and put out cat food apparently there used to be horses in the paddock next door very weird interaction they stuck around illegally parked in the end // start of the street for almost an hour talking to some old lady that appeared after I disappeared they were from Sydney and had fallen in love with the horses that had been there oh they also gave me ten bux dunno why
damn old people being all carefree and taking their time with their wholesome visits let's get their grandfathered tax exemptions canceled smug old farts
／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
i guess that's one way to see it >>1066496 what are these prompts
>>1066508 tow strap/hook? or are you talking about those stupid heart things that dangle off the rear for #aesthetics
Anno
Wordle 480 3/6
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I've realized I don't really know the area around this subway platform all that well Somewhere I could grab something hot and half-decent in like 5-8 minutes would be nice Especially today since the streetcar was running a bit slow
when did you start catching the train instead of getting ubered
Anno
I want to say April, maybe May Although at that time there were replacement buses running the leg of my transit which is now a streetcar Which honestly were far more timely and less stressful to catch than the streetcar And then after a couple months of catching a streetcar along that route, they had to reroute the streetcar for a month or two of track maintenance And that rerouting was still a better and more convenient route than the original one It seems every time they have to change from the standard streetcar route I need to take, they end up improving my transit But inevitably they have to revert back to the worse, standard route
>>1066509 the latter. I know how2wrench and what a towstrap is. they're like the heart ones but also plastic and meant to mimic a japanese train handhold for #JDM I guess the implication being that someone would be being dragged behind the car while hanging on?
>>1066532 >Himalayan salt is a table salt. Analysis of a range of Khewra salt samples showed them to be between 96% and 99% sodium chloride, with trace presence of calcium, iron, zinc, chromium, magnesium, and sulfate, all at varying safe levels below 1%.
>>1066535 I was a bit underwhelmed Some of the cgi was good, but there was also some mediocre and bad stuff. Also they did a terrible job with Makima's voice. >>1066538 It's not fine by me, it deserves better. Hopefully they fix it for the bluray release.
hey Rei why don't you become a lumberjack or.. whats the word, an arborist
Anno
or one of those guys who does ice sculptures with a chainsaw can't really think of any other chainsaw related jobs hbu maybe in a factory making them
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
>>1066532 yooo did you see all the ganahas i generated yesterday or the day before >>1066264 →
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
the worst possible accidental drag lmao
Nezi
>>1066515 lul yeah those ones are pretty silly, I often see them hanging on the inside of riced up "jdm" cars
／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
wake up and smell the cofftea
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
i got a french press then i used it and remembered why i never use a french press clean up is a bitch
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
also you get bits of coffee grounds mixed in
／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
ah yeah figured
Nezi
>>1066554 >>1066555 yeah i bought one and got excited for it but had the same experience, went right back to using the coffee machine instead :\ waste of money...
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
i think it would be good for camping because then you can just dump the coffee grounds wherever and don't need filters but inside a kitchen filters seem like the way to go
／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
do the coffee pod challenge
／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
>>1066549 should probably put them in a folder or something
>>1066566 my computer is very fragile and I'm out of condoms
Anno
A co-worker gave me a pretty enthusiastic recommendation for an Aeropress so I figured I'd try it out It looks cheap and feels kind of gimmicky but I think with the right grind and water to coffee ratio it would be pretty nice When you press it out you only get maybe 2/5ths to half a cup of coffee, but it's pretty strong I've been trying to find the sweet spot of making it Americano style and adding hot water after, but I haven't quite found it yet The advantage it has over french press is no grounds in your cup and clean up is a breeze I would say I'm reasonably satisfied with it, but I also don't think I've quite got it "working proper" yet
Most of the Chainsaw Man voicecast are kinda "new" huh? Denji's voice literally has one other anime voice credit to his name, as a background character in one episode of Tokyo 24th Ward And he's THE main character
Really I dunno about most of the casting, I feel like they don't really fit too well, though Denji's a good match
Rei !p8eYCadcMo
There's two showings of Shin Ultraman near me as part of a film festival.
