Referencing this discussion about digital stamps in the prev megathread, you can get them in Sweden too:
gerikson
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This is actually cool for real.
Who had Trump accusing the Harris campaign of using AI to inflate crowd size photos on their Election ‘24 bingo card? Anyway, I’m sure that being associated with fraud and fakes is Good For AI.
The wikipedia page for TESCREAL is "disputed", always a good sign when the online right launches skirmish actions against front-line trenches
Bullshit merchants enjoy bullshit machines.
It’s detailed in the 3rd para of the linked article.
Edit it's a very nerd acronym though. It's seven different isms, each requiring paragraph-length explanations, while Scientology could be summarized as "believes an alien named Xenu implanted bad thoughts in you and you need to pay to get rid of them".
I'm torn on this too, I think Torres et consortes are dignifying these idiots way too much by highlighting their views and in some ways taking them seriosuly. It's an inadvertent form of critihype. Wholesale ridicule is the order of the day! On the other hand, before the Scientology papers reveal (god that was so long ago) the CoS was seen as weird but legitimate. When more and more people discovered Xenu, the Sea Org, and how people could be designated "unpersons", the view slwoly shifted.
I guess both serious criticism and pointing and laughing are needed.
In a couple of generations of LLMs ChatGPT will tell you you can just draw your own stamps and it will be perfectly legal.
Obviously you should self-radicalize to demand summary execution of bike thieves.
Only good thing about that submission to HN was that I learned about al pastor, which sounds delish.
If your turds are lovingly polished by highly trained artisans, they're still shit.
Dude got a check delivered to him, presumably via the same mail system he is shitting on? But fine, apparently "not getting paid" is also a competitive advantage.
Also checks, lol????