professorgerm
You shall love your crooked neighbor, with your crooked heart
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professorgerm
You shall love your crooked neighbor, with your crooked heart
22hr ago
One of the ChatGPT image-generation things going around Twitter is to ask it to create an image how it feels about you. Goblinodds has a cool one and features more in the replies. So I gave it a shot and the results are... underwhelming. At least it gets the melancholy right but I don't think my shoulders can pull off that mourning dress.
I think it overindexed on characters I previously generated to accompany a writing project and decided that my "self-portrait" needed to look along the same lines. Or since I'm a freeloader I'm not getting the fun, creative version; I notice the settings are more restrictive for the free tier recently.
Anyone else having fun with image generators? Or more generally, doing anything fun and non-programmer with generative llms? I like skimming Zvi's updates but so much of supposed usefulness is for programmers, where do I find the normie's guide to interesting things to do?
professorgerm
You shall love your crooked neighbor, with your crooked heart
1d ago
Thank you for the thought-provoking post, especially one from a perspective we don't get as much around here.
professorgerm
You shall love your crooked neighbor, with your crooked heart
1d ago
If that's all it took to order the stork's delivery, I'd take a few hits for the team.
professorgerm
You shall love your crooked neighbor, with your crooked heart
2d ago
Hm. Not been a huge fan of them in the past, but will take a look.
Definitely a different tone and culture than here or even the schism, and a particular focus that can be frustrating at times. A few other Mottezans have made rounds over the years.
I don't think I'm asking the world and the seven seas.
Indeed.
professorgerm
You shall love your crooked neighbor, with your crooked heart
3d ago
nearly dead subreddit years later.
"There's a big difference between all dead and mostly dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive."
I think every tribe cares a lot more about their own side being hurt and the degree to which they object to violence done to the other side
Up until J6, and even then it's a hazy thing, Blue tribe has been famously more tolerant- supportive, even- of political violence. Left-terrorists get professorships, and that's if they even get called terrorists and not just "fiery but mostly peaceful demonstrators." Right-terrorists get the death penalty, assuming they survive whatever happened at all.
I don't want right-wingers to start getting professorships and scholarships and sinecures for being violent and destructive. All I want is recognition that actually, this is an important and real difference, or a better explanation of why it's not.
professorgerm
You shall love your crooked neighbor, with your crooked heart
3d ago
(answer: of course, it's just a matter of how fascist)
Hey, I recognize that guy! A little long-winded but I have it on good authority he's roguishly handsome. Could use a haircut though.
Outside of a history book, I find no use in the word. My proposal to ban the word "fascist" instead (or in addition) went over like a lead balloon, and I've been told the imp will continue to get long-term bans rather than permanent in the interest of "not creating a certain kind of martyr." I am admittedly surprised by Imp's commitment to that user name there, rather than alting it up.
The Schism had less commentary on all three assassination attempts combined
Any sort of commentary on political violence in a timely manner will summon erstwhile mod Numbers to put an end to the discussion. His suggestion of when it would have been allowed does not escape notice.
As well, what would there be to say? We know how such conversations would go. There's all of, what, 10 active participants in the forum? Even that might be a mild exaggeration. There are things I might learn or things I might try to convince, but I think a conversation there on the assassination attempts would bear even less fruit than most.
but they don't care enough to comment on it; does anyone think there's a Blue Tribe locale that's going to be any stronger?
While I don't particularly feel like digging for it, my memory is that /r/BlockedAndReported was better on that front. They did have some "wish he hadn't missed" types but considerably more seemingly sincere "left-wing political violence is a serious problem, don't be hypocrites" types. Of course how much that actually changes anything, how they talk with their Blue friends when not in the explicit heretic forum, who knows.
That probably doesn't meet a satisfying standard of improved conversation, but the bar is set so low!
professorgerm
You shall love your crooked neighbor, with your crooked heart
3d ago
My equity is only up about 100% these days, down from those pandemic peaks, but I still love my 3% mortgage.
Surely Coca-cola and McDonald's have been doing a better job for decades with less risk of cultural backlash? Or does it need to be specifically government-funded imperial initiatives that count?
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