How are we supposed to take someone seriously when they’re wearing a Wesley Crusher Season 1 sweater?

Favo kills a lot of time for me. As does 2048 and any nonogram game.

In terms of credit and monetary compensation it most certainly is.

I can’t quite wrap my head around how to relate to AI generated art.

Simple. It’s not about art at all. But about “artists”.

Let’s use an example. Let’s say that you’re a rich person and you want to hire someone to paint a landscape portrait for you. You tell them in detail exactly what you want and they go and do it. Does that make you an artist? Of course not. It makes you the procurer

So if we replace that hired painter with a computer, does that mean that because no human artist was involved that the title of “artist” automatically reverts to the procurer, meaning the person that told the computer what to do? No.

Regardless of who (or what) creates the art, the person telling them/it what to paint isn’t a damn artist and doesn’t deserve any financial reward.

I’m not entirely convinced that this dude didn’t open up the joint as purposeful satire to make money off stupid MAGA cultists.

I would. You know how tempting it is to make some idiot trump branded piece of shit product and get MAGA to eat it up? These people are literally cultists just waiting to give you their money; and if pretending to be one of them on the surface makes me rich off their stupidity…hey…it’s tempting.

I’m almost sure that’s what happened here.

filmmaking. I have thousands of dollars in (now ageing) gear that rarely gets used anymore because I lack the social network of contacts in my new small town to make a project happen.

I literally have no horse in this race, but I still feel sick to my stomach thinking “please don’t cave in to this asshole and completely waste that many lives and years for nothing”

This is a make or break moment when Europe has to tell America to fuck off or it’ll be absolutely heartbreaking.

Because if no actual artist was involved in its creation, I’m not giving money to a corporate suit who pushed a few buttons on a computer.

Musk is both stupid enough and narcissitic enough to have legitimately thought his charm and personality were making MAGA flock to him on his own personal “I need my ego stroked” site. It’s quite possible it never even occured to him that none of it was real.

That’s the hit song from my doctors weekend garage band.

The Greeks did. The inventors of democracy.

The whole concept of a citizen government relied on what’s called the “Ars Liberalis”; which literally means “the practice of freedom”

The idea being that the prividedge of being a citizen and participating in the democracy came with the expectation that you would be learned in things like civics, history, rhetoric, debate, etc…

The very simple reason for that is because when a person lacks knowledge of a subject, they tend to cede their authority to the first person who tells them something that they were already inclined to believe.

This…the need for stupid pliant voters that would just listen to whatever you say, is directly responsible for the demonization and drastic funding cuts to liberal arts colleges.

That never ends the way you think it does…

I majored in classical archaeology with a minor in history. I’m pretty comfortable in what I “think”, thanks.

Simple solution. Go ahead and home school. But when the time comes for them to hit voting age, if they can’t pass a GED science test or a civics test, they don’t get to.

Live in your fundamentalist bubble. It’s your right and I don’t give a shit. But your right to swing your fist ends where the rest of our noses begin. Your fundamentalist bubble should have no say over the functioning of a country that is supposed to be built on reason and science.

Gee…it’s almost as though a doctrine that is built on divisiveness and hate will inevitably devolve into internecine squabbles because that’s all the people involved with it know how to do.

Who’d a thunk it?

Cool story, bro.

It has literally nothing to do with the topic. But hey, good rant there, bud.

A racist with even the tiniest shred of intelligence

Well I think I see the problem…

Yes. But that was a strange time in my life that I’d rather not discuss openly.

He wanted to celebrate. Had to order “The Usz…” (How does one spell a colloquial shortening of “usual”, anyway?)

That guy earning twice as much as you is still far closer to you than to the guy above him. He may make twice the amount as you, but the guy above both of you makes literally 400 times as much (per day sometimes). It’s like you said, we’re all on the same team.

The literal Trump Derangement Syndrome

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