aqouta
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aqouta
1d ago
But gay in a way that seems coded to appeal to women, not gay men. I have a feeling a show by gay men for gay men about gay men and gay sexual life would be very different and much more like porn for straight guys.
funnily enough I heard about this show from the gay couple in my group of board game friends last weekend and they seemed to quite like it.
aqouta
4d ago
There's endless amounts of ink spilled on what is or isn't communism. The discussion on what does or doesn't count can be interesting. But when the people doing it call it communism and it fits the mold of what a lot of people trying to practice communism are also doing I think it is at the very least a variant of communism even if it isn't the stateless moneyless utopia some theorists imagine. We call the US capitalist despite not being anything like a theoretical perfectly free market and most people who are pro-capitalist don't even want perfectly free markets either.
There are even some arguments for how having a strong state that owns all the productive assets is communism, everyone is a stakeholder in the state and the state owns all the businesses so it's basically like everyone owning their own workplace if you squint. It solves a lot of design problems to do it this way. There are of course problems with this design and Venezuela is a pretty central example of one of the common failure modes, but it's probably fair to call it communism.
They nationlized the oil and gas industry which was run by a firm wholly owned by the state. That's the model most communists go for so I'm not really sure why it wouldn't count. It even worked pretty well for a couple decades until Chavez came along and decided to gut the state company and fill it with cronies for short term social spending.
aqouta
6d ago
Of course, once we're in a Type II ban world instead of a Type I ban world, then there is some amount of "we have to get used to the fact that this type of event will actually happen significantly more often than events that we can control with Type I bans". Frequencies and percentages will depend heavily on specifics. And maybe that's the sentiment you're going for. Sure, we're not going to be able to meaningfully pre-emptively prevent fake AI nudes from being generated, just like we can't really pre-emptively prevent rope-enabled kidnappings. But folks may still want to try a Type II control.
Sure, and we can discuss type 2 controls. But we're going to very quickly get into the "what are we even doing here?" realm when anyone who wants to put together a piddly little indie game that uses player controlled image gen is going to need to spend time implementing some, easily circumvented, controls to prevent some class of images to be generated. And it's not just the deep fakes, we're going to have to get used to every image or video on the internet that doesn't have verifiable provenance being suspect. A lot of people seem to think this future is avoidable and it just isn't. People are going to be able to make deep fakes of people as easily as they can imagine them nude. We should try to teach young men not, or at least not to do so in a public manner just like we mostly manage to teach them not to describe to other people what they imagined one of their class mates would look like nude, but this is fundamentally a social problem that people are trying to solve with ill-fitting legal action. Do you think a kid should get expelled because he imagined what a classmate looked like nude? If a kid drew a picture of his classmate the buff should he be punished?
aqouta
6d ago
That's certainly a big prediction. I'd put something like 15% odds on a big Euro crisis, what do you think would be a reasonable likelihood?
aqouta
6d ago
Torrenting continues to exist. You just can't realistically prevent the distribution of a few gigs of data. Even if you eradicated all the currently existing models it's not particularly hard to train any of the safeguards off new models unless we're just never going to let professionals locally render images.
aqouta
6d ago
The GDP figure should give you an idea of the scale, pretty massive really. They also have a "baby loan" system where a couple can get $35k and the loan is forgiven if they have 3 children in 10 years which frontloads, that $35k is about two years of median individual income so quite a sum. There's also a fairly substantial mortgage subsidy that scales with child count but it's a little complicated. For some year, ending in 2022 they also had a pretty big subsidy for a larger car if you had 3+ kids. They really threw everything and the kitchen sink at the problem.
aqouta
6d ago
Yes it's true. The theft started with the greatest generation stealing from the youth to pay for their retirement, in their defense at the time there were a lot of old folks finding themselves out on the street. However this was a relatively small burden for the boomers because they were splitting the bill so many ways. The Silent and greatest generation made out like bandits. The real problem is the Boomers are so numerous that millennials are struggling to life several times the relative weight.
aqouta
6d ago
Hungary tried spending like 5-6% of gdp on family subsidies and managed to go from a 1.23 to 1.39 and falling as of 2024. I do like this idea, as I'm trying to have a kid it's also in my self interest, but the data just doesn't really seem to support this it's this easy.
aqouta
6d ago
There's just not any way around this. I have an AI image gen model on my computer right now, anyone with a current gen macbook could inpaint any image into pornography. It's not the kind of thing you can realistically ban. As a society we're just going to have to find a way to deal with this the way we deal with the fact anyone at any time could have drawn these same images if they wanted to badly enough. The genie is thoroughly out of the bottle and no amount of outrage will ever put it back in the bottle.
I think ICE is using barbaric tactics and if we were serious about this whole get rid of the illegal immigrants thing we'd have passed Verify and mostly avoided the theatrics. But this view just seems so strangely naive. They didn't make a mistake on their tax, in the metaphor they've just decided that they're not going to pay taxes. They're blatantly and intentionally defying their host country's right to decide who is within their borders. I wouldn't feel like I was doing an oopsie if I decided to violate the borders and laws of my host country. The idea that they need to be served individual papers to be informed that their evicted is baffling, those papers were posted on whatever port of entry they came through. The time to say goodbye to their neighbors was before their stay became illegal. If this was them accidentally missing a renewal or thinking their stay ended next week rather than this week and it was all a clerical error then I could see what you mean but that's not what is happening. These are people who have been here for years and years after their legal status ended if they had one to begin with.
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