Classic mod.

The people downvoting you better be as consistent when it comes to Australias tobacco packaging.

From Wikipedia

Around the late 14th century in Europe, smaller and portable hand-held cannons were developed, creating in effect the first smooth-bore personal firearm.

All of that to say, “I think it’s reasonable for cops to shoot people because they’re scared.”

Did you know it would have been impossible for Denethor to run the distance across the courtyard of Minas Tirith while on fire?

Laws don’t dictate morality and entrenching “being scared” as the basis for self-defense laws gives everyone far too much leeway in “being scared” of the black kid with his hood up, or the delivery driver that you got too high to remember, or somebody answering the door to an unindicated police raid with a legal gun in their hand.

You’re enjoying Cyberpunk, but Starfield was bland to you? Night City is sparse and empty as hell.

As an aside, the corpo storyline in Starfield is miles ahead of the corpo sroryline in Cyberpunk.

They want to complain about the glasses, but all the salient points in the thread have been made, so they went with whatever.

Fuck cops and fuck people who support shooting people because they’re scared. You’re no better than cop aoplogists.

Yeah, weird take that annoying somebody or even getting up in their face is grounds for execution. Get security, get the cops, whatever. They weren’t in any danger. They were just scared.

No, it isn’t. Hunter is being charged with lying about drug use on a gun form. This would be Trump buying a gun with active indictments against him.

You should probably have an SSD in 2023.

They deorbit very quickly.

What?

you’re the one doing each and every brushstroke, deciding each and every detail as you draw.

Does Photoshop or any digital art not count? I don’t have to have the skill to draw a perfect circle?

good photography takes skill.

So we should artificially handicap the art at the expense of the lesser abled?

Whereas for AI art, all you’re doing is providing instruction to the AI, that then goes on to make all these decisions

Same as clicking a button on a camera at something that just happens to be beautiful. Does it matter if someone next to me is using the same ISO or exposure?

I don’t have to realize the complexity of lighting, shaders, or materials to render a scene in Unreal. I get to utilize the processes that pioneers before me discovered.

I understand the frustrations, but this seems stifling in the same way that cotton-gin-phobes, typewriter-phobes, and computer-phobes wpuld have stifled the ability of the average joe to accomplish something.

To what degree do you consider AI involvement to be the deal-breaker. My phone uses something arbitrarily akin to generative AI to sharpen photos. If I take a photo with my phone of something novel, should I be able to copywrite that photo?

If I use an AI generated image and spend 24 hours manually tweaking and modifying it, do I have a right to copywrite?

If I use an LLM to synthesize an idea that I then use to organically create art, is it lesser art?

It all seems so arbitrary at this point. It’s like a typist in 2005 arguing that digital word processors shouldn’t be used to create copywritable art, as it takes significantly less work.

Was that the show with the green wireframe CGI animals that they would show duking it out and eating wireframe people?

Which domains are least likely to ban you for equivalating using statistics to cull animals to eugenics and trepanning?

I think .world is slowly transitioning towards reddit.shitty. in how heavy handed the moderation is. Interesting that comments advocatin for the literal murder of cops is allowed but saying “13 % of dogs commit 90% of crime” is a bannable offense.

Which domains have the least arbitrary moderation tools?

Also: Cops are generally pigs.

Or: To put things on topic. .World has made relatively unilateral decisions regarding the health of the domain. Which domains have a more democratic regard for what is and isn’t appropriate? If lemmy is going to be a more poorly paid Reddit, I’d rather go to the place with more than 1 new commented-on post per hour.

yes

They aren’t. If I think you’re a bootlicking chud, I have the right to say so in America. We don’t let the offended party decide what is insulting.