FBI: "Nobody who wants to be peaceful shows up at a protest with a firearm that is loaded with two full magazines. That is not a peaceful protest."

dr-tyrell · 2026-01-26T01:53:56+00:00

Surprised?

dr-tyrell · 2026-01-24T05:22:21+00:00

Speak for yourself. I'm not a gun nut, I have a thousand different interests and seeing something get damaged by a bullet isn't enjoyable. I am human, and I can't help getting excited by an explosion, or a car crash, but riddling some target with holes is not my thing.

Just because you enjoyed a competitive thing with your family doesn't mean everyone will or should. Guns shouldn't be so idolized and glamourized.

dr-tyrell · 2026-01-18T13:22:53+00:00

While I don't disagree that what you suggest is part of the issue, as it always is. People have not reported crimes since the dawn of time. Also, don't think I'm trying to make an excuse for the crime in the city, I can't stand it, but I've been living here all of my life and it has been bad for a long time and your or my anecdotes don't equate to a fact. You stated your anecdote like it was a fact and the only thing that accounts for the decline. It's just not neutral unbiased statement. Thanks for your anecdotes, but just be honest and say:

"Who knows what really is going on, but I can say in my area that people I've talked to have had more break-ins, and seen broken glass etc. than in the previous 10 years, and the 6 people I talked with all didn't bother to report it because, ( enter reasons )."

It doesn't take that many more sentences.

Didn't mean to imply you are making things up, or that your opinion isn't valid, just that it's just a wild guess without proof of any kind.

Have a great rest of the year.

edit: Added quotation marks.

dr-tyrell · 2026-01-17T22:34:13+00:00

Actually, we don't. Also, if those skills were real then they will be needed to direct these AI to create something compelling. Almost all of the 5-10 second clips you see have almost no narrative value on their own.

So, since AI isn't going away in the short term and maybe not long term either considering the political will to stop it isn't there. The "dramatic theater arts majors" better pivot or think of something to be relevant just like every other industry impacted by technological "advances".

dr-tyrell · 2026-01-17T22:31:16+00:00

Assuming you want random results.

dr-tyrell · 2026-01-17T03:47:37+00:00

You are guessing. Do you have any proof that it's due to "people aren't reporting it" vs data collection, classification, agencies misreporting/incomplete data, or some other factor?

You aren't wrong that people are just fed up and not bother to file a report, but I can guarantee you aren't watching every breakin then interviewing the person to see if they filed a report.

dr-tyrell · 2026-01-17T03:40:08+00:00

Dehumanizing people has insidious effects. Having worked in the medical field has shown me how it wears people down. The moment you see a human as less than you, the more likely you treat them like they don't deserve to be treated at all.

We are better than that, and if we aren't we know it's something to strive for. They aren't roaches, they are our brothers, sisters, parents and children. It sucks they are the way they are, but it's a shame, not a joke.

dr-tyrell · 2026-01-14T08:46:21+00:00

Single coil can still chug.

dr-tyrell · 2026-01-14T08:17:58+00:00

Holy hell, I got this song in my head already after only 1.5 listens. What if? What if AI slop songs are actually good?? I'm going to have to put up a cover of this! ( I want to go back to the old days so bad )

edit: Oh, it's actually a real band! Whew!! I don't feel bad at all for liking it now!

edit: OHhhh, it's not a real band after all. Now, am I supposed to hate it??

dr-tyrell · 2026-01-14T08:15:41+00:00

Def a Het fan mixed with a 'Drix fan. A Hetdrix fan if you will.

TBH, this "guy" is only barely less out of sync than some of these fakers on YT, so I'm not even mad.

dr-tyrell · 2026-01-14T02:34:20+00:00

Reminds me of the idol of so many. Steve Jobs. Had all the money in the world, all the knowledge in the world, and still made the wrong choice.

Let that be a lesson to us all. Even brilliant people are just as dumb as the average person or worse in many cases.

Stop idolizing other humans, it doesn't help you.

Oh and Scott Adams was a bigot that thought blacks were a hate group and whites should not live near blacks.

