So I guess all of those unsupervised PPP loans that were forgiven were a nice feather in the Democratic hat, then, huh?

That’s fair.

To that end, they’d have to start banning all the 24-hr talking heads from being able to call themselves news channels and regulate the term.

As it stands there’s no way to flip the counties that that’ll just listen to that drivel all day telling them to vote against their own interests.

It means that votes are diluted such that it’s nearly impossible for the state to turn despite the fact that most of its voters have.

And while, yes that isn’t mutually exclusive to Texas, we weren’t talking about them were we?

It’s just a way to ensure that a sizeable population isn’t adequately represented.

Population density:

Political Leaning

Districting:

Or, maybe it’s because they’re gerrymander’d to shit?

Tyranny by majority…

I’m still thinking Vance would push Drumpf down the stairs within minutes if they won.

He was trying to nuke hurricanes, for instance.

To be fair, they did stop him from nuking things the last time he was in office.

Before YouTube’s switch to “your going to watch 6 ads before the video starts, and you are going to like it,” schtick, I always enjoyed getting to skip the ad before they managed to tell me what the product even was.

It doesn’t need to be an animated visual to be distracting or NSFW…

That’s a lot of faith that the ads would be SFW, let alone not distracting.

Not only that, but then they go and blow half of their budget on adverts instead of R&D.

While, yes it is not copy and paste in the literal sense, it does still have the capacity to outright copy the style of an artist’s work that was used to train it.

If teaching another artist’s work is already frowned upon when trying to pass the trace off as one’s own work, then there’s little difference when a computer does it more convincingly.

Maybe a bit off tangent here, since I’m not even sure if this is strictly possible, but if a generative system was only trained off of, say, only Picasso’s work, would you be able to pass the outputs off as Picasso pieces? Or would they be considered the work of the person writing a prompt or built the AI? What if the artist wasn’t Picasso but someone still alive, would they get a cut of the profits?

The art isn’t being made btw so much as being copy and pasted in a way that might convince you it was new.

Since the AI cannot create a new style or genre on its own, without source material that already exists to train it, and that source material is often scraped up off of databases, often against the will and intent of the original creators, it is seen as theft.

Especially if the artists were in no way compensated.

My trackball mice have had parts deteriorate at around the two year mark before. After this one breaks, usually the scrollwheel or the left click key, I’m switching to an opensource trackball system.

This is it, exactly. They are going to start voting in a way that generates themselves the most future gifts, actual justice be damned.

Who do you think is going to be able to afford future gifts? Because it sure as hell isn’t going to be the little guy.

Textbook ‘Suicidal Death Cult’ stuff there.

That’s great, but it doesn’t matter unless it has the physical cutoff that’s required to bring that kind of system up to the current electrical code for such a system.

Yeah, non-USA for this atm, as much fun as it would be to plug such a system into an apartment.

I believe that the US requires that a direct-feed system has to plug into a physical kill switch setup to prevent back-feed of power during an outage.

Still pretty neat, though!

Have you seen the idiots out on the road these days?

However, as far as turn signals go, this is one of the less egregious designs. Car manufacturers are given too much leeway in what is allowed for such systems, like putting them between headlights or making them use the same circuits as the brake lights instead of a dedicated light.