I am against animal agriculture for the same reason I am against sexism, racism, ableism, classism and homophobia.
The circumstances of a creatures birth does not dictate what it is “meant for”, every one deserves to live happy, healthily and with dignity, but some simply want to live.
You’re going full keyboard warrior in this thread despite acknowledging Rowlings bigotry. They are children books, no one needs you to defend every plot hole, racist caricature or political grievance she decided to include. You’re an adult, why are you putting this much effort into defending a terrible person and her terrible writing?
Surely you have better things to do. There are better books to read. There are better authors to stan.
Charlton Farm Produce owner David Addison said that Abbott’s consumption of the onion “put us off guard a bit”, and that “I mean, I’m an onion grower, so occasionally I see people eat them. But you don’t really expect the PM to walk in, bite on an onion and eat it, leaf and all.”
From the wiki
And of course, the video.
Honestly looks like something from a cheesy superhero. Poor man, but fascinating image.
Yes. :/
There were other similar things he did but those are harder to talk about. This memory is just so absurd that it feels less personal.
When I was 15 or so I get home from school and get a AIM message from an account I don’t know claiming to be a girl at my school who has a crush on me, but too shy to reveal who she is. Which was weird all by itself because I didn’t use AIM often.
At first I’m delighted, but she quickly becomes sexual. Talking about masturbating to me in very explicit detail. I get freaked out and stop responding. Which prompts an angry phone call from my Dad saying the account is messaging him now and bothering him at work. How she got my account info wss confusing, but i didn’t even know my dad had an account.
So I respond a few more times, and very quickly “she” starts sending me porn, which then turns to sending CSAM saying I need to masturbate to it too. I’m freaking tf out and block the account. Which prompts another angry phone call. I tell my dad I don’t know this person and tell him to just block the account to stop him getting bothered. He calls me a pussy and hangs up.
When he gets home, I tell him that the account was sending me freaky stuff. He stomps over to the computer, opens an terminal and typed a long string of characters that returns our IP address. “If it happens again, do this and we can catch this freak”. He then abruptly closes the window before I can even read what he typed, much less remember it. He slams his bedroom door and that’s the last I see of him for the night.
Took me a long time to fully understand and accept what happened that night, but I never looked at my dad the same again. There were a few more odd situations where he put CSAM in front of me or sent it to my step-dad getting him fired. But he died before I gathered the courage to confront him.
Don’t try to chat up women at night. There is no scenario of a strange man being interested in me while it’s dark that I’ll be receptive to. It’s impossible for your line to be so good I’ll stop seeing you as dangerous.
If anything of consequence happens on Twitter, you’ll hear about it elsewhere.
Haven’t seen and didn’t know she was involved.
Not particularly a selling point either.
I like it when they don’t consent.
Instagram really should be a weed delivery app.
Jenny is such wholesome outrage.
At some point the rubber has to meet the road but years after hearing about the coming tide of AI, it’s still not useful.
My original comment was meant as a somewhat dark joke (“no one would want to see that anyway” being the subtext)
Oh good, now you’re taking it serious. It was clear that you thought you were being funny since you’re a man why would anyone want to see that anyways? Because you felt like this could never happen to you, no one would ever want to do this so “lol I consent”. You’ve put so little thought in the implications of this technology that it’s still funny. You didn’t want this to be a debate, but no one else wanted that either. No one even thought to make jokes. Everyone who down voted you wanted you to read the fucking room and realize this isn’t the time to be crass.
Second, I don’t think framing someone for sexual abuse of a minor is in the same category as fake nudes. No one is going to prison (under current laws) for possessing nude pictures as long as both parties are in the same age cohort from a legal perspective. That’s a pretty significant distinction in my opinion.
These are all things that have already happened.
https://www.kcci.com/article/iowa-board-education-ai-deepfakes-north-polk-hearing/71293412
And these are from cases where victims were able to successfully prove to law enforcement that the videos were fake. We don’t know how many people were targeted by deep fakes and no one ever believed them. How many men and women were fired because management had to err on the side of caution? How many relationships destroyed?
And even if you WERE right that my example is different, why does that give you the right to mock the harm inflicted upon women and girls who are more regularly the primary target of such harassment?
