Try for yourself https://github.com/ShiftHackZ/Stable-Diffusion-Android
But that’s (very clearly) beside the point, which is that you can run a variety of models locally on your PC or phone for miniscule energy. Once a model is trained the damage has already been done.
As always, it’s the corporations using the resources and doing the damage, so pearl clutching about random individuals is less than useless.
Training models takes a stupid amount of energy. Using them after the fact uses very little.
I could generate something like this on my phone using any of the dozens of local models.
Trotsky is good at appearing “right” because he plays fast and loose with the details so he can retroactively claim to have been for or against something after it already happened.
One example off the top of my head (forgive me if I misremember the specifics) is the NEP, which according to Trotsky and Trotskyites was originally his idea that Lenin initially disagreed with but eventually came around to. But, ignoring the fact that timing matters and a year is a long-ass time in a revolutionary period, the details also matter, since the goal wasn’t to retreat to capitalism but to very carefully reintroduce certain market incentives to help develop certain sectors of the economy that had been obliterated during the war. So you can’t just claim “oh I had this idea first” when your idea, at least according to Lenin, would overly benefit the Kulak class without adequately fostering a respective proletariat (or something along those lines). Lenin goes into this in great detail both when he dismisses Trotsky’s plan and also when he introduced the NEP.
But he was also an asshole, notoriously elitist and dismissive of anyone he deemed intellectually inferior.
Honestly reading through the debates and speeches from the party meetings and congresses is great for breaking through a lot of the ahistorical western bullshit.
Long history of wrecking/coopting movements and orgs.
I know good individual trots, but the trot orgs in my area are all white college students that show up uninvited to things they had no party in organizing, then selling shit or starting fights. We have a lot of coalition building among MLs, anarchists, and DSA types here, and it’s always the Trots that refuse to find common ground or show any support whatsoever. Their praxis consists of wrecking/splitting, raising money, and defending sex pests.
Lmao imagine the Chinese equivalent to Epstein is getting photos of people with Winnie the Pooh contraband and using that to keep them in line
I’d be happy paying taxes if they went to social works and infrastructure and whatnot, but yeah.
Now let’s talk about spending 60-80% of my remaining income on rent
Just a stupid joke on the tendency people have to try to reconstruct etymology from the top down rather than bottom up, often using tenuous logical connections lol
Boomers are called that because they were born after the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Zoomers are the generation of high speed rail and fast cars
Gen alpha are all chads due to the hormones used in agriculture
By that logic, there must have been a baby zoom in the '90s
lmao what is it with people trying to map abstract political concepts onto geometric and spacial shapes?
The colloquial meaning of “liberal” used by some Americans does not align with how it’s used in political theory. That’s okay, words have different meaning in different contexts.
“Left” and “right” stem from the French Revolution (1789!) where the people who sat on the left of the National Assembly were progressives that supported the revolution and people who sat on the right were conservatives that wanted to preserve the old system. Liberalism (as defined in political theory, not colloquially) is the dominant global ideology and thus is no longer progressive or radical. It may have been progressive when monarchy was the main form of government, propping up feudalism as the main economic structure. But that’s obviously not how the world works 200+ years later
Liberalism was “the left” in the 1700s and has desperately tried to maintain that label ever since, all while doing anything it can to preserve the status quo with violence.
Government itself arises out of conflict between classes, and the fundamental mechanism of capitalism is accumulation. The former means without pretty intensive upheaval and reorientation of governmental systems, the institutions are unlikely to interfere with the core function they were designed to protect. The latter means that no matter what protections you put in place, by the very nature of how it works, capitalism will trend towards monopoly.
Magnolia is probably his best performance, but hard to say how much of that is him disappearing into the role versus the role giving us a peek behind the mask lol
Seems like a pretty reasonable semantic shift to me.
If it’s gonna take more than a few years to pay off, you might consider defaulting. Credit card debt is some of the most easily dischargeable debt.
That can range from offers in compromise to declaring some sort of bankruptcy to just not paying them anymore (the latter might have repercussions if you have seizable assets or enough debt that the carriers think it’s worth going through the courts to try and garnish your wages, assuming you have regular W2 income). Or if you currently have decent credit, a refi might even be a good option.
Do your own research, this is not financial advice.
I know people that just stopped paying and basically nothing happened. Credit scores went through the floor, but that’s pretty much it. Within a couple years they were able to open new cards, and after seven years the dings fell off their credit reports.