Awwws

It’s mine too :)

Thanks, I think so too! That 14km hike was one of the most beautiful of my life

Rude. Possibly trolling, even. This also makes me sad.

Let’s try an actual dialogue tho, rather than just me slinging declarations at you:

Let’s say someone is mean to you in real life; for the sake of brevity let’s just say that someone insults your mother without any provocation.

Is it your fault if you feel an emotional reaction, or are you just having a natural reaction to someone making your world a worse place by spreading toxicity?

And if it’s online instead of in real life, would you consider the outcomes to be different? Let’s discuss. :)

Cuz it makes me (and others) a little sad. :(

Snowdrops! :D

Kids + Culture aren’t always a good combination, I know my brother and I hated the cultural things we were told and taught up until our early teens when we started to understand it’s important.

Might have to wait a few more years before she’ll actually start to understand why it’s important to you.

Sooooo stupid

As someone who’s been learning the flute since October, I resemble this remark.

ALSO, for those who think transactionally and can’t understand why, I tout the brain benefits of learning musical instruments, especially as The Brain ages

You are succeeding

Corporations like Google are literally unjust power structures, and when they do DEI, they update the aesthetics of the corporation such that they can get credit for being inclusive but without addressing the problem itself.

Absolutely, 100% on the nose. And this needs to be a conversation on a civilizational level before income inequality spirals further out of control and our society devolves into chaos. Corpos like Google are so busy pretending that they’re addressing problems that the larger issues affecting people aren’t being talked about at all.

Because they’re racist cult members and visits are awkward enough let alone living there. Might just be me tho

The point is open discussions on a topic that too many people view as untouchable, unassailable, unquestionable.

When I was raised religious, hearing the slightest critique of my religion filled me with irrational frustration, I was utterly unable to have those conversations with anyone, in part because to have doubts felt like some kind of sin.

But hearing others have those conversations helped me realize that some of my doubts were shared and that I wasn’t alone. Hearing others have those conversations honestly, and with empathy and intelligence made me realize my own fears were a kind of cognitive dissonance that prevented me from actually forming my own opinions instead of parroting the opinions I was raised with; and for those conversations I am eternally grateful.

It’s not always about the conversation between two people; it’s also about the audience who listens to both sides to form their own opinions.

I don’t get it, this seems like a false equivalency to me.

Worth it for them, for short term profits. Good thing nobody is considering the net effect this has on society or political discourse.

When outrage is the prime driver of engagement it’s going to push some people right off the platform entirely, and the ones who stay are psychologically worse off for it.

Absolutely loved Hyperion, and the sequel Fall of Hyperion does a fantastic job building and wrapping up most of the threads that started. On its own it can be fairly unsatisfying, but if you view it as a journey, not a destination, it’s a richer experience.

You have to create a vacuuming of air with every bite. Just do strong, deep inhales while biting, ripping, and tearing, prior to the chewing. The crumbs will all be sucked inward towards your mouth and lungs, and you won’t have any problems

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Doesn’t seem that insane. First she met a guy on the internet and moved in with him, then she was a stripper, then she wrote a blog? It’s not like she was a conscripted child soldier in Africa and escaped to a refugee camp or something.

Yes and No. That Wacom Dragon legitimately looks awful; its tail a messed up, nonsensical mess. I think the problem isn’t as much just “AI art” as it is “awful art”, because if a human had made it, it would have been absolutely better; it would have made sense at the very least. Instead you have middle managers trying to cut corners and the end result is an insult to creative workers everywhere; and the managers and marketers who approved this said “meh, good enough” and didn’t even try.

That’s the most insidious part of AI Art used in marketing, a race to the bottom in terms of quality that leads to crap being thrown in consumers faces because creative, knowledgable people aren’t being included in the conversation.