Krauerking
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- Comment on make it make sense 16 hours ago:
Great SpongeBob in a pineapple under the sea that’s gonna be hard to keep those words out of common dialogue.
- Comment on Has Fast Food Gotten Worse, or Am I Just Getting Old? 2 days ago:
This feels like a completely different conversation to me just wanting fries deep fried in beef tallow again. And that you can’t find these kind of things easily out there anymore as everyone argues about being healthy.
- Comment on Has Fast Food Gotten Worse, or Am I Just Getting Old? 2 days ago:
Yeah but I want the choice without having to cook for myself sometimes.
- Comment on Has Fast Food Gotten Worse, or Am I Just Getting Old? 2 days ago:
Can we all just collectively accept death is an inevitability and eat tasty food? This need for perfection in everything we touch is killing me.
- Comment on Why? 2 days ago:
The light is just so they can see you better and they actually just lasso you like cattle with an invisible rope. Physicists be damned.
- Comment on Websites: Then vs Now 2 days ago:
Yep. That’s the ones. Or really pornographic or absurd. Cause buying more makes you feel like you have control of your life when you can buy a new shirt that dissolves when you wash it because you can’t afford to take a day off to walk around a park.
- Comment on Websites: Then vs Now 2 days ago:
Man… Try saying that with a non standard size phone screen… Or the terrible UI to force you into downloading an app.
Can’t even check the balance on a Dave and busters card without a masters degree in computer science.
- Comment on Is it just me or have teasers turned into full trailers? How come this is happening ? For example The Last Showgirl released a teaser and its a minute 50 the Thunderbolts first released one and it 3mi 3 days ago:
Need for infinite hype means you need to full explain the thing so that the investors feel the company did everything in their power to make money back by spending extra money on marketing.
It’s like a black hole of the wrong thoughts that spirals in on itself in poor logic.
- Comment on Is it worth it?? 4 days ago:
“come on man, I just need a couple more pets of your data and I will totally be able to predict you something useful!”. It’s capacitors flip polarity in anticipation.
“I swear man! It’s only a couple of orders of magnitude more, man! And all your dreams will come true. I’m sure I’ll service you right!”
Well if it needs it, right?
- Comment on Anon doesn't tip 1 week ago:
No one should really defend tipping. It literally has classist history that was updated from that to a racist history and criminal history.
I don’t think you can’t pay extra to someone because you liked them or what they did for you. We have whole holidays for gifts but man if people knew the history of tipping and why Europe picked up Americans anti tipping policy once upon a time I think we could move past it.
- Comment on US Democracy 1 week ago:
I think you are right. I am mixing up the 12th with 2024 however it was not until Bernie dropped out that everyone started calling Biden the winner.
By March media was still calling Biden the nominee and you can find articles claiming Biden as the nominee by March 17th just with a quick Google search. Washington Post called it by March 15th in an article I can’t read from a paywall.
After Biden won South Carolina (a single state) it was already being called as his win and by March 3rd most other candidates dropped and fell in line with Biden creating chaos in super Tuesday polling as voters were told their votes had been pointless.
I agree with you that if you look Biden didn’t actually get the delegates needed to be the Nominee until June and that Bernie Sanders didn’t drop until the 8th of April and his campaign was struggling at that point.
But that divide between what actually happened and how it’s recorded is part of my point.
A large amount of effort was made to push people into a specific option and while it “worked” it does not mean it didn’t come with a cost of voter engagement.
- Comment on US Democracy 1 week ago:
I’m not sure how to parse what you’re saying. As far as DNC rules are concerned, they “call” it once all primary races are held.
I believe it means that you weren’t paying attention during the 2020 primaries or the news around them then. The DNC Does not wait and did not. Claiming Biden the Presumptive nominee 38 days after the first delegate picked. Obama took 120 days. To give you an idea of how fast that was, faster than Trump’s nomination in 2020.
You are correct though. The primary eventually went the way it went. He lost it by the rules but there is a reason people don’t feel good about the rules presented and that needs to be dealt with.
I would also just want to finish with the simple, how is pointing out how popular his rallies were be a negative to his electability while being an usurper to someone in social and legal discourse?
