LainTrain
@LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on 2025 likely to be UK's hottest year on record, says Met Office 3 days ago:
Barely felt like it at all. Whole summer without a decently consistent nice warm spell, just middlingly warm. Winter weather came very early too in August and hasn’t left at all.
- Comment on Meet the YouTubers Terrorising Britain for Clicks 5 days ago:
Ironically these people and what they do are the ultimate effect and evidence of a social contract circling the gutter, but not for any of the reasons they would have you believe.
- Comment on Creating apps like Signal or WhatsApp could be 'hostile activity,' claims UK watchdog 5 days ago:
No, they’re just on payroll of the corpos.
- Comment on 'Racist prick' Tommy Robinson 'bullied' at Dubai boxing event 5 days ago:
Racists sure love their little Dubai holidays lol. You ever seen a leftist go to Dubai? Me neither
- Comment on Secret courts' still handing out warrants for energy firms to break into homes 5 days ago:
Uh, no, the headline pretty straightforwardly describes what is happening. These are private firms, they should frankly have zero recourse other than simply not doing business with that customer again and reporting to other private firms that track credit scores.
- Comment on Greta Thunberg arrested at Palestine Action protest 5 days ago:
More sources:
news.sky.com/…/greta-thunberg-arrested-at-a-prote… theguardian.com/…/greta-thunberg-arrested-london-…
Some right wing media sources too, for your suffering:
telegraph.co.uk/…/greta-thunberg-arrested-london-… www.dw.com/en/…/a-75286097 www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c17x1jenvv9o
- Comment on Two arrested on suspicion of shouting slogans calling for ‘intifada’ at protest 1 week ago:
You got a loicence for that thought?
- Comment on Kemi Badenoch: Tories to scrap petrol ban if they win next election 2 weeks ago:
That only works when the population for the most part acts rationally and reasons from facts and not like a cult that lives completely divorced from reality and doesn’t reason and can’t be reasoned with.
- Comment on Robin Ince quits Infinite Monkey Cage over BBC censorship 2 weeks ago:
Can’t say I’ve ever heard of this show, but it’s always a shame to lose something like a science show to this insane far-right takeover of the UK happening right in front of us. What’s happened to the BBC is especially a travesty. I’m glad that there are still people out there who seem reasonable and not driven to insanity, and who use their voice to do right, and as a trans person I appreciate him for standing up for our community.
- Comment on French far right wants to reopen brothels and put sex workers in charge 2 weeks ago:
Dare I say… based? Broken clock right twice a day. Or maybe in France sex is apolitical.
- Comment on Patients clogging up A&E with hiccups, sore throats and niggles 3 weeks ago:
Until same-day GP appointments are available and easy to book this won’t change.
- Comment on Wes Streeting orders review of mental health diagnoses as benefit claims soar 3 weeks ago:
Wes Streeting should review himself instead because this level of callousness probably warrants a mental health diagnosis of some sort.
- Comment on Apartment blocks causing issues for UK fiber broadband 3 weeks ago:
That sucks. For what it’s worth all the victorian mcmansions I lived in had more mold and nutty neighbours than internet, one was on a street that had literally no signal.
The only place that had openreach optic fiber and gigabit speeds on offer was a brutalist apartment block built in the 2010s which was great.
- Comment on UK digital ID plan gets a price tag at last – £1.8B 4 weeks ago:
Voted for them as opposed to who? Zack didn’t have our back last election exactly, it was them vs reform & Tories odds are it may come down to that again if the press finds dirt on Zack. I’m trans so trust me I don’t love the paternalistic red tories, but I don’t personally blame anyone for voting for them.
- Comment on NHS doctor suspended for 15 months over series of 'anti-Semitic and pro-terrorism' comments 4 weeks ago:
Let’s see them then. What were the social media comments in question? The article talks about “conspiracy theories” and “denying sexual violence”, so I’d like to see what exactly those comments were because to me this doesn’t just seem like what you’d expect, so I’d like to see it before I dismiss it.
- Comment on Slovenians reject assisted-dying law in national referendum 5 weeks ago:
That sucks. Maybe you don’t need any assistance dying if you live in Slovenia lol
- Comment on fresh groceries 5 weeks ago:
Yeah don’t
- Comment on Google CEO: If an AI bubble pops, no one is getting out clean 5 weeks ago:
I would have expected no more than that from the average anti-intellectual moron. Blocked.
- Comment on Google CEO: If an AI bubble pops, no one is getting out clean 5 weeks ago:
Because you don’t care about making art, so you choose comfort and financial safety.
Yeah, I choose to eat, so do you, evidently.
But my choices on how I earn that bread were more limited than yours, again - evidently.
Beyond that, I choose not to make assumptions about you or your life like you’ve done with mine.
Also lol “comfort and financial safety”. No. Not for most people in most of this world. It’s more like survival vs not survival.
So how does this have nothing to do with privilege? It literally is what privilege is.
Telling poors to learn art is like telling someone to bet everything on starting a business. It’s a good idea only if you’re rich, because if you fail - and to learn you must fail sometimes - you can try again, but the working class doesn’t get the luxury of second chances.