the washing machine shudders like crazy when washing hmm i tried opening up the
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
pump filter but some smelly water came trickling out im learning so much about home maintenace its such a departure from before
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
like when i moved in half the hinges were super squeaky half the hinge pin door stops were bent and busted one of the door locks was busted whole buncha little things im sure there's more
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
maybe i shouldnt have waived inspection but so far so good
yeah I mean I love cars but the USA has way too much reliance on them, it would be nice to live somewhere that has good public transportation, or you're close enough to things that you can walk/bike
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
most ded def thats been my #1 consideration for any place ive lived
Oh NVM Apparently it has good public transit >>1066657 >>1066658 It's rated really high I guess they don't account for homeless people begging on the train when they make those lists.
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
bro
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
i mean BART is pretty shit really anyway i just bicycled to work every day
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
coverage is a joke it takes forever to get to the airport infra badly maintained wtc etc* but compared to 99% of the US i guess its alright a joke compared to NYC tho
Rei !p8eYCadcMo
>>1066659 The important question is if its better than Chicago.
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
chicago seemed pretty good idk when i was there i just bicycled but you can like take a subway to Wrigley field thats kinda pog
Rei !p8eYCadcMo
>>1066661 My favorite movie theater is right by there. It's a long trip though.
>>1066683 I hear its actually about drug addction. *addiction
Marsh shitposting on the go via Telephone
>>1066680 Can your machine even run it? I hear its beyond next gen
Rei !p8eYCadcMo
Huh The studio that did Bugsnax is based in Chicago.
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
whaaat it's based? based in chicago? that sounds proximate!
Anno
dah bears
Rei !p8eYCadcMo
Wordle 482 3/6*
⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟨⬜🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 >>1066686 They're actually moving out into the suburbs. Specifically the suburb with the Japanese marketplace.
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
what's the japanese marketplace like
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
do you remember when a day ago i was like "man i bet there would be a big market for fast food that's in perfect cube format" >>>/@NotABigJerk/1580538112413143042 i am uh retracting that idea
Nezi
chicago is not based at all!
Nezi
>>1066689 >$60 a day for daily 2,000 calories yeah that's a yikes
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
insanity
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
ah it's a weight loss program
Nezi
is it a weight loss program because you spend so much money your wallet becomes significantly lighter
Anno
As weird as it is, having segmented pieces of food like that probably does help with weight loss Portion control is an important part of dieting, especially if you don't want to give up food variety and kinds of food which aren't conducive to losing weight When you're fixing yourself dinner it's harder to control how much exactly you're making yourself unless you're being pretty anal about the meal prep These cubed foods offload that effort onto the vendor, so all you're left with the responsibility of is exercising the control over taking only as much as you need
Rei !p8eYCadcMo
>>1066688 They're a supermarket, a Kinokuniya, udon shop, ramen shop, uhh Some other restaurants No gyudon place though Oh and an izakaya
Rei !p8eYCadcMo
A crepe place, makeup shop Overpriced dessert store I'll link the website https://mitsuwa.com/ch/ Unfortunately the udon place os on Thursdays now. Thursday historically is the best day for me to go with friends.
>>1066718 wow didn't realize you were a spoi boi thanks asshole, I've been reading that one for months and I was about to finish the final 18th page, smh
Anno
>>1066717 I will become a wealthy rationalist™ like yudkowsky and get my brain frozen to enable that.
>>1066705 I think I have two copies of that. >>1066707 Oh no If they set it in current day I won't watch it.
Rei !p8eYCadcMo
>>1066746 You hear about this? https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/10/deepmind-breaks-50-year-math-record-using-ai-new-record-falls-a-week-later/
I am excite.
