I feel that disappointment. But i think you’re way over-estimating trump’s role. There’s an entire corrupt elite class that are the real constituents of this regime.

Trump’s just the idiot who agreed to be hated by history so a bunch of far right oligarchs could live out their dream of looting the nation, ethnic cleansing, etc.

One of my best highschool teachers taught us this ~25 years ago, basing it on some research his academic wife had done.

The way i heard it was everyone remembers better if they see, hear and speak the information. The whole “i’m a visual learner” thing has no evidence behind it.

Everyone remembers more the more senses they engage.

The purpose of pointless expensive rubbish is to show that you can afford to waste your money on pointless expensive rubbish.

Vehicles like that are wasted on everyone, that’s the point.

I gaurantee rothfuss’ publisher would gladly accept a shitty ai conclusion to kingkiller chronicles over waiting for him to finish 😂

And if you want to make your writing suck, that’s all the better for me. One less person outshining me.

Meh, it’s a fun argument to make: ai sucks so if you use it your writing will suck more and i’ll look better by comparison.

It’s just not true. Someone who creates 10 boring, generic pieces of mediocre writing will always look better than someone who produces one good, interesting, error-free piece in the same time.

Only tradespeople pride themselves on the quality of their craft. Editors, management and bosses just want close enough and cheap as possible.

Iran could win the hearts and minds of americans by feeding bezos shahed for breakfast.

God i would support sharia law so hard if it means zuckerberg and bezos get a storm cloud raining shaheds on them wherever they go.

Fun ruiner!

A lot of the bigfoot people i’ve met are into astral/dimensional/dream bigfoot - bigfoots that don’t rely on a physical presence to be real.

This is 100% true, important, but not an argument against no kings.

We need black block, we need miltant protest camps outside ice facilities, we need people de-arresting ice’s intended victims, we need preprations for a general strike, we need direct action AND we need large scale peaceful marches.

We need radicals AND we need coddled middle class dems who we disagree with on many points but who also oppose fascism.

Messengers of state and embassadors were considered sacred, sacrosanct or had some kind of official immunity in most states throughout history.

It was a fairly common practise because it’s just really hard to conduct affairs of state if anyone you send fears for their life.

When you want to provoke someone into war, killing their messengers is a tried and true method. I believe that was the goal of the khwarizmian shah when he killed those mongol messengers.

Surely it’s Hydro-Quebectricity?

The best bits of 30 rock are when they make fun of how genuinely bad snl is most of the time.

Having a sad life is not the same thing as depression.

Depression is a condition that persists regardless. Bad bouts are often triggered by legit shitty things happening, but unlike non-depressives who can react appropriate to the scale of the shitty thing and remember that it’s a temp problem, depression encourages black and white thinking.

Depression is knowing in your heart that this is the worst thing in the world, is because you’re irredeemably broken, and will never change or get better. In reality, that’s not true.

Like most chronic health issues, symptoms ebb and flow, so sometimes you can be talked down or see the light yourself. Othertimes you cannot.

This has pretty much been my position too - I’m just yet to see a valid use case for me.

I enjoy writing and have a recognizable and idiosyncratic style. Plus i’m too ADHD to do work that requires a lot pointless reports.

My searches are almost always obscure details that i need to be accurate.

I’ve made a few images for rpgs i run, but i’m usually going for something very specific and off-beat which ai is not good at, plus the overly detailed style of ai art is at odds with the surreal minimalism i like.

He was a shitbag and he ruined barrens chat.

Cerutti is heavily debated and most serious discussions of humans in the americas ignore it. The supposed association with stone tools fails to convince most archaeologists. A mastadon died there 130kya. That’s all cerutti can prove.

Last i heard most experts think the bones were broken by modern construction equipment not ancient hominins.

A large part of inflation is just tech oligarchs like amazon and rent fixing companies deliberately raising prices. Monopolists will continue to raise prices because they can and cash supply won’t affect that.

Yeah as concerning as the present historical moment is to live through, i’m really excited about the light it can shine on the past - what imperial transitions look like.

What are the chances that someone got it to mine bitcoin, probe internal networks and make a reverse ssh tunnel, then lied about or covered up their shady instructions?

I presume we can rule that out if it got to livescience?