ImADifferentBird

Reminds me of the Parable of the Drowning Man

A storm descends on a small town, and the downpour soon turns into a flood. As the waters rise, the local preacher kneels in prayer on the church porch, surrounded by water. By and by, one of the townsfolk comes up the street in a canoe.

"Better get in, Preacher. The waters are rising fast."

"No," says the preacher. "I have faith in the Lord. He will save me."

Still the waters rise. Now the preacher is up on the balcony, wringing his hands in supplication, when another guy zips up in a motorboat.

"Come on, Preacher. We need to get you out of here. The levee's gonna break any minute."

Once again, the preacher is unmoved. "I shall remain. The Lord will see me through."

After a while the levee breaks, and the flood rushes over the church until only the steeple remains above water. The preacher is up there, clinging to the cross, when a helicopter descends out of the clouds, and a state trooper calls down to him through a megaphone.

"Grab the ladder, Preacher. This is your last chance."

Once again, the preacher insists the Lord will deliver him.

And, predictably, he drowns.

A pious man, the preacher goes to heaven. After a while he gets an interview with God, and he asks the Almighty, "Lord, I had unwavering faith in you. Why didn't you deliver me from that flood?"

God shakes his head. "What did you want from me? I sent you two boats and a helicopter."

One, the Republican party needs to pivot, or die, frankly. They've gone so far down the fascist rabbit hole at this point that they're a danger to the very fabric of this country. Perhaps if they couldn't get away with chiefly appealing to a minority of this country, that would push them to do so.

Two, the idea of the current system serving the rural/urban divide is a complete lie. Do you think the people of Kern County, CA are served by the electoral college? Do you think the people of San Antonio, TX are? No, they are completely and utterly ignored because they happen to be in states that vote the other way. To say nothing of the fact that the people who generally do vote with their state are ignored almost as much, because they can be taken for granted.

If you want every American to count, then you need to count every American. And if that upsets some people who have gotten used to welding outsized power over the rest of us and now think that's their birthright, oh fucking well.

Terrible news. Hoping for the best for him.

Yeah, get that Judeo- part out of there. Jews don't use anything even resembling the King James Bible at all. This shit is purely Christian shit.

I mean, "The American Nightmare" is the perfect name for a conventionally attractive nepo baby who was handed the world on a silver platter.

And let's be honest. Cody is an extremely talented, hard-working, and charismatic man, but he is also exactly what I just called him.

I dropped WWE ever since they defended the relationship with Saudi Arabia after the Khashoggi murder. Seeing their talking heads on TV news shows trying to defend that relationship just pissed me off enough to stop watching.

And honestly, I quickly figured out I was happier not watching it. It probably helped that their show was the drizzling shits. It probably also helped that it wasn't too long after that that AEW came into being to scratch my wrestle itch way better than WWE had in decades.

Also, it's funny how she calls GA "solid red" when it went for Biden in 2020, but I digress.

It's truly bizarre how people will conjure these insane conspiracy theories to posit that Harris is trying to steal the election while ignoring that Trump literally had an angry mob storm the capitol and attempt to murder the Vice President in order to steal the election 4 years ago, while we all watched.

How do the actions of the prompter differ from the actions of someone who commissions an artist to create a work of art?

Ah, but there is a fundamental difference there. A photographer takes a picture, they do not tell the camera to take a picture for them.

It is the difference between speech and action.

Because it wasn't created by a human being.

If I ask an artist to create a work, the artist owns authorship of that work, no matter how long I spent discussing the particulars of the work with them. Hours? Days? Months? Doesn't matter. They may choose to share or reassign some or all of the rights that go with that, but initial authorship resides with them. Why should that change if that discussion is happening not with an artist, but with an AI?

The only change is that, not being a human being, an AI cannot hold copyright. Which means a work created by an AI is not copyrightable. The prompter owns the prompt, not the final result.

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