you’re saying that in jest like it isn’t obviously true. if checks and balances didn’t work we wouldn’t be playing this cat and mouse game, they would just go unchallenged.

the dark triad

i believe the only path for tariffs now involves congress (as it should), and i doubt congress wants to do this song and dance again, these companies that were affected are big donors afterall.

i’m going to keep following this story, he’s already got 13 felonies for meddling with fulton county already and now he’s at it again. if this goes to court and a jury rules guilty, i really don’t know what happens then. he can’t get out of a state crime, state crimes can’t be pardoned by the president, he still has the felonies. a judge won’t be very happy seeing him guilty of a crime again that he already had 13 felonies for.

your cat is illegally smol if it fits inside of ankle socks.

didn’t you know the universal law of cats?

if i fits, i sits.

cats are incapable of resisting the intrusive thoughts

welcome to the master race

i believe so, but a man can dream

this is my preference thanks.

dems have been gerrymandering too, and indiana refused to gerrymander for trump, and after some recent local elections, it’s looking like texas’s gerrymander is already blowing up in their face as trump’s latino gains have been all but lost. it’s not as imbalanced as you might think right now, in fact, the balance seems to be shifting towards democrats as maps are being redrawn to be bluer, and red maps are backfiring.

the pharaoh

in spite of what’s happening in the us, it seems like a lot of the rest of the world is stepping up to help climate change.

eyyyyy, shameless self-promo, but i made a community a couple days ago called !politicaloptimism@piefed.social

i’m a little nervous about bringing this up since i’m the one of the only people active there right now, but we have a “Seeking Optimism” flair for people who are concerned about things and want assurance for the most sensational narratives over what’s happening.

i’ve been hearing complaints in the vocal synth community about getting called “slop” for using vocaloid by people who don’t know what it is. we live in the worst timeline. any kind of digital processing or tools are just slop now.

remember keyboard cat? pepperidge farms remembers… 😔✊️

i am a man with lé no probléms

i was a vocal synth nerd before i was a fedi/foss nerd. we’ve been doing ai since before the ai bubble, and i think vocal synths are a good example of ethical ai.

vocal synths are still a creative tool where you compose the music, lyrics and expression yourself, but the ai engine makes the voice more realistic sounding. you purchase “voice banks” which are effectively training data for a single voice and this voice bank comes from a “voice provider” who is a paid singer that will record samples for the vocal synth engine. a lot of voice providers request to have the voice bank “characterized” to sound different from themselves, and the vocal synth company will do so. compare KAF to KAFU CEVIO.

this is a process based entirely on consent, something openai and the rest of them lack, they just send out an army of scrapers to take anything and everything they can get their hands on, consent be damned.

actually speaking of KAF, i was excited because KAFU was coming to synth v, since i don’t have CEVIO (and don’t speak japanese). but unfortunately, KAFU SV was cancelled because the synth v ai engine made her sound too much like herself, and most likely they couldn’t modify the voice bank to sound differently enough and they cancelled it. at least, that’s the prevailing theory.

cook bacon in water.

don’t drown it, but add just enough to render out the fat without the bacon being in direct contact with the pan, preventing sticking and burning. then once the water steams out the bacon is left to fry in its own juice, giving perfectly crispy bacon every time.

it has electrolytes