Rei !p8eYCadcMo
Although I'm gonna have to read the palers *papers Ars didn't do a good job Cause coppersmith winograd is faster Among other things
Anno
>>1066749 >On November 18, 2015, it was announced that Fargo TV series-creator Noah Hawley was adapting Cat's Cradle as a limited series for the American TV channel FX.[22] On August 13, 2021, it was announced that the project would not be moving forward.[23] Ah, oh well. Might have been interesting.
the damn bird app made me watch gundam I can't believe it
Kirara 🍄 大医 ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
gundam is good
S C
I mean I am liking the mercy witch
S C
Mercury even That wasn't even autocorrect I just forgot some letters
S C
I don't know a damn thing about Gundam though so it feels like I stumbled into the halfway point of a souls borne lore video I thought gundams were just the mechas, but actually Gundam is a special kind of mecha, and it's SPACE ILLEGAL And there are witches? Are these literal spellcasters? I do not know. And also Gundams kill the driver which seems like an insane design oversight?
Kirara 🍄 大医 ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
gundam refers to a different thing in every series but typically it's a specific type of mecha yeah we don't know anything about the witches yet this is a new gundam universe we dont know anything about it yet
Kirara 🍄 大医 ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
gundams probably kill the drivers by hooking in too deeply to their nervous system or something
S C
GUNDAM ISN'T ONE SERIES?
S C
I thought it was all one or two timelines and the shows were just stories from different times and places along it
Kirara 🍄 大医 ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
No, there are a lot of different timelines. Universal Century is the one Amuro is from, it's the first one. That includes 0079, Zeta, ZZ, Char's Counterattack, Unicorn, NT, Hathaway's Flash, and a bunch of others. Future Century is the timeline G Gundam takes place in. Gundam Wing is in After Colony/Mars Century. Turn A Gundam is in Correct Centure, and then you have SEED which is in Cosmic Era. Gundam 00 takes place in AD AGE is Advanced Generation Reglid Century is Reco-G but that technically takes place like a thousand years after UC, and is the only one like that Then there's Iron Blooded Orphans which takes place in Post Disaster timeline
The G-witch timeline is called Ad Stella. We don't know much about it yet.
If I was gonna watch one Gundam other than this one and all I know about mecha is ttgl, Eva, gunbuster and muvluv, which would you recommend? I'm moderately interested but I don't wanna just end up watching one I'm not even able to get interested in
I mean I know those all have aliens but that's not important, I know Gundam generally don't
The one most likely to pull you in is Iron Blooded Orphans which is about child soldiers trying to carve out a place in the world for themselves after they've been discarded and then free themselves from slavery. It's pretty popular and has a lot of big, cool moments.
I think Zeta Gundam is the best gundam series but you need 0079 for that so there's a lot more investment before you get to the best part. And then ZZ sucks and you have to watch that before you can watch Char's Counterattack.
>>1066775 Uhhh not exactly. It's very different in the tone and scope. The main characters are an autistic pilot and a guy who is basically his brother.
One thing I don't like about IBO is that it isn't very gay All of Universal Century is about the gay rivalry between Amuro and Char and how it shaped the world
If you make what you dislike your recreational hobby you will never ever escape the grind
S C
If you get a job doing utterly brain dead shit you can mentally log out for those hours and in many ways not consciously register it as work And you can still do your hobbies without thinking about productivity
Nezi
>>1066783 eh, I think it depends on the work environment. I think even if you love something, insane work hours and deadlines/stress can make it unfun anyway. I wouldn't want to be a #progamer because those guys are playing scrims 12 hours a day and flying all over the world and away from home for months or years.
S C
That sounds fucking sick to me other than having to leave my house all the time
I should really become a streamer
Nezi
>>1066787 eh, I've dipped my toes into the tournament/scrim scene and it's a lot less fun than I expected, going over strats and practicing specific plays is more boring than just playing for fun streaming would be a based career though, there's a reason a lot of pros quit playing and streamed instead (like Shroud) just really hard to get a following going, even if you're good, to the point that you're making decent income. only a small percent make it big
>>1066788 I've played tf2 competitively before though obviously never for money, but like, in tournaments and shit and it's honestly probably the most fun I've had playing video games
>>1066782 i sure love fetch quests oh okay you actually have to use reading comprehension a bit that's nice
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
competitive gaming just seems like suffering to me but i'm not a particularly competitive person anyway especially a fighting game it's a competition of who sweats and suffers the most everyone trying harder to fight each other means it's a battle of attrition i like creative pursuits better where you have more of an abundance / additive mindset
Rei !p8eYCadcMo
>>1066789 Interesting >>1066787 Do you really think that it wouldn't be terrible for your mental health?
