Wet Dunmer
used to lead the Cavy but have since been deposed in a bloodless but harrowing coup
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"wow, you're saying it's bad to use slaves? Next you'll be saying there were no good Wehrmacht"
And the part where the 13th amendment says slavery is legal as long as the slave is a prisoner? That's, uh, that's a typo. The prisoners being used as slaves in a country where slavery is legal shouldn't be called slaves, for some reason
He also, let's remember, said he was going to kill Aisling Bea and Sara Pascoe for disagreeing with him about transgender rights.
The sentiment I expected but the phrasing genuinely spiked my blood pressure. I despise the way he says everything. Flags are nice. My wife is like a slice of bread. I make tough decisions but don't worry about that, I think fairness is the good stuff. Calm and sensible me time. Oasis band good?
Post a meme made by you: Of all the stupid things I've posted over the years, this is probably the one I see in the wild the most.
What reasoning? You're just making some weird argument that an unnecessary luxury shouldn't be subject to VAT because most super rich people don't use it (no citation). I bought some cheap beer today that most super rich people probably don't buy. Should that also have been VAT-exempt?
I didn't use the word "rich" at all. I earn considerably over median income and I am not rich. I could not send my son Tuggy to private school even if his useless vile self deserved it. The second half of your comment appears to be talking about some other irrelevant shit that I don't care about.
That's a strange way to phrase "87.5% of private school families earn above median income", which isn't really a statistic I would rely on to argue that private school is some kind of egalitarian enterprise.
my father-in-law is a “I know a guy” Guy. sadly all the old Guys are aging out of the Guy Economy. Guys are fundamentally incompatible with Hustle Culture because it’s not about “winning” a deal, it’s about collecting favors and goodwill in a mutually-beneficial cycle. protect your local Guy Economy
Sorry, a product should be allowed to tell people to kill themselves because other people sometimes do that too? Is that the logic we're going with? Other people can murder you, shall we just take safety warnings off of anything that poses a health risk?
If this is what the product can demonstrably lead to, the product isn't safe for public use and they shouldn't be pouring billions into operating it. Where's the safety manual? Where's the "read me" guidance that you have to go over before using it? Where's the concept of corporate responsibility?
All I will say is, once the key is recovered, listen closely to see if you can hear any ribbits before opening
This is literally a sidequest in Pentiment (except it's the key to the tabernacle but I was raised far too protestant to understand the difference)
Puckboys (similar to but VERY CRUCIALLY different to fuckboys)
When I moved into my flat I somehow ended up the subject of a local feelgood news article because there was a cat who liked to visit. Deeply blessed www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/2351674...
Perhaps, one day, schoolkids will study this squalid little chapter in British terror-panic history. When they do, I hope these two headlines from today are printed side by side, with clear annotation of which individual faced more outrage and condemnation.
Information relating to the M&S complaint, reportedly from the trans woman whom the complaint was about. Almost everything claimed in recent articles is extremely inaccurate. 1/
I suspect this one was brought out specifically when the Sandy Peggie tribunal took a turn against her with evidence being presented of her virulent racism and transphobia - I think this suddenly resurfaced within a day. They're probably sitting on a few stories like this to throw out as distraction
From the replies (bsky.app/profile/dasb...) here's Sam Altman doing what the quoted post described. He seems serious about it.
Yeah, maybe we just idk build an impossibly vast megastructure that is far beyond any technical ability we are ever likely to attain using materials science that doesn't exist, maybe that'd be easier idk man idk.
Rowling once reported someone saying "I wish on JK Rowling only what she wishes on trans people" as a threat of violence. She wishes violence on trans people in her own words! By her own admission! I am so tired of being expected to pretend that she doesn't!
I see someone has already said everything I was going to say, spot on all around!
Wow Sally Rooney. Fair play. ‘I feel obliged to state once more that… I too support Palestine Action. … If the British state considers this "terrorism", then perhaps it should investigate the shady organisations that continue to promote my work and fund my activities, such as WH Smith and the BBC.’
They send a tiny digital police detective into the computer and he catches the incoming funds with a big fishing net
They've been doing this for a while unfortunately. Even when the major mass exodus took place last year, they were already actively silencing e.g. Palestinian voices.
I have a lore channel on my discord for my tabletop setting, which I fill with nonsense like the cooking habits of orcs, the life cycles of a species of pig that does a Death Stranding voidout if upset, and the squabbles and cosmic horrors that ruined earlier versions of the game. I enjoy it deeply
A teenage 4channer was beat up by two 15 year olds in DC, which was spotted and quickly stopped by nearby police. He told his friends, the richest man in the world and the Vice President of the United States, that he was pummeled by a dozen adult Romanians. A week later, Trump federalized DC police.
To successfully dedicate yourself to destroying human rights, you first need to be an experienced human rights lawyer. Nobody ever claimed he was a *pro* human rights lawyer...
