Howdy howdy howdy!

I honestly can’t stop greeting people like this, even though I’ve never stepped foot in a place where it doesn’t snow

If we’re going to define it like that then hell ya I’m conservative as fuck

You’re forgiven. When I was young, I genuinely thought “fiscally conservative” was a logical position until all the would-be fascists starting going mask-off.

Gross lol

A hundred percent, but the fact remains that journalists have a very hard time supporting themselves in their profession. A job that is critical (when done well) to an informed public.

It must be depressing knowing you could just take a TypeScript React bootcamp and probably double salary in a year. Like, journos have an important job. It’s just not lucrative, despite its value to people/society.

I think you touch it to different things and see what happens, if I remember my absurdists.

20 😞

Daamn why weren’t you my roomate in college - I got the Dominos-pizza-every-night kind of roomates

So the sense of speed is the fun part?

I kinda tricked myself into liking running by making a game of how long I could put up with the discomfort and feeling out of breath. Now I no longer feel out of breath, and it sometimes feels actually… good?? I don’t know if I just became inured to the sensation, or if I’m just fitter.

Is it a trick if it’s really amazing?

Are you kidding? I can always want to eat more broccoli than is advisable. I have to like hold myself back.

For real though, you can “acquire” these tastes.

Is it that sad, or is it actually great!

The three stages of reading this comment:

Heh.

Huh.

Uhh… shit

Just do your best.

That’s the petrolarchy speaking 😞

I loved it and didn’t finish it either, only I don’t even have an excuse. Maybe I just got stuck.

But it is still labo–AH AMANAGER! GET IM!

What do you mean by this, by the way? Dead thread now so no stakes, but still interested in how your take is different, because I haven’t heard this opposition from anyone before.

You paid your own money for every single copyright work you’ve ever seen in your life?

I never claimed this distinction, and I don’t think it’s a meaningful point.

I’m saying that I pay for art. These companies don’t, but more to the point, they seek to undermine their source once they’ve extracted all the training data they need. I’d go so far as to say it’s in poor taste to use free art, because it should be patently obvious that most artists putting out free art, did not anticipate its use by devices that let you bypass artists entirely.

There’s an alternate way that this could have all gone down: after some internal testing, we could have simply asked artists to volunteer their work for the project of training. There are enough people excited about the tech that this would have been plenty! It just wouldn’t have let companies rush for market share, and hope the business utility would gloss over any ethical qualms in the aftermath.

Actually remind me… what did the enemy priest say after ‘wololo’? Actually historical fiction x detective novel is a great mashup.