I agree pretty heartily with this metadata signing approach to sussing out AI content,

Create a cert org that verifies that a given piece of creative software properly signs work made with their tools, get eyeballs on the cert so consumers know to look for it, watch and laugh while everyone who can’t get thr cert starts trying to claim they’re being censored because nobody trusts any of their shit anymore.

Bonus points if you can get the largest social media companies to only accept content that has the signing and have it flag when signs indicate photoshopping or AI work, or removal of another artist’s watermark.

Classical nerd version of those “You’re a bender Harry!”, -Gandalf memes

Even bees will play with little balls! Usually by rolling them around and rolling around on top of them.

“That’s the neat part, you don’t!”

Actual answer, ya gotta learn to prioritize what you can manage at any one time, otherwise you’re gonna bury yourself under the weight of mounting project pressure.

My boss and I wanted to do some fancy data formatting shenanigans this year, but I’ve fallen sick enough that we gotta backburner it until I can get back at full capacity.

Oh hey look it’s the deathrite birds from Elden Ring

Worse, they throw a microwave tuna party

Better yet, just make your own, no pizza better than the one you make yourself, plus you can use the actually good ingredients

340 million souls and an arsenal of nuclear arms warrants a more critical examination of what went wrong than “guess we’ll see.”

You just tried to rephrase exactly what I said was the problem as if it’s some noble flaw, no, being designed to rely on everyone acting in good faith is stupidity and naivete at its most blatant.

Not even because I’m a cynic who believes people are inherently self interested or whatever the fuck, because they act self interestedly often enough that building a major government system around presumption of good faith is a sign that you are a complete moron who doesn’t understand how anything actually works.

Oh yes what a brilliant system that can be blown apart by the president just deciding they have unchecked power now. Where any mechanism of accountability is either captured or so far beyond the realm of possibility that even one of the most bipartisan major votes I have seen in my lifetime failed to remove from office the most obviously criminal person to hold the office of president.

Your brilliant system relies entirely on the people inside it wanting it to continue working, and nothing about that is brilliant except the amount of almost willing lack of foresight it would take to not account for participants willingly attempting to sabotage and stop it up from within.

Not to mention how separating the executive from the legislative is itself a terrible idea that is no good and bad and stupid and dumb and Madison should have fucking known better, the independent executive is an inherent threat to democracy, it inherently aches against the limitations placed against it by the legislature, and inherently seeks ways to leech powers away from the legislature.

The true order of divisions should be State, Government, and Justice.

The State should be comprised of a greatly expanded Senate headed by a States’ Tribune elected from their ranks and accountable to them charged with the duties of calling votes to invoke vetoes, calling votes to issue pardons, and performing the other functions of the head of state.

The Government should be headed by an even greaterly expanded house with the departments of the executive staffed by leaders elected from Congress as well as a Consul elected from their ranks and accountable to them. They perform the main body of the work of passing legislation, but can veto senate actions as much as the senate can veto theirs, and are the upper house because fuck anyone who puts the people’s representatives below the house of dirt.

The judiciary needs to be a legal monkhood of judges who are pulled for cases with federal jurisdiction at random, and that can’t pull any of that marbury v madison shit where they just decide they have new powers now either. The “Chief Justice” will be the senior most judge pulled for a case, and thr junior most will serve as the foreman of the bench of “jurors.”

That’s how you build a government that can keep operating even with active fuckery afoot, make it big, big to the point that attempts to mess with it can’t be realized at scale anymore, make the responsibilities and duties clear and concrete, and for the love of god create means of accountability that are actually able to get used when someone still manages to fuck around so spectacularly that it warrants an immediate finding out.

None of this impeachment shit where the other side being more popular than a literal pile of horse shit means they can block any and all accountability. Still have that in there, but also have lesser accountability measures that don’t take a political act of god to slap down on a judge literally caught taking bribes, or a national leader literally trying to send a lynch mob after his political rivals.

Usually it’ll be something like,

“If you try to put up a fight I’ll scream, guess who everyone’s gonna believe?”

Or if you’re really unlucky,

“Be my baby’s daddy!”, suddenly locks legs like a vise and begins grinding like there’s no tomorrow

With girl on guy it’s a lot less about physical overpowering and a lot more about weaponized social biases or lying about the intent of consensual sex for the purpose of trapping them into something.

If you’ve seen the infamous “Female Dating Strategy” forums, a lot of “tricks and tips” they come out with to “lock down your man” or “make him commit already!” basically amount to some form of Girl on Guy SA, either socially blackmailing them with the fear of you dragging them into a public accusation, which they aren’t ever gonna recover from even if found completely innocent, or by sabotaging contraceptives or tricking him into finishing inside to make a baby on purpose and then trying to shotgun wedding the whole thing.

The only institution that performs more criminal and social background checks than the ATF and intelligence apparatus is America’s network of communicating sex workers.

Sex workers do sometimes offer reduced effective rates per hour for extended time.

Usually you’re not gonna be allowed to offer for those unless you’ve spent time with that worker already and they’ve decided you can at least be trusted enough to not go psycho with enough time on hand.

By the time you’re talking about overnight service, either they know ya and they like ya enough to spend an evening with you, or they’re advertising the package openly because they’re pretty confident that they can bring anyone who tries something funny down harder than a meteor, that kind of work makes folks stronk, and they ain’t afraid to use that if you’re fuckin’ around.

The only segment that has any chance of achieving independence at this point is Iraqi Kurdistan and even that’s highly remote, and would almost certainly be conditioned on pre-signing extradition agreements with all their neighbors regarding separatists from within their borders.

I can only optimistically even say that much because Turkey is currently doing business with Iraqi Kurdistan despite their very clear animosity towards other sections of the region (especially in Syria because of very weird history with the Assads)

Literally every other state in the union would have to approve it, and the odds of that happening are next to zero

We might as well discuss how I feel about a beautiful woman materializing next to me and asking for an ice cream cone for a nice date, we’d be talking about roughly the same odds of occurrence.

I mean tbf Madisonian democracy is literally defined as an Oligarchy of Household Head Landowners.

Nevermind something like the black vote or women’s vote, Andrew Jackson abolishing property requirements destroyed “Madisonian Democracy”

Actually just to wrench your caveat, Andrew Jackson was a major figure in the voting rights battle of the day, the right of non property owners to vote.

If it weren’t for the Jackson admin, we wouldn’t have the language we used to expand voting rights even further when those fights came to their crescendoes, and this country would still be entirely governed as a landowner oligarchy instead of just significantly like it is now.

That sounds sarcastic and cynical but there is a big difference.

Don’t pet dogs that are on duty, you’re either gonna distract them from their jobs and dat makadem sad, or they’re trained as serious doggo security and you’ll be risking getting chomped

IIRC Canada’s actually touching similar demographic diversity to the US, the difference is more in what demographics specifically since Canada tended to draw from the corners of the British Empire specifically while the US would draw folks from all the rest of the world as well.

Bro I’m talking about a law put out of enforceability by a judicial ruling or a new law passing.

Why does that ruling or new law automatically remove the old law from the books?

Why was Arizona’s weird civil war era law still on the books after Roe completely made it illegal?

Stuff contraband in pockets of opposite sides facing in if you stand side to side, pretend to be leaning on each other as you walk in with goodies well concealed.