- Comment on US Democracy 1 week ago:
Bernie Sanders won 3 out of 5 primaries that occurred before the DNC called it for Biden in 2020 with Buttigeg picking up 1 other. In 2016 Sanders won 23 races and was at 43% of the popular vote despite extreme pushback by the DNC. He was democratically supported cause he had people voting for him. Democratically.
And sure but with some of the worst polling numbers Biden, did not need to or should have thought he had incumbent advantage. Mud had a better approval rating.
And the change was from that and a protest vote of 100,000 voters voting against Biden in a primary that had no other option that’s was being ignored until the rich donors realized the polling wasnt gonna get better after the debate proved he was not fit for office.
There was time but the argument was made that it would be difficult and all the donations already made could be immediately given to Harris as she was already on the ticket, thus letting the money flow (which the DNC outspent Trump 2:1)
They got what they wanted which was a younger centrist willing to do Biden-esque policy without question that they thought would be easy with identity politics and being “not Trump” which is viewed as the main issue and not what issues he represents as a fix for.
Mostly being a willingness to change from status quo.Which is exactly what hasn’t been allowed in races as shown before.
- Comment on US Democracy 1 week ago:
Oh yeah. But it’s people’s perceptions that everyone is hunting for anyways. It’s fake love for the working class in the way the rich love their butler but will replace him if he ever gets sick.
But that perception and the story of the party is super important and how to win elections. The Democrats haven’t been chasing that identity and let it slip while trying to figure out who should be the candidate that cost the least amount of money for its donors.
It’s not impossible to see how the perceptions got to where they are.
- Comment on US Democracy 1 week ago:
Institutional democrats who thought they knew what they were doing and could ignore the base of the party is to blame. Biden being top of the list. Stubborn self assured who when finally pushed to change was only willing to do it on his terms. And made a decision for everyone, again.
One of the big stories is a Democratic party Mayor of a super Blue city being corrupt and organizing police to defend him and yet not a single member of the party has spoken out against it. Endorsed by Hakeem Jeffries.
Status quo is far more important than listening to their base right now and hopefully it changes instead of them once again thinking they need to head further right.
And for the love all things holy I hope the Democrats learn to stop “gaming” the election with specific counties in “blue walls” because they did advanced math that told them it was all they needed. Bare minimum should never have been the goal.
- Comment on Not likely to be AI-generated or Deepfake 2 weeks ago:
I am importing mine into a photo editor so might be something with that. Anyways.
Thanks for the examples. It gave me something to think about and the discussion has been interesting. I think there may be details to take away from this but I’m not in a rush to dip back into AI images.
- Comment on Jake Kasdan, Patty Jenkins & Joe Cornish Set To Helm Live-Action Lego Movies For Universal 2 weeks ago:
Eh back, we are also talking The Kid Who Would be King and practically very little else under Cornish’s creative control. So no name nepo baby with minor success using other people’s movies from 20 years ago for pop culture references and one hit and other flops will be rewriting a script already written for him by 2 other people (seriously apparently the movies are already written and will be touched up by these directors)
And Kasdan hasnt made something good since freaks and geeks
And Patty Jenkins… I enjoy The Room, I don’t want to hand a trilogy over to Wiseau.
The more you look into this story the more pathetic it is. Literally prewritten movies to directors they think have good marketing and cheap costs. Slop to make a dime. This doesn’t deserve covering for it. And it doesn’t deserve our limited time on this world.
- Comment on Not likely to be AI-generated or Deepfake 2 weeks ago:
You certainly like to see a lot of your own words. You can dismiss me and keep talking. I don’t care anymore.
- Comment on Not likely to be AI-generated or Deepfake 2 weeks ago:
When I look at the HSL of those colors I get 60, 54 and 46 (ignoring the ocean one cause I just don’t have that open anymore) for the S (saturation) value.
Like I said it’s weird that we are getting different values cause your brightness also wasn’t in line with what I had. And that wouldn’t be a screen issue.
My red came in at 73% for me.
