- > Or else you'd be rallying just as hard to allow children to drink alcohol
Why? I don't have a threshold at 127 in my luminance channel.
Just a reminder - what children are allowed or not is not any government's business, it's parents' one. Which requires tearing their asses off from sofas and their eyes from screens and actually talk to their children and be in the know of their circles and activities.
- > What's the most commonly used tool for proxying now?
- The neighbouring pot must always seem hotter to the frogs that are being boiled in their own one, that's a rule of the kitchen.
- > I love Australia‘s banning of Social media for kids.
Talking about ruthless dictators and true democrats in the same post.
- It's not the puppets who don't want to hear, it's the puppet masters.
- > start changing the system, or get rid of the passport
Right after you, my friend, as soon as you singlehandedly stop the US special military operation in Venezuela and extrajudicial killing of people off its coasts, or jail the commanders and mercenaries of EU forces in Syria, Afghan and Libyian war, depending on your passport. Or get rid of it.
And before you deploy your strawman about "terrorists" - that's exactly the same term that has been used by the kremlin to excuse the invasion into Ukraine.
Your illusion of possibility to change the system shall pass soon, rest assured.
- > When was the last time you have heard a song without autotune?
Right now, 2025-12-25, 09:00 UTC, I'm listening to a song without autotune.
Everything But The Girl - Missing (Todd Terry remix)
And I can also find thousands of songs without autotune that were released on Spotify yesterday. Seek and thou shall find.
Also it's not clear how autotune is related to ego. No one pretends that autotune makes one a singer. It's but an effect, and quite artsy on its own when used properly. Does compressor relate to it too? Delay? Reverb?
"This song has too much ego, the reverb is 6dB louder than the dry signal"...
How does a sheer number of subpar artists caring only about money (which is of course a thing, but nowhere near a 99% thing, and maybe a problem for those who are too lazy to discern and search themselves) justify robbing truly sincere artists who share their soul with the listener?
- Had to look that up:
"The end of history is a political and philosophical concept that supposes that a particular political, economic, or social system may develop that would constitute the end-point of humanity's sociocultural evolution and the final form of human government."
So are you implying that I should start treating every foreigner as an enemy just because we as a humanity didn't, and maybe will never come up with a political system that will bring peace on Earth once and for all?
Allright then, I'll still regard most of you at least as non-enemies, if you so object being friends with me;
but you are free to continue considering me your enemy if your current political fartwinds turn your wind vane that way.
- AI brings clarity.
Do you mean that kind of clarity when no audio/video evidence is a proof of anything anymore?
> This results in a lot of pain for those who tried to hijack the game in one way or another.
I'm not quite sure if any artists, designers, musicians and programmers whose work was used to train AI without their consent tried to manipulate anyone or hijack anything. Care to elaborate?
- Dude, speaking in stereotypes doesn't do you any favor.
- A certain part of speakers - yes. A large part, no doubt, otherwise there'd be no one to fight this war.
But what about the other part?
The part that is guilty fell for the same trick that you're falling for - they perceived the whole nation as one single entity that, as they were told by the propaganda, was all Nazis, from newborns to the elderly.
We both know that was bullshit, but you keep painting all Russians in the same way the zombified part of Russians has been painting Ukrainians.
- Take for example Russian коричневый (brown).
It stems from корица (cinnamon), which was first introduced to Russia in 16th century, and literally means "the color of cinnamon".
But before that they used бурый, from turkic bor/bur, meaning bay, as in horse color.
I guess there must be an older synonym for "color of coffee" in Georgian too.
- You're really deep into painting everyone with the same brush, aren't you?
Define russian federation first. Am I it? Is it land? Is it government? Is it those zombie mercenaries who execute criminal orders? Is it those who got jailed after protests against war? Is it those who got conscripted? Those who fled the country to avoid that? Those who struggle to meet ends? Those cruising aboard 150 meter yachts?
Who is this elusive mrs. russian federation?
- А в белом доме или в парламенте евросоюза с тобой согласны по всем вопросам?
- You've just associated actions of a certain fascist government with the whole language spoken by hundreds of millions of people who are against the war it waged and which is orders of magnitude older.
That's not very bright of you, to put it mildly.
Mind you, the language argument was just as well employed by the putin's propagandists, as in something along the lines of "just listen how silly Ukrainian sub-language sounds, lol".
Which is an argument every sane human being finds disgusting and stupid beyond all comprehension, of course.
- > There is a saying that you should learn the enemy language to understand them.
Мы не враги, друг мой..
- On the contrary, it's pretty possible that LLMs themselves will be perceied as a quaint historic artefact and join the ranks of mechanical turks, zeppelins, segways, google glasses and blockchains.
- I'm constanly encountering this "bloated ego" argument every time the narrative is being steered away to prevent monetary losses for AI companies.
Especially so when it concerns AI theft of human music and visual art.
"Those pompous artists, who do they think they are? We'll rob them of their egos".
The problem is that these ego-accusations don't quite come from egoless entities.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.