Trouble is that people pointing at this as evidence to show that Reform can't be given power fail to realise that it doesn't play as a negative to those that vote for them. Some Reform voters see this and think "they're not afraid to be honest". Trump's comment played positively to a large number, as awful as that is.
Digging up a little bit of misogyny on these people isn't worth the effort.
Israel clothes itself in the garments of the Jewish people and uses them to defend it's actions. It claims that any action against it is an action against the Jewish people.
Now I know that there are Jewish people around the world saying "not in my name", but it's also why so many supporters of Israel exist. You can't divorce the religious aspect from this war. If it wasn't there this wouldn't be allowed to happen.
Technically and legally the photos would be considered child porn
I don't think that has been tested in court. It would be a reasonable legal argument to say that the image isn't a photo of anyone. It doesn't depict reality, so it can't depict anyone.
I think at best you can argue it's a form of photo manipulation, and the intent is to create a false impression about someone. A form of image based libel, but I don't think that's currently a legal concept. It's also a concept where you would have to protect works of fiction otherwise you've just made the visual effects industry illegal if you're not careful.
In fact, that raises an interesting simily. We do not allow animals to be abused, but we allow images of animal abuse in films as long as they are faked. We allow images of human physical abuse as long as they are faked. Children are often in horror films, and creating the images we see is very strictly managed so that the child actor is not exposed to anything that could distress them. The resulting "works of art" are not under such limitations as far as I'm aware.
What's the line here? Parental consent? I think that could lead to some very concerning outcomes. We all know abusive parents exist.
I say all of this, not because I want to defend anyone, but because I think we're about to set some really bad legal precidents if we're not careful. Ones that will potentially do a lot of harm. Personally, I don't think the concept of any image, or any other piece of data, being illegal holds water. Police people's actions, not data.
Prakash Hinduja is Indian born Swiss. His brother S.P Hinduja was Indian born British and the billionaire head on the Hinduja company until his death last year. The company itself is Indian, so the British connection died last year and was somebody not involved in the case. This was a Swiss trial of a swiss family.
Plus... Let's face it. People with this level of money choose their nationality based on financial or business reasons. Wherever gives them the best tax break.
The feeling I'm getting is that Tories will mostly be staying at home on polling day, and I don't think that's going to be a wipeout in the long term. I don't think the bar will have to be very high for them to return next time.
What this election is very likely to do is wipeout their ability to raise money, and that's the big long term danger for them.
The lockdowns were yet another example of Tory hypocrisy and the fines should not be being enforced.
Neither should she have lost her job for voicing concerns. Agree or disagree with those concerns, people should be able to speak out against things in their workplace without fear of retribution.
For a minor coalition partner they surprisingly well at getting a number of their manifesto pledges inacted.
Raising of the Income Tax personal allowance from £6.5k to £10.5k
A £2.5 billion banking levy
Free school meals for infant-school children and in the first three years in primary school in England
Same sex marriage legislation
..and it's clear to see by how much damage the Tories did after 2015 how much the LDs reigned in the Tories.
Yes, you're going to cite the student loans. The Tories made it a choice between votes on that and a referendum on voting reform. They went with the referendum. The loans vote wasn't even close if I recall correctly. Of course, the referendum was a sham as well.
They know that there is more to be lost by saying something concrete and enraging a set of people during the campaign, rather than sitting uncomfortabley on the fence for a few weeks. It's not long enough to enrage both sides completely, and losing a few more fanatical votes is a net-positive.
It's on every issue, not just this one. It bodes poorly for the incoming government.
There's no drive to act on points of principle. There's nothing except the desire to not upset the applecart. I suspect we're in for a government that operates "on the quiet", not taking policies to the public but just taking action through the machinery of government. With no strong opposition I think we'll be getting very little public scrutiny because "they know best".
I'm hoping the the LDs become large enough to come second and we get a new voice in opposition. I think the odds are against it though.
"set the magic environment variable because the tool chain will mis-detect the architecture of your unsupported card"
I don't think it's misdetecting it. Rather it detects it correctly, tries to use specific support for that device, but then finds that the support was switched off at compile time. The environment variable forces it to pretend to be a different (very similar) device.
I think the problem the masses have is that now that sky-daddy is largely ignored it hasn't stopped the desire to be told what to think. Thinking for ones self is hard. It takes time and effort. People don't want to do it. People want somebody else to do it.
Science has truth passed down from upon high by priests who carry out mystic rituals to give them sacred knowledge.
Comparing base model to base model I think Cascade is quite a lot better than SDXL, but .....and it's an enormous but... It seems to have been shunned by the community.
Maybe nobody with resources to do training is interested in a model with commercial restrictions, or the multi-model flow was just too different for people. Not sure, but the output of the base model can be really nice. Not always, but I find the biggest errors are people taking on a painterly/waxy appearance rather than the arm turning into a leg body horror you can get with SDXL. I think the "compressed" Stage C works to keep the composition together across the whole image more.
They did it a bit too hard by the looks of it.