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Messages - Big Toe
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« on: January 08, 2024, 19:14 »
In case you didn't realize, lately, marxist views are (unfortunately), popular again, not just in the US, but across the whole Europe. All socialist, social-democrat, democrat parties, green parties, etc... have marxist views.
No, they don't. At least for Germany, I can tell you that from the parties with some relevance, only "Die Linke" (The Left) has some Marxist leanings, even though their program is not really marxist. They narrowly missed the 5%-threshold at the last election for the German parliament, the Bundestag and only have seats in the Bundestag, because they won some seats directly. The larger SPD, the social democrats, which is the party of chancellor Olaf Scholz, was originally marxist, when it was founded in the German Empire more then hundred years ago. In the Weimar Republic, they already followed a more pragmatic line, which caused the more orthodox marxists to leave the party and found first the USPD and shortly afterwards, the KPD, the communist party. In the West German FRG, the SPD finally officially renounced Marxism 1959 in the Godesberg Program. They accepted capitalism with a market economy as the economic system in Germany and try to improve the living conditions of the working classes from within the system. Since then, some of their member have occasionally voiced views, which could be understood as being in favor of some aspects of Marxism, but that came usually from members of their youth organisation, which tends to be a bit more radical than the rest of the party. The green party is by no means marxist these days and certainly not the FDP, the liberal party.
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« on: January 08, 2024, 06:49 »
Trump's son said very well about the "independence" of democratic media.
"How is it possible that Ive seen more videos out of this war in Israel in a few hours than I have from Ukraine in almost 2 years???"
https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1710652739007484359
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Why does the son of Trump think other people are resposible for what kind of videos he watches?
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« on: December 31, 2023, 10:39 »
Would it be shocking that we are being visited. Or that we are being abducted. Or that there is growing concern that there is a increasing number of 'spheres' being logged around the world by military forces. This is a fact that Kirkpatrick admitted and is a matter of record. They appear to be probes. They are being witnessed by all nations. None seem to know the source and claim it isnt theirs. They can't be caught, or shot down. Although other craft have been. Alaska being the latest well known craft.
Let's hope it's not the Daleks. Although in that case, I am sure the Doctor would help out yet again.
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« on: December 30, 2023, 18:45 »
Can I sell my portfolio of 5k stock images to someone for a lumpsum price and remove it from my portfolio so they can sell it?
In theory, it is possible, but there are quite a few problems. The person, who buys the images has to upload them again, which may cost a considerable amount of time, the images may not all be accepted again and they certainly lose their search positions. All these issues combined mean that you will probably get considerably less money for the images than you would get in the future by selling them yourself. Also the person who buys the images would have to trust you that are no legal pitfalls in your portfolio and the images do not violate anybody's intellectual property.
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« on: December 11, 2023, 08:07 »
As for me, I don't see democracy ANYWHERE on the Planet.
That's too bad, because then we cannot count on you to defend democracy where it does exist, even if it may not be perfect.
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« on: December 11, 2023, 08:01 »
Each page has 100 results and in this example you have 4 pages of video results for - Scorpion
Fly. How many pages would you be willing to search through to get the right footage?
Beacuse page 1 of 4 has .... 66% of the results which are not even insects. Birds, fish, food, and dragons. Many are insects which arent a scorpion fly
It is tragic - https://streamable.com/p5rhgo
And that was just the video results.
The search results are actually not that bad. Most of the top results actually feature scorpion flies. You can filter out the unwanted results by putting your search terms in quotations marks: "scorpion fly". Then you get only 33 results but almost all the results show scorpion flies. You can also search with the scientific name for the family Panorpidae or the most common genus Panorpa. And if you search for scorpion fly in images and sort by relevance, the first page shows almost exclusively scorpion flies. If you switch to sort by new, then the first page looks quite different. So the algomrithm actually does a pretty good jobs to show the relevant images first, when sort by relevance.
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« on: November 30, 2023, 10:58 »
There are nearly 300 autumn leaves pictures in this contributor's genAI portfolio - all perfectly pleasant, but lots of repetitive material, not to mention all the other similar non genAI images already in the collection.
At least the AI has been very creative. Many images show new species hitherto unknown to mankind. For example this image: https://stock.adobe.com/de/images/maple-leaf-red-autumn-sunset-tree-background/657755682The leaves are somewhat reminiscent of maple, the fruits look more like hawthorn. Star Trek meets botany: We are Maple! Hawthorn will be assimilated! Resistance is futile!
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« on: November 23, 2023, 11:14 »
I have prepared two examples from my account via screenshot (see below) and wonder if these pictures describe a specific event or if the title is general enough.
