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- Comment on Sora AI Slop is here 9 hours ago:
That’s engagement.
- Comment on Update 19 hours ago:
It isn’t bad.
- Comment on Update 20 hours ago:
A real artist drew this.
- Comment on Apple has REMOVED the ICEBlock app from the App Store due to “objectionable content.” 1 day ago:
Nice job. You won.
- Comment on Apple has REMOVED the ICEBlock app from the App Store due to “objectionable content.” 2 days ago:
You do realize bank accounts and paying bills existed before smartphones, right? There are still people out there that don’t use credit/cards, mail in bill payments and refuse to use smartphones and yet still DUI the things you think can’t be done without a smartphone. Blue collar workers also exist. But this is another pointless interaction so what’s it really matter.
- Comment on 4 days ago:
It’s sinister that all of life’s necessities are locked behind paywalls.
- Comment on Apple has REMOVED the ICEBlock app from the App Store due to “objectionable content.” 5 days ago:
You can’t do those things any other way, eh? That’s crazy…
It’s a privilege to say no, eh? Interesting take.
- Comment on Apple has REMOVED the ICEBlock app from the App Store due to “objectionable content.” 5 days ago:
Yeah this is generally the take I hear the most. The smartphone is presented as a necessity and for a lot of people that may be true, but what it really is is a tool for capitalism. It spies on you, gives you fomo, serves you ads, gives access to all kinds of addictive content… oh and work apps!
It’s like AI, shoved down our throats until people think it’s needed. It’s not.
- Comment on Apple has REMOVED the ICEBlock app from the App Store due to “objectionable content.” 5 days ago:
I do think it’s comparable. All of this is about money. Americans are funding all of this crap with the, albeit controlled, choices we make with our money. Our taxes are funding genocides and coups and war and destruction; our purchasing habits are funding the decline of our planet and our social structures and our sanity.
You’re right though, consumers will likely never change in large enough quantities to make a real difference. People are already resubbing to Hulu so…
- Comment on Apple has REMOVED the ICEBlock app from the App Store due to “objectionable content.” 5 days ago:
Tell that to Disney.
- Comment on Apple has REMOVED the ICEBlock app from the App Store due to “objectionable content.” 5 days ago:
Keep on buying, y’all. Show 'em we mean business when we’re appalled at their actions. Giving them more money will surely let them know how much we want change!
- Comment on YSK that only by being yourself will you find people who like the real you. No one can beat you at being you, but you’ll only ever be second best at pretending to be someone else. 1 week ago:
Masking is acting in a perceived socially appropriate way so both.
- Comment on YSK that only by being yourself will you find people who like the real you. No one can beat you at being you, but you’ll only ever be second best at pretending to be someone else. 1 week ago:
Tell that to autistic folks struggling with masking.
- Comment on Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme crushes Apple M4, Intel, and AMD in new benchmarks 1 week ago:
Yeah I’ll wait for independent benchmarks, thanks.
- Comment on YSK that only by being yourself will you find people who like the real you. No one can beat you at being you, but you’ll only ever be second best at pretending to be someone else. 1 week ago:
This requires knowing who you are and I really don’t believe anyone does.
Psych 101 student: “I know who I am!”
- Comment on And the pre-peeled containers for 4x the price are a ripoff 1 week ago:
Crack them and then do the deseeding under water.
- Comment on Has anyone else experienced these psychological changes after eating meat? 1 week ago:
Fiber is clearly the thing that makes humans sane.
- Comment on Lara Croft is a Sociopath 1 week ago:
The real sociopath was us all along.
- Comment on Regulating AI hastens the Antichrist, says Palantir’s Peter Thiel 1 week ago:
He’s not nutty, at least not for this. He’s using religious superstition to get people to do what he wants by inciting fear. It’s literally the thing they do daily for all the other heinous shit rightwing idiots want.
- Comment on nostalgia 1 week ago:
So by your own admission skill is what makes art art. Taping a banana to the wall is a zero skill act so that’s not art. Typing “make a picture of a banana taped to a wall” into an text box has skill? Working as an artist also means that you aren’t creating art, but that’s exactly the point of the AI slop machines; an attempt to demonetize a skill and save money for businesses. I feel like you’re arguing to argue at this point and doing a very poor job.
- Comment on nostalgia 1 week ago:
Do you really not see the difference in typing in “make a picture in the style of Rick and Morty of a cat scientist eating a fish sandwich” and someone using Photopshop to create the same thing? These are equal to you?
- Comment on nostalgia 1 week ago:
By all means, tell us what art is then.
- Comment on nostalgia 1 week ago:
You genuinely don’t understand art. That’s ok. Taping a banana to a wall doesn’t use a ton of electricity and wasn’t created by someone stealing the tape, the banana or the wall. Is it an amazing bit of technical artistry? No. It is, however, interesting if nothing else and noteworthy enough for someone with no understanding of art to use as an example.
- Comment on nostalgia 1 week ago:
That’s all it takes, huh?
- Comment on nostalgia 1 week ago:
You seem to equate the work an actual artist does to typing in a chat box. This implies that you know nothing of the work an artist does and therefore negates your opinion.
- Comment on I'm burnt out, already changed jobs, what else can I do to go back to my normal self? 1 week ago:
Do you think another career path would alleviate these issues, or do you feel like any job you go into you’ll have these fears?
- Comment on He knows his ABCs 1 week ago:
Hey it’s ok. Elements will be around for a looooong time.
- Comment on Borderlands 4 Nintendo Switch 2 Version Delayed Indefinitely 2 weeks ago:
Lol this is genuinely funny to me.
- Comment on I'm burnt out, already changed jobs, what else can I do to go back to my normal self? 2 weeks ago:
I don’t really know the context here, but what’s normal to you? Like, what specifically are you trying to get back to?
- Comment on He knows his ABCs 2 weeks ago:
Go get a new (used) one!