I don’t agree with conservatives’ way of life and they shouldn’t be allowed to get married
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What do you think is the best course of action to address cult movements, either as a whole or on an individual level?English
1·13 hours agoYeah, the situation got resolved when harm came in. You gotta commit an actual crime to be punished right?
I was meaning more so addressing the beliefs in absurdities before they result in committing atrocities, to paraphrase Voltaire.
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What do you think is the best course of action to address cult movements, either as a whole or on an individual level?English
2·1 day agoHow do you suggest we go about doing that?
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What do you think is the best course of action to address cult movements, either as a whole or on an individual level?English
3·1 day agoWhat about in the case of the aforementioned Rajneeshpuram (prior to the mass food poisoning) where they politically overtook a town and armed themselves? They effectively seized the mechanisms you mentioned on a local level, and it wasn’t until people got directly and clearly hurt by them that a larger governing body interfered in a way which did eliminate their presence.
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science@lemmy.world•Deep-sea scientists filmed something astonishing and very rarely seen swimming over the seafloor in ChileEnglish
99·1 day agoExtraordinary footage of a mother squid carrying her eggs
Thanks for saving us from the clickbait. Maybe you could edit the post title to include that?
Wait until OP finds out about cinnamon
Cheney shot a guy in the face. The guy apologized for it afterwards.
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What is your least favourite song by your favourite band/artist?English
2·7 days agoGenesis - Illegal Alien, overly poppy and tasteless for a variety of reasons. If not for the lyrics and racial insensitivity, it would be musically preferable to Who Dunnit
Peter Gabriel - The Story of OVO, I love to see Peter experiment and test out different genres but he does not realize how important flow is to rap/hip hop and his lyrical verbosity got the best of him
Honorable mention: Foreigner - Big Dog, overly repetitive riff, trite and creepy symbolism, and really weird growling by Lou Gramm. The sax solo is good though
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What is your least favourite song by your favourite band/artist?English
1·7 days agoA Spanish Piece and anything on Ummagumma are worse than Seamus IMO
Probably the Enemy Boxer from Lego Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures. Canonically he is a mechanic but they don’t even give him the wrench ability which isn’t even that special of an ability, and then he dies like a wimp with his plastic still-alive head getting chopped off by the plane that he’s supposed to be repairing. An idiot who would punch an anvil three times in a row deserves that sort of graceless demise.

I’m meaning on location, not just being involved remotely. The only surviving Rebel pilots of the Battle of Yavin are Luke, Wedge, and Evaan Verlaine. Verlaine’s introduction retconned Keyan Farlander‘s story, who would have been the only other Rebel pilot present at both the Battle of Yavin and the assault on the DS2.
She did cross my mind, but I wasn’t quite sure if her becoming part of the Falcon’s computer still constituted a sentience or a “self” per se. The Falcon was at the DS2 as much as Wedge was.
Interesting. Does their Facebook page often post infographics made by others and apply their watermark on top regardless?
Thanks. I think that it’s important to be judicious when calling something AI generated because too many false positives will delegitimize true claims and further blur the lines of real and unreal content.
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politics @lemmy.world•'I quit': GOP fundraiser publicly dumps 'increasingly corrupt' partyEnglish
23·19 days ago“You had me at 98%, but 99% corrupt is just too damn far”
Looks like Dennis without makeup

The art did seem off to me, but it fits the style of some textbook diagrams. The number placement doesn’t seem like an error that an AI would make. I was unable to find any results in reverse image searches that were more than a few days old, so given the infamous piss filter on the image, I think the man and dog are AI generated but the text is lazily human placed (I cannot attest to the validity of the scientific claims but it also seems human written to me).
In my research, I looked up the Medinaz watermark on the image. This educational publisher claims that their diagrams are “hand-drawn” and I was unable to find any other images published by them that match this art style, and all of their pages do not match the visual design above. Their infographics also tend to be a bit more campy or silly. Most of their images, but not the text, also have a watermark for Medinaz (sometimes shortened to Naz). Here is an example that could stand on its own as a meme:

Further down the rabbit hole, I found a review accusing them of plagiarizing the text they published for First Aid. I also encountered a full pdf for their Cardiology book, which includes a page with a couple of copyrighted characters (The Queen of Hearts from Disney’s Alice in Wonderland, and Thomas the Tank Engine).

Does Medinaz’s track record for disregarding intellectual property indicate that they would be willing to substitute their human artists for AI generated images? Or could they have stolen the image from elsewhere and slapped their watermark on it and published it as their own? Or could a separate party have added Medinaz’s watermark onto an image that they didn’t publish to affront them somehow? If somebody can find a Medinaz book with this image in it, we may have an answer.
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What superhero has the most 'normal' day job?English
1·25 days agoI guess I had initially interpreted “normal” meaning the percent of people who have once in their life held that job, rather than the percent of people holding the job at any given time.
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What superhero has the most 'normal' day job?English
2·25 days agoI thought being a soldier stood a fair chance, at least at the time of original publication. Not sure if your data considers that position?





I can’t do a thought police, but that is categorically what cults do. It’s not thought policing to advise people to be wary of thought policing or to promote scientific literacy and empathy.