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What can we do to pressure the government into updating its travel advisory to the states?

Germany and the UK literally have a higher degree of caution listed, which is kinda insane.

Can't tell if /s

We started with 64 and going up by 5 from there.

Fitting username

I don't have a degree, so I never peaked 🥳

Same. Love fireworks. Hate karaoke.

"leopards ate your face? deserved."

"leopards ate my face, I want my vote back!!!"

Get back to me when it federates with Friendica, but I'm 0% interested in this side of social media, personally.

Yeah I have aphantasia :(

I have the concept of an apple in my head, followed by the concept of rotating it, but I'm otherwise mind blind.

What an odd car!

That sounds so pleasant! Here, you go to Rona / Lowe's, you ask them a question and you're met with an "iunnodude". Maybe home hardware is comparable.

Story time?

Se? Sure. Men? Ehh.

To be clear, I'm perfectly ok with ethically trained (open-source weights and data set) generative AI being used locally on a small scale, I think generative AI is a double-edged technology like anything else.

It should never be the end product, but simply a tool.

In this picture here, you can see the skeleton is weird and other images and text is a bit wonky, these elements should have been touched up by a human. This is what I consider slop, raw AI output has this look and feel to it that makes it immediately identifiable, it is up to the artist to touch it up and adjust colours. Again, it should never be the final product. Something as simple as text should probably have been created normally.

I'm against Meta, Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, MidJourney, etc.'s use of generative AI for the reasons stated above, but small scale genAI on your local device? Go for it.

I find genAI imagery extremely uncanny and creepy, and I can't condone the usage of a system whose creators yearn for a day where companies won't have to pay human creators anymore and can simply funnel their funds directly into the pockets of giant corporations instead.

Additionally, commercial-scale generative AI is already destroying the environment in communities across the world due to its power use.

Also plagiarism: https://spectrum.ieee.org/amp/midjourney-copyright-2666872100

Commercial image generation models are trained on real people's copyrighted works with no regard for paying them for using said work, putting more money in large corporations' pockets.

It's not something I can accept nor condone, and I will continue to shame people for facilitating the transfer of wealth and destruction of our environment.

I thought we could do better on Lemmy than to lean on large, polluting technology companies for content, those same companies who have military deals to create civilian-killing robots.

I find genAI imagery extremely uncanny and creepy, and I can't condone the usage of a system whose creators yearn for a day where companies won't have to pay human creators anymore and can simply funnel their funds directly into the pockets of giant corporations instead.

Additionally, commercial-scale generative AI is already destroying the environment in communities across the world due to its power use.

It's not something I can accept nor condone, and I will continue to shame people for facilitating the transfer of wealth and destruction of our environment.

I FUCKING LOVE PEE

Northern Ontario is very pretty, but yeah maybe not internationally famous.

I'd think BC, Niagara falls (Ontario), Quebec and the maritimes are more internationally famous for tourism.

Speeding is an inherently human problem, you cannot solve the human, you can only trick the human into solving the problem for you, i.e. scaring them and making speeding actively risky for their own car.

Ultimately, on top of traffic calming, we need way better public transit and making driver's licences harder to acquire with longer, more rigorous training. That way, driving is not an obligation and those who don't want to drive or should not be driving do not have to drive. Not everyone was meant to drive.

You sound completely sane of mind.