Oh I should check that out, and I find this is almost always the case.

Are you not aware of the horrors associated with diamond mining in Africa?

they might not need more training infrastructure at this point

One made up number is no better than another. The point is that generating images doesn’t take any more power than most other things people use a computer for. So, what makes it so special that is needs to be singled out?

There are plenty of ways you can make meme, what makes you the arbiter of what the one true way to do it is?

so brave!

Ok, but you realize people aren’t going to do art commissions for a silly meme right?

Anything can be learned given enough time, but the reality is that people only have so much time in their day. If you have the inclination and time to spend learning how to draw, that’s fantastic and good for you. But doing that is an opportunity cost of learning how to do something else.

This is what happens when you refuse to actually understand how anything works. These kinds of images can now be generated by small models running on your laptop. For example, Z-Image Turbo is just 6b params and will run on even modest hardware.

I just love how the AI slop crowd always comes out of the woodwork as if every meme has to be crafted by an artisan. Just get over yourselves.

The kids always have to listen to what daddy says in the end.

gotta love the projection here

“Because the Iranian government does not care much about the suffering of its people, it has been able to withstand both punishing economic sanctions and military bombardments,” he said.

The west will fight this war to the last Ukrainian, and this is precisely what every lib cheerleading this war wants.

Liberalism is inherently a right wing ideology. You have political liberalism which focuses on all these wholesome ideas like individual freedoms and democracy that are used to market it. But economic liberalism is the meat of the system and it centers around markets, private property, and wealth accumulation. So the whole idea that liberalism supports everyone’s freedom is fundamentally incompatible with enshrining private property rights as sacred because that removes them from political debate.

Equating private property with individual freedom provides the foundational justification for the rich to keep their wealth while ignoring the needs of everyone else. So all the talk of freedom and democracy ends up being just a fig leaf for capitalist relations.

I don’t think even that would work, Europeans don’t really have much in terms of a standing army, and there aren’t the necessary logistics to attempt some sort of a ground invasion of Iran.

Most likely, although they have nothing they can contribute here.

There’s a really good interview with colonel Lawrence Wilkerson who was the former Chief of Staff to the Secretary of State where he talks about how the US has full capture of the European political class. So, what we see happening in Europe isn’t too surprising.

A weird way to say an anti-Communist CIA operative who kept feminism from discussing class.

indeed

I find it really funny how libs see the US losing its geopolitical dominance as a bad thing.