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  • Krauerking@lemy.loltoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldUS Democracy
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    5 hours ago

    I’m not sure how to parse what you’re saying. As far as DNC rules are concerned, they “call” it once all primary races are held.

    I believe it means that you weren’t paying attention during the 2020 primaries or the news around them then. The DNC Does not wait and did not. Claiming Biden the Presumptive nominee 38 days after the first delegate picked. Obama took 120 days. To give you an idea of how fast that was, faster than Trump’s nomination in 2020.

    You are correct though. The primary eventually went the way it went. He lost it by the rules but there is a reason people don’t feel good about the rules presented and that needs to be dealt with.

    I would also just want to finish with the simple, how is pointing out how popular his rallies were be a negative to his electability while being an usurper to someone in social and legal discourse?


  • Krauerking@lemy.loltoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldUS Democracy
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    Bernie Sanders won 3 out of 5 primaries that occurred before the DNC called it for Biden in 2020 with Buttigeg picking up 1 other. In 2016 Sanders won 23 races and was at 43% of the popular vote despite extreme pushback by the DNC. He was democratically supported cause he had people voting for him. Democratically.

    And sure but with some of the worst polling numbers Biden, did not need to or should have thought he had incumbent advantage. Mud had a better approval rating.

    And the change was from that and a protest vote of 100,000 voters voting against Biden in a primary that had no other option that’s was being ignored until the rich donors realized the polling wasnt gonna get better after the debate proved he was not fit for office.

    There was time but the argument was made that it would be difficult and all the donations already made could be immediately given to Harris as she was already on the ticket, thus letting the money flow (which the DNC outspent Trump 2:1)

    They got what they wanted which was a younger centrist willing to do Biden-esque policy without question that they thought would be easy with identity politics and being “not Trump” which is viewed as the main issue and not what issues he represents as a fix for.
    Mostly being a willingness to change from status quo.

    Which is exactly what hasn’t been allowed in races as shown before.


  • Oh yeah. But it’s people’s perceptions that everyone is hunting for anyways. It’s fake love for the working class in the way the rich love their butler but will replace him if he ever gets sick.

    But that perception and the story of the party is super important and how to win elections. The Democrats haven’t been chasing that identity and let it slip while trying to figure out who should be the candidate that cost the least amount of money for its donors.

    It’s not impossible to see how the perceptions got to where they are.


  • Krauerking@lemy.loltoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldUS Democracy
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    14 hours ago

    Institutional democrats who thought they knew what they were doing and could ignore the base of the party is to blame. Biden being top of the list. Stubborn self assured who when finally pushed to change was only willing to do it on his terms. And made a decision for everyone, again.

    One of the big stories is a Democratic party Mayor of a super Blue city being corrupt and organizing police to defend him and yet not a single member of the party has spoken out against it. Endorsed by Hakeem Jeffries.

    Status quo is far more important than listening to their base right now and hopefully it changes instead of them once again thinking they need to head further right.

    And for the love all things holy I hope the Democrats learn to stop “gaming” the election with specific counties in “blue walls” because they did advanced math that told them it was all they needed. Bare minimum should never have been the goal.






  • Ehhh you’d be surprised how much small highlights and true dark values will skew an average. You don’t really get blown out or completely under exposed parts of AI generated images. It keeps trying to add some saturation.

    I will say I’m getting different brightness levels than you are but it’s not a big deal. Point made.

    However I will say saturation is also pretty much 50% across the board for all the colors so maybe there is something there to use as an indicator. The average color always comes out grey toned somehow.

    Testing it myself has been pretty spot on.

    Just to point it out, here is a photo I took to mimic the red man. And the color average from it.

    It doesn’t even have the highlights of the face and yet it’s already much brighter and has a much higher saturation.


  • Obviously it doesn’t apply to everything but nothing does. But I asked a question about using a different method of detecting AI images using the fact that color brightness does still average out and base values are usually identical and was met with condescension and incorrect information from you as well as to how color in pixel math work.

    You started with dismissal and haven’t gotten better. It’s been an argument and an uphill battle to point out that this is true and yet you push it off because it’s easier to hold your position.

    I wanted a conversation and you wanted to punch down. You still want to be from the pulpit of right because you like your toy. I’m done talking to you.




  • So because you “make” AI generated images you are saying that they are magical and don’t follow the rules of their generation?

    They are based on noise maps and inferred forwards from there. They leave a history in the pixels it’s how lots of people are detecting them.

    Just because it’s trained on real photos does not mean it’s still a real photo. Just cause it looks fine doesn’t mean there isn’t stuff true beneath it.

    In the video I linked they even talk about how the red blue green maps have the same values cause it started with a colorless pixel anyways. A real sensor doesn’t do that.

    I worked with photographers and in Photoshop and did what you think you are doing. Working with images and pixels are not just pixels. That means nothing. Dogs are just dogs. There are still different breeds and types of dogs.