One image of those has already been accepted, one image was submitted before the new rule came into force and of course some of the keywords do refer in some kind to actual events in the world, but not a specific event in the title.
Well, you use "Gaza" and "Gaza strip" as keywords for an image that was AI generated, if I understand you correctly and was therefor certainly not taken in Gaza and the keywords are strongly misleading at best. I would not use them, whether it may be a loophole in the current guidelines or not. Also, what does this picture have to do with tourism? Regarding the second picture: It does not look at all like any picture of actual climate blockades I have seen. Who could have use for such a fake image, unless someone buys it by mistake, thinking it displays an actual event ?
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« on: November 23, 2023, 11:12 »
Double post
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« on: November 19, 2023, 10:27 »
There is very little military assistance to Ukraine from the EU. Probably the EU wants Russian tanks to drive on the roads of the European Union in the near future?...
That is because the EU is not a military organisation and it does not have an army. Therefore, EU institutions can offer primarily financial aid. Military assistance must come from the member states of the EU directly and they do provide this assistance, most notably Germany with 18 Billion Dollar worth of military aid, according to the graph.
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« on: November 11, 2023, 10:51 »
I was always under the impression that most agencies do not allow upscaling. Am I mistaken there or has this changed with AI?
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« on: November 08, 2023, 18:49 »
There is no such thing as a prehuman race related to lizards.
What do you think they are? I thought these mummies had been debunked. Then it transpired these were not the amalgamated ones. Now none of them appear to be. So what are they?
I have not spend a lot of time reading up on them, but from what I have read, it still seems to be the most likely that they are some kind of fraud. They are definitely not pre-humans related to lizards, though. Humans and lizards are on different branches of the land vertebrate evolutionary tree. Humans are mammals and so are all pre-humans. Lizards are usually categorized as reptiles (although that is a paraphyletic group). They are more closely related to birds than to mammals.
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« on: November 08, 2023, 16:03 »
They do not say they are aliens and think they may be a prehuman race related to lizards.
There is no such thing as a prehuman race related to lizards.
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« on: November 05, 2023, 20:14 »
Everything will evaporate in a ball of fire: the media simulated a nuclear strike on Moscow.
The United States is planning to develop a new nuclear bomb, the B61-13, which will be more powerful than the one dropped on Hiroshima. If it struck the capital of the Russian Federation, hundreds of thousands of people could die in an instant.
The new nuclear bomb, which is planned to be created in the United States, will be able to destroy more than 300 thousand Russians in Moscow.
https://www.newsweek.com/updated-us-nuclear-bomb-could-reach-new-targets-1840663
There have been nuclear weapons much more powerful than the one dropped on Hiroshima for decades. This new bomb is not designed to destroy cities or to kill as many people as possible but to penetrate the earth before it explodes in order to take out buried targets, like underground bunkers. When such a target is located in a city like Moscow, it will probably still kill a lot of people, but that is not the primary intention.
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« on: October 05, 2023, 05:59 »
Yes, bananas are clearly very important to Adobe, so they are probably the next big thing. Perhaps the year of the banana is approaching in some calendar.
Therefor, we should all produce more images of bananas, lest we miss out when the demand for banana images will skyrocket.
yes,in fact in the near future everyone will only buy images of bananas,so it's better to be prepared! 
Maybe you'd better think about it,for what purpose can all these images,which include various environments,be used?offices, bedrooms,living rooms, dining rooms, kitchens... and much more!
Fair point. However, I guess the more various environments and settings you use for the banana images, the more effort it will be, will it not? And if you have access to so many environments suitable for stock photos, have you not used them already for that purpose?
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« on: October 05, 2023, 02:57 »
Injusticeforall, you said you estimate to complete the task in 6 days full time job. Where are you from that you feel comfortable making $300 a week?
I am from one of the most expensive countries in the world:Italy.
yes,300 usd in 6 days of working from home,and friends home,in complete autonomy and freedom,is fine for me,but also because these photos of bananas can also be processed and added in my portfolio,because they are not just about bananas,but also about environments,kitchens,dining rooms and more,much more!
Yes, bananas are clearly very important to Adobe, so they are probably the next big thing. Perhaps the year of the banana is approaching in some calendar. Therefor, we should all produce more images of bananas, lest we miss out when the demand for banana images will skyrocket.
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« on: September 25, 2023, 15:44 »
Hundreds of years ago, some people in Europe claimed that black swans were not possible - without having explored the whole of the Earth. That was arrogant.
