PonyOfWar

It’s a thing in the UK.

I wear a helmet when riding my bicycle.

I’m child-free by choice and I think there are a lot of good reasons not to have kids that I would probably share with antinatalists. I think there should be less population growth. But radical “no-one should be born ever” antinatalism goes to far I think. IMO the whole “being born without their consent” argument doesn’t work, as the whole concept of consent doesn’t exist for a nonexistant being. In order to make any kind of choice on whether you want to exist, you need to exist first. If you make the argument that not having kids is sparing them from suffering, then you can just as easily make the argument that you’re depriving them from ever feeling love or happiness, which they “didn’t consent” to either.

As long as it’s not an insane NK-level dictatorship, yes I personally would. I’ve been to China before and talked to a few people there who were more critical about their regime than you might think and didn’t hesitate to talk about it. Of course you need to read the room and maybe not go shouting “Free Tibet” on Tiananmen square. And I wouldn’t pick any fights with nationalists either. In many countries, democratic or otherwise, there are certain topics that you probably shouldn’t bring up with strangers. But I think that it’s ultimately a beneficial thing for people from democratic countries to visit countries like China and vice versa. It contributes to mutual understanding. I personally wouldn’t hesitate to visit China again.

I totally get why the situation would be more difficult for you as a Taiwanese though. If you can’t smile and walk away if someone tries to provoke you, maybe it’s not a good idea to go.

It’s probably 80-90% of what AI image generation is used for TBH. Reddit, Deviantart and any art platform that hasn’t explicitely banned it are filled with it. Even Lemmy has quite a lot.

I don’t know if it’s mostly my own biases against AI, but I feel similarly. These images often have an odd sense of emptiness to them. Something I’ve noticed with more recent AI-generated images is that while the hands etc are now more often than not perfect, characters often have a strange sort of stare, where instead of looking at something or at each other, they look at nothing in particular. A lot of AI images are also overly shiny and glossy, which gives them an unnatural look.

I trust them to generally do their due diligence and report the truth. As with all press agencies, there will be exceptions to this and instances where journalists spread false information. In those instances, I expect them to correct their errors, which I believe they usually do. There will also always be some level of bias with any journalism, at the very least in choosing what to report on and what not to.

Their advantage is/was cheap access to fossil fuels.

I don’t think that’s the case. Most people don’t want to consume AI-generated content, especially books. Pretty sure there aren’t any really popular books that are AI-generated. Just some bottom-tier slop on sites like Amazon, made to fool people into believing they’re real books. If you’re competing with those, you wouldn’t have been successful anyway. Being a successful author has always been very hard and involves a lot of luck.

An electronics repair kit, e.g. the ifixit toolkit.

I mean, they totally do. Very recent example.

I highly recommend leaving the typical tourist route (Tokyo-Osaka-Himeji-Hiroshima-Kyoto) for at least a few days and visit some of the other main islands. Kyushu is my favorite island. So much to see but not yet overrun with tourists. Nagasaki and Kagoshima especially are lovely cities. I also recommend visiting an Onsen town for 1-2 days.

Some other tips closer to the main tourist route:

• Stay at a buddhist temple on Koyasan. Many people only go there for a day trip, but the temple stay really makes it special
• Do the Shimanami Kaido cycling route. Depends on your fitness of course, but it’s quite doable for most people in 2 days and you can also do only a part of it.
• Between Kinkakuji and Ginkakuji, visit Ginkakuji. Less overrun and has a (IMO) much more beautiful garden surrounding it
• When visiting Miyajima, take a rental bike (e-bikes are available) to the eastern side of it - you’ll find quiet beaches with small shrines and hundreds of deer just chilling out

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They run on spite. Just doing something which the other side hates is enough to make them happy.

Does it not display the initial 1 for you? I noticed the post has some weird formatting, I think the lemmy UI thinks it’s a list item or something.

1929. Not particularly old by European standards, but one slightly unusual feature is that it still has its original roof.

3G networks

I think it should be marked under the same conditions in which you would credit another artist on whose drawings your work is based on. Is it a close reproduction of an AI-generated piece? You should mark it as AI-assisted. Did you use AI-generated content as general inspiration to create your own unique artwork? No need to mark it in that case.

Freedom of speech is often confused with a right to say what you want on any platform, but it’s not the same. As long as you can host your own website, say whatever you want on it and have the website be accessible to other people, there is freedom of speech on the internet. That’s not the case in all countries, but in many it is. But getting banned on Twitter for writing “cisgender” or getting your post removed on Lemmy doesn’t really touch your free speech whatsoever.

I don’t think so. They’ve stated that it’s not worth it for them to maintain two separate versions of firefox on iOS, with one only being available in the EU.