S C
Eh my mental health is fucked anyway
Rei !p8eYCadcMo
>>1066795 Being a trans streamer would basically put a huge target on you.
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
everyone LOVES duck chess probably not because of the gameplay which seems pretty defensive but because it's got a cute duck in it if the duck was a brick instead you wouldn't have all these flashy thumbnails
S C
>>1066796 I mean that's true I could just not mention it though I guess Keep it separate from rest of online
Not that this shit is even gonna happen, I'm not legit gonna start streaming
Mahou Shoujo Marsh-chan
d*ck chess
Anno
>>1066793 Or maybe you're just a perfectionist and you like chess because it's the kind of competition where the only fault is your own inability to make perfect choices
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
>>1066800 no i'm bad at chess but i've learned to enjoy losing thanks to playin tf2 and overwatch casually
chess is actually like the sweatiest competitive game ever, grand masters just spend their entire life grinding and learning theory jockeying and metagaming to get the ELO points to earn titles a lot of the masters are known for saying "getting good at chess SUCKS don't do it"
Rei !p8eYCadcMo
>>1066801 Elo points, its not an acronym. It's named after Arpad Elo.
Anno
I don't enjoy losing but I've played enough DotA that I have become dull to the feeling of competitive loss Honestly I think it does come with a bit of a dulling of the feeling of competitive victory too but it's not as severe Either way I can play competitively for hours on end and the only real time limit is the mental fatigue
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
>The ability to play chess is the sign of a gentleman. The ability to play chess well is the sign of a wasted life. - Paul Morphy
>>1066790 yeah I mean some people enjoy it, there's pros that love it and don't want to ever leave the scene, just not for everybody I guess. >>1066796 yeah a huge target for simps wanting to throw money at them >>1066801 I feel like getting really good at chess probably does suck, lots of theory and strategies and grinding.
>>1066825 The vtuber I was watching earlier was talking abour how fandoms will take character and then draw them with a certain body type, even if they don't actually have that body type. She was talking about pokemon characters but eventually started talking about Makima.
Did you see episode 1 yet?
S C
Pokemon characters really are the best examples of that
Rei !p8eYCadcMo
Also wow Sk *SC Sorry Anyways Don't scroll through that thread. There's major spoilers in it. Oh wait No You've read it right Fuck I can't remember
>>1066832 Arguably that's also a major spoiler. Like I don't care too much. But there is someone on /moe/ who has sperged out at me really hard for posting ancient manga spoilers for an as of then currently airing anime.
S C
I can't honestly say I understand how a single character's name could be a spoiler in a series where 90% of the cast follow a <concept> devil naming scheme
Just woke up Probably gonna see about some food soon but I dunno what
Rei !p8eYCadcMo
I just found out that one of the dumbest and most ineffective DC superheroes of all time was in Suicide Squad. Arms Fall Off Boy He can remove one of his arms, and hit people with it. Even Dogwelder Man is more effective than that.
I got some bread and some bacon and a buncha other Food Things earlier cause I finally cleared out my damn fridge so there's space for stuff now Gonna make myself some bread with bacon later It's gonna be good Well, soon, really, because I'm starting to get a bit hungry
Anno
could go for some bacon rn and bread just had a flash of inspo, what if you added tomato and lettuce?? could be a brand new thing! would call it.. an LBT
But that's SO much power waste If for no reason other than the economic benefits, why don't they have transparent lids? I've never seen a freezer without a lid like this before, it's actually making me feel like I'm insane
I guess I've just had a bit of a naive view of big robot shows, and stayed away from gundam most out of just that and it being like, The Mecha Show
Anno
Gundam is honestly usually more political drama and character tragedy than just simply big robots smashing against each other The robots are the vehicle of war in their era but like with any war drama, the arc of the story is always more about the people involved
Isn't it always kinda weird though, how scifi shows about space colonization always have earth as like "the good place", when our own reality is likely gonna be the opposite, with the ones left on earth being those too poor to escape the slow death of our home?
