scoobdog

I know what you’re talking about and my point stands. Optics are irrelevant to anyone other than a puppeteer: it’s putting up a curtain so that your audience only sees the action of the puppets and not those pulling the strings. It doesn’t matter if the puppeteer is talking about her experiences or if her puppet is the one telling the story, if the audience refuses to acknowledge her experience they will rationalize how the story she or the puppet tells is invalid. Sorce doesn’t have to tell white liberals a nice story about how racism, homophobia, and misogyny have affected her life - she only has to be honest. If, as a white liberal, I can’t recognize how putting up with that kind of abuse could make her angry, frustrated and more than a little pessimistic then the problem is clearly that I don’t see her as a fellow human. This expectation that people won’t listen because the message is angry, personal, and ugly is absurd. What you’re trying to say is racists are somehow going to acknowledge their racism through logic even though their beliefs are (as Sorce said) irrational. They’re not going to listen because they’re irrational, and confronting them makes it harder to be irrational than telling them nicely.

FWIW, not sure what the point of raku arguing civility is. Civility isn't about merit: you're civil to the people you don't want to engage, and you're uncivil to the people you do. It's fine to be civil if you're asking someone to explain something with an open mind, but too few people have an open mind. When someone demands you be civil as a condition for listening to an argument, they're really only interested in neutering your argument and confirming their own biases without having to be confrontational. Ultimately, you're not going to change people's minds with argument - they need to see how their attitudes and actions have consequences and they have to deal with those consequences. If that means going low, then so be it.

I’d never thought I’d see two Scoobys arguing with each other…

They don’t have Jack in the Box abroad…

Can we deport them all to Russia in exchange for Paul Whelan?

Right back at you.

Repeat for emphasis. There’s a special hell for disingenuous pieces of shit who complain about dishonest debates while not honestly debating.

Everyone who expressed those “contrary medical opinions” deserves to be silenced permanently.

Not in its current form. We may have to go back to the days of leather helmets and only basic pads.

My current plan is to correct scores to the expected points for all starting Bills and Bengals, including defense. Is everyone cool with that?

Awwww shit…. So you say there is a chance…

Fortunately, enough people know history to know pro Russian propaganda when they see it.

Or he doesn’t like this much attention being spent on someone besides him.

Can’t read highlight… too garish.

Everybody: Read this please: https://sports.yahoo.com/week-17-18-fantasy-football-status-updates-011003705.html I’d like everyone’s opinions before I figure out what to do after the horrific injury to Damar Hamlin.

You had to be there to see it. Never have seen such a slow running back gain so many yards.

I can’t be displeased with khaki dad getting rolled but damn that thing turned into a shootout quick. Day looks like he just moved his brother-in-law’s dumbbells into the garage even when he’s winning. Overall, not a banner day for the future home of the Trojans.

Happy New Year. Some chick at the party I was at dislocated her knee while dancing.

Belarus didn’t actually shoot down any missles.

That was beautiful.

Doesn't answer the question, though. If neither is the artist... who is?

No joke, man. Even had the fire pit going. Nearly melted my face off.

Cool. I won't.

It is a skewed metaphor and that's problematic because, unlike coitus, you're not working in tandem with the computer (or you shouldn't be). Both sexual partners have a visceral emotional response to the act and, while it's not likely to be the same for both, both responses are valid and collectively define the act of intimacy. If we're going to be crude about it, a marginally better comparison would be you and an inflatable sex doll: Maybe you can't have an orgasm without the doll, but having sex with it isn't going to make it feel anything. Stupid examples aside, the point here is that this isn't an equation. The emotional intent of your parent images aren't going to be passed on to the AI: it's going to guess at what you are feeling and project it on to the image with generic results. An image created by an AI is going to be different than one created by you even with the exact same source material as influence, and it's necessarily going to be deficient. How, then, can the AI be considered an artist if it can't full generate the image you tell it to?

Cool. I'm glad I didn't have to look it up.