Honestly… Full offense. You can’t just “scale production” to meet demand. Some demand is inelastic. Some resources there just literally aren’t enough to go around for everyone.

Lmao boogie catching strays will never not be funny

When such horrific shit happens through no fault of your own, it’s difficult to not abandon your morals.

Honest lmao

Cringe

I don’t think that’s necessarily true either lol

Voting for fascism out of spite lmao

… My comment wasn’t disagreeing with you? Sorry it was probably worded goofy lmao

Why does that even matter? Currently, if you have a locked phone and switch carriers, you have to buy an entirely new phone anyways.

At least this way, a user can pay once, and then hop around carriers depending on what’s cheap.

Also there’s no shot that locking users to phones costs that much because the unlocked version of a phone is only like 15-20% more expensive. Since when did you ever get a 70% discount on the MSRP of a phone for buying it locked??? They’re straight ass lying lmao

I mean, people don’t question cis women (as much these days) who don’t try to look feminine/masculine. The same applies to trans people - however much makes you feel comfortable matters.

Younger people just don’t care as much, which is great.

Bummer, I’m PST (UTC+8)…

One of my friends moved to Europe for work and I haven’t been able to hang out with him since. Timezones suck lol

Just got married to my wife this last weekend, who I met after being on Bumble for about 2 weeks… Gotta go buy some scratchers.

Cringe

What timezone you in?

No no it’s more interesting if it’s for evil corporate reasons! Lmao

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I think the statement “then photography took over” is doing a lot of work here. It’s incredibly inaccurate to say that photography took over as the primary means of visual creativity.

Photography took over as the primary means of capturing a moment. Sure it’s used artistically sometimes, but primarily it’s used for subjective reality. I would argue that painting, and especially digital painting, is at an all-time high due to the ease and relatively low barrier to entry.

I think that most artists would still prefer to paint something that they can consider “their art”, over typing a sentence and getting back a result. Sure, it’s neat, but it will never be anything more than a novelty, or a shortcut to generic results. The process of creation is only really 50% the final result, and the process itself is an important aspect and not just a means to an end.

Using AI just feels like a weird commodification of art - like using only pre-made Unity assets for a game and nothing else, and then having someone else make it for pennies.

I’ve seen so many bizarre “AI artists” cropping up, especially online, who legitimately try to sell AI art online for hundreds of dollars. I think the reasons people buy art can usually be put into three buckets: they appreciate the process that went behind it, they like the style of the artists or that painting in particular, or they find some meaning in it. If you wanted to buy AI art why not just prompt it yourself. What process, or artistic style, or meaning is even in AI art?

It’s not even like AI can be trained on an artist’s own works. It takes millions of samples to train AI, which a singular artist would never be able to produce. So, at some point, that model will have had to have stolen the content of its results from something.

Law and Oinker

Id argue that Octave is Greek or at least Egyptian.

I get not wanting to have to have 40 different accounts to play your games, and making that your entire basis for not buying a game - sure whatever. But that’s your decision, and other people are allowed to be upset that they have to do so, and still want to play the game and just deal with the bullshit foisted on them by corporations.