S C
oh no that's a sample? I must have saved it from twitter and not noticed
Well, it's different in every Gundam series. In UC, most of the poor people were forced into the Space Colonies. And Earth was left for the wealthy and stuff. By the time of Victory Gundam, Earth has been nearly completely abandoned in order to allow it to heal from what the humans did to it.
Sometimes the spacenoids are the wealthier ones but it's rare.
Nezi
>>1066873 chisato definitely the top, the sitting position confirms
>>1066880 it has been like 300 damn years since some cataclysmic world war, I guess, so it does make some sense it's just kinda strange how it's the case with like... every scifi show that doesn't just pretend class distinctions aren't real
S C
though I suppose we're also probably gonna start with the bottom being sent out to mars to mine like in Red Faction Musk Dome banzai
Yeah, it's the poor that have to leave first. In UC, law dictated that many people had to. They were forced into space. And then they grew and wanted to become independent which led to wars. One of the things I like about UC is that both sides of the war are shown to be bad.
>>1066885 No, IBO is After Disaster. or Post Disaster rather
well in any case I was pretty surprised to actually see a damn union revolt happen in this show >>1066887 hmhm otaku roots are strong, I suppose comiket's history is also pretty radical when you look into it, even if it's not really anymore
I guess part of it is that a lot of these shows and a lot of the foundational parts of the culture itself kinda cropped up with a generation who witnessed like, severe crackdowns on labor\student organizations in Japan?
Yeah. Tomino was born in 41 so he didn't really see the war, but he saw its aftermath. He saw the oppression of the US on his people as well as the oppression of his own government on them. He also struggled pretty badly with depression for a very long time.
Shinsekai Yori is the last anime I watched where I had this sort of "holy shit they actually did this well?" reaction Sqealer really did nothing wrong
Anno
Japan in modern history has a really interesting relationship with class struggles and envronmental protests I think pretty much anyone who lived through those, which includes Ghibli's Miyazaki, Anno, and probably Tomino, are going to carry themes of that into their work
>>1066863 i dont think its THAT bad only cause the cold air is trapped in the bottom and customers would be constantly opening the lid depending on traffic a bunch of small lids would work i guess
these cans of tuna I got a while back each have enough in them to cover 4 whole slices of bread that's a lotta food in one go But tuna on some bread with some mayo and salt and pepper is real damn good one of my friends clued me onto it cause honestly until then I'd just eaten it as is, but he just went like "I usually mix in some mayo and salt" I hadn'te ven considered the possibility
well I watched 19 damn episodes in one go so now I gotta go sleep
actually earlier than I usually sleep
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
may o salt pepper maybe some tiny bits of celery for crunch
Anno
>>1066901 Tuna and mayo sandwiches have been a long-time "I don't know what I want but I need food" Public school lunches, depression meals, late-night "I slept through dinner and I gotta eat something" It's pretty nice
>>1066904 It's been a go to meal for me when I don't wanna do anything much, but need food, yeah Especially cause my fridge has been a fucking warzone forever and I never got around to clearing It out, so all I've really had for food is canned stuff and such non fridge food
That and honestly it's way better than ham and cheese
Anno
Way better But I also don't like deli meats
S C
I do, but I dunno, there's just a lack of real taste somehow Ham is nice on some fresh bread or equivalent like a baguette, but on just like, bread it kinda sucks
actual sleep time now thou Whole body wants to stretch out and sleep
If something's meant to be eaten hot, I definitely prefer it hot At the very least I'll nuke it, but re-heating stuff in the oven or on the stove is pretty normal for me
Nezi
>>1066913 leftovers suck i'll eat cold pizza but any fresh dish like stir fry, fried rice, curry, etc. all better hot/fresh death 2 leftovers!