RELEASED We can now confirm that every arrestee from the Lift The Ban sign-holding action has been released. None have been charged. Hundreds of the arrestees were taken to police cells. Hundreds were processed in pop-up gazebos after queuing for hours. www.wedonotcomply.org
Oh well, as long as you come out slightly better than the literal Nazi pedophiles, no need for any self-reflection I guess
If you ever find yourself drifting towards the idea that public defenders, legal aid lawyers, and pro bono/sliding scale/movement lawyers are bad people for representing rapists or murderers or con artists or whatever, just keep in mind that is true only if you conclude the government never lies.
I understand the importance of insect life but I absolutely draw the line at wasps. I will not protect the wasps. They are horrible and they will go out of their way to sting you on purpose just for the love of the game. They can absolutely fuck off
that was literally the opposite of the problem
Well said on all counts here! Very tempting and far too easy to point across the water and say "look, they're leading the way, we're not as bad as them". When the reality is (a) we have plenty of homegrown bigotry and (b) we're not as bad as them is hardly reason to get complacent anyway.
If nothing else, Alex's comparison here surely suggests that she believes we should arrest anyone who's ever sung along to the Wolfe Tones, which would be a bold move and in fairness would probably make Keir Starmer very happy
Designed a new sign for my convention table. Might be too subtle, idk, what do you reckon?! No Oxford comma we die like men!
So if I were to ask Corbyn if he was going to guarantee my medical treatment, should I expect you to respond to me by asking how many type 1 diabetics there are in the UK? If not, why not? What's the difference here?
Looking at some of the easily accessible figures on this, it looks like it's only slightly lower than the number of type 1 diabetics. Personally I'd like to continue accessing my life saving insulin hormone treatment and if that was under threat I'd want to see politicians sticking up for me.
Being awake due to a persistent sneeze/sniffle, the entire night leading into a work week, is known as "The Cool Prologue" and it means you're in for a really good week
It's something I never understood at all. Always felt very American or... something. Just very clearly not for me, which is one thing, but I couldn't even work out what the appeal was supposed to be
I did not believe Popstar could possibly be good, and how terribly wrong I was
YOU KNOW - dashare.zone ADMIN
The "cool" thing about Baudrillard providing far & away the most compelling explanations for & predictions of the basic material reality of life in 2025 is that Baudrillard is maybe the bleakest and most hopeless philosophy ever produced
The BBC News website has pages & pages of coverage related to farmers protesting inheritance tax, including events where only a few hundred turn out. In London yesterday 100,000 people marched for trans rights, and nothing. Imagine if it was 100,000 anti immigrant activists, they'd cover that.
Understandable really, can't argue with it.
OSA is gonna make us lose access to fucking wikipedia write to your MPs.
Another day in the degeneration of British politics. Policies which are more extreme than the 2010 BNP manifesto being bandied around as if they were worthy of consideration and respect.
reddit is censoring lgbt+ content in the uk bcos of the 'online safety act' exactly what we said would happen @lgbtfdn.bsky.social, @stonewalluk.bsky.social, they censoring you lgb folks too do you care now or do you still think having a nice sandwich and a cocktail with starmer is a good idea?
Oh my god
when they close it all up, I do believe this will go down as the funniest video on the internet
Feeling a completely indescribable emotion at discovering that Hulk Hogan claimed to have written, and then changed his mind about, a song about Jamie Bulger being his imaginary friend
The business secretary Jonathan Reynolds says the racist protesters intimidating asylum seekers in Epping are "upset for legitimate reasons.” I don't remember any Labour frontbencher saying the same about people protesting the genocide in Gaza. On the contrary, they've criminalised peaceful dissent.
Is this "environmental storytelling"?
If you take nonviolent direct action, Labour will brand you a terrorist. If you riot, and try to burn buildings down, Labour will listen to your legitimate concerns. Take note, comrades
Reminder: Labour started their rollback of trans rights pretty much on day 1 of gaining power, that was MONTHS before the US election. Starmer isn't doing this for trade deals, he's doing this because he wants to.
If I had not done any sex crimes and I was privy to the entire body of evidence demonstrating my innocence of said crimes I would probably not refuse to publish it, have a very public meltdown about it and then claim it was written by Hillary Clinton.
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Yeah to be honest this has me questioning whether to keep using it. I was thinking of it as automated resolution increase followed by the actual artistic work being done by a human, but there's clearly more of a typical generative "art" aspect than I appreciated or am wholly comfortable with
Confirming my biases so happy to believe you! Seemed like a very plausible "OR" but neither point stands on its own meri
Yeah I can respect that I guess. I'm as surprised as anyone that after 20 years of refusing to use texture replacers I quite liked this one, and didn't realise AI was used until after I'd started playing with it. And I still avoid any other AI art mods lol
Definitely agree it will never do a better job - I guess what I'm trying to understand is whether, if used as an efficiency tool and with heavy human input and oversight: a) the end result can be the same high quality the artist would produce; AND b) it actually does save time overall
At the same time when people in areas I *do* understand tell me it makes them work more efficiently I regard that with a great deal of scepticism. Personally I'd rather nobody use it for art at all, but I don't know enough to tell people that *with limited careful use* it's not a valid tool
I'd certainly be interested in knowing how much time it actually saved at the end of the day, for sure. Fairly clear that it can't produce worthwhile results unless used as an aid by an actual artist - but if they're telling me it helps them work quicker I can't really say "no it doesn't".
