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A lot of collectors probably don't.
Yeah, he's got a few quirks. Flux didn't like doing things upside-down much. May be a good way to go about doing that (other than just generating and flipping the image, which has drawbacks of its own), but I haven't gone investigating.
I was pretty impressed with Flux, plan to use it more. For a Tarot deck, which has a bunch of nude figures, it was pretty determined to clothe them; I eventually just left the woman in The World wearing something. Describing the image as "NSFW" helped; I'm sure that people have their own techniques that I just don't know about.
I'm used to being able to use regional prompting in Stable Diffusion to stick specific things at specific places in the image. I don't know yet if there's a regional prompting analog compatible with Flux; the Stable Diffusion and Flux workflows are (unexpectedly to me) quite different in ComfyUI. Flux does understand some level of English-like description of the layout of the image, which is cool, but I wasn't always able to get the output I wanted with that, so I expect that there's still more digging.
The US Navy has had its share of driving ships into things that it shouldn't.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Guardian_(MCM-5)
On 17 January 2013, Guardian ran aground on Tubbataha Reef, in a protected area of the Philippines in the middle of the Sulu Sea. The vessel was turned and pushed further onto the reef by wave action. Unable to be recovered, the vessel was decommissioned and struck from the US Naval Vessel Register on 15 February 2013.
There were two destroyers that collided with cargo ships a few years back:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_John_S._McCain_and_Alnic_MC_collision
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Fitzgerald_and_MV_ACX_Crystal_collision
There was also that incident -- though in an era with more-primitive navigation -- where most of a squadron of destroyers collided with California:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_Point_disaster
The Honda Point disaster was the largest peacetime loss of U.S. Navy ships in U.S. history.[3] On the evening of September 8, 1923, seven destroyers, while traveling at 20 knots (37 km/h), ran aground at Honda Point (also known as Point Pedernales; the cliffs just off-shore called Devil's Jaw), a few miles from the northern side of the Santa Barbara Channel off Point Arguello on the Gaviota Coast in Santa Barbara County, California. Two other ships grounded, but were able to maneuver free off the rocks. Twenty-three sailors died in the disaster.
"We have found a reef, and it has an oil slick."
Looks like China's got a pretty large lead, even relative to London.
https://www.comparitech.com/vpn-privacy/the-worlds-most-surveilled-cities/
The 10 most surveilled cities in the world – cameras per person
Based on the number of cameras per 1,000 people, these cities are the top 10 most surveilled in the world:
Cities of China* — 626m cameras to 1.43bn people = 439.07 cameras per 1,000 people
Hyderabad, India — 900,000 cameras for 10,801,163 people = 83.32 cameras per 1,000 people
Indore, India – 200,000 cameras per 3,302,077 people = 60.57 cameras per 1,000 people
Delhi, India — 449,934 cameras for 22,547,000 people = 19.96 cameras per 1,000 people
Singapore, Singapore — 109,072 cameras for 6,080,859 people = 17.94 cameras per 1,000 people
Moscow, Russia — 214,000 cameras for 12,680,389 people = 16.88 cameras per 1,000 people
Baghdad, Iraq — 120,000 cameras for 7,711,305 people = 15.56 cameras per 1,000 people
Seoul, South Korea — 144,513 cameras for 9,988,049 people = 14.47 cameras per 1,000 people
St. Petersburg, Russia — 75,000 cameras for 5,561,294 people = 13.49 cameras per 1,000 people
London, England (UK) — 127,423 cameras for 9,648,110 people = 13.21 cameras per 1,000 people
We did have the Mark 14 torpedo, in the "disaster" category.
Germany had her own torpedo problems, but the Mark 14 went out the door in abysmal form, and we were extremely slow to get the problems fixed. And we were fighting a war with more naval focus than was Germany.
And while we had some work on the VT fuze and would have eventually gotten there ourselves -- though time is valuable in a war -- that was really the Brits. They gave us their work and we finished the work to put it into a shell.
And some of our concepts, though we ultimately made use of them in some way, failed in their original form.
The idea that ships would be a sitting duck for high-altitude level bombers was just wrong. Down the road, yes, but not in WW2. Billy Mitchell really oversold the state of things. And while it wasn't catastrophic for us, it did hurt our initial ability to respond to naval forces.
