“Unfortunately we couldn’t come to an agreement on the best system to replace first past the post, soi guess we’re at an impasse and will just have to do nothing” - The final committee report, probably

I mean, why wouldn’t he? The last time he sued them, he ended up $16 million richer. The thing about stupid people is they generally learn by behavioural conditioning more than anything else. Rat push button, rat get reward, so rat push button again.

ABC thought they were buying safety for a mere $16 million, which was pocket change to them. In reality, all they did was tell Trump where the treats can be found. Now he’s gonna be like a dog that found a cookie in the couch cushions one time, and so now goes rooting around in there every time he can because there might be another one.

Y’all do understand that any law that applies to “accused” or “suspected” individuals applies to everyone, right? They can just decide to accuse or suspect you of that thing, and there’s nothing you can do about it.

That’s why “Innocent until proven guilty” is the foundation of every modern judicial system. That’s why “Beyond a reasonable doubt” is the standard measure of guilt. Without that cornerstone, there is no judicial system, just unaccountable tyranny.

Sun is a right wing rag owned by Americans

Show me in my previous comment where I said that.

My point was not “Americans will be OK.” I explicitly said that a collapse of American agriculture would push many more Americans into poverty.

But poverty is not famine. As awful as poverty is, famine is actually, somehow, worse. Poverty kills people, and in the scenario imagined it would kill many more people, but the absolute worst impacts would still be felt in places much further afield. America’s failure would create destructive ripple effects across the world.

Yes, I believe I covered that when I said “and push more Americans into poverty”.

I’m not ignoring the plight of those people for whom starvation would be a very real threat in this scenario. But that’s not the same thing as famine, and thinking that it is reflects a uniquely American level of isolation from the realities of the world. Poverty is terrifying - I’ve experienced it myself - but it is an entirely different order of magnitude from famine.

I know people who’ve experienced famine. I know people who’ve told me stories about taking a shit, and then immediately scooping it up and eating it just to sate the desparate, unbearable need to have some kind of food in their stomach. That’s the level of insanity famine drives you to. It’s a scale of hunger you and I can’t even comprehend.

Nowhere in my previous comment did I say “It will be OK if American agriculture collapses.” It would be awful. Many people would die, many more would suffer. But the absolute worst of that suffering wouldn’t happen in the US, it would happen in other parts of the world that most Americans can’t even name.

No, you’re not. The average US consumer, even those who are desperately poor, still has significantly more buying power than the vast majority of the planet. A collapse in American agriculture will just mean a vast upswing in food imports, because for most of the world it will always be more profitable to sell that food to a US grocery chain than it will be to sell it locally. This will increase costs for US consumers, and push more Americans into poverty, but it won’t cause a famine in the USA.

What you are well on your way towards is causing famines across vast portions of the world that aren’t you. Famines that Americans will barely even notice, much less care about.

How very free speech of them.

All dogs are good dogs, but some dogs are the goodest dogs.

This is fucking embarrassing.

About two thirds of the way through A Wizard of Earthsea.

Gotta love the use of “Pro Palestine” here, as if the only reason to be upset about genocide is because you have particularly strong feelings towards the specific people being genocided. God forbid we just generally think that genocide is bad no matter who it’s done to or why.

From what little I know of the way Japanese humour works, there’s a decent chance this is all just a bit. There was a guy in Japan who married a different kind of virtual girlfriend not that long before LLMs hit the mainstream, and I heard from a few different Japanese people that he was almost certainly doing it as a joke. Apparently Japanese humour is very, very deadpan and they love seeing people really commit to the bit.

So… The thing that they were already doing?

OK.

The part you’re still not grasping, despite my already having explained it once, is that in order to create this perfect prompt you’re imagining - in order to actually be the person who would make all those choices - you’d have to have the kind of experience that only comes from years or decades of practice. Is there some version of AI art where experienced artists use it as their medium in lieu of pencil or oil paint or digital art? Maybe. But that’s not the point of all this, is it? The promise of AI is that it’s supposed to allow everyone and anyone to be Van Gogh, without any training or practice, but the person who has no training or practice is never going to be able to create that perfect prompt that you somehow imagine exists.

(All of which is putting aside that when you move a brush the paint goes where you want and is the colour you want, whereas a prompt will always be filtered through the random distortion field of a stastical association model, but we don’t even need to get into that)

Look closer. It’s not just the big details. Look at the window. Look at how the AI just completely flattened out the lighting outside to this vague orange tone that robs the scene of so much of its character.

