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“AI” has become synonymous with “Generative AI”

You’re on the decentralized social media network that was created to get away from corporate bullshit and are surprised the people here don’t like posts containing AI slop?

I think the “Je ne sais quoa” is the human element: art is fundamentally about human communication and interaction.

We can (usually) infer the meaning and emotion an artist is trying to convey – particularly if given context. Even if we don’t “get” what the artist is trying to say, we can come up with something an equally valid. Real art only “works” because of empathy.

AI generated “art” fails for that reason: you can’t infer the thought process of a machine that doesn’t think, or emphasize with emotions it doesn’t have. As a tool it can assist with creating art, but the more heavily it’s involved in the creative process the less meaningful the resultant “art” becomes.

The difference in “ability to avoid serious injury or death in a crash” between an 80s and modern car is the hangup for me. Particularly in a country where I have to share the road with comically huge pickups and SUVs.

As a cool weekend “drive around a bit” car: sure. But not as a daily driver.

They also fall apart, frequently suffer major breakdowns, and are deathtraps

physicists

psychics

anti-white racism

I’d call what you linked to “deranged, but fascinating.”

It’s charming mix of “freshman humanities student” and “2012 tumblr”.

Native Americans are still people, and it’s a universal truth that people (as a whole) suck. I’m not excusing the horrors that came with colonization: but wars, slavery, murder, etc were still common things in America prior to colonization – just at a much smaller scale.

All the horrible things people do to each other are just easier when you’re not stuck using stone-age technology.

You kids don’t know how good you have it!

Weird … It looks like there’s nothing stopping me from signing up for an account on dbzer0 even though I’m not actually an anarchist.

It means “quick marriage because the bride is pregnant” and that is 100% the origin of the phrase.

Particularly in poorer, rural parts of the USA having a child out of wedlock was incredibly shameful, and the financial burden of a single motherhood was intolerable. So the bride’s family would ensure the man responsible married their daughter … regardless of how he felt about it. Sometimes that meant having a shotgun at the wedding to ensure he didn’t run off.

Go to the “Filter lists” tab in the dashboard. At the bottom of the list click “Import” and paste the URL ( https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DandelionSprout/adfilt/master/LegitimateURLShortener.txt ) in the box. Then click “Apply Changes” to save it.

I deleted my Reddit account but still follow some writers on it and had the same issue. The worst part is it’s anything marked as NSFW – even posts that were tagged as a joke weren’t accessible.

I changed my VPN to another country and Reddit was still asking me to log in and show ID until I cleared my cookies and cache.

Psh, as a leftist I’ll have you know we’ve done a lot more than complain. We went to a few protests, wrote a couple emails, and boycott stores we hardly shopped at in the first place.

Jack D. Ripper had it right.

Just get them on motorcycles.

One day you’ll wake up and realize people born on the year you graduated school can legally vote, drink, etc. A short time later those kids have kids of their own … and you are ( or are old enough to be ) a grandparent.

The worst part is you’ll still mentally feel like you’re not much older than your late 20s or 30s.

That was the original meaning, but it’s also been co-opted by assholes as an “argument” against providing for people’s basic needs.

Noodles are composed mostly of starches and heat causes gelatinization: which gives noodles their texture, taste, and holds them together. It also kills off any pathogens, which is a good things since it’s fairly common for raw flour to be contaminated with E. coli and Salmonella.

Cold water causes them to revert back to wet flour.