Fruck
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Fruck is just this guy, you know?
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Fruck
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8d ago
That sounds like it would be an interesting and useful story, if you ever feel like chronicling it.
Fruck
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9d ago
Fate zero is the king of the crop for sure, characters will happily spend half an episode sitting and discussing their perspectives on various topics, it's great. Revenger liked to waffle a bit, but the reason people should watch it is because I feel like being betrayed by your job into killing your family is a resonant issue today. The Godzilla anime movies for Netflix are next in the list I'd say, with their explorations of what it is to be human and a monster. If you can do visual novels, song of saya doesn't waffle, but it does get into the philosophical weeds quite a lot and is an awesome story. And of course Madoka, but everyone knows about Madoka.
I've also been watching Thunderbolt Fantasy recently, the puppet wuxia show he made with the popular Taiwanese puppet company Pili. The puppety nature lends itself well to waxing philosophical and its a neat story too if you like Eastern fantasy type stories about named heroes fighting demons and having duels that destroy random villages.
Fruck
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9d ago
But that is actually an important distinction, between 'nobody (well basically nobody)' and 'nobody at all (but some people are trying to revive it)'. The meme of biblical literalism is still alive organically.
Fruck
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9d ago
Ah yeah I forgot he did Invincible! Alright awesome, I know what I'm doing this evening.
Excellent write up. Psycho-pass is great - although I usually prefer when Urobochi is allowed to waffle on about philosophy more, pairing him with the heavily animation focused Shiotani allowed them both to shine (which is also why the nose dive in quality the series briefly takes after ep 16 is so noticeable.)
Edit: SwiftKey adding extra words for some reason, I swear it's not fucking user error, I have been touch screen typing for a fucking decade now and this was never a problem before.
Fruck
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12d ago
That was the default settings I'd tested all of the models on, it must be a configuration mix up behind the scenes. But I have noticed I'm getting some shocking results lately with my local model too, it's less consistent than it used to be.
Fruck
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12d ago
What's Fire Power like? Kirkman can be hit or miss for me, I never got into the walking dead but outcast was great, but then oblivion song was just blah.
You don't mind superhero deconstructions it looks like, have you read Warren Ellis' superhuman trilogy? Black Summer, No Hero and Supergods are the titles, if you like Radiant Black I think you'd at least enjoy Black Summer if you haven't read it. They all get very fucked up though, I should warn.
I've been reading Uber recently, Kieron Gillen's series about nazi supermen. I've only read the first two trades so far but it's fun so far. It's so hard finding good new comics.
Fruck
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12d ago
Serves them right for putting you in charge really.
Imagining your eyes widening like a child opening a present as you say it and the dread they would feel in that moment made me laugh my ass off, kudos.
Fruck
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12d ago
I used Chinese app Cherry Studio for convenience, it seems to be the best interface for using cloud-hosted LLMs.
This is fantastic! When I first started it up and realised I'd need a deepseek api key - and then saw the list of possible models I could use, all needing api keys I was a bit put out, but each model also comes with a link directly to their dev page. And that seems to be the level of thought and care they're putting into every aspect of the app, it's great.
I noticed the models for image gen are kind of shit though, the FLUX 1 schnell pro model gave me an asuka with three legs, the Flux dev lora model was still processing after a minute so I gave up and the janus pro 7b model gave me a noiseless puppet asuka with her hands down her pants. Stable diffusion's large models both gave me cross legged asukas (in the turbo model she's being harassed by a ghost slug?) and the 2.5 model did this, which I find intensely interesting but would not call a good attempt at drawing asuka langley sitting cross legged on a chair. The best model was the SD XL base, which put her arms on backwards but at least put her sitting cross legged on a chair. Which surprises me, I assumed my preference for local ai when possible was hamstringing me. I assume other providers would be better? I can't figure out how to change it from siliconflow though. Anyway my primary point is thank you for this, it's a game changer.
Fruck
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13d ago
Why can't we update our institutions to be sensitive to the rights of inmates in general? Why does it take a "male rapist" being sent to a "women's prison" for us to give a shit?
They were more sensitive to the rights of prisoners 'in general' when we weren't forcing female inmates to bunk alongside male rapists. And plenty of people gave a shit about it and begged the government not to do it, and were told they were killing vulnerable trans women.
Fruck
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13d ago
I know you are responding to a post that is identical to another and I believe it is valuable to use the same format to highlight the problem, so I don't mean to target you but I feel like I have a brain injury while reading the motte now.
Fruck
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13d ago
Note not Carmelo Anthony, even though Google autofill will try to change it to that if you type in 'karm' and otherwise refuse to guess.
Fruck
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14d ago
Yeah when you write features you get a set amount of time you work out with your editor based on the estimate of the amount of time and work you'll have to put in. It can range from anywhere from 24 hours (usually a group project) to years (although that's more for when a publisher wants to hire a well respected author so they'll go to to their dinner party). When you write copy, you slam it out as fast as you can. Copy used to be a path to feature writing or correspondence, but nowadays it's just a molochian devourer.
Fruck
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14d ago
Yep this is it exactly on the journos behalf. Except change half to 90% - and that's being charitable. The publishers could change this but don't however, because they don't want people leaving their site for any reason ever. What if they don't come back!? They are often right to be afraid - after all why continue reading some moron's interpretation of a study when you can just read the study itself? Or why listen to a journo's memory of a politician's policies when you can check out their website and discover them for yourself?
