People often blame phones, but I blame the runaway success of Obamas first campaign. His team ran the most effective targeting campaign online I'd ever seen. People I knew in Canada cared more than about him than local politics. I think it highlighted the potential of online propaganda to such an extent that everyone started targeting online people. Good an bad.
Readit Newschamwislothe2nd commented on The teen mental illness epidemic began around 2012 jonathanhaidt.substack.co... · Posted by u/Dowwie
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chamwislothe2nd commented on Ask HN: Looking for advice on my situation at work? · Posted by u/dalmang
A major school of thought is that as soon as someone goes to the effort of getting another job offer, they've psychologically checked out, so you might as well let them go.
That's definitely what I've seen happen most.
It is a silly school of thought though. The same school of thought can also be found recommending to not give raises to their most loyal employees.
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chamwislothe2nd commented on OpenJourney: Midjourney, but Open Source open-journey.github.io/... · Posted by u/walterbell
If anyone wants to try it out without having to build and install the thing - https://replicate.com/prompthero/openjourney
I've been using openjourney (and MJ/SD) quite a bit, and it does generate "better" with "less" compared to standard v1.5, but it's nowhere close to Midjourney v4.
Midjourney is so far ahead in generating "good" images across a wide space of styles and subjects using very little prompting. While SD requires careful negative prompts and extravagant prompting to generate something decent.
Very interested in being wrong about this, there's so much happening with SD that it's hard to keep up with what's working best.
Every midjourney image has the same feeling to it. A bit 1950s sci-fi artist. I guess it's just that it all looks airbrushed? I can't put my finger on it.
chamwislothe2nd commented on Companies use drip pricing to overcharge consumers passingtime.substack.com/... · Posted by u/27153
Yes, because as we all know, service staff have enormous power and dictate restaurant policy. This is why they're so highly paid and aren't abused at all by customers, for example. /s
As I said, for everyone involved it is unfortunate, but the majority of people without power still choose not to be complicit in fraud.
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