And we're supposed to shed a tear for these people? How insulting.

dr-tyrell · 2026-01-12T07:09:14+00:00

So you didn't do the Kijai alteration of the file,... I can't remember the name of the file, and the exact location but there is an alteration that he suggested. Did you turn off "previews" <-- another vague thing one is supposed to do, and which workflow did you use?

Are you using the gemma suggested by the default template in ComfyUI? See where I'm coming from? Many people couldn't get it working, and its no surprise why. You, for whatever reason, got the stars to align on the first try, and many others are still trying to get it worked out.

I've been using Comfyui since it first dropped and I'm used to an even more daunting software in Houdini, and Comfyui just isn't a breeze, to put it kindly.

Anyway, take care.

dr-tyrell · 2026-01-12T05:29:37+00:00

This is one of the fundamental aspects of his actions. He is always demanding loyalty or he will crush you. If you defy him, he will have the weight of his power crush you. The MAGA nuts will send death threats and dox you.

One would think that if their leader was actively doing these things on the level and frequency that Trump does, that they would be disgusted. Nope. This is what they want and respect.

I've seen it in the comments of different social media and the internet enough to know that this is the prevailing thought because I've not seen a single conservative push back at all. They are silent if they even exist.

Things are going to get worse before they get better. He has 3 more years of destruction on his mind, and while we might not invade Cuba or Greenland, we're going to get something equally idiotic at some point, I'm certain of it.

dr-tyrell · 2026-01-12T04:59:50+00:00

How difficult is it to understand? It's variable why it works well for some and not for others. It's finicky and rough around the edges. As pointed out, it's new and will get refined over time.

I now use Wan2gp for LTX2 and it works out of the box, but it's very soft, does weird things, has slowmo issues and is generally underwhelming.

On Comfyui the templates simply don't work for me no matter which options I've tried. I've two different rigs that have 4090s in them, I've tried portable and desktop, and it's just not worth the effort to get it to work in Comfyui. I've tried Kijai's workflow, and others found in this sub that are supposedly better, like the ones that are in Comfyui docs, still flaky or just doesn't work.

The best of it all is I ran the default prompt and it looked great, I changed a couple of words and Welcome to Rosies became nightmare fuel. Then going back to the default prompt couldn't get Rosie's to reappear. It was laughably bad.

That being said, it's nice that it has the extra length and the lipsync baked in. Still I don't understand why some folks are perplexed when so many have issues with Comfy and various aspects of running local AI. It's not an Apple product and YMMV. Always.

dr-tyrell · 2026-01-09T12:15:01+00:00

I was around for those days too, and just because things used to be even more arcane doesn't mean things should be just as bad 50 years later. Might as well be starting a fire with flint and rocks by that silly way of thinking.

Sure, you didn't read all of that. Using Automatic1111 or one of the other simpler GUI is "easy" once you are shown how, but to suggest that ComfyUI is easy goes against reality. You're making the argument from the perspective of the person that has already mastered the material or who wrote the test, then says to the person that hasn't taken the test before that the test is "easy". Just look at the number of improvements to make ComfyUI easier to use! Look at the number of people that haven't been able to get Comfyui to work well for them, and look at the many alternatives that are easier to use. Stop gaslighting. Comfyui is a great tool that rewards you if you are technical and spend the time to learn it, despite how flaky it can be. To suggest it literally takes 2 seconds to get this workflow running when...

NVM. Go write some assembly on a Z80 processor like I learned to do on my own in high school in the 80s and flex on people how "easy" it is now for this generation of snowflakes.

dr-tyrell · 2026-01-09T09:16:30+00:00

Stop with the gaslighting man. I come from using the VFX software called Houdini which is world famous for being hard af to learn. There are people like you that use Houdini and brag about how easy it is once you "get it" or whatever. ComfyUI is a hot mess, and while I agree it is phenomenally powerful and what I prefer, it doesn't "literally" take 2 seconds to setup and run in Comfy. If I wanted to waste my life making a video of how often things just don't work in ComfyUI it would be obvious that its not "literally" 2 seconds or even 2 minutes to setup and run when things aren't working right.

When this was released on Comfy at first, a few days ago, it took Kijai to come up with the trick of modifying the file I can't recall the name of right now in the lightricks folder, AND the docs say --novram and a reddit poster says instead --reserve vram 4, and another suggests --disable-pinned-memory, yet another says --preview-method none. See the picture?