Fruck
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14d ago
I do appreciate the strategy involved in using an article about a vibe shift to attempt to shift the vibe here though.
Fruck
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15d ago
I think it would have turned out ok if he'd stuck with them though, or at least not backed down the way he did.
Fruck
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15d ago
That example works for me because I understand the underlying principle then - only you live inside your brain - but it absolutely works, I wouldn't be able to hang out on the motte if it didn't, because despite having no trouble on chans and lolcow farms, opinions on the motte hurt more because they matter to me. And on the motte the labels and attacks that hurt me aren't even meant as attacks it seems, or at any rate are never insulting enough to regular people to merit any mod action.
If an ad hominem feels accurate, step back a little and reassess - @urquan says we see many ad hom attacks based on success with the opposite sex allowing malicious actors to exploit a vaccum, and he's absolutely right, but it's not just pure maliciousness motivating them, it is also deep insecurity. (insult threads blur the line though, not everyone engaged is serious). You don't need to aggressively attack others when you are happy with yourself.
It all circles back to only you live in your head though. You can't be sure your attacker did it out of insecurity, but inside your head that makes as much sense as anything else. If it doesn't, find something else. What good are rationalisations if you can't use them to get out of a funk?
One thing that really upsets me (and I really hope me telling you this doesn't backfire on me, although that is what I expect) is when people use schizo or schizophrenic to mean violently insane or stupid. It used to make me so angry when people did it that I would burn with rage, because it affects me personally. But nothing ever happened if I reported it and me slinging a bunch of insults at the person who said it didn't do much except make people dislike me. But then I remembered I already had the answer, I'd had it for decades, since the days when I would get the shit kicked out of me on a daily basis - the only person who lives inside your head is you. Now when someone uses schizophrenic insultingly, or when one of our wealthier members casually insinuates something despicable about the working class I can respond in good humour.
The fact that you doubt your beliefs is a cool aspect of your personality you should be proud of, and it's probably looking like the biggest stumbling block for this method to work, but as a recovered schizophrenic I doubt my beliefs more than anyone. But beliefs inside your own head, beliefs with no outward facing elements about fleeting interactions with strangers, those you don't need to doubt, because they fundamentally don't matter. That's probably the one good thing about schizophrenia, the way it helps you delineate the difference between internal thoughts and thoughts that interact with reality, and see how your core thoughts remain distinctly internal at all times. But as I said, I have been using this technique for decades, schizophrenia is not a prerequisite.
You can prove it to yourself actually, by engaging in a bit of light trolling. Next time someone throws an ad hominem at you (I can't see the picture you linked or I would try to give you a better example) take what they said and instead of dismissing it amplify it. They say "you look like an incel" you say "and I fuck like one too". They call you a manlet you say "yeah my mum smoked when she was pregnant because she's fucking cool as shit." Or more universally, they say something about your appearance and you reply "yea that's true but my grandma says my dick makes up for it."
The only people you will be insulting will be yourself and your own family, and yet it almost always defuses the situation entirely, because you immediately demonstrate supremacy over your own mind.
I know I'm not very good at explaining myself, so if you have any questions I am happy to answer them. Or if you want to give it a go and someone insults you and you don't know how to handle it shoot me a pm and I can give you a new perspective on it.
Fruck
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16d ago
No government – regardless of which party is in power – should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue
(Garber quote from the first article)
Harvard struck a blow for academic freedom today when they stood steadfast against the civil rights act. Asked for comment on the matter, Harvard president Alan Garber replied "there is not a single value I hold I wouldn't throw away to make Trump look bad on CNN."
Harvard struck a blow for academic freedom today when they refused to stop asking the JQ, despite threats from the Trump administration. Asked for comment on the matter, Harvard president Alan Garber replied "according to the studies we've been doing over the past few weeks we won't need as much federal funding anyway without ALL THESE MISERLY KIKES around."
Harvard struck a blow for academic freedom today when they refused to allow the Trump administration to dictate policy, despite the threat of a freeze on federal funding. Asked for comment on the matter, Harvard president Alan Garber replied "I originally thought maybe we could moderate a little, but I have been reliably informed that this is the only path that still gets me invited to parties."
Jokes aside this is a negotiating tactic, just like Trump's overbearing demands.
Fruck
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16d ago
Yeah that's fair and pretty sensible really. This is the motte though so I thought I'd better check.
Fruck
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16d ago
Is it fundamentally the poor's own fault they are poor?
Fruck
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17d ago
I agree, but it's like a slap vs a bullet. Your perspective of it seems highly susceptible to anarcho-tyranny. How do you repair a system that punishes you for trying to repair it? That's usually how this kind of thing starts - the unscrupulous don't give a shit about laws of course, but to get the scrupulous to ignore the law you need an already corrupted system.
Fruck
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18d ago
What I'm saying though is that it isn't the people who are wrong, it's the system.
Fruck
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18d ago
Perhaps, but the issue here isn't everyone else doing it, it is specifically the government and system that enacts and enforces the rules. If that system doesn't play by its own rules, then playing by those rules will only hurt you. You can not expect a system without enforced rules to produce any other result, because even if you play by the rules others will not.
Sounds great. Then I could scream "Outlaw Country!" and mean it! As a declaration of intent.
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