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mrmaplebar

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  • Trump, 79, Rants Incoherently About Robots and AI

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  • This dumb fucking child rapist

  • GOP coalescing behind Vance as Trump privately dismisses third-term run

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  • Nobody likes him. Even the Trump voters don't like him. Good luck.

  • How do you successfully maintain a calorie deficit over the long run?

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  • I'm not one to talk because I also need to lose like 50lbs, but I'm starting to think that weight gain/loss happens when I put the food on my plate.

    Sometimes I just serve myself too much food, especially if it's something that I really like. So I think using a smaller diameter plate and making sure that self-control is on point at serving time is underrated.

    Also, another thing I've been trying that at least feels good is parking farther from where I want to go. Here in the US I'm driving all the time, but I have found that I feel can get more walking in just by parking on the other side of the parking lot, or even in a different parking lot entirely, and getting some extra steps in.

    Finally I need to learn to eat a little slower! 🤣

  • Nearly all of Spotify has been scraped and is available via torrents

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  • I wish I could think anything positive about this, but I can't imagine anyone who actually cares about music needs or wants this. Instead it'll almost certainly be used as an illegal and unethical dataset to further train bullshit AI to make slop songs. As easy as it is for people to claim "preservation", I do have to question the motives of stuff like this...

    Fuck AI. Support your favorite human artists.

  • Grindr CEO Says App Will Be “AI-First” and “Not in the Business of Politics”

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  • Gay sex is famously apolitical. 🙄

  • What is your "great I am an old person now" complaint?

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    • Today's unregulated generative AI is exploitative and misanthropic bullshit that is toxic to human culture and society. They are ripping us all off, raising the cost of living, ruining the internet and media landscape, and destroying the planet, all in the name of replacing human workers for maximum profits.
    • "Influencers" are just walking, talking billboards. Human advertisements. You might as well follow Ronald McDonald himself on X.com.
    • Similarly, "content creator" is a boardroom buzzword created by some douchebag tech suit to describe the people who fill their "platform" with generic and valueless shit. If the thing you're making can best be desribed as "content" then it likely has little or no value to anyone. Make something that can be described specifically.
    • "Six seven" isn't funny, will never be funny, and never was funny. It's not like there's something to it that I'm missing, because it's seemingly totally devoid of meaning in the first place. I guess this is what passes for comedy when you spend your formative years in a pandemic lockdown.
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    How can people communicate with AI as a friend or girlfriend?

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  • It's not worth it. Some parts of life suck ass, but the good parts exist and are worth it.

    Instead of killing yourself, try to "kill" your expectations and ego. "Kill" the idea of the person you need to be or the live you need to live.

    Consider Diogenes, who lived happily like a dog in the market of classical Athens, because he understood that the things that society prescribed value are arbitrary and artificial. He felt no pressure to be or achieve anything in particular--he simply lived, like the animal that he understood himself to be.

    The social pressures and forces that bother us today are likely just as arbitrary and artificial as the ones that Diogenes faced. A simple change of philosophy maybe be all you need.

    Finally, you should also consider the chemical aspect of your emotions, and that your depression may be caused or exacerbated by an imbalance of natural chemicals in your brain. It's worth seeking medical advice from a psychiatrist to see if drugs can help you.

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  • I get it. And I know that feeling alone sucks.

    On the other hand, there are plenty of other American otaku, myself included! There are more than enough to find other people to be social with.

    I reccomend looking for geek related events and gatherings in your nearest city, conventions, movie screenings, barcades, hobby groups, and so on. My city (Portland) has all kinds of otaku stuff going on all the time. I went to a 3 hour long screening of the entirety of Gunbuster, and it was a full house, with people selling art, DVDs, and model kits in the lobby. Even making friends online has meaning, and If you can find likeminded people online who are local to you, you might be able to turn online relationships into offline ones. There is no shortage of nerds out there I promise.

    But actually talking to people is the harder part, right?

    No joke... if you shower, wear clean clothes and a neutral antiperspirant, and figure out something nice to say to people (a simple compliment like "I love your shirt!" is a easy ice breaker and sets you up for a follow up conversation), it's a great way to practice being social. Make sure that your attitude is positive and try to avoid making people feel bad, stupid, ugly, etc.

    Now... Not every social interaction is going to turn into a lasting relationship, and some of them might be awkward. (Occasionally a subset of people are going to be rude jerks for seemingly no reason, but that'll actually a bigger problem for them then it is for you.) So I don't recommend socializing with a specific goal, like finding a girlfriend, in mind.

    You're much better off trusting the process and simply trying to amass small social victories. For example, asking someone how their week is going, learning somebody's name who you see often, complementing someone, joining a new group, etc.

    I'm in my late 30s and I've made some personal social milestones that I'm proud of over the last few years, so I think it's never too late to improve your social situation.

    Good luck, man.

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  • As someone who went through a large part of adult life single, I know exactly what loneliness can and does do to a person.