So you say, yet so far you have failed to provide any evidence whatsoever that ANYONE, let alone a scientist of any repute, EVER said anything like that.
The phrase "black swan" derives from a Latin expression; its oldest known occurrence is from the 2nd-century Roman poet Juvenal's characterization in his Satire VI of something being "rara avis in terris nigroque simillima cygno" ("a rare bird in the lands and very much like a black swan").[4]: 165 [5][6] When the phrase was coined, the black swan was presumed not to exist. The importance of the metaphor lies in its analogy to the fragility of any system of thought. A set of conclusions is potentially undone once any of its fundamental postulates is disproved. In this case, the observation of a single black swan would be the undoing of the logic of any system of thought, as well as any reasoning that followed from that underlying logic.
Juvenal's phrase was a common expression in 16th century London as a statement of impossibility.[7] The London expression derives from the Old World presumption that all swans must be white because all historical records of swans reported that they had white feathers.[8] In that context, a black swan was impossible or at least nonexistent.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_swan_theory
It is one thing to assume that there are no black swans and a totally different thing to assume that they are impossible. So can you name any person who stated that black swans are impossible?
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« on: September 25, 2023, 15:20 »
It is a known scientific fact that aliens have indeed infiltrated the air space of the planet and further more landed craft on numerous ocassions.
And I thought I was the one supposed to make the jokes in this thread.
Only our arrogance prevents us from believing its possible. Didn't say which planet.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_landings_on_extraterrestrial_bodies
And from those locations we ... are alien  and I kinda like your jokes because they feel light hearted not malicious.
1. When people talk about "the planet" without further specification, it is kind of understood that they talk about the Earth. When you read the slogan "Save the planet", you probably don't think they mean Mars or Venus. Just like when you are in England and talk about the Queen (ok, now the King), it is understood that you mean the Queen of England and not the one of Denmark or the Netherlands. 2. I guess technically we are aliens on other planets in our solar system, however, as there is no one there to call us that, I am not sure how much sense such a designation really makes. Also please note that even if for example Martians existed, they could still not truthfully claim to have been visitied by aliens, since so far only unmanned spacecraft have landed on other planets (the moon is not a planet). 3. Most importantly, it is clear that interplanetary spacefaring is possible and that in the future people from Earth will likely visit Mars and possibly other planets. Interstellar space travel is a totally different thing, as the distances are incomparably larger and the star systems next to us are probably not inhabited. So even it we traveled there, we would probably not find other civilisations.
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« on: September 25, 2023, 15:05 »
Hundreds of years ago, some people in Europe claimed that black swans were not possible - without having explored the whole of the Earth. That was arrogant.
So you say, yet so far you have failed to provide any evidence whatsoever that ANYONE, let alone a scientist of any repute, EVER said anything like that.
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« on: September 24, 2023, 18:18 »
It is a known scientific fact that aliens have indeed infiltrated the air space of the planet and further more landed craft on numerous ocassions. And I thought I was the one supposed to make the jokes in this thread.
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« on: September 24, 2023, 16:48 »
But this was then a general statements about the swans observed so far and did not exclude the possibility that black swans may be discovered elsewhere.
If someone theorized about black adult swans in 17th century Europe, than they spoke about something that had not yet been observed, but might well exist, according to the knowledge of the time.
So I hope you see the difference to the UFO theories today. They not only make claims that have not yet been proven true, but may well be true, but they make claims that are very unlikely to be true. Just like swans spewing fire or abducting people.
No, you don't get the metaphor, you're just trying to convolute it.
For what it's worth, our knowledge of the Universe and the wider reality is not much greater than the knowledge of the Earth's fauna in 17th century Europe. "claims that are very unlikely to be true" - unlikely within our very limited (mainstream) understanding of reality?
You just assume that the UFO phenomenon doesn't involve non-human intelligence, reject all kinds of proposed hypotheses, and yet you cannot formulate any other sensible hypothesis. Pure denial and nothing alternative to contribute.
A black-swan event is a single event that completely destroys a theory or a worldview. And therefore, denialism is an intellectually risky position, because it can be destroyed by such a single black-swan event.
In fact, I am a believer in black swans. I just saw a pair of them a few days ago in a zoo. I do not believe in swans abducting people, though. So, show me comparable evidence for extraterrestial involvement in the "UFO phenomenon" and I'll become a believer there, too.
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« on: September 24, 2023, 14:45 »
Denialism is also a form of religious fanticism. It has nothing to do with science. The foundation of science is curiosity. Without curiosity you can't have science, so denialists should not pretend to be pro-science. People like Garry Nolan or Avi Loeb do science. And science at the highest level, for that matter. They certainly don't lack curiosity.