thanks to NL i just learned about aquamation which is like cremation but instead they put you in a sous vide bath for like 10 hours like 16-18 hours at 200 deg F is one method mmm mmmm
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
oh okay then they just take the bones and grind em up 20-30% more ash is returned to the family
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
alright sorry sorry that's morbid hey how about those men playing hockey
Isn't it just a marriage for politics though? I don't think he 'likes' the kid any more than he does anyone else in the aristocracy, it's just useful for his plans
What continues to impress me in IBO is that so far, all the English has been correct Like even the blurbs that are on screen for like a few frames, the English isn't some sort of messed up engrish just ran through google translate
Kirara 🍄 大医 ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
mari okada, the writer, tends to be thorough like that
I sure end up eating a lot when I'm just sitting here watching anime Some days I'll go the whole day and not really feel like eating much more than a few slices of bread or something, but when I'm just watching anime I eat way more
wow my pump filter trap was clogged with chopped up bits of sock and dirt glad i checked
Anno
Yeah that's a problem that would really sock if you don't take care of it
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
Now I'm watching some youtube of some gray haired bloke patiently explaining how to remove the door seal and about planned obsolescence of the drum bearings Heaven help
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
What if they never cleaned this trap for ten years Maybe this machine is just fucked Nah I think it wuld have been packed with more crud Maybe that was a yearr's buildup
I mentioned to my boss that I probably hadn't spoken to anyone between saying bye on Friday afternoon and hi to her on monday morning and she's like awwwwwwwwwww Like I said something really sad but I just meant it like a fun piece of trivia and a bit of an anecdote about how quiet my weekend was
Anno
Yeah some times you just gotta own it when you say stuff like that Tell her some times it's nice to have a quiet weekend like that Just don't tell her how many weekends are quiet weekends like that
Nezi
I don't think I've spoken to a human being since my roommate left wait no I said hello to the neighbor on a walk today, I'm being social!
>>>/@Sors67483113/1578884323729899521 the amount of drama and gatekeeping about human vs ai art these days man it's like we're living through the invention of the printing press
Rei !p8eYCadcMo
>>1067048 Well At least people who make AI art aren't being run out of town and have to escape with their computer on a raft.
S C
>>1067048 I really do kinda like the part where we act like shit towards artists and accuse them of using AI machines, and then we blame the AI as the cause for our own shitty behavior That's the sign of a healthy mind
Anno
>>1067048 I don't really know if that's a fair comparison to make Sure we can look back with the understanding of history at all the good (and disaster) that the printing press wrought, but I think AI generated images are not remotely in the same field There are a lot of pretty legitimate complaints from the artist community about how AI takes from pre-existing content to produce its images I guess you could say there's a fair comparison between the deluge of written content which flooded Europe after the printing press and the flooding of art sites like pixiv, but that hardly seems like it will be to benefit of writers and the general public like the printing press was Maybe I'm an old stodger who can't see what all this newfangled printed media will be for the benefit of people, but I see this fad of AI generated images as far more a problem than a good
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
there's a lot of complaints from people who have worked hard to gain a skill seeing their skill commodified by machines and I think that's an understandable complaint, but like cat's outta the bag now machines are coming for every one I also think that pretty much all art is stolen and generated by imitation anyway >good artists copy, great artists steal so it looks like imagery will be increasingly commodified more than it already has been, and the very top bespoke old-style artists will likely survive in the same way like handcrafted furniture carpenters, or anyone who makes mass producible stuff like pottery and glass and even bespoke hand poured bricks or what have you meanwhile modern artists who embrace AI will produce weird synergistic works idk none of these ideas are new either, I'm just cribbing off sci fi
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
AI's comin for coders too and no one cares if your web app is hand crafted by the finest artisans or just generated schlock undernearth
Anno
Automation/AI in general is already a big threat to jobs in an already terrible economy Give people UBI first then you can let the technogeeks allow AI to take over patreon art commisions, trucking industry, medical diagnosis, manufactoring, coding etc
Everyone's been automated out of a job for quite a lot of time It aint' stopping
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
>>1067054 yeah it would be nice if, with all this post-scarcity stuff being generated, it could be redistributed to people instead of just being owned by the top 1%
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
we need to invent some kind of society that doesn't revolve around rent seeking
How are you supposed to have freedom if you're not paying rent and following orders?
