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  • In a perfect system, the pardon is meant to be a “check” on the powers of the other branches. (Legislative and judicial). Each branch is meant to both support AND check the others.

    Obviously we are watching it all unwind. Certain things were a “gentleman’s agreement” in that a president normally wouldn’t over do it and just pardon tons of people. We are finding out lots of things were just assumed to be ok, but are easily abused by bad actors




  • I never said the general preservation of human life was what I was discussing. Of course I’d prefer no one die at all.

    I’d also prefer immigrants, lgbt+, and others wouldn’t be hunted for who they are.

    I clearly highlighted that an at risk group is trying to empower themselves due to the impending risk from actual threats made publicly against them.

    Who am I (or you) to tell those folks they are in the wrong to reach for whatever tools they can access? (Be it speech, political action, or indeed self defence)

    IM not worried (or therefore the actor in your suggested paranoid imaginings), because I’m not a member of a target group. The trick is I can empathize with their position, and I can recognize that although I’m not in a target group now, I sure could be in the future.

    For those reasons I would never get in the way of folks defending themselves, especially when this group is interested in training and safe practices.

    The people who “take priority” are those in harm’s way, and we aren’t the ones to tell them how to live right now, there hearing MORE them enough of that as it is
















  • GBU_28@lemm.eetoTechnology@beehaw.orgAI and the American Smile
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    8 months ago

    The content about the reasons for different smiles is cool. And the highlighting of the training data influencing things is also good stuff.

    But as far as realistic image generation based on culturally relatable smiling sounds like a skill issue. You can’t just generate images about specific times or settings or people with “defaults”. You have to specify your prompt.