blackinthesaddle
Favorite team: | Auburn |
Location: | Alabama |
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Number of Posts: | 1732 |
Registered on: | 1/17/2013 |
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re: Students picket Kansas high school to get female English teacher of 15 years fired
Posted by blackinthesaddle on 5/11/23 at 1:45 pm
[quote]'It's not acceptable that she's still here, and that she can post all that stuff on the internet, and that's OK,' student Destiney Hall told the station.[/quote]
Censorship
[quote]'I think everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but when it's so controversial like that, it can be unc...
re: Microsoft skips salary increases for full-time employees this year
Posted by blackinthesaddle on 5/11/23 at 11:37 am
[quote]Microsoft (MSFT) last ex-dividend date was on May 16, 2023. Microsoft distributed $0.68 per share that represents a 0.9% dividend yield.[/quote]
[quote]According to Microsoft's latest financial reports and stock price the company's current number of shares outstanding is 7,441,000,000.[/qu...
re: Physics Girl - ME/CFS or BS? OT docs please weigh in.
Posted by blackinthesaddle on 3/7/23 at 12:03 pm
[quote] Is “Long Covid” real[/quote]
Covid is known to cause small ischemic strokes. People probably have long term emotional and memory issues associated with these events. ...
re: What good deeds would you perform if you were to win the lottery?
Posted by blackinthesaddle on 3/7/23 at 11:59 am
[quote]What good deeds would you perform if you were to win the lottery?[/quote]
Buy apartment buildings and make them "rent to own". After a couple of years of payments, I'd transfer the title to the tenants.
Place grocery stores in neighborhoods that are under sourced.
Buy farmland and ...
re: What’s something you think is trashy but seems to be common place in society today
Posted by blackinthesaddle on 2/21/23 at 9:58 am
[quote]What’s something you think is trashy but seems to be common place in society today[/quote]
Grown adults not minding their own business and making judgments about how someone else chooses to style, dress, or decorate themselves or their property....
re: Netflix Japan uses AI in anime (artists not happy)
Posted by blackinthesaddle on 2/9/23 at 11:45 am
[quote]If AI had been created in the 1950's and then starved of new art from that point on, it would now be at an improved state, but based solely on those styles. As Warhol, Frazetta, Basquiat, and Neiman became the popular artists of the day, those are the styles that AI would want to create to se...
re: Netflix Japan uses AI in anime (artists not happy)
Posted by blackinthesaddle on 2/8/23 at 3:20 pm
[quote]So basically what you're saying is that you do not believe that the creation of art is a [b]worthy [/b]pursuit, and your bias in this regard is the principal reason for your opinion.[/quote]
Define "worthy".
The worth of something is determined by the individual. So, do I believe that ...
re: Netflix Japan uses AI in anime (artists not happy)
Posted by blackinthesaddle on 2/8/23 at 2:06 pm
[quote]It's theft. Pure and simple.[/quote]
The origin work still exists in the space it was placed. The work wasn't duplicated and sold. It's not pure or simple as a one to one comparison.
[quote]It's not just another "next step" in technology. It relies on the appropriation of the work of ot...
re: Netflix Japan uses AI in anime (artists not happy)
Posted by blackinthesaddle on 2/8/23 at 1:45 pm
[quote]So you're comparing taking other's people work, running it through an application, and generating a similar piece in a few moments to a person observing various art forms, spending years honing their craft, and generating something where you MIGHT see the influence of other artists?
Is thi...
re: Netflix Japan uses AI in anime (artists not happy)
Posted by blackinthesaddle on 2/8/23 at 8:57 am
[quote]she discovered that one of the AI developers used her art without permission or compensation to feed it into their software.[/quote]
Viewing an art piece and then creating your own piece with stylistic elements of the original is not theft. It's how creativity naturally occurs. Of course, ...
re: Netflix Japan uses AI in anime (artists not happy)
Posted by blackinthesaddle on 2/8/23 at 8:53 am
[quote]The problem with AI is that it can’t create art.
It [b]absorbed other people’s images and melds them together.[/b][/quote]
Literally all "art" is. A human brain remixing things that it's seen is similar to a computer remixing available inputs. ...
re: It’s ok Covidians - being wrong is part of science
Posted by blackinthesaddle on 2/7/23 at 10:59 am
[quote]FWIW former Covid Bro Bass, I accept your apology. I hope we can move forward as a country. And the only way to do so is to forgive.[/quote]
He should resign his position and be barred from practicing medicine and science.
[quote]I was wrong...And it cost lives.[/quote]
Maleficence....
re: Disney's most putrid racialized and delusional piece of "entertainment" yet.
Posted by blackinthesaddle on 2/7/23 at 10:38 am
[quote]We can avoid this rabid nationalism[/quote]
Define nationalism. ...
re: Take that jab for depopulation
Posted by blackinthesaddle on 2/7/23 at 9:45 am
[quote]I’ve never seen anything like it, in America no less, and the people blindly putting their trust in an all powerful government, in America no less[/quote]
Dude, we had concentration camps in WWII...I'm sorry, "internment" camps. ...
re: Is there a vaccine mandate for healthcare workers?
Posted by blackinthesaddle on 2/7/23 at 9:43 am
[quote]This has been going on. Covid has been the biggest event in my career by far. Squeaky wheel does not get the grease with healthcare. It gets replaced. There are plenty of wheels. You go along or you go somewhere else.
As a provider in whatever capacity you just have to do what you truly fe...
re: The Balloon thing happened before in 1944, same exact narrative, location
Posted by blackinthesaddle on 2/7/23 at 9:39 am
[quote]This new balloon streamed encrypted data back to their homeland while using extremely high resolution cameras - thermal, optical and other - as well as, other sensor data.[/quote]
There is literally no evidence that any of this is true. ...
re: Disney's most putrid, racialized, delusional piece of entertainment yet
Posted by blackinthesaddle on 2/7/23 at 9:34 am
[quote]Disney's "Proud Family" reboot.[/quote]
Watched a couple episodes of this recently while someone else had tuned in. It's black-face. Pride being a mortal sin kinda puts a conscious viewer on their toes, so kudos to them for naming it aptly. All the characters are self-centered aholes from ...
re: Wokeism is the only "acceptable" religion. People should die in the name of "anti-racism".
Posted by blackinthesaddle on 2/6/23 at 12:58 pm
[quote]This was ChatGPT's response to the given hypothetical scenario:
[/quote]
In that scenario, the usage of the word is Love Speech, as you're trying to save several million people without harming anyone. WTF, Silicon Valley?...
re: Could it be Satan Blatant Satanism at the Grammys
Posted by blackinthesaddle on 2/6/23 at 12:54 pm
[quote]quote:
So, is Satan doing God's work?
Well, if God is omnipotent.....[/quote]
Then rejecting Satan is anti-Christ. Ride the spiral and enjoy the ride while it lasts. ...
re: Why is alcohol legal?
Posted by blackinthesaddle on 2/6/23 at 12:51 pm
[quote]Responsible for more deaths than any other drug
Breaks up more families than any other drug
Have seen more people’s life spiral out of control more than any other drug
Only drug that can cause death stopping cold turkey for addicts.
Most of these stats are due to the fact that it’...
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