Anno
>>1067052 The problem with the quip "Great artists steal", is that it's incomplete, and erroneous in its unfinished state Great artists don't just steal, or imitate; they understand the expressions and techniques they're stealing, and add those fundamentals to their toolbox Now I'll admit I'm biased towards humans and don't fully understand the science behind AI generated images, but I would presume the AI algorithm doesn't understand the work behind the images it is ripping from, it's not building the image in the way these skilled artists have built their work The AI is definitely stealing in the way the quip works, but I argue without the AI capable of understanding the technique behind illustration it's just a shallow program effectively tracing other people's works and claiming it as original
Anno
>>1067057 every society/community that attempts that gets subverted/banned/or outright bombed by neolib "internationa community" though
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>>1067059 One way to think about it is that there are deaf people who can still compose music, or blind drawing/painting I suppose. Also a big part of the AI thing is it/algos being able to self improve, which is visible over continuing iterations.
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>>1067059 it's not building the image like a skilled human artist, no, but it does it its own way how the neural nets work is beyond me really but I know that in some statistical sense it understands the spatial relationships involved, the hierarchies, and how materials are applied to surfaces it has its own weird methodology and i'm not at all convinced that it's just a copy paste job that violates IP law or something
anyway an neural net today doesn't have any emotions or experiences so like you aren't gonna get some masterpiece impressionist artwork because there's no intent or will behind it ... yet I don't think it's just tracing though tracing is a specific photocopying technique and AIs don't really work that way
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Well evidently not from how they fumble with things like ears or fingers, which tracing would render a non-issue But I remain unconvinced that it is not the technological next step of tracing, an algorithm which pulls from pre-existing works to replicate without understanding the important underlying building blocks of an artistic image I just don't think AI can develop skill through technical understanding and can never advance beyond comparing what it produces to what it's been told looks good, not in its current iteration at least And that makes it feel cheap and cruel to human artists who now have to compete with a torrential flood of content like this to have their practiced skills be seen
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yeah it is cheapening so was the invention of the loom people still sell hand-woven carpets though just feels like one of those cultural transitions where there's no going back
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Going back is always an illusion, but a destroyed future is always possible! Bring on our own Butlerian Jihad!
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Albert Society what a good fuckin invention that was
they did. we just need a better system so that shit doesn't stay up as long as it does
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>>1067097 I hear you It's real bad. Can only imagine the backlash if someone I knew ever saw the spam and got the wrong idea
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thumbnails off, always, no exceptions
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Yeah, pretty much These days I don't sweat too much if people see me browsing weeb shit on my phone Too much, at least But my previous concern about it has been useful with the spam that's come up
ive been playin this dumb gambit as black where i gambit 3 pawns in the opening im sure better players would punish the fuck outta me for this nonsense but at my level damn it gets the bishops lined up and a big tempo advantage
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I've been playin this dumb gambit where i open my eyes and get out of bed every day
>>1067134 go crazy have a baby what could go wrong?
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there is little in this world that is strictly a coincidence the nature of our lives, the seeming perfection of the biosphere and our place in it is explained by evolution and convergent feedback loops
but why does the moon appear to be almost exactly the same size as the sun in the sky from the surface of the earth? such that we get perfect eclipses that's just a wacky coincidence
I actually lost my tickets go go see Aunty Donna since it got rescheduled cus of covid and then I lost track of the date it got rescheduled to and just straight up missed the show.
>>1067180 one of the zojirushi ones the fuzzy logic units that look like a tiny sheep
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Nice I've been looking at getting one for a while Want the one model i can find on Amazon which is made in Japan but it's considerably more expensive than the made in China ones And Zojirushi is already kinda pricey for a rice cooker hah hah
>>>/@KnowS0mething/1582507552431931392 man the chess world must be really enjoying the ratings from all this drama cuz it just keeps happening hans is the guy who was accused of cheating
