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Isolated_Patriot 4 points ago +4 / -0

And I'm just here wondering if everyone really forgot all about PEZ.

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Isolated_Patriot 6 points ago +6 / -0

Found a guy that did some Bible chapters as Blues songs, they were so good I wondered why it hadn't been done before by actual people.

YT has since showed my 5-10 other AI channels doing the exact same thing with far more mixed results.

Actual artistic vision is still required to filter and adjust the output, same as any other tool.

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Isolated_Patriot 13 points ago +13 / -0

Autotune has a "sound" and AI is often mimicking that sound, hence the similarity.

Melodyne is crazy because it can correct an off key/time guitar note or piano key, or a vocal note, LIVE, and it's virtually impossible to tell. And it's been doing this for decades at this point with no one outside the industry the wiser.

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Isolated_Patriot 6 points ago +6 / -0

Unfortunately. chronological order is now considered the book order since the late 90s. A major pet peeve of mine.

Even as a teenager I believed this was done on purpose to destroy the legacy of the books. Magicians Nephew is absolutely the weakest of the books, and serves best as something to fill in the history of a world you have already come to love from the other books. While The Lion the Witch and The Wardrobe is an absolute classic and the best possible introduction to the world of Narnia.

How many people have been turned away from the series by trying to read the "first book" and getting "The Magician's Nephew" instead of the masterpiece that is TLtWatW? How many people in the half century before only read TLtWatW?

They've been trying to destroy it for near 40 years already.

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Isolated_Patriot 3 points ago +3 / -0

Funny thing: the inquisition lasted 355 years and the number of executions in person is estimated to be around 1,303 for the period 1540–1700, with an additional 778 people sentenced to death in effigy (where a dummy was burned instead of the individual).

The most liberal estimations have the execution rate averaging about 1 to 1.4 executions per month, or roughly 12 to 17 per year. Though the reality of written records suggests only an average of about 5 to 6 executions per year.

The Inquisition is also noted historically for its procedural fairness, limited use of torture, and restraint in applying the death penalty compared to secular courts of the time.

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Isolated_Patriot 2 points ago +2 / -0

I just use Brave, the inbuilt no-frills pdf reader is great. 99% sure it ain't calling home for shit.

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Isolated_Patriot 1 point ago +1 / -0

A professional is by definition a person who works a profession.

  1. Of, relating to, engaged in, or suitable for a profession.

lawyers, doctors, and other professional people.

  1. Conforming to the standards of a profession.

professional behavior.

A profession is an occupation which exchanges skill for payment. The idiom is unlikely to be completely true, yet it is entirely possible and clearly within the realm of contenders for being the first.

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Isolated_Patriot 6 points ago +6 / -0

Most places

Most places now. Before gs screwed up the market, most places offered 80% of the list price for new releases. They would resale for 90%. Some of my friends would buy the latest fad game on launch day, play it for two weeks, then trade it in for something they missed last month, then come back and trade that in for three older games.

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Isolated_Patriot 8 points ago +8 / -0

I looked around. Everything inside Gamestop was severely overpriced. Like i can click buy now used games on ebay for cheaper with free 2 day shipping.

This was me, but in 1999. Nothing has changed.

Used to have a local game store that you could buy or trade in stuff for WAY better deals than gamestop, and somehow they were completely edged out of the business by this overpriced, sterile, green blockbuster wannabe.

Even then you could get stuff on Ebay for cheaper. How this company even exists is beyond me.

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Isolated_Patriot 1 point ago +1 / -0

Everything where money or property is exchanged creates a profit motive for crimes.

Only one form of legalisation has been proven to increase the amount of child trafficking. But if factual data is a shitty argument to you, you do you.

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Isolated_Patriot 17 points ago +17 / -0

If two people wanna exchange

Because that is NOT how prostitution works in practice. Ever heard of a pimp?

Legal or otherwise it incentivizes organised crime, and the women end up either literal or practical slaves. A "legal" prostitution ring is also the best possible cover for trafficking underage and eventually children.

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Isolated_Patriot 5 points ago +5 / -0

Mafia tactics 101:

Some men can resist a bribe.

Some men can resist a threat.

Few can resist both.

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Isolated_Patriot 6 points ago +6 / -0

Someone pointed out that it's basically a pagan prayer and I haven't seen it as anything else since.

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Isolated_Patriot 25 points ago +25 / -0

I have seen some absolutely terrible mothers who did not have even the appearance of a maternal instinct. But that's always co-opted by plenty of other mental disorders that clearly indicate a below functional liberal. Exactly the kind of person who would read this 72 upvoted comment and believe it.

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Isolated_Patriot 9 points ago +9 / -0

Native Oregonian here: Yes please. You can take at least half of Eugene and Salem too and suddenly, it would be a red state as it was meant to be.

Remember when Oregon voted against legalising weed like, 8 times? Tillamook Farms remembers.

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Isolated_Patriot 3 points ago +3 / -0

Biden did it, but Trump is doing it more.

Wait, this is the first I'm hearing of it. What "secret police?"

That term has a meaning, and it explicitly refers to black bagging people into secret facilities, with secret trials, and no public recourse. Typically with a "police" that have total jurisdiction above anyone. Even Biden's use of the FBI was only starting to act like secret police, they hadn't gone all the way to a Stasi or a Gestapo yet.

ICE is doing what ICE has always done, just with their hands untied after the previous admin told them to stop doing their jobs.

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Isolated_Patriot 22 points ago +22 / -0

This is peak zoomer shit: wall of text in small font on a wide screenshot > "Dur, can't you kids read!"

OP: Narrow shot it, use the fucking 80 year old copy-paste function, or tldr you newb.

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Isolated_Patriot 14 points ago +14 / -0

a council of professors agree that the paper seems legit

There was a publisher that did an expose about this a few years back. There is no "council of professors" it's just the editor and 1-3 of his friends. In other words, it is the journalists peers, not even necessarily accredited scientists.

The entire system is a garbage lie.

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Isolated_Patriot 9 points ago +9 / -0

Well the AI slop is based off of tumbler and deviant art slop which is heavily influenced by WotC slop...

So which slop really came first?

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Isolated_Patriot 4 points ago +4 / -0

"Error, Error, Error, reboot and pretend previous statement never happened."

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Isolated_Patriot 8 points ago +8 / -0

"drawn child porn is still child porn, we must protect the kids! also, schools taking real children to real drag shows is free speech! even better if the kids participate!"

You forgot "pedophiles should have free access to AI generated CP" in there somewhere.

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Isolated_Patriot 18 points ago +18 / -0

I'm old enough to remember when girls always came in pairs, they always had a "girlfriend" who they spent most of their time with. Men would use the terms 'best friend' or 'wingman' though loners were still fairly common among men, and rare among women.

In either case, platonic friendship is something that goes back as far as human history. It only had to become sexual when utterly depraved lunatics were running the asylum.

As usual: women most effected.

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Isolated_Patriot 5 points ago +5 / -0

Half this list is degenerate trash you shouldn't be letting your kids watch, and they want to pretend it's too 'far right' to watch in current year.

I can't even.

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