/siberia/ - Off-topic

elevenlabs already pushes out shit that's superior in quality than your average librivox lib with vocal fry talking into a shitty mic back in '07 and lackadaisically reading half a chapter, but it's not quite as good as your audible type industry standard. Also it costs a lot of money and takes a lot of time to pump out a whole audiobook with elevenlabs. it's better used for youtube shorts or memes. until the day comes when it's fast and practical, stick to torrenting audiobooks from audiobookbay

>>758729
Classic text-to-speech doesn't sound very naturalistic.

>>758729
TTS is OK. I've used it to get through required reading when my eyes hurt. but it's not gripping like a real voice is. you find yourself repeating it a few times to make it stick.

One of the main advantages of an audiobook is a reader who properly understands the text and is able to reduce textual ambiguity through their tone and pacing. TTS and AI really struggle with this and can even make things less clear. This is unlikely to be something that improves much in the near term.

>>758422
I already use AI reading PDF's for me. The quality is horrible.
https://www.naturalreaders.com/online/

>>758023
people are not irony poisoned, they are just blackpilled.

the truth is too much to handle so memes and irony are a nice cope, along with drugs.

i think people need to create their own shit. make up new words, make up new spooks, follow the spooks and delete them at your whims, whether joyful or sorrowfully. its perfect for the age we're in right now, doesnt have to last forever, and we're already seeing signs of it across "high" and "low" culture (AI generated art and 67 meme respectively). in fact internet culture and memes are the backbone of this. You see a full spectrum from nazi apologists to anarcho-stalinism. Some may argue this is just aestheticism and id agree. But I think they should go further and just create new stuff. Atheism(big jump here bare with me) has no rituals, no fun stuff that other religions do besides fiction and many rituals seemingly were done out of survivals sake to cope. Atheists and the seculars should strive to create new meaning . Literally. Just make stuff up and pull from the world and other fiction and stuff. Cults do this but they wanna stick around forever. Why stick around? Let it pass but might as well make it up. Doesnt have to be fun either. Right now capitalists take up all the creative juices and rituals and thats why you see cult-like fandom spaces attached to certain properties. Maybe its too late but i think creation is the best best against the nihilism we all feel and why so many fall off the deepend back to religions because no one is filling that creative niche of meaning. And religions got plenty of material to fill the mind.

>>758293
The problem is that it's impossible for trivial, mass-produced art created by boardrooms to re-enchant the world. It needs to be special. 99% of the art that the average person engages with is forgettable even to them, and only the remaining 1% gives them a taste of what real creativity and talent can accomplish. Yet people experience this but don't break from their habits, they don't go on to pursue that magic in other places, at most they deify the one work of art that has ever done this for them and join obsessive fandoms, shutting their minds from everything else. And if you do break from the path, you're pretentious, because why can't you let people enjoy things??
(And yes, all of this is not materialist and the real Marxist take is that alienation is the problem, but I don't care.)

>>758630
Art is a fraud. Its only use is to launder money. Is a bourgeois prejudice just like family and culture that needs to be destroyed
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>>758748
on the off chance that you're being serious i need you to know that you are dangerously retarded and should die

>>757788
prison is just locking them up without taking advantage of the labour

>>757802
The thirteenth ammendment abolished slavery except as a form of punishment and also, obviously, not wage slavery.

>>757788
chattel slavery is everything prison is but worse, that anon's post was insanely hyperbolic.

Don't tease me like this, I wouls love to have a chuddie boyfriend to piss on >.<

>>757745
This. What's sad is that it's the law abiding citizens who have to pay taxes for their welfare .
And the fact that criminal types aren't separated. Shoplifters get mates with serial killers.

So when you get out, you have more bad habits than when you went in.

I'm straight and i would suck hasans cock once

>>758497
What industry, and what do they have to gain from giving him influence?

>>758638
If you're a man and you would have sex with Hasan, that makes you extra turbo gay.

He is so easy to clip out of context

>>758638
I'm gay and would suck his cock 3-4 times a day if I could
I would drain his hairy balls dry

Impregnate your sister NOW.

What about aunts

>>758654
fucking kek

Nothing wrong with a little cousin loving. I used to bathe with my cousin.

Hatred of cousin love is a remnant of 20th century public genetic health panic, aka the eugenics movement. Theres no real concern unless it's done like a medieval royal house arranging marriages of cousins for 7 generations.

>>758615
All Euroaches from Portugal to """"israel"""" are one of the same honkys

>>758627
Wtf red peppers are paprika?

i like sauce

>>758615
>they're the only "white" people who season their food.
You're forgetting poor southern whites, who learned a lot from ex-slaves. Not enough, but a lot.

Grace deserves a Valentine's Day card, smh.

I think a good illustration between the stress of absolute monarchy & "neofeudalists"/some constitutional monarchists is between the Catholic Church's Ultramontanism/Papal Primacy versus Orthodoxy's autocephalous churches.
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Papalism has a unitary/corporate structure.
Orthodoxy has Aristotle's partnership of clans, numerous churches and their primates, with Constantinople being the first among equals in honors.
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Jean Bodin considered Papalism to really be Conciliarism either way, but the pretense of Papalism is basically unitary.
Those two samples is a good illustration for why absolute monarchy of the 16th-19th centuries is more earnest monarchism than the pretenses of Medievalists with their De Jouvenel and "traditional monarchy"–(they're just looking out for Papalism at the end of the day).
Anyways, all Christians are monarchists for Jesus no matter the Church organization–so keep this in mind too.