The B-17 concept that massive interlocked fields of fire from defensive guns would permit bombers to sail past fighters didn't really work. It was in a stronger position than the Avro Lancaster for daylight bombing, but we took horrendous losses; ultimately long-range fighter escort was still required.
The Norden bombsight didn't really deliver the tremendous advantage that had been expected.
We initially drastically overestimated what our early radars could do for us in naval night-fighting, and it led to things like the Battle of Savo Island. The Brits seriously bailed us out here with the cavity magnetron.
Germany also had some significant wins. Yeah, they didn't have the semi-auto rifle as a standard issue, whereas we had the M1 Garand. But they did have the assault rifle, in the form of the StG 44. They had the general-purpose machine gun in the form of the MG 34.
I see a lot of handwringing in society over kids not being able to handle themselves online.
I'd be more worried about senior citizens.
I don't think anyone has polls. There is a much higher far-left proportion than on Reddit, as things stand.
Note that Reddit is one unified world, albeit with division by subreddit.
The Threadiverse is not. Some instances have very different communities -- some only permit certain types of users. And not all instances federate with each other, and if your instance doesn't federate with another, you won't see content from those instances.
So, for example, lemmygrad.ml and to a lesser degree lemmy.ml has a bunch of people -- including the lead Lemmy dev -- who are enthusiastic about Stalin and the Soviet Union, pro-authoritarian-left. Hexbear.net is kinda out there too.
Then you've got exploding-heads.com, which I believe is far-right.
Lemmy.world is more-mainstream, but I'd certainly place it left of Reddit on average. It doesn't federate with lemmygrad.ml and hexbear.net or exploding-heads.com.
Beehaw.org is what I'd call far-left, but less in the authoritarian camp, but they've defederated from lemmy.world.
You can see defederations on an instance under "Blocked instances" at /instances. So for example:
Most instances also say something about their policies in the right-hand sidebar.
I think that some of it is also that some people are very vocal about their political views, and I think that some of those are disproportionately in the far-left camp. Like, if someone wants to vent that they think that society would be better off as an anarchy or that private ownership of industry or money or whatever shouldn't exist, I think that those people are gonna be more likely to have strong feelings about and repeatedly post about their point of disagreement than someone saying "I think that things are going pretty well, but I'd like Tweak X and Y".
Honestly, concerns over the possibility that religion might be a political opponent and trying to neutralize it by replacing figures with one's own are not new.
It's just a little unusual to have it happening in 2024 between gods and secular leaders.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_syncretism
Religious syncretism is the blending of religious belief systems into a new system, or the incorporation of other beliefs into an existing religious tradition.
This can occur for many reasons, where religious traditions exist in proximity to each other, or when a culture is conquered and the conquerors bring their religious beliefs with them, but do not succeed in eradicating older beliefs and practices.
Upon further consideration, it was decided that perhaps what Marx had meant was that certain varieties of opium were, in fact, good for the people.
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What neat food eating tricks have you discovered?
(lemmy.today)
Over the years, I've run into a few things that weren't immediately-obvious to me.
One of the big ones was eating pomegranates by opening them underwater. For those not familiar, pomegranates have a lot of red seeds and white husk between them:
Cutting a pomegranate or even opening a pomegranate tends to burst at least some seeds. The seeds are sticky and stain and tend to spray juice when pierced.
However, if you just cut through the outer hull of the fruit, then open it by hand underwater in a bowl of water, any juice that would have sprayed out is just grabbed by the water. Even better, the (inedible) white husk floats, so it self-separates instead of sticking to everything.
Today, I decided to try eating a watermelon with a spoon. In the past, that's tended to also make things spray, so I tried a grapefruit spoon, one with serrations that runs down the side. And that works great -- the spoon is like a knife, can go more-cleanly through the watermelon than a regular spoon, and still lets you scoop up the watermelon.
Any other neat tips that might be unorthodox or that people might not have tried or know about?
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Students Stumble Upon a Message in a Bottle Written by a French Archaeologist 200 Years Ago
(www.smithsonianmag.com)
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I like it.