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TIL voting is lobbying

No of course not. Only what you approve as activism is activism 👌 And using official channels is certainly not activism.

Stop Killing Games should be asking for donations to get the people involved to have meetings with representatives in the EU commission. The big, shitty gaming companies that are firing devs en masse and just out to make money have their lobbyists. If the SKG movement doesn’t organise, that’s all we’ll get: a communiqué to shut the hell up.

Gib sauce!

Where are they going?

This is news to me 😮😮😮 Tell me more!

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For a second I wondered why Oprah was called SZA

Make everyone lactose intolerance: everyone is a malfunctioning system now.

Indeed, yes. It’s subjective and we are both somewhere in the middle with a bit of nuance, but there are people who just throw it around willy nilly. The unhinged use is what this post felt like. “I see slop everywhere”. Makes me think of the phrase “if you smell shit everywhere, look under your shoe”.

From what you say, you perceive the term “slop” as a direct synonym to “low quality”, without any extras.

Slop to me is a simple, low-quality, repetitive output.

If you went to a restaurant that made a high-quality, complex soup, for hundreds of customers per day with the help of machines, would you call it slop? I wouldn’t.

If the restaurant however made ramen from packets, threw in some starch to make it thicker, and they had a nice big ladle to slap that liquid into a vessel with a nice sound, I would for sure call that slop.

That output is what matters, because there’s no way for us to see the input. How are you going to know what words somebody used to generate an AI image?

Slop to me is a simple, low-quality, repetitive output. So, it’s not just one simple, low-quality medium but many. Looks at this video for examples. Or just scroll youtube shorts after searching for anything Indian or even literally “omg look at this” for the search term and you’ll see what I’m talking about.

If you have a hard time telling whether AI did it or not, it’s not slop.

“slop” is being thrown around just like “socialist” and “gay”. Save it for actual AI slop. Just because something is made by AI doesn’t make it automatically “slop” 🙄

Keep signing it! Don’t stop!

Nowhere in the comic does it do that. It just shows a humanoid with cat ears.

Consoomers aren’t to blame. Why? Because I’m a consoomer myself and I know I’m not to blame. Not even partially. I am completely absolved from any blame because I’m a consoomer. Where does it say so? I say so. I will consoom for the economy and that’s how I participate in society.

I buy plastic bottles because I’m powerless. I buy big tech products because I’m powerless to their advertising. I buy non-fairtrade products because, you guessed it, powerless. I leave the tap on while brushing my teeth because industry uses millions of litres more than I ever could making products for me to consoom. I am powerless! I can consoom anything I like, whenever I like, however I like, because I’m a weak pawn with no independence.

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Same in many European countries, every New Year. People are dumb.