>>758639
The epitome of our calling it "fake monarchy" is they only want the monarch to be pronounced by the honors of his estate like >>744400
>Wherefore in well ordered Aristocratic (Oligarchic) and Popular Commonwealthes (States), the greatest honours are granted without power of command, and the greatest powers to command are not granted without a companion therein.
>A great policy in Aristocratical estates to give unto him least power to whom they give the most honour.
Which they try to do with some royalty, like with the HRE or Venice or Poland.
That is a kind of disguised oligarchism (& not monarchy) in the absolutist view.

Hobbes says fear is the main unifying passion:
William of Orange is an example of Machiavellian/Hobbesian themes–fear of Louis XIV & Catholicism crowns him.
De Witt brothers are cannibalized; he takes England with ease.
He rewards his followers for killing his enemies.
& Machiavelli says not to injure enemies, but to kill or maim those enemies so they don't come back–William of Orange did that with the De Witt brothers & Clan MacDonald–& rewarded the people who did it.
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Trump's foreign policy is mostly to take advantage of US allies because he knows US allies won't abandon US protection so long as the enemies are there, and Trump wants to negotiate with the enemies even–this helps with US expansion and solidifying US control over its vassal states.
Nothing is more useful to subjugating your vassals than fear of an enemy.
What would NATO be without fear of Russia? Or fear of European countries breaking into world wars without US hegemony?
What would US protection of the Sunni Gulf Monarchies be without fear of the Revolutionary Republican Anti-Monarchy Islamic Shia sect of Iran?
What would South Korea and Japan be without fear of North Korea & China?
USA right now is calling to capture Greenland, because of fear that China or Russia might take it later and offset NATO security.
In my experience, when defeat and the approach of an enemy is extremely close, people are willing to give so much–that is why war propaganda is so effective.
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When did Britain lose colonial America to the American Revolutionaries? –Just after it finally defeated France in colonial America.
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>>758140

yeah

>>758134
you should still have apology sex with him

>>758153

now what?

i'm upset now because i couldve bought a couple battle passes for CS2 to get that warlord looking AK

>>758472 you would've spend 350 Donald$ on CS2, rly? if I had 3 fiddy bucks right now i'd buy a VR headset and drugs

>>758494

not really, 350$ is like 5000$ MXN

i would've just spent like 900$ on that AK which i could probably sell for more later

then whatever is left i would've used to buy my bf DIABLO 2 remastered

and that leaves me with 3000$ to save for later.

>>758224
Dunno if you want something particularly recent, if not I loved this dude. Bonus is I'm pretty sure I found him through 420chan.

>>758242 oh god, this guy is on another level. I hope he's doing alright

>>758242
Masaokis is not from 420chan, that channel is an archiver from the SomethingAwful forums, that's also why he has SA on the channel name.
I don't think Masaokis was ever on 420chan. Also I don't recall him being on any substances, he just seemed to be mentally ill, though from his latest videos I saw I think he stopped living in that squander. One thesis was that he was like an early version of "howtobasic" and had a house deliberately to trash and make these sorts of videos in while he actually lived in a cleaner one, but I stopped following the situation about a decade ago. Not sure if he's still even alive.

>>758609
There was also a strange wave of fascination with hoarders in the early 2000s, like up until around late 2014 maybe. I think it was influenced by TLC, but there is a chance Masaokis could've been trying to gain fame through it.

>>758609
Just meant that I found the channel through someone's post there. He does drink in some of his videos, but yeah I don't think he ever used 420chan himself.

No, because that requires using twitter when you could be digital grass touching and building web revival stuff.
Let the twitter nazis ragebait themselves with AI.

Doing anything online isnt praxis because nothing happens online. No work is done online, only communication is done online. The only minds that will be changed online are those who do not have real friends mentors or people to look up to who would take priority over you aka people that do not engage in the real world and only do things online so people who do nothing. There is exceptions but functionally it can be assumed nothing happens online, and there is no exceptions to no work is done online. Communication is done online which then might spur work, something gets moved in a warehouse a truck driver ships something, but this is not the sort of thing that spurs work. And I mean work not in just a capitalist sense but in terms of anything getting done, I literally think staring at a ceiling is a work and still no work is done online in my mind.

This is why it has been so easy for us to be steamrolled even harder by a few powerful, at paces never seen before. Its not because communication is moving at paces never seen before that alone wouldnt do it, its also that a whole generation bought into internet being an epic tool for change and now spends all day consuming and perpetuating said communications. Ragebaiting nazi is just another non existant grain in the silo.

>>758581
>ragebaiting
Not efficient. You should focus efforts making them fight each other and humiliating them about their simpleton ideas.

ragebaiting fellow communists is better praxis bc

they will always take the bait

will educate you

more efficient than reading

>>758581
Yes. Praxis is just doing anything