It's not just a question of whether it's justifiable. It's just simply nonsense to think that they can enforce this. Anyone can run Stable Diffusion on their computer. There's a virtually limitless number of models finetuned to make all kinds of porn. It's IMHO extremely annoying all the porn flooding the model sites; I think like 3/4ths of the people using these tools are guys making wank material. Even models that aren't tuned specifically for porn, rarely does anyone (except the foundation model developers, like StabilityAI) specifically try to *prevent* it.

The TL/DR is: if you think stopping pirated music was hard, well, *good luck* stopping people from generating porn on their computers. You might as well pass a law declaring it illegal to draw porn.

Light exposure, depth, degree of exposure, isolated from others or clustered... many factors can affect survivability.

Why does anyone use F-droid? Why does anyone use F-droid to install NewPipe?

Well, that answers none of my questions...

I have no idea what the fuck F-droid or NewPipe is....

It doesn't sound very iPhone-ish to me...?

and why do you need that?

Well, aside from "what does NEED have to do with anything....they are quite useful for protecting your hearing when you are out target shooting.

But seriously what the fuck does "need" have to do with getting a suppressor or a few of them?

I don't "need" a corvette or Porsche...but they are fun to own and drive.

Same in that suppressors are fun to have...it's nice to shoot without having to wear hearing protection, etc.

Hell, silencers/suppressors are MUCH easier to get in countries around the world that are VERY strict about firearms ownership, primarily due to hearing concerns.

It's a breeze to get a suppressor in much of Europe...that is if you can somehow get past the draconian gun laws.

That is making shareholders money. That is it. That is the goal.

How do you figure?

Disney stock has been tanking badly over the past few years, and I"m not talking about covid problems.

Only thing I can figure is, they are more beholden to Blackrock and Vanguard than they are their other stockholders.

YouTube used to be great early on. Lots of interesting people posting about interesting or genuinely funny stuff. These days it's just a bunch of influencers trying to sell you crap. They've turned YouTube into yet another marketing platform. Fuck them. I can't actually remember the last time I watched anything on YouTube anyway. It's not worth coming back to in the first place anyway.

You and a few others have made very similar statements.

I seem to always find something to watch on YouTube....but then again, I'm generally searching for specific subjects, or looking through subscriptions from people that speak to my specific subjects...examples being photography, cooking (specific styles or ethnic foods).

Anyway, the algo seems to have pretty accurately figured my interests and if I'm wanting to be passive in my looking for content, well, it seems to accurately suggest videos that are in my interests.

I dunno that I've ever seen a true "influencer" as many have stated.

How do you watch YouTube...is it only passive scrolling, or do you usually search for specific topics/subjects?

Can someone make an enumerated list of all things good this means for the user, that they could not have or do before this EU law took effect?

You'd need to bundle that law with a law that would make the tickets refundable until a certain point too close to the event.

It's legitimate, in my mind, to resell tickets for some event you wanted to go to but now cannot because life circumstances got in the way. It's less legitimate to scrape a website, buy a zillion tickets, and resell them at a huge markup.

Economic populism is more in vogue on both the left and right today than it was in the 90s.

Ban TicketMaster/Live Nation from the lucrative resale market and watch how quickly they conjure up an effective solution to solve the problem of bots snatching up all the tickets.

We purchased tickets for Alanis Morissette's tour this summer, within 60 seconds of sales opening, and magically all the first sale tickets were gone and we had to go to the resale market. From nosebleed to "if you have to ask, you can't afford it", literally, every single seat in a ~20k person arena sold within a minute? Who knew she was still that popular....

TM gets to collect their bullshit fees on every single sale, so what incentive do they have to do a damn thing about bots?

This isn't about making payroll. This about paying the shareholders for them sitting on their ass.

It doesn't even seem to be about THAT these days...seems some studios, at least, are more interested in pushing "the message" than making profits...ie "See Disney".

They're losing money hand over fist and don't seem to care....the agenda must be pushed.

Safety testing means it will not say things that are politically unpalatable. For example, it must not misgender anyone. It must not provide statistics that look bad for some race or other "protected" group, etc.

In other words....no fun to play with, and not really worth messing with....

Go for the truly open source models if you want something you can really "play" with and use to generate anything you wish.

You can buy a machine gun in the US but this software needs safety testing.

Well, you'd better have at least a bare minimum of about $40K or so, since citizens can ONLY own full auto weapons that were manufactured 1986 or earlier...so they're a bit rare (thanks Hughes amendment [rolls eyes]).

And once you find an old one that is legal to sell, then you have to get with the ATF and go through the enhanced background check, and you pay the tax stamp ($200 I believe), and then likely wait at least 6mos to a year to get it processed, and THEN, if all works, yes...you can then purchase and own a full auto machine gun.

AI safety testing is MUCH easier, cheaper and quicker.

To be fair, there have been times where Earth's temperature changed relatively rapidly.

On the other hand... those times tended not to work out very well for life :

Our current experiment with mass greenhouse gas emissions affecting the climate, Earth itself has kinda done it before, at the Paleocene-Eocene boundary. The associated Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) left the world such an altered place that we refer to it as a different era (the Eocene). The oceans took the brunt of the hit. Except the differences we have vs. the PETM are *not* to our favour:

  * The arctic was ice-free going into the PETM; ours is not. The presence of ice creates an amplifying feedback process, where the more ice that melts, the more sunlight gets absorbed, creating more heat to melt more ice.

  * We're releasing our carbon an order of magnitude faster (though our methane emissions are similar)

The PETM caused a 5-8C rise over 6000 years, but we're speed-running it, so it's really our best case. The worst case is the K-Pg extinction event

Only the worst excursions in history tend to result in large parts of the earth becoming relative sterile. But they all lead to mass disruptions in ecosystems and waves of global or at least local extinction (but new speciation of the survivors who take their place). Indeed, we probably owe our existence to the PETM - primates diversified and radiated after it. But that's little solace to species that didn't make it. Like, for example, dinoflagellates flourished during the PETM. But do you really want to replace reefs with red tide?