AI can’t think. It can’t make the kind of intentional choices that a good artist can. And you can’t solve that with prompting, because one, good luck describing that exact pattern of lighting in a prompt, and two, the person prompting isn’t a good enough artist to come up with that exact pattern of lighting, because it would take years of experience to be able to.

The reason you think your photoshops have mimic’d Van Gogh is because you’re not Van Gogh, and no offense intended, but you’re clearly not a good enough artist to understand the difference. I guarantee that anyone who knows what they’re looking for would instantly know the difference between your work and his. Art isn’t just style, it’s a myriad of choices that you can’t recreate with a photoshop filter.

The answers about using Dockerfiles are absolutely correct, but if you’re looking for a quick and simple solution that will work locally, you can always just use the “commit” docker command. This basically saves the current state of a container as a new image. You can then run new containers from that image as needed.

See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44480740/how-to-save-a-docker-container-state

I assume by “not be entirely fair” you’re referring to the fact that we cling to first past the post like a concrete bollard on a sinking ship, in which case yes, absolutely agreed. Our voting is impressively fair in the sense that every vote is tallied and everyone has ample opportunities to vote, but our vote distribution still fucking sucks and needs to be changed pronto.

Yeah, something that I see come up from time to time is defenders of voter ID pointing at the fact that Canada has it, and its like… Yeah, we do. But the list is acceptable ID includes

• deeeeeeeeep breath *

(sung to the tune Yakko’s Countries of the World)

• driver’s license
• voter registration card
• band membership card
• birth certificate
• Canadian citizenship card or certificate
• Canadian Forces identity card
• Canadian passport (accepted only as proof of identity)
• card issued by an Inuit local authority
• firearms licence
• government cheque or cheque stub
• government statement of benefits *health card
• income tax assessment
• Indian status card or temporary confirmation of registration
• library card
• licence or card issued for fishing, trapping or hunting
• liquor identity card
• Métis card
• old age security card
• parolee card
• property tax assessment or evaluation
• public transportation card
• social insurance number card
• vehicle ownership
• Veterans Affairs health care identification card
• targeted revision form to residents of long-term care institutions
• correspondence issued by a school, college or university
• student identity card
• blood donor card
• CNIB card
• hospital card
• label on a prescription container
• identity bracelet issued by a hospital or long-term care institution
• medical clinic card
• bank statement
• credit card
• credit card statement
• credit union statement
• debit card
• insurance certificate, policy or statement
• mortgage contract or statement
• pension plan statement
• personal cheque
• employee card
• residential lease or sub-lease
• utility bill (e.g.: electricity; water; * telecommunications services including telephone, cable or satellite)
• letter from a public curator, public guardian or public trustee
• letter of confirmation of residence from a First Nations band or reserve or an Inuit local authority
• letter of confirmation of residence from an Alberta Metis Settlement authority
• letter of confirmation of residence, letter of stay, admission form, or statement of benefits from one of the following designated establishments: student residence, seniors’ residence, long-term care institution, shelter, soup kitchen, a community-based residential facility

And if you can’t find any of that, you can have someone else vouch for you.

Also registering to vote can be done on the spot at the polling booth. It takes five minutes.

So if you’re willing to provide aaaaallllllllllllllllllll those options for voter ID, then I’ll believe that the intent is to secure your elections, not make them more difficult.

By the way, we also have mail in voting, proxy voting, advance voting (typically up to a month ahead of an election), votes are always done by hand on paper with a pen (for provincial and civic elections they can be machine tallied with manual recounts as needed, for federal elections they are only ever hand tallied), we put voting stations in prisons (yes, for the people incarcerated there), hospitals, retirement homes and army bases, there are so many voting stations that you are never more than a five minute walk from your nearest one, and your work is obligated to give you time off to go vote if you need it.

Voting doesn’t have to be hard. Canada has proven this time and time again. Our elections are some of the most secure and well managed in the world. And even in elections with a high turnout I have never ever waited more than five minutes to vote. Lines of voters queuing for hours is a choice, not an inevitability.

As I pointed out in another comment, no guessing is required. It’s genetics. We know it’s genetics. That’s been pretty self-evident from the data for decades. It’s just anti-vaxxers who refuse to accept that answer and prefer some made up woo by a quack doctor who tortured children.

Sorry, my bad, two quack doctors. The other sells his blood as an autism “cure”.