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GamingTheSystem-01 4 points ago +4 / -0

Of course you wouldn't actually trade gold for goods, you'd use gold certificates, deposit slips. You could exchange them for real gold of course, if you wait in line and fill out the paperwork, and don't do too many at once. Hmm? Of course we have all the gold we say we do, we audited ourselves and passed.

Let's face it, the gold standard is fiat with extra steps and there isn't a government in africa that's lasted more than 20 years. And that's before we get into the fact that there isn't enough gold to cover the value of the modern world without raising the price of gold so high that you wouldn't be able to make electronics.

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GamingTheSystem-01 22 points ago +22 / -0

>our traditions are arbitrary and can be replaced with anything

>oops, we're all dead and I don't know why

Many such cases.

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GamingTheSystem-01 2 points ago +2 / -0

I believe the troopers landing on klendathu shared a similar sentiment.

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GamingTheSystem-01 6 points ago +6 / -0

Got one on my first attempt: https://i.imgur.com/GxqLWeA.png

A little wide but that might just be the starting image or prompt. Could probably do better but it's pretty slow. You can't directly ask it for a girl with big boobs or a big ass or whatever, just like you can't directly ask it for an erotic story, you have to lead into it with suggestive language.

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GamingTheSystem-01 -2 points ago +1 / -3

A while ago you were malding about the balkans. No american even thinks about them, it's purely a soviet/euro football.

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GamingTheSystem-01 3 points ago +3 / -0

that would make Elon guilty of some big boy international war crimes

Even if he directly provided Ukraine with ICBMs that would not be a "war crime". Don't just say words.

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GamingTheSystem-01 1 point ago +1 / -0

These hypothetical future war criminals you've identified sound really bad. We should kill them now before they have a chance to do anything at all.

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GamingTheSystem-01 -14 points ago +1 / -15

OP is not American and thus has no place commenting on American politics.

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GamingTheSystem-01 11 points ago +11 / -0

Crowdfunding bail for criminals is a great scam, because if they skip their court date you lose nothing, but if they show up you get all the money back and get to keep it.

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GamingTheSystem-01 2 points ago +2 / -0

The people who should be most upset about this are the guys in the second row. She's making it look like they're staging a coup.

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GamingTheSystem-01 9 points ago +9 / -0

China can produce great products - as long as there's a white man to hold them accountable.

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GamingTheSystem-01 8 points ago +8 / -0

It's always bothered me that peanut butter is even considered an invention.

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GamingTheSystem-01 15 points ago +15 / -0

By "small plane" do we mean one that an orthodontist bought for himself or a commuter jet?

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GamingTheSystem-01 10 points ago +10 / -0

It's not really because in the story, morlocks run the machinery of society. It was all about the british victorian era where the working class had increasingly horrible industrial working conditions where the elites were increasingly pampered.

Our current reality is worse than most fiction. There's no popular sci-fi novel where several species of hominid are extant with radically different behavior and the government forces everyone to pretend that they're all the same.

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GamingTheSystem-01 10 points ago +10 / -0

If you protest against blacks you will be arrested and sent to the nigger rape facility where you will be raped by niggers. So yes, people are afraid of this.

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GamingTheSystem-01 6 points ago +6 / -0

This is an interesting curiosity but I think full generation is a short term dead end. Might be possible with future techniques but it's not there yet.

What is a possibility with current tech is advanced tweening. There are models now where you can provide a start and end frame and get 5 seconds of animation that hit your targets (sort of). The models aren't specifically trained on this task so it's not perfect but the potential is there. A model that is specifically trained on tweening and following motion guides could be amazing.

In the future an artist will be able to draw one or two frames for every shot and a computer will tween the rest instead of a sweatshop. Making a feature length cartoon will be about as difficult as a graphic novel, easily achieved by a small team or even one person. You can sort of do this now with Wan2.1, but it's going to hit mainstream commercial use in just a few more iterations.

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GamingTheSystem-01 15 points ago +15 / -0

He honestly sounds like he's about to attack. I've seen this body language and speech pattern in a hundred body cam videos

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GamingTheSystem-01 1 point ago +1 / -0

By the time kids are old enough to walk to a library, it's already too late. Kids are showing up to kindergarten and they've never seen a book before. They don't know how to turn the pages, they don't know what letters are, their parents never showed them.

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GamingTheSystem-01 1 point ago +1 / -0

They've also already imported hundreds of thousands of the things, so it'd be real nice to mark those up and get 50% more profit.

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