    But I also know that the solution to loneliness is not to jump into a pit of delusion and self-isolation, but to work on yourself (mentally, physically, and emotionally), to put yourself out there sociall (through hobbies, classes, work, clubs, making friends offline and online, etc), and to generally touch grass and gradually work on building relationships with other real human beings.

    Have you ever seen that Star Trek TNG episode where Lt. Barkley is caught using the holodeck to fantasize about socializing with other people on the ship?

    Coping mechanisms are fine to some degree, but spending your finite time and energy forming a fake relationship with a corporate technological entity isn't going to create meaningful change in your life.

    Live how you want. But in my opinion, we're better off learning how to be happy alone than deluding yourself.

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  • Sadly?

  • New Trump-Kennedy Center sign is affixed to building facade despite concerns about legality

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  • Putting aside the legal and practical stuff involved...

    How can anyone look at this shit as anything other than endlessly and hopelessly pathetic?

    Like... This guy is such a special snowflake that he needs to have constant praise, adoration, external validation, attention, participation trophies, empty gestures, gifts, and recognition for things he has nothing to do with? Such a sad little bitch that he can't even stand up to a single grain of criticism of a single drop of scrutiny? The type of guy who can dish out lame insults and then crashes out spectacularly whenever someone dares fire back with a joke?

    Is this dude really the best America has to offer?

    Putting this mentally weak, physically unfit, emotionally unhunged man-baby on a pedestal really speaks volumes about the American people.

  • New Trump-Kennedy Center sign is affixed to building facade despite concerns about legality

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  • My hate for them is focused and concentrated with laserlike precision.

  • I'm not an artist. If I sketch something, and have an ai upscale it for me, is it still slop, vs just asking it to do everything?

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  • Still slop, sorry amigo! (Probably not what you want to hear, but I'm just being real...)

    If I sketch something, and have an ai upscale it for me

    That's not an accurate description of what you did, is it?

    You didn't simply "upscale" your drawing. You had AI turn a rough sketch into an inked, colored and shaded but otherwise incomplete piece.

    I like to think I poured my heart and soul into it.

    Yeah, I'm sure you like to think that...

    But in reality you did part 1 of a 4 part process and told a computer to do the rest. I don't know how long you spent on your initial sketch, but in the end you relied on a gimmicky shortcut (based on the exploitation of other people's stolen art... stuff that they REALLY poured their heart and soul into before it was unceremoniously ripped off by mega-corporations) to do at least 75% of the work. I'm being brutally honest, but at best you can only really think of it as being 25% yours.

    Again, is this slop? I am not an artist. I drive a forklift real good, that's my skillset.

    Am I being too harsh? Why am I telling you this?

    Here's the thing you need to understand...

    If you made that original sketch then you ARE an artist. Sure you don't feel like you're as good as you want to be (no artist EVER does, by the way), but you are already 10000x more of an artist than someone who writes some text and gets an AI to slop out some generic shit.

    The composition and sketch is the hardest part and you already did it. Linework (if that's your style) is basically just tracing. Coloring is as easy as doing a kids coloring book. Shading can be a puzzle, but you'll get it in time if you keep the light coming from the same direction.

    You spent some time doing the hard part, liked how it looked, and then instead of just cracking on with the next part, you got lazy, turned your brain off and fed it to the instant gratification machine, turning it into slop. Taking your hands off the wheel entirely, you know?

    And for what?

    Now you have a "pretty picture", but you didn't learn a damn thing about taking your art from sketch to lines, or coloring, or shading. And to make matters worse, you can't even point to the picture and say "hey look at that, I MADE THAT", like you can with the sketch.

    In the end, I'm gonna call it slop. Ethical problems aside, AI generated slop art is a dime a dozen these days. I don't see any value in it at all. I think you have more talent for art than you know, and I hope that you keep it up and try to approach your work with more pride as a human being making something cool by hand.

  • Trump’s White House ‘Walk of Fame’ mocks former presidents

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  • Sure, but raping children is among one of the worst crimes that a person can do. It's not his "involvement with Epstein" that's the scandal, it's his involvement with abusing young girls.

  • Trump’s White House ‘Walk of Fame’ mocks former presidents

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  • Who cares. Bullshit designed only to distract his base from the fact that Trump rapes children.

  • What is your choice for a dedicated Linux audio player?

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  • Fooyin is my local player, it's basically Foobar2000.

    Finamp is what I use to stream songs from my Jellyfin server.

  • Suggestions for first C project

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  • I'm totally with you on this.

    C is a fantastic language for people who want to develop for existing C projects. But there are very few reasons to develop new software projects in C today. As such, for anyone learning C, the best first project would probably be whatever existing C project you want to work on.

    Maybe the main exception to that is probably embedded systems stuff for microcontrollers and the like, but I don't know enough about that space to say whether that is even still the case or whether you'd be better off with something else.

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  • Oh, I'm "passionate" about AI, alright.

  • Denmark wants to ban VPNs to unlock foreign, illegal streams – and experts are worried

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  • Some US States

    None of the even remotely good ones. Why is Denmark trying to be Alabama, again?