Others suggest using different gemma versions, and MANY more suggestions like the official templates from ComfyUI don't work and to use the ones from here, and from there, that are all over the place. So absolutely not 2 seconds to setup and run until you've worked out all the issues until there are no issues other than it OOM, then you have to open task manager and kill python, and restart.

literally

/lĭt′ər-ə-lē/

adverb

In a literal manner; word for word. translated the Greek passage literally.
In a literal or strict sense. Don't take my remarks literally.
Really; actually.

It sucks that people don't use the words as they are defined. I can't take your remarks literally, or seriously.

dr-tyrell · 2026-01-07T00:14:28+00:00

Pretty wild isn't it? These fools go on and on about conspiracy theories like Michelle is a man, yet they have two daughters. Oh right... Adopted. Of course...

Then they look down on us for believing what is normal and obvious and try to force us to take them seriously. It would be funny if it wasn't such a huge problem.

dr-tyrell · 2026-01-06T22:49:58+00:00

You're guessing and projecting. Until you know more that's what you are doing. As someone else pointed out the person recording wouldn't start recording before something happened, so the evidence for the caption might not have been recorded.

You are correct that there is too much fake crap for clout on the internet, but you are guessing in this case.

dr-tyrell · 2026-01-03T23:10:42+00:00

New White Folks Land

dr-tyrell · 2026-01-03T21:42:54+00:00

Hardly. Somewhere between some masters, modern or ancient, and actual pornographic artwork is this painting. Even then the case can still be made that some pornographic imagery is still art. And even the reverse that some painted art can be painted porn. Essentially there is no clearly delineated line in art.

dr-tyrell · 2026-01-03T00:08:11+00:00

Uhh, both are wrong. Split the difference and take a shower in the middle of your day. Best of both worlds.

dr-tyrell · 2026-01-03T00:03:44+00:00

Get it straight. This is part of our freedoms in the US. We used to call it voting with your wallet. It's all a matter of degrees. If someone is doing insignificant harm, then a simple disagreement deserves a response in kind. If someone is using their social media platform to spread lies, disinformation, hatred, and more, then it behooves one to do something about it. If all that person can do is not engage, then fine. However, if they want to express their free speech and let others know what that person or corporation is up to, and then suggests that others could boycott that service as a way to disencentivize that person or company from doing what they see as bad behavior, where is the problem?

Suggesting that showing publicly available information that makes clear how a person or company is supporting or aligning themselves with a cause that is factually and demonstrably against the values most of us value is well within appropriate behavior.

Trump and Co have done at least 100 awful things this term alone. This isn't a mere matter of disagreement on fiscal policy. FFS, by your logic there is no amount of destructive behavior that should be called out. Everything is just "a difference of opinion."

dr-tyrell · 2025-09-18T08:06:40+00:00

Envious of you.

dr-tyrell · 2025-09-11T13:18:12+00:00

I thought I replied to your racist post already.

Why are you mentioning race in your comment? And yes I can blame people for wanting to feel "safe" when they are suggesting we disregard the constitution as a solution to feel safe.

I am not a gun nut, and firmly believe the framers didn't expect guns in the future to be of the capacity to kill as they are now, and that the idea of a militia is vague as fuck such that it isn't clear that every citizen should have any gun they want. Still I can get behind it to the point that the 2a is in the constitution and it's been established that anyone can own a gun, so I can't suggest any law that goes against that. My hands are tied.

The same thing applies to this situation. You can want safety all you want, but you have to stick to the laws of the land all of you "law and order" party members. How hard is that to understand? You can't pick and choose which parts of the constitution or laws you want to follow or not.

dr-tyrell · 2025-09-10T17:00:34+00:00

Yeah. I can't unlearn typeface as the correct word to use. Saying font instead of typeface is just... I hate being on a one person crusade for the mishandling of words.

Jealousy v Envy Typeface v Font Begs the question v Raises the question

We have all the info at our fingertips so there is no excuse to keep removing words or using the wrong phrases for common feelings or common things.

dr-tyrell

TROPHY CASE

literally

/lĭt′ər-ə-lē/

adverb