You’re talking about outsourcing art, but then complain about who actually make art.
No, I’m talking about generating art from a prompt, I have no issuea with people who make art obviously, as long as they don’t have an issue with those who lack the resources to develop the skills and instead use AI to put their ideas into action or polish existing ones.
If you’d like to change my mind, show me a few professionally successful present-day working class artists.
This means they:
- Make most of their income from their work
- Most active period this or past decade and they are no older than 40.
- Working class background, so no artists in family at all, no industry connections they didn’t make themselves, no nepotism etc.
Also lol, of course I care about making art, why else would I be even talking about it, much less pointing out that generative AI accidentally or not - corrects a class injustice?
If I saw no value in making art, why would I ever consider it an injustice that the working class cannot enjoy it?
I make music in my spare time whenever I can and have for years, and no I don’t and would never use any generative AI tools for the music itself, nor do I even sample any other music, and I think I’ve even improved at it somewhat despite a lack of basically any education on the subject matter beyond a few guides and YouTube videos on music theory here and there. It’s a highly rewarding hobby.
Realistically though, that ‘whenever’ is simply not enough time to create anything professional and polished enough for me to sell and for it to appeal to anyone besides myself and whatever loved one is unfortunate enough to be subjected to it.
- Comment on Google CEO: If an AI bubble pops, no one is getting out clean 5 weeks ago:
Do you have another retort besides “lol”? Spending any amount of time not dedicated to earning skills guaranteed to make money is a risk most of us can’t take.
You still can’t make a poem now
Yeah and why would I need to? If I was feeling creative and had an idea for one or needed an image, I could just get it made for me, free of charge, free of corpo influence or any strings attached. It’s a sweet deal.
- Comment on fresh groceries 5 weeks ago:
Come to the UK and stand outside for a sec on an average day then. 89-96 rH% humidity gets old real fast.
- Comment on Google CEO: If an AI bubble pops, no one is getting out clean 5 weeks ago:
or since there are FOSS AI models that are free as in free beer it allows everyone to access the benefits of the privileged - i.e. those who can specialized in fields like arts that aren’t conducive to making enough money out of the gate to survive as a working class person
- Comment on Baby boomers want to axe property taxes. Millennials and Gen Z would pay for it. 5 weeks ago:
Some of them are so stupid they couldn’t do it even when it was the easiest time in modern history to do so, that’s who they think we all are when they post their “just stop eating avocado toast” ass advice and “I had problems too but I pulled myself up by my bootstraps and not been some dramatic wokey” type shit, they are referring to their life xp where they or someone they knew had become like a heroin addict at 15 and never had a job, so now they only have a small mansion instead of a palace.
- Comment on Jeff Bezos reportedly launches new AI startup with himself as CEO 5 weeks ago:
Thank you! And yeah you said it well.
I might check it out at some point, but I’m not really into mythology tbh, I think the only thing remotely close to that that I’ve ever consumed is some of the videos from Overly Sarcastic Productions on YT.
I guess that’s kinda like what’s particularly astounding to me about the downvote. This is not even a matter of privilege and resources, it’s simply a matter of: Why would you expect anyone to go out of their way to look up fairly obscure greek myths, unless they were specifically into fairly obscure greek myths?
Right now I’m really into space stuff. It’s extremely unlikely that if I asked any random person, including myself from like two weeks ago, what ORB RATE and INRTL positions on the FDAI switches on Panel 13 do in the Apollo CSM that they would know what the heck I’m talking about. So I would never make that assumption. It’s just kinda baffling.
We cannot hate on people for not knowing what it is unreasonable for anyone but an enthusiast to know. That in itself is refusing to think properly, it is anti-intellectualism, plain and simple. “Ooga Grog no know thing, means Grog bad!” is an insane way to operate.
- Comment on Jeff Bezos reportedly launches new AI startup with himself as CEO 5 weeks ago:
I can understand, but really, though? Why would you expect anyone to know something so niche?
- Comment on Legendary game designer, programmer, Space Invaders champion, and LGBTQ trailblazer Rebecca Heineman has died 5 weeks ago:
Co-founded Interplay. Came out as trans in the mid-2000s. Jesus what a legend gone too soon. Bless.
- Comment on Baby boomers want to axe property taxes. Millennials and Gen Z would pay for it. 5 weeks ago:
Land Value Tax, now.
- Comment on Jeff Bezos reportedly launches new AI startup with himself as CEO 5 weeks ago:
I didn’t know of the myth, can I have a billion dollars now? I promise I won’t even traumatize Bill Shatner by uncaringly shaking champagne around him with it.
- Comment on Jeff Bezos reportedly launches new AI startup with himself as CEO 5 weeks ago:
Fair play, TIL.
I figured it was something from Greek mythology (probably), but I don’t have that particular kind of special interest so I never looked into it.
- Comment on Just seen the latest American Opinion polls. 5 weeks ago:
That’s not what I asked. I asked for if they had a higher % change than other demographics.