I cannot recommend enough just getting a big ol bag of vital wheat gluten for this reason.

I use essentially this recipe to replace everything I would normally use hamburger, sausage, etc. for. It’s so quick and easy! Simply replacing the seasonings/ketchup with various other seasonings/sauces as if they were the marinade (ie a hamburger uses paprika, beef bouillon, poultry seasoning, onion/garlic and worcestershire) allows for endless variation and different kinds of “meats”.

If making patties, meatballs, etc., let the dough rest ~15min. then get it a little damp before forming and cooking.

Adding in a bit of normal cooking flour, chickpea flour, malt, etc. allows for adjusting the texture as desired.

Very quick and easy to whip up, no more ammonia smell, perfectly marinated flavor every time, and consistent texture with absolutely no gristle.

You can feed an infinite amount of data into existing models and it won’t improve the issues. The problem is with the models themselves.

And the audio used to train the base model are licensed. Usually under an MIT, creative commons, etc. license.

A single voice actor couldn’t produce enough lines to fully train an AI model…

The model is trained on a massive corpus of existing data and then fine tuned to match the target voice actor. Using less than ~30s of reference audio you can get a pretty decent fine tuning the main issue is that it currently isn’t on par with the quality and consistency of an in studio voice actor, especially over long time domains.

De jure vs de facto. From the standpoint of a legal fiction you’re not wrong, however an option made under duress isn’t really an option.

Do you also argue that homelessness doesn’t exist due to squatters rights?

The core of our disagreement is this:

Plea bargains are due process.

They are not, they exist solely and explicitly to circumvent the “due process of law” particularly the 6th and 7th amendments.

prosecutors throw the kitchen sink at every case

Yes, and the fact that isn’t viewed as the blatant coercion it is, and a blatant violation of the 5th amendment, is part of the problem.

I’d love to talk to someone in the middle of the computer science and developmental psychology Venn diagram.

Not that person, but an Interesting lecture on that topic

~90% of trials don’t get due process.

That isn’t what he was convicted of. The charges brought that could’ve made this true were related to the 2023 federal indictment consisting of:

four criminal charges of conspiring to defraud the government and disenfranchise voters, and corruptly obstructing an official proceeding.

However, on November 25, 2024 Judge Tanya Chutkan dismissed the case without prejudice.

The felonies he was convicted for were related to the March 2023 state indictment “The People of the State of New York v. Donald J. Trump” which consisted of:

34 criminal charges of falsifying business records in the first degree related to payments made to Stormy Daniels before the 2016 presidential election.

At no point has he been convicted of having:

engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.

He was convicted of being a fraudster, con-man, liar and sex pest but not for being an insurrectionist. This isn’t a “illegal” problem, it’s a classic case of dual tier justice and the consequences thereof. The justice system is beyond fucked, and has been for a long time. Solutions will not be coming from that line of reasoning.

And yet EVERY SINGLE DEMOCRAT has voted to confirm at least one of Trump’s nominees.

The Democrats and ‘liberals’ are also extremists. The parent comment is literally about their victims.

I think you underestimate how thin the skin of the professional managerial class is. It’s not about the tone of voice it’s about the directness and how that’s facilitating “conflict”.

Looting and mutual aid

a lot better

Not “a lot” just enough so that useful fools can normalize the bad.

The exact same circumstances that triggered the current LA protests, to use a dated phrase, of ICE putting kids in cages would still been occuring. Sure ICE would probably still be operating primarily in secret as opposed to the current smash and grab and the national guard probably wouldn’t have been called in (debatable if that’s just because there wouldnt have been the same level of resistance.)

I understand the legal, political and messaging differences there, but I’m not seeing any material differences between the two scenarios.

Yes because she was going to defund ICE right? RIGHT?

The only time you’ve heard of. Over a thousand people are murdered by US police annually using the 2020 protests as an example there were multiple instances of protesters being killed by police/national guard. Some of the more egregious ones: 1 2

You won’t because your sources do not say what you think they do.

Quote it then.

came across as someone standing up for the noble police who would never stoop to trickery to find an excuse for violence.

How did you get that? No, fuck the police and peace police too.

Did you read your sources? They don’t say what you think they do.

• From the AP article you linked:

Of more than 300 arrested, there are about 286 defendants ___ Some of those facing charges undoubtedly share far-left and anti-government views. Far-right protesters also have been arrested and charged. ___ But many have had no previous run-ins with the law and no apparent ties to antifa, the umbrella term for leftist militant groups that Trump has said he wants to declare a terrorist organization.

In the classic misguided “journalistic neutrality” it does put additional emphasis on the 6 instances of “far-right extremism” a incidence rate of 2.1%. Do you believe that 2.1% is a majority?

• From the guardian article:

Hunter would later post multiple messages on Facebook bragging of his actions in Minneapolis on the night of 28 May and morning of 29 May, writing, “I set fire to that precinct with the Black community,” and, “My mom would call the FBI if she knew.”

“I’ve burned police stations with Black Panthers in Minneapolis,” he claimed in one message, and in another, “The BLM protesters in Minneapolis loved me.”

He wasn’t a lone actor trying to pin it on them, he was participating in an action with them.

• From the KansasCity article:

While Kansas City police haven’t made any arrests in the May 30 arson incident and say they haven’t seen direct evidence of extremists trying to disrupt the local protests,

Tere are so many agendas at play that it’s hard to tell who’s on what side. In some cases, they say they’re seeing a bizarre alignment between those on the far right, such as militias and the Boogalooers, and Black Lives Matter advocates protesting the death of George Floyd, with anger at police and the government being the common thread.

Which if you stopped to read for a second you would understand why the boogaloo boys specifically had real skin in the game with the protests against police brutality and why they wear Hawaiian shirts bearing the names of people killed in confrontations with police.

READ BEYOND THE GODDAMN HEADLINES

If your point is just that agent provocateurs are not in the same vein as little green men then we are in agreement.

most of the people there engaging in violence would be conspirators regardless of why they were there.

The distinction I’m making is the “secret/secretly” part of the definition. A protest is not meant to be secret, infiltrating one is.

naive defense of police

Why do you perceive combatting the myth of ‘police as tactical geniuses who are highly adept at infiltrations’ as defense of police?

My argument is simply that an individual demonstrating agency in a stressfull moment seems far more likely than an elaborate 5d chess tactical trap set by police. Do you believe that during a protest, individual agency no longer exists?