur again.
So this man was already convicted of gun violence once by a criminal court.
When the police ultimately obtained a search warrant for his home, they found a rifle and a pistol, and Rahimi admitted that he was subject to the protective order that had been entered in the civil proceeding.
The evidence shows he's been sanctioned by a protective order.
A federal grand jury indicted him, and Rahimi moved to dismiss the indictment, arguing that the law was unconstitutional. He lost his court effort, but then the Supreme Court issued the landmark Second Amendment decision.
He's been indicted on criminal charges. Yep. I think this guy in particular probably did not have his Constitutional rights to own a gun intact.
Rahimi, who is challenging his conviction under a federal law that bars individuals subject to domestic violence restraining orders from possessing a firearm, is being held at the jail under separate charges stemming from a series of gun-related incidents.
Ah yeah. This. He definitely should not be allowed to own a gun if convicted under these separate charges.
Relatedly, I also see there's a federal law on the books. Hmm. This sounds like the people already believe this civil proceeding is Due Process!
Just by doing a little sleuthing I found out some things that really point to this article being a bit more flawed than one might think.
From: https://themessenger.com/info/about-us
The Messenger launched in May 2023. It is owned by JAF Communications, Inc., a privately-owned American digital media company based in West Palm Beach with additional offices in New York and Washington, D.C. The company was founded by James Finkelstein, Chairman and CEO.
First; the news outlet breaking this story? It's new. Brand Spanking New. So new that not even Wikipedia would recognize this site as notable.
The Messenger was founded to champion balanced journalism in an era of bias, subjectivity, and misinformation. The Messenger offers thorough, objective, non-partisan, and timely news coverage of politics, business, health, technology, international affairs, sports, travel, and more.
A noble ethos; but they really haven't been around long enough to be able to assign a lean to their content yet. I think this is telling of their goals...to publish articles on topics that they feel are getting biased coverage.
From: https://professional.heart.org/en/meetings/scientific-sessions
Scientific Sessions 2023
Pre-Sessions Symposia & Early Career Day: November 10, 2023
Scientific Sessions: November 11–13, 2023
Hmm....
From the article: https://themessenger.com/health/marijuana-use-heart-attack-heart-failure-brain-issues
Published 11/06/23 09:08 PM ET|Updated 11/06/23 09:08 PM ET
HMMMMMmmmmm......
Yeah these dates don't match; and the author clearly did not attend this symposium to ask questions or do appropriate research on the matter.
From: https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1006523 (Emphasis added)
In a secondary analysis, when coronary artery disease was added to the investigation, the risk of heart failure dropped from 34% to 27%, suggesting that coronary artery disease is a pathway through which daily marijuana use may lead to heart failure.
Hmmm. I'm beginning to suspect this study is still kind of a pre-print and it's not yet fully finished. Not to mention the issue that this is from a news release and lots of paraphrasing is probably at play here. If I'm understanding this correctly; the primary investigation did not even consider or take into account the effects of coronary artery disease nor would it appear that the study was crafted to screen for or account with people who already have coronary artery disease or similar problems or risk factors.
“Our results should encourage more researchers to study the use of marijuana to better understand its health implications, especially on cardiovascular risk,” Bene-Alhasan said. “We want to provide the population with high-quality information on marijuana use and to help inform policy decisions at the state level, to educate patients and to guide health care professionals.”
Hmmmmm. Do we have a bit of an agenda maybe? It's hard to say for certain; but it sounds like they actually do want to cast doubt on the issue with relatively weak scientific evidence.
The median participant age was 54 years; 60.9% of participants were female at birth; 70.7% self-identified as white adults; 21.8% were Black or African American adults; 4.2% were Asian adults; 2.2% were identified as more than one race/ethnicity; and 1.1% were from other races/ethnicities.
I see. So we have an outsized number of older participants; who are far more likely to be at risk for heart problems.
The study enrollment began in June 2016. Participants were followed from when they enrolled until June 2022, a maximum of approximately 4 years (45 months).
Ah. Yeah. If we have been paying attention to the four year period between 2016 and 2022, we note that had a pandemic during that period too; which I suspect might also be problematic.
In a second study, different researchers evaluated data from the 2019 National Inpatient Sample, the largest nationwide database of hospitalizations, to investigate whether hospital stays were complicated by a cardiovascular event, including heart attack, stroke, cardiac arrest or arrhythmia in patients who used marijuana. Researchers extracted records on adults older than age 65 years with cardiovascular risk factors who reported no tobacco use (cigarettes or other tobacco products). This group of patient records were then divided into two groups: marijuana users and non-marijuana users. The marijuana user’s hospital records were coded for cannabis use disorder which can vary from hospital to hospital.
Yep. Older adults. It feels like they carefully selected subjects and data that would support their conclusions. Obviously this was Not a randomized controlled trial, and it should not be treated like one.
I have to point out that getting mad at the manufacturer of the weapon is so pointless.
Get mad at the user of the damn weapon please. Oh? You can't protest in front of them? Ok, maybe you should sit this one out then. Nobody's demanding you condone the action or the abhorrent violence, and there's plenty of freeze peaches around for you to express your outrage at it without causing disruption for anyone who isn't guilty of a war crime.
She should remand the entire Trump legal team to the jail for a day, and require Trump to stay at his home for that day as well.
I see the Orange Man-Baby and his fervent Orange Man-Baby-Fans can't keep their cool.
Genuinely I hope his fans realize they're making things worse for him; and that he doesn't need help with making things worse for himself anyways.
I also know that the 14th Amendment requires that he be disqualified from office and that he is in fact under Congressional investigation for treasonous acts. That he is not yet charged does not mean he is acquitted. Everyone knows how rabid his fanbase is. They're going to take their sweet time investigating him and holding him accountable.