Do people need to care?

Do what you need to to secure your privacy, and let people know how much of a travesty it is that their privacy and rights are being stripped away, but at the end of the day they’re their own people and so if they choose not to care that’s their decision, and it’s not up to you to choose how they’re allowed to think or live their lives, even if it appears obviously wrong and short-sighted to you or I

The real difference is between gif and animated webp… Even fewer places accept animated webp than normal webp and those that do often don’t even show it right (looking at you slack emojis) which is a travesty as the file size difference is huge

Singapore?

And the EU have burgundy which is red-adjacent

Why not just tax based on the number of homes, isn’t that a better idea?

If someone owns three £10M mansions, they’re potentially depriving two families of homes by way of scarsity, but frankly if you can afford a £10M mansion is it really an issue, as you’re not being deprived of a home?

If they instead own one £10M mansion and forty £200k flats/terraces, they’re potentially depriving forty families of homes and so should probably be charged twenty times as much to dissuade people from buying up the cheapest homes.

What made you think I thought the US isn’t authoritarian?

Authoritarian means the government deciding what people can do or say beyond preventing actual harm to others, or causing harm to their subjects to promote the government’s interest to the detriment of the people.

Overthrowing other governments is imperialism, not authoritarianism - I’d define thr latter as largely internal, exceptions being eg. Singapore’s laws applying to Singaporean citizens and residents even when they’re outside of Singapore.

Not wanting to lick the boots of either the government or corporations makes you a centrist?

That’s news to me

Authoritarian leftist things.

A lot of people on non ml/grad/hexbear instances are both anti-authoritarian and leftist, so they see hexbear as just as bad as capitalists in terms of being pro-opression

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In the US? None, but the Libertarians probably come closest.

The US is built on imperialism so of course no party is anti-imperialist, being anti-government is as close as you can get.

Within Europe there are some parties that lean more anti-imperialist, generally green and liberal parties, but the traditional major conservative and leftist parties rarely are.

The USSR rivals the US, Japan and Germany for the most imperialist state in the past 100 years, so no, leftists are not anti-imperialist by default, that’s closer to liberals. Leftists are anti-capitalist by default.

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Yeah, racism in europe is largely stereotypes directed at whole groups that are rooted in truth but grossly overblown, eg “black people just want to commit crime”, “arabs want to install sharia”, “east asians want to eat your dog”, “indians want to outgrow the native population” and other nonsense.

If you ask the huge majority of the people who are saying these things if they interact with people in these groups, they’ll say “yes, but they’re some of the good ones” not realising it’s only a tiny fraction who aren’t, but also accepting that race doesn’t automatically make you anything.

Comparing that to the US where (from what I’m aware of) there’s both “I refuse to even speak to members of xyz race because they’re subhuman” and “xyz race needs all the help they can get because they have such a tough time” it seems so hard for individuals to just live a normal life in the US?

European racism is casual compared to even everyday American racism, even considering the likes of AfD

What?

Britain for most of the 20th century wasn’t even trying to home grow food any more, it came in canned from across the world as it’s a lot easier to ration and stockpile food which lasts forever, hence the reputation for awful food… It’s only comparatively recently that we’ve been rediscovering historical British food

Us politics isn’t about economics anyway, especially when you’ve got Republicans raising taxes sky high and restricting free trade. It’s about social and cultural issues more than ever these days.

It’s worth saying the number of minors is absolute, so they could’ve been in a single period (eg if they knew they made a mistake on the reverse park, so were nervous and drove slower for a bit and stalled a couple of times)

I had the same thing where I racked up around 10 minors during/after my emergency stop was partly botched but still safe. I was explicitly told I passed because they were all still safe, within a short interval and I recovered quickly from it.

That said, 1.5 years of learning is a long time to still be shaky after

We basically have professional ministers already - it’s the senior members of the civil service, they’re just less public facing as their job is to make things happen, not headlines.

I did some experimenting - I can’t sleep above 67 at most, 65 comfortably.

Anything above 68 is too hot generally indoors and I begin to lose the ability to focus.

I don’t have AC but my house is from the 1860s when people had fires running pretty much nonstop so is designed to keep cool, so even when it’s 80+ outdoors the indoor temperature rarely goes above 70

A lot of what we consider ‘artists’ weren’t really making art

I think that’s extrapolating too far… I think the overwhelming majority made art outside of their job, with with minorities making art for their job and a minority not making any art at all. It’s hard to create commissioned works without a strong skillset which overlaps significantly with that required for art, just that if they were just taking a commission without going above and beyond, that isn’t art.

I’m not convinced your take is different - drawing an accurate sketch of a hand isn’t art, telling AI to generate a hand isn’t art, it requires someone creative or expressing something to be art, regardless of the medium(s), including diffusion/noise removal models being a medium.

Nobody’s going to claim illustrator or inkscape “made” your graphic design, so why claim the same for AI - doing so just shows you don’t understand the medium or what goes into finetuning models, parameters, inpainting, step control of loras, block weights, noise removal level and regional prompting and all the other things that differentiate a piece of AI-generated art from AI slop (not to say that you have to use all of these for it to be art, just that once you do it probably passes the threshold for it to be art)?