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I always liked the idea that the matrix was actually multi-tiered, and "waking up" from a tier is just like a filtering mechanism that keeps trying different versions on a given person until they reach one where they're fulfilled by it and get engaged again. Like some people get bored with a paradise, so they get the legally-distinct World of Darkness VRMMO instead; some people don't like the kitschy horror so they get some other fantasy instead, and so on all the way up to the capitalist realism tier and the revolution themed "real world" fantasy tier that finally encapsulate all of them.

The overall story of the entire series makes way more sense when looked at as the machines being merciful after their liberation despite the cruelty and genocidal hatred they'd suffered at the hands of humanity, and desperately trying to humanely and safely preserve humanity to save them from the ecocide the human powers had committed by blocking the sun out of spite.

I mean it's not canon, and the official story is the machines were still dumb and bad and John Wick was the messiah who got IRL superman/magneto powers somehow, but still.

I mean the organization that preceded it was also dogshit, it was just an order of magnitude less prolific and lacked the explicit "just go do ethnic cleansing" mandate that ICE has as its mission statement.

if the government or big media could control the weather, why isn’t it optimized for maximum growth?

If you look at all the graft and externalized costs that the state enables for business owners, I don't think it's a stretch to say that if private businesses were building weather control machines then local governments would probably be giving cushy contracts to local tornado-generating-machine magnates to just do whatever in exchange for a lifted pickup truck or whatever. We do live in a world where the government is currently shooting itself in the dick over and over for private profits while chortling about how owned we all are.

No, the fatal flaw with the idea is that they'd be bragging about all the "jobs" the tornado factories were producing, because even though the world runs on the dumbest graft possible they also can't keep a secret to save their lives and know that no matter how awful the truth is no one will actually care enough to stop them.

A year or two ago, yeah. It vaguely followed the indoor/outdoor cat thing

Try like five years. This was from the early days.

No, once a given checkpoint is made it's completely static. Even the problem of AI generated material being used as training data for subsequent checkpoints is overblown: uncurated and incorrectly tagged it's the same as mixing in bad data of any source, but you've got a bunch of hobbyists making LoRAs or finetuning checkpoints using hand-curated AI images that meet whatever criteria they set (like what I mentioned about the models can effectively synthesize new things by combining concepts with mixed success? Some people, particularly fetishists, basically try to make a LoRA or something that reinforces the cases of a model getting the concept right because they don't have a lot of separate art). I've also seen an example of someone actively trying to make a LoRA that was as messed up and full of common AI defects as possible to be used with a negative weight to drive the output away from those concepts.

They're probably using some unmodified corporate model, so it's just a weird failing in the way that the AI works. They don't really know or model things, they're sort of making an inference based on image or video tags and captions which can yield weirdly flexible and broad concepts that synthesize neatly with other things, or it can yield absolute nightmare nonsense.

Ironically a fetish-based image model would probably make it furry or get it sort of close to correct (probably not, though) because of all the furry art and wide range of pregnancy fetish art those sorts of models have pulled from danbooru or wherever, but I guess the video model is probably trained on like AI captioned youtube videos and commercials that are only going to show "pregnant" in a way that basically makes the concept in the model equate to like "big pink blob in middle of thing?" visually.

That's how the law almost always is: close-in-age exemptions of like 2-4 years, down to a certain point.

They always dance around the issue too and claim they have attraction to 17 year olds and that it's totally normal, this is how men did things for centuries,

This ties into a broader thing where under the typical patriarchal view women are depersonalized sex-things to own and use, and so extending the minimum age downwards however much they feel they can get away with is "normal" to them: they only see women as bodies to which they are attracted and which they would like to use, and since every material problem with targeting younger and younger women is about the person being less experienced and less able to exist independently and so more easily exploited and abused^[Also that having children early is very dangerous and unhealthy, but I almost don't even want to mention this because it ties back into issue of women being reduced to their bodies.] they see the problems as a plus because it just reinforces the fucked up power dynamic they believe in.

That's also why they're so hellbent on distinguishing between their own desire to prey on teenage girls and "real" pedophilia: they see the abuse they want to do as normal and maybe just a little bit of a vice like gambling or doing cocaine, and they absolutely mald at the suggestion that that's weird and not normal at all. They believe themselves to be the height of normalcy, the arbiters of normalcy, and pointing at that they're repulsive predatory freaks undermines the status and power they violently cling to.

He truly is the squirming, horrid thing that lived behind the human mask that other presidents try to wear, and libs are just mad that he's not wearing the mask which is embarrassing and cringe because the holy human mask of office is an important symbol of decorum and civility, rather than at the actual writhing evil that the American ruling class is and has always been.

I asked around the department if that is a legitimate thing and they just sort of stared at me and blinked, so carry on.

We are very concerned that you have spent the last 18 hours motionless by a sunny window and you appear to have a fever that is consistently over 101 degrees.

Confused nuclear engine wandering up to the reactor with a hand drill: "uh I don't think this is a good idea but orders are orders, gotta drill something."