Zoom in on the first picture, then on the second picture.
If you want to hate on Gen image AI, at least learn to spot artifacts - every method of creating images has artifacts.
The first one has a faint halo around the letters but has regular edges - so perfect it seems like a vector image, with the possible exception of the letters
Now zoom in on what you posted... The colors of the edges are weirdly colorful and dreamy, the background is irregular in comparison
All methods of image generation (including photography) has artifacts, zoom in and look at the edges. Learn the artifacts.
Central planning is terrible.... Bernie isn't about that, he's dialed in on next steps
Decentralized planning is better - don't control from on high, support it being done as local as possible. Cast a wide net, Foster competition while forcing them to share their answers
You sell something for 20€, you put on VAT to that and that's the total price paid by the buyer.
I feel like I'm taking crazy pills, I'm not even opposed to the idea of a VAT or a country incentivizing local production, but I feel like I'm being led in circles trying to understand what it actually is
But like... Don't you think the home country(ies) taxed the production themselves at every stage themselves? And now it's coming into your country, and it's all taxed again. If it was made in your country, it would have been theoretically taxed at the final value once
So the lower value the import coming into the country, the lower the taxes on it. It's essentially a tax break for manufacturing in the country, no?
Wait... What? You say it has no implications for international trade, but you just said things produced in-country are taxed less...
It's doesn't sound like it's just perception, it's incentivizing production within the country. You're taxing imports fully, but making sure to tax the value added in county only once, which is huge
I'm not opposed to such a thing, I'm all about producing as locally as possible, but that seems like it's in the same ballpark as a tarrif. Am I missing something?
I mean... Everything is, really. I don't think it's a problem with cloud, I think corporations are slashing their workforce so hard they can't keep up the quality
I want artists to eat, and I also want everyone to have more access to expression. Me finishing my dinner doesn't help the kids in Africa, and if I made a comic I'm not stealing food from the artists mouths
If you want systematic changes, you need systematic solutions. Empty moralizing won't fix anything
Probably because we don't really ever hear it explained
I consider myself pretty well read and I think I know what it means, but I'm making some assumptions. Could you explain it, and why it's a good solution here?
I thought you didn't get the joke, so I made it more obvious... Even in asking for clarification you seemed to be playing along
I don't know what to tell you... This is my favorite form of humor, and even if people don't get it I normally just let them think I'm an idiot and move on
But since you put time into your response, I put in time to explain how to spot this in the future
You know, people are regularly un-deported, right? Well at least they used to be... This is a thing that happens
Also, El Salvador isn't refusing... The Trump admin is refusing to ask. We're literally paying them for this service - can the state say "sorry, we can't release this person because they're in a private prison, and that's against our contract with them". No, the contract can be invalidated and the state can be compelled to take reasonable action to fix it
You can't do a shell game to avoid court orders, and that's exactly what the Trump admin is attempting
Nah, it's not... The framers of the constitution put in multiple reset buttons, with the warning that this is for when their systems fail - not if. The question is, can we shake off the rust on one of the methods before we hit the final one
The pax Americana is over, the world no longer trusts us or respects us. They hate us, fear us, pity us... But for a generation to come, they won't trust us
Shit is going to get rough, but it's far from over. The question is will we see the other side of this in our lifetime
Saying someone is doing a 5d chess move is an over-exaggeration of saying they did a 3d chess move, which means to do something that seems incomprehensible at a glance but makes total sense to someone who understands the rules.
The joke is to insist that if you understood the reasoning, it's actually a brilliant move. But it's 5d chess, a game that doesn't exist (and 5d chess with multiversal time travel isn't really 5d chess, despite the name)
Basically, they want to control all aspects of society on high - no politicians, direct control of the economy, rigidly scheduled work and production, and expanding the borders from Panama to the artic circle.
Imagine centralized planning and authoritarian control of all aspects of society, but by business leaders (who presumably are the smartest and best at listening to science)
Here's the movement described by proponents:
Technocracy is the science of social engineering, the scientific operation of the entire social mechanism to produce and distribute goods and services to the entire population of this continent. For the first time in human history it will be done as a scientific, technical, engineering problem. There will be no place for Politics or Politicians, Finance or Financiers, Rackets or Racketeers. Technocracy states that this method of operating the social mechanism of the North American Continent is now mandatory because we have passed from a state of actual scarcity into the present status of potential abundance in which we are now held to an artificial scarcity forced upon us in order to continue a Price System which can distribute goods only by means of a medium of exchange. Technocracy states that price and abundance are incompatible; the greater the abundance the smaller the price. In a real abundance there can be no price at all. Only by abandoning the interfering price control and substituting a scientific method of production and distribution can an abundance be achieved. Technocracy will distribute by means of a certificate of distribution available to every citizen from birth to death. The Technate will encompass the entire American Continent from Panama to the North Pole because the natural resources and the natural boundary of this area make it an independent, self-sustaining geographical unit.[45]
It's not a zero sum game - the real problem is when it's competing with paid work
Commissioning an artist to do this is imaginary work - there's no money to be made here, who commissions a political comic? If you can't draw, you wouldn't be doing it
There's a problem if you're mass producing slop, or companies are using AI art to avoid paying artists... But this was a clear, human created message delivered by using a fancy tool
And what's more, this is an important message to spread ASAP.
Can you name a better situation to use Gen image AI, or do you just hate it because of what it is?
Same reason everything is bad... Constantly demanding more from less workers, and because the priorities of the company owners is not quality