“Absolute truth no matter what” people are freakin exhausting.

They also don’t exist outside of their own inflated egos.

It’s almost comically easy to catch one of these “I always tell the truth” people in their hypocrisy.

Yes.

Anyone who says otherwise is (ironically) lying.

That’s why privacy laws are so important and why the old “If you haven’t done anything wrong, you shouldn’t care about your data being collected by literally everyone” argument is bullshit. Because it’s not about breaking the law, or lying about some big secret. It’s about presenting to the world the you that you want to present to the world.

The most basic fundamental right is to be seen as we want to be seen.

Everyone…and I mean EVERYONE…has something that, if it were public, would change the way that others look at them. Maybe for the good, maybe for the worse. It doesn’t matter. It could be that you’re into midget porn. It could be that you anonymously donate a quarter of your paycheque to charity and you want it to remain anonymous for whatever reason. The point is, THAT IS YOUR RIGHT to keep that to yourself.

We get to show the world who we want them to see, either good or bad. And we all do it.

So yes, to circle back around. Anyone who says that they don’t actively have any lies is lying.

Definitely uncut. All the extra shit they can add to it just dilutes the high.

Them him/her I have to think about it for a bit, and then take a recorder in my pocket when “revisiting” the conversation.

Bohemian Rhapsody or Paradise by the Dashboard Light

Cinematography. The composition of a moving frame.

There’s no such thing as a “non-harmful” pedofile.

Either you’re actively molesting children (yes…even teens), or you’re consuming the CP that is the result of OTHER people abusing children by forcing them to participate and worse.

You don’t get to say “its not repulsive to consume the product as long as youre not a creator of it”. Consuming the end result is still participating in it.

I can’t believe that even has to be pointed out.

Be best friends with her for yyears. Then literally just look at each other, shrug and say “Meh…might as well fuck”.

unless if one day they somehow develop a “soul” themselves and start to express an inner world of their own.

Gaius Baltar enters the chat.

All business have to care about profit or they won’t be in business for long

Businesses have always cared about profit; just reasonable profit. They would make a product, determine the cost of manufacture, apply a modest profit margin to it (usually about 30%) and factor in things like employee raises and benefits, expanding the business, and building up a financial safety net.

Businesses were run by humans, for humans.

Hedge fund managers and venture capitalists in the 80s changed that. Rather than assigning a fixed profit margin each year to try to maintain, the rule became “how much profit can we squeeze out by sales and (most damning) by systematically dismantling anything that we pay for that benefits our employees”.

This is the end result of having taking human stakeholders out of the business decisions and replacing them with shareholders that are mostly other businesses, hedge funds, and venture capitalists. Profit becomes the ONLY motive, rather than one of many.

DJs use the tools to express THEIR talent. They don’t just say “create a composition that sounds good”. That’s the difference between an artist and a fraud.

Everything you’ve mentioned are tools for an artist to use to express THEIR talent. A typewriter doesn’t come up with the words. a Synthesiser doesn’t compose the the music that its playing. Comparinging AI (which requires zero talent) is disingenuous.

To put it another way, if you’re a carpenter using hammers and saws (tools), and then some engineer creates a robot that can be programmed to do that job and allows them to fire all the carpenters. Does that make the programmers carpenters even though not a single one has used a circular saw.

The line between “tool” and “crutch” is drawn by how much talent and training it takes to use it.

AI is NOT used as a tool in that traditional sense, its a shortcut to fake talent in ways that hammers, paintbrushes, typewriters and even just good old fashioned traditional Photoshop aren’t…

You have to have the training and talent to get use out of a real tool. And AI certainly potential for use in that regard; proofreading, background removal, grammar checking etc…

AI art is fine being used as a tool. What I have a problem with is it’s users calling themselves “artists”.

A person who types a prompt into an AI is no different than a person who hires a painter and describes what he wants them to paint.

Just because that “painter” in the first case happens to be a computer, that doesn’t mean that by default the title of “artist” defaults back to the person who wrote the prompt. That person is still just someone telling someone (or something) what to draw.

In other words, you don’t become the artist just because you eschew paying an actual artist and instead have your computer do it for you.

I would make one hell of an ugly woman…

I was an archaeology major, hence the history thing. And I’m fascinated by the psychology of crime.

I was already starting to have problems a month or so ago. Ended up switching even though I had paid for no ads. Using Connect; same routine…pay for no ads. So far it’s been great.

Teenagers. Just ship 'em off somewhere between the ages of 13 and 18. Pouty, Self-entitled, disrespectful shits.

Yes. I still use my computer for mostly writing, so proper technique includes using the Right Shift key when capitalizing anything on the left hand side of the keyboard.

Raise a group of a dozen newborns with absolutely zero contact outside of their own group. Food and necessities get provided of course, but no language learning, no nurturing, no generational teaching.

What kind of community do they form when they are old enough to grasp such things? Do they develop their own language; or a different method of communication entirely. How do they stratify their society, or even do they?

At a certain point, when they are old enough, introduce challenges that only work if they cooperate with one another. See what happens.

I’m far far far from a younger consumer, and I find that I too have moved almost entirely to online content, mostly in the form of True Crime podcasts and YT channels, History Documentaries, etc…

Especially in non-fiction content, there’s pretty much nothing that paid TV can offer that Social Platforms cannot. It’s the only place where I think this whole internet experiment is actually working as intended; the democratization of knowledge.

Same. It was ultimately pretty forgettable except for the bathroom fight scene, which is literally all I remember of it.