I am on the brink of being unable to fulfill my basic survival needs because of the way this country is run. I’m at the point where I would have more hope in life if someone with a halfway-decent plan to fix the things I outlined above told me to do literally anything that would pull us away from the status quo. I’ll worry about being morally-superior when this is not the case. Until then, this is the truth I have arrived at.
So what is the solution when people are dying due to the bigotry and regressive policies pushed by these goons? Ignore them wholesale and fight the police/national guard? Place a worthless vote in a system ruled by corruption? Give yourself a lobotomy with a handgun? Seriously. What is the peaceful solution here? I’m genuinely curious what you think will solve this problem.
People who aren’t affected by the active suppression of women’s healthcare, the lack of social services, and the bigotry targeted at several groups don’t seem to understand that allowing this to go unchecked costs lives. It shouldn’t be something that is solely the burden of ordinary people to bear, and it shouldn’t be expected that people will just sit down and patiently wait to die when the state decides it’s their turn.
I’m all but certain this comment will be removed, but I’m not going to pretend that peaceful protest or voting is going to solve these issues anymore. It’s been made abundantly clear that neither of these things have made any positive change to American society since at least 2016. I’m sure many people would argue that it’s been this way for far longer.
Fuck Trump and I genuinely hope he doesn’t live long but assassination is obscene. First, it’s just abhorrent. Second, you’ll make him a fuckin martyr.
If you were directly impacted by the rampant transphobia, racism, sexism, etc. present in many red states and in his supporters’ rhetoric, you would probably have less sympathy for him and others of his ilk. People like him use the state to kill people or ruin their lives.
The shooter is dead.
I honestly could not give less of a shit who’s training the models. I’m not gonna boycott C# because it was developed by Microsoft. There are open source implementations of generative AI that make use of freely-available models.
What part of “transformative” did you not understand?
If I traced an artwork or copied GPL licensed code into an non-GPL one, my ass would be beaten by others on the internet.
If I gave you an arbitrary image from Midjourney and all of the training data from it, I doubt you could match it to the “source art.” AI images are usually transformative.
In other news: water is wet and bears shit in the woods
I paid 20 grand to be poor
Yes. It’s so garbage I wrote a master’s thesis on how shit it is. If I didn’t have over 1,000 hours in the game, it would have been substantially harder to do this.
I worry about people getting methanol poisoning from shoddy distilling.
Fascists and oppressors are people too.
Let me know when Destiny 2 runs and I’ll come on over.
Ok, as long as cops have the same limiters in their vehicles.
Move to Europe, start a game studio, throw the rest in investments, donate the proceeds to try to reduce homelessness where I currently live.
I want to go back 100 years and show people this picture.
Will the world react when Trump starts bombing Palestine with US troops?
Biden is the less harmful option.
Yes. All academic points aside, it’s not socially-acceptable to view stuff like this in public.
I’m at the point where one run of bad luck would leave me out on the street with 6 months to live. I have very few people in my life that are close to me, and none with the capacity to help me. I took tens of thousands of dollars of student debt and haven’t been able to get a job for months. None of the retail jobs here pay enough to make rent, let alone buy food. Social services are all but non-existent.
The society that currently exists seems to want me to die. Fuck all that.