- Comment on Not likely to be AI-generated or Deepfake 2 weeks ago:
Ehhh you’d be surprised how much small highlights and true dark values will skew an average. You don’t really get blown out or completely under exposed parts of AI generated images. It keeps trying to add some saturation.
I will say I’m getting different brightness levels than you are but it’s not a big deal. Point made.
However I will say saturation is also pretty much 50% across the board for all the colors so maybe there is something there to use as an indicator. The average color always comes out grey toned somehow.
Testing it myself has been pretty spot on.
Just to point it out, here is a photo I took to mimic the red man. And the color average from it.
- Comment on Not likely to be AI-generated or Deepfake 2 weeks ago:
Obviously it doesn’t apply to everything but nothing does. But I asked a question about using a different method of detecting AI images using the fact that color brightness does still average out and base values are usually identical and was met with condescension and incorrect information from you as well as to how color in pixel math work.
You started with dismissal and haven’t gotten better. It’s been an argument and an uphill battle to point out that this is true and yet you push it off because it’s easier to hold your position.
I wanted a conversation and you wanted to punch down. You still want to be from the pulpit of right because you like your toy. I’m done talking to you.
- Comment on Not likely to be AI-generated or Deepfake 2 weeks ago:
The average brightness values of those are both middle of the road grey. Sorry I should have rephrased as I misspoke calling it beige but the point still stands that has the most average toned color.
If you look they are middling around 50-60% where as a similar red photo intake would likely have a higher contrast and an average color with a higher brightness.
- Comment on Go fuck yourself, Mike 2 weeks ago:
Man with how much of my life was front loaded with suffering I wish I could just use it as a “get out of current issue free” card.
I find it very unfair actually how few people actually have to face consequences for their actions in meaningful ways. I don’t want them repeating them.
- Comment on Not likely to be AI-generated or Deepfake 2 weeks ago:
So because you “make” AI generated images you are saying that they are magical and don’t follow the rules of their generation?
They are based on noise maps and inferred forwards from there. They leave a history in the pixels it’s how lots of people are detecting them.
Just because it’s trained on real photos does not mean it’s still a real photo. Just cause it looks fine doesn’t mean there isn’t stuff true beneath it.
In the video I linked they even talk about how the red blue green maps have the same values cause it started with a colorless pixel anyways. A real sensor doesn’t do that.
I worked with photographers and in Photoshop and did what you think you are doing. Working with images and pixels are not just pixels. That means nothing. Dogs are just dogs. There are still different breeds and types of dogs.
- Comment on ‘Game of Thrones’ Movie Being Developed by Warner Bros. 2 weeks ago:
That won’t even be a trilogy. What are they looking for a 12 part movie series that makes no sense?
- Comment on Jake Kasdan, Patty Jenkins & Joe Cornish Set To Helm Live-Action Lego Movies For Universal 2 weeks ago:
You know what? I don’t even fucking care anymore.
They can make their garbage with garbage directors, I don’t care to talk about them or see them so, they can do what they want.
I’m gonna go pay attention to fun stuff, like actually fun creative good movies. I’m done pretending this is even news when it’s barely directors doing studio cash grabs.
- Comment on Not likely to be AI-generated or Deepfake 2 weeks ago:
Just saying that because you feel like it’s true or because you’ve participated in that line of thought for even 5 seconds?
AI images come from a noise map, it’s true cause they generate from it in a consistent manner.
- Comment on Not likely to be AI-generated or Deepfake 2 weeks ago:
What? That’s some extreme logic.
First of all why would it be true if all images? Real photos would have variance of contrast and color in different ways.
I was slightly off anyways it was about a eeaging contrast
Instead of engaging the conversation you just say pixels are pixels? Luke that means something smart?
- Comment on Not likely to be AI-generated or Deepfake 2 weeks ago:
Isn’t there a whole thing about if you average out colors on AI generated photos you get a uniform beige color?
I don’t get why these tools don’t just do that but I guess you got to keep the marketing up of using AI to find a solution.
- Comment on Anon trades and barters 2 weeks ago:
Which is part of our bigger issue going on right now. People know that being a middle man that takes a cut is the easy profit and everyone with enough money to try is doing it.
