I agree regarding the soft focus. It was a weird choice and things look much crispier now. I’m still not a fan of the Liquid Glass aesthetic and I think it makes things unnecessarily busy like the refractive aspect of the Freeform icon, but overall it’s an improvement.

It seems like an AI written article about a Reddit post that they did not link. The site loads wonky for me so maybe the link was stripped, but I don’t know if I believe any of that.

Nah, you’re wrong.

Aren’t you Canadian? I didn’t say no Americans hold that opinion, I said I don’t know any. You may know a lot of Americans who feel that way, but the vast majority (81-92%) tip for sit down service. That sentiment may be more common on Lemmy than IRL, but even on Lemmy people seem to be against exploiting the worker. Lemmy is not a very accurate representation of anything, not even of the Lemmy user base.

https://www.pewresearch.org/2023/11/09/services-americans-do-and-dont-tip-for-and-how-much/

I don’t know any Americans that don’t tip. I know Americans that avoid eating out because they don’t like tipping culture, but I’m not sure if many Americans agree with the bottom panel even if they don’t like tipping.

Yea, the thing I don’t get about the “if I don’t tip the workers will unionize” crowd is that they can just not go to tipping establishments or just eat takeout. You don’t have to basically steal labor from the workers. If you think “them making less money is better for the market” then just don’t make them work for you and refuse to pay what is expected. Boycotting tipping establishments would help, but that doesn’t get people free/less expensive stuff so they don’t do that.

Even if I take them in the best faith possible, they’re just exploiting the workers themselves and blaming the workers for their exploitation. In that situation they basically take the place of the bosses saying “if you want a raise go work somewhere else”.

I also hate tipping culture, but it’s so rude to go to another country (during a rise in fascism no less!) and act like by not following their norms you’re having any effect on the culture other than making yourself look like bad.

There’s a decently done but horrific doc on Netflix about this. The cops in that town are definitely in on something, if not just trying to protect Mormonism in general. A single woman went and infiltrated and collected all the evidence and the cops didn’t give a damn. She eventually got the feds involved and that was slow, but the cops clearly were dragging their feet.

Generally artists have to put effort into drawing facial features smaller. Because as people we concentrate on the face it’s hard not to frame them with oversized proportions. I have to respect the “but that ass tho” approach to solving that problem.

Yes! I’m not on insta or TikTok, but people will share horrible things like “can you believe they said this?” And yes, quite frankly I can because here you are commenting on it and sharing it. It’s like people don’t understand the concept of engagement. If someone has a video abusing their child, just report the video and potentially send it to the authorities if needed. Don’t comment and share the video!

It’s completely possible wealthy people associated with Epstein had nothing to do with the sex trafficking. Maybe they kept it to normal insider trading and fraud stuff.

This guy has been separately accused of rape by multiple women, and though I don’t have his full statement, he seems to suggest the release of the Epstein files were bad and caused him to be improperly implicated. I’m gonna guess he didn’t just keep it to the fraud stuff.

Yea, that’s a good point. I guess in my head since I have no real use for an AI they all seem equally stupid, but the birthday thing does make it seem even worse.

I don’t think it’s that they’re out of touch. I think they really want your data. Imagine AI sending a screenshot of your screen every second back to whoever made it and whoever can be bothered to listen in. I think everything else, like the marketing and hype around it, is consensus building.

Windows 11 with 16 also runs like hot garbage, so I’m not sure if it’s a ram issue. I’m sure more ram helps, but I don’t think it’s the main problem. I’ve not used 8 GB in a while though, so maybe some updates really changed things.

It’s seen as bad to punch people. If someone is punching you and punching them back will get them to stop, generally most people would think it’s ok to punch them back. That doesn’t mean punching is good. It means that sometimes doing a bad thing (punching people) may be need and does not always make you bad as an individual.

Unless you are a complete pacifist and against self defense of any kind (including restricting freedom of movement such as imprisonment), I’m not really sure why you’d disagree.

Doing bad things to bad people does not make you good, but it doesn’t make you inherently bad.

Not all AI works like LLMs. It doesn’t go into much detail, but similar use of AI in the past has been for converting handwritten samples into a more legible form or separating superimposed letters.

Manually filling in “G__d mor_ing” is doable, but I can see how AI can make that process better. It’s technically just guessing, but so is a person in that scenario and the person will have less data to use to guess from.

I see some people already taking issue with it in the comments, but I have also been to conferences that helped create partnerships that would not have happened otherwise. I’m not trying to suggest it’s worth the emissions or anything, but I agree that being physically present is more conducive to making those connections.

I think a helpful thing would be if people stopped sending people that are just doing it to check it off a list and be done with it. The idea that attending a conference in and of itself is some kind of development is wrong, and people should only go if they’re actually interested in participating in the exchange of ideas.

Thank you for the link. Have not read through the whole thing, but it seems like it was well researched with regard to fire safety. I take some issue with the idea that the main problem with the housing market is that we need more houses, but the stats on safety seem pretty solid.

Is it? It seems like the people responsible for fire safety are against it and that they are looking to study it with pilot programs, not that they already have data supporting it.

I can see how certain advancements might make the need for two stairways less crucial, but I don’t love the idea of using people, likely lower income people, as fire safety testers. Especially since the benefit seems more about making things more financially sound for builders. Maybe we shouldn’t sacrifice people to literal flames so that huge companies can make some extra profit. I am open to data saying that it’s fine, I just don’t see that any was presented.

Depending on your area there are lots of anti ice groups you can organize with. Different ones are more popular in different locations if you’re looking to get involved personally. The best thing we can all do is likely donate. More and better legal representation seems to be the best option for most people affected and that costs money.

I’m confused as to what your suggestion is. Do you think people who are “just followingorders” should not be held accountable for their actions because they were not the ones issuing the orders?

I understand what that is supposed to mean, but it makes no sense. I have never taken anybody’s eyeball so if that was the law of the land, I would feel pretty safe. Eventually, everyone going around taking eyeballs would have no eyes and they would be much less likely to be able to take more, at least without some assistance I imagine.

Plenty of places have a “death for a death” law where if you kill someone you can be put to death. I’m against the death penalty personally, but that has never really been of personal concern to me since I don’t go around murdering.

If you take something from someone, should they not be able to take it back from you? If you steal $1000, do I just have to sit there? I should be entitled to take $1000 back. If anything, I should also potentially be entitled to more.

While for an eye is not my preference, it was used to make people as whole as possible and was considered an improvement at the time.