Okay? Sorry? You responded to me talking about something so I posted the thing I was talking about?
My understanding could be completely off - as mentioned I am very stupid - but to me this seems closer to e.g. Spider-Verse using machine learning to add and adjust ink outlines on characters, rather than an LLM generating new "art" from a prompt?
We're discussing cases where there is human judgement at every step, though, as compared to terrible situations like the GTA upscales where there was no such thing.
By the creator's own account they spent a lot of time and effort manually cleaning up a great many of the textures and making manual edits, so I was admittedly likely wrong when I said 90%. You certainly won't get good results blindly feeding .dds files into an imagine scaler
The specifics ( esrgan.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ ) are frankly beyond me and I'm very stupid, all I know is that *with* careful human oversight of both the input and output, it demonstrably works - it just automates some tedious parts. The result is just a higher res version of the same art.
I went on a date with a chatbot. I had a sleepover with my toaster. I booked a line dancing class with a set of jangling keys. I discussed interior decoration with my blood sugar monitor. I came in my Roomba
I had a similar issue last year and it turned out there was some fancy boy computer chip in the dishwasher that went faulty and needed replaced. Not allowed to fix anything ourselves these days. Political correctness gone mad, probably
Personally, as a leftist, I love to put out job ads for the "benefit class, criminal class and/or underclass", because I am also a Batman villain trying to recruit henchmen and/or goons to carry my boombox while I carry out a heist on the Gotham diamond warehouse.
Yeah this has been a thing in games for over 30 years and there's nothing wrong with it at all. Imagine without it being the guy whose job is to hand place every tree in a dense forest level lol
Hey, remember when the Panama Papers were released and they showed how basically every wealthy person on the planet was avoiding taxes by offshoring their money and nothing was done about it except the reporter who broke the story was murdered with a car bomb?
The first story on BBC News at 1 was them apologising for not being servile enough towards Israel The fifth story was about how Israel says they killed ten Palestinians queuing for water by mistake
Score docked for mentioning naturals
Liberals believe that the left, despite our total disenfranchisement, is the only group with free will to decide elections. The right will obviously vote for the racist party (but for some reason we still have to court them) and the centre are hapless and it's never their fault, so must be the left
"the left" apparently now includes a Batman villain recruiting henchmen to carry boomboxes while robbing Gotham's diamond warehouse.
Perhaps another thirty years of this obviously catastrophic drivel will improve matters somewhat
Also large components of Scots Law are based on his Institutes and are the reason I had to answer exam questions in uni about a lion stealing a dangling display of sausages then crashing into a market stall.
I saw that about the fire but hadn't heard about the boy getting jumped. Feel like there's been loads of police around Kilmarnock Road for weeks though, bit unsettling
This was so frustrating because texture upscaling is a case which AI *should* be useful for doing 90% of the grunt work, it just needs a human to review and fix the remaining 10%. Morrowind has tex upscale mods that do this and they're incredible, why can't Rockstar do what a modder does for free?
to me, Jojo’s adventure is quite normal
These tellies had such staying power man. We were still getting them wheeled into our classroom in the late 90s and I'm fairly sure it was the exact same telly. Now if you use a piece of tech for more than four years it's rigged to start emitting carbon monoxide
Perhaps an unpopular opinion, but if you have to ask someone 5 times if it’s okay to photograph people in toilets and they don’t give you a straight answer for the first 4 times, they probably shouldn’t be in charge of people’s rights and equalities
yep. My favourite was still a couple of weeks ago when he was desperately trying to get it to rant about white genocide in South Africa and it just kept saying he made it up lol
I've seen speculation, that seems extremely believable (if of course impossible to prove), that he personally answers from the Grok account quite often. Which is the most Musk thing I've ever heard.
Yes, Musk outright said a week or so ago that he had intervened and updated Grok to be more reliable and only use trustworthy sources. Anyone surprised by what that meant in practice?
because when someone criticises Keir Starmer from the right, his irresistible impulse appears to be to want to sob and give them a big kiss. I don't think he can help himself.
Strangely, UK Lawyers for Israel, the BBC, The Times, the Daily Mail, Lisa Nandy and others who whipped themselves into peaks of synthetic fury about Bob Vylan at Glastonbury have all cheerfully carried on using their twitter accounts. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
"the Dragon Ball fanfic I started building in Xenoverse 2 screenshots" the children year for Garry's Mod comics. Embrace them, young one
Oh my god
Need a couple of hands across the aisle to Reform too. Rod Stewart, Mumford and Sons, Skrewdriver
This is low IQ thinking, I can read every book in history by distilling it into one of three book archetypes 1) people in love 2) people fighting 3) Animorphs
Starmer’s attack on the Palestinian movement is too unhinged even for the Murdoch press. Who thought we’d end up with a “Labour” government that’s too authoritarian for Rupert Murdoch
Yeah, every big human rights case has a human rights lawyer on either side.