Denialism is basically a white-swan theory.
https://mythsexplained.substack.com/p/all-swans-are-white
Denialists will try to discredit and ridicule all people and reports that are contrary to their beliefs. No matter what, any kind of reports of black swans must be false, because black swans are not possible. In this forum, it has grown to a religious fanaticism.
But all it takes is a single black-swan event, and a white-swan worldview crumbles like a house of cards.
Who has ever formulated a "white-swan thoery"?
Even if we ignore the fact that young swans are generally not white, I doubt that any scientist has ever formulated something that goes beyond:
All swans that we know of are white as adults.
This does not exclude the possibility that other swan species may be black or that some mutation might cause an adult swan to be grey or black.
So, I have to ask you: who has ever stated anything like:
"Swans in other colors than white are not possible"
Do you understand the concept of a metaphor?
Once again:
https://mythsexplained.substack.com/p/all-swans-are-white
I do understand what a metaphor is, but this one just does not work, because it insinuates that scientist have formulated that kind of theory in the past, when that is very likely not true. Quote from your link: "The myth of "all swans are white" is a classic example of an idea that has been historically believed in Europe, where there are no black swans." This may have been a popular believe among non.scientists, but a scientist would rather have stated something like: "The mute swan is white as an adult" First, this does not say anything about other species. Second, it does not categorically exclude the possiblity that there is the odd adult mute swan that is not white for whatever reason. A 17th century might even have said something along the lines of: "Adult swans are white" But this was then a general statements about the swans observed so far and did not exclude the possibility that black swans may be discovered elsewhere. If someone theorized about black adult swans in 17th century Europe, than they spoke about something that had not yet been observed, but might well exist, according to the knowledge of the time. So I hope you see the difference to the UFO theories today. They not only make claims that have not yet been proven true, but may well be true, but they make claims that are very unlikely to be true. Just like swans spewing fire or abducting people. So the "denialist" are kind of proposing the "No swan abducts people theory", rather than the "All swans are white theory".
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« on: September 24, 2023, 13:45 »
Denialism is also a form of religious fanticism. It has nothing to do with science. The foundation of science is curiosity. Without curiosity you can't have science, so denialists should not pretend to be pro-science. People like Garry Nolan or Avi Loeb do science. And science at the highest level, for that matter. They certainly don't lack curiosity.
Denialism is basically a white-swan theory.
https://mythsexplained.substack.com/p/all-swans-are-white
Denialists will try to discredit and ridicule all people and reports that are contrary to their beliefs. No matter what, any kind of reports of black swans must be false, because black swans are not possible. In this forum, it has grown to a religious fanaticism.
But all it takes is a single black-swan event, and a white-swan worldview crumbles like a house of cards.
Who has ever formulated a "white-swan thoery"? Even if we ignore the fact that young swans are generally not white, I doubt that any scientist has ever formulated something that goes beyond: All swans that we know of are white as adults. This does not exclude the possibility that other swan species may be black or that some mutation might cause an adult swan to be grey or black. So, I have to ask you: who has ever stated anything like: "Swans in other colors than white are not possible" On the other hand, if some people would start to claim that they saw swans that spew fire or that they have been abducted by swans, than your average biologist would probably tell them that they do not believe that without irrefutable hard evidence. And I would agree.
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« on: September 23, 2023, 18:20 »
I wouldn't say completely anecdotal as the company I work for, a $3B company, uses AI almost exclusively....and it's a huge marketing driven company. I was able to pluck the robin image she did for me. It looks pretty good. Here is the link to the full Rez image she built. I mean honestly, nobody can predict what pivots AI will take, but since I'm seeing current state with a pretty big graphically driven company, it's at least an indicator of what's happening, or beginning to happen. I do think much of your post has merit. I'm just seeing someone who is very good with keywords and A.I. create many incredible interior designs, exterior home scapes , etc. I can't believe she'd be the only one doing this as a means to support an annual marketing budget of $20 million. https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/zylpx3ikxdh3gonmb2p14/MicrosoftTeams-image.png?rlkey=l4mrpfv626ewwsy5sg4t6a1br&dl=0
The picture is aesthetically pleasing and most people will recognize it as a robin, but a lot of the details are wrong. Here is how it should look like: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f3/Erithacus_rubecula_with_cocked_head.jpgNote for example that the beak of the real thing is blackish or dark grey, rather than partly orange. On the other hand, the lower part of the forehead should be orange. And so on. So it comes down to the question whether customers are fine with using images of birds that have some resemblance to the real thing, but are really fantasy products.
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