Upper Middle Class fancy progressive Smart People with secure zoomable jobs & comfortable living arrangements genuinely think they’re gonna Wait Until Vaccine. That’s their actual plan, whatever their rhetoric.
They’re gonna keep their kids home, do their learning online or in ‘pods’, for a year or three or five if that’s what it takes. No activity or associating with others will be allowed unless they’ve confirmed that ‘masks’ and ‘social distancing’ will be ‘practiced’.
They will insist that whatever governments rule over them impose maximal restrictions (mostly on others), of whatever type, as possible to get away with, and will be disappointed any time something is relaxed. Because Wait Until Vaccine is their goal.
There isn’t a new restriction they would oppose, and there isn’t a current restriction they would favor replacing. Not Until Vaccine.
Restrictions are good because they keep other humans, who are the enemy, away from them.
Except, of course, when those other humans are needed to deliver Amazon stuff to them or to do their landscaping. But that will all just continue apace, with no disruption. That’s what fancy Smart Upper Middle Class progressives think.
They think they can just keep doing this as society crumbles and burns around them. Health fascism will just continue and continue and keep them ‘safe’. Why shouldn’t it? They’re Smart and secure, they’ve got theirs, and after all, they’re just following The Science.
They think their jobs and paychecks will just continue throughout all this, no matter what. After all, they have fancy degrees, and their jobs are Important. Look how many zoom meetings they have on their Outlook calendar. That’s just irreplaceable
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Using AI, I was able to take some old painting and make it better. First the painting. Notice how you can barely see what's even going on. Where even is this? Who are the people? Huh? You're too far away to really see the setup. Whole left side blank. Nothing here to grab onto.
I had the AI parse the image, & create a full description of it. Using that description, I had it regenerate an image and it was just way better. Instead of night, it's a gorgeous sunny day. It went ahead & moved the people outside. Everyone's smiling; this is a welcoming place.
This was a great start already, but what if we want to look deeper? What's this picture really *about*? That's where AI comes in. We parse the improved picture & create an even better one. Now the lights just pop. Everything more vibrant, modern. Just better all around.
Using AI, I was able to take some old painting and make it better. First the painting. Notice how old and colorless it is. And you can't even see the girl's face. There's just no info to work with here. So blah.
But the AI was able to parse the image, & create a full description of it. Using that description, I had it regenerate an image that was way better. Just look at the vivid colors, and it also went ahead and turned the girl around.
This was a great start already, but still misses some details, smudgy like from a bad camera. So I ran it through the AI again. Amazing use of light now.
I don’t think racism is good or anything but the concept of ‘anti-racism’ as we encounter it is so simplistic/univariate I find it hard to take seriously. Like something an autistic 7yo would come up with. ‘Racism is bad? Ok its inverse must be good. I understand the world now’
When I see Kendi types whose rhetoric is all about ‘anti-racism’, and then the edifice of bureaucracy that’s apparently sprung up downstream of it, it just comes across as So Stupid How Can Anyone Seriously Think This Way.
That is its power, that is why it wins.
'I would simply take all the things that are Racisms and wrap then inside a giant NOT( ) operation. Logically this and only this makes Racism go down'
If a small child were to say this, it would (maybe!) be sort of clever/precocious. You'd pat him on the head
IMHO scientists, politicians & ‘public health officials’ acted out of some combo of: panic, ego-trip, mindless groupthink, China-worship, hubris, simple corruption, & political gamesmanship. But they weren’t ‘purposely trying to make things worse’ so it’s all ok, it’s cool
For example when ‘public health experts’ signed that open letter that, during the absolutely necessary Lockdown, Going To BLM Protests was good actually (public health-wise), that wasn’t ‘trying to make things worse’. Just nakedly politically-motivated nonsense. So it’s fine
When they added the Wuhan Virus vaccine to the childhood vaccine schedule, that wasn’t ‘trying to make things worse’, it was merely to ensure that giant pharmaceutical companies are shielded from liability for any people harmed or killed by the injection. So it’s cool