Third, I don’t believe I said or implied that fake images cannot cause harm. I said on more than one occasion that you can only control your reaction to them.
Don’t downplay. You literally said it would only be annoying to explain something is fake.
The fact that they were created and distributed without your consent sucks, but what are you going to do about that after the fact? I’m a very utilitarian person and I see no utility in feeling sorry for myself so that’s not a behavior I generally engage in. Other people probably feel differently about that and that’s fine. I might seem cold to them and they might seem whiny to me. Different strokes.
Whiny? That’s not utilitarianism, it’s willful cruelty. Whether or not you feel like a victim is immaterial to the real world effects that such media would have on your life. If someone did all the things I previously listed and you lost your job/wife/friends, how would you feel if someone came by to say stop acting like a victim and you" seem whiny"?
I’m honestly shocked that even now, even after you stopped making jokes, you would still use that word.
don’t know that I think deep fakes are any more or less damaging than the other forms of that behavior that have historically been common.
A difference of scale is a difference of kind. Saying “x did y” is one thing, children believe these things and that’s why bullying is so pervaisive in schools. But spending an afternoon making a series of of x literally doing y that are so realistic even skeptical adults have trouble differentiate between reality is something else entirely. There are literally drag and drop apps for this, even the tech illiterate can start this harassment easily. How many girls do you think now have a reputation for being a “slut” despite being virgins? These are long standing problems of sexism, but deep fake is a radical escalation.
Sir, based off your pic, you are somewhere in your 40s? That’s pretty old to be acting this willfully obtuse. I and others linked you to stories of schools being attacked by this behavior, but you doubled, tripled and quadrupled down on big laughs. Just because you feel immune to that sort of sexual abuse (incorrectly), doesn’t give you the right to come have a laugh at the expense of victims.
You acted exceptionally cruel in this thread. It’s something you should think on moving forward. Most people don’t enjoy making jokes at the expense of the abused. No one but you decided to make jokes here.
I don’t see the point in feeling anything more than annoyed at having to explain that the pictures are fake
I want you to imagine that I edited this image so it appeared to show you sexually abusing children. And later this week you get called in to HR to say you’re being let go. Would they belive you when you said it was fake?
Would your wife? Would your parents? Do your parents even understand what deep fake is? Would they wonder if this was an elaborate excuse?
Would your kids understand? Would your kids friends? Would their friends parents believe you? What if the way you found out they believed it was real was when your kids friends are no longer allowed to sleep over Would those parents even take your call so you can explain it was fake?
Would your kids teachers?
Would your own friends believe you? Would your friends let you be around their kids? How much would they be willing to risk that you’re “probably” telling the truth and that it’s “probably” fake? I could even tailor the image to you abusing your friends children. Thosse friends wouldn’t check in with you first, they’d have a terrible conversation with their own kids.
Would your wife keep believing you when your family is socially ostracized? Do you think you would only ever have 1 conversation about it? Would you still want me to send you a “good one”? What if I kept making burner accounts and never stopped sending good ones to your friends, family and coworkers?
You can say I personally am an asshole, and I would be, but that doesn’t change the harm a deranged person could do with zero expertise, zero access to you IRL and take all of 30 seconds of effort to create the image. Starting a whisper rumor about you would take substantially more effort and access.
People SWAT strangers just because they lost a game.
bUt WhAtAbOuT wHeN iT’s nIghTime u sTUpId LIbS!?!?!
-MF’s who have never heard of a battery
Disagreeing with the response is not a sign of a lack of empathy.
Then stop this trolling. No one cares if you personally wouldn’t be hurt by something that is actively hurting untold number of women and children. Your personal opinion was never the topic of discussion.
Games Fray’s report claims Nintendo now has “zero chance” of prevailing against current Palworld versions under the revised scope, arguing that any injunction would apply only to older builds. The outlet also said the maximum damages at stake would be 5 million yen, roughly $30,000, if Nintendo succeeds on the remaining claims.
Oh what a return for the widespread disgust. No such thing as bad PR right guys? lol
Magic The Gathering is known for it’s 5 color card system. Red, Blue, Black, White and Green.
But the most dangerous color is Pink.
His name was Robert Paulson.