I don’t personally like that kinda ass, more into the “fits in one hand” kinda booty (like my wife’s), but I gotta admire. That’s not an everyday ass. She worked hard to shape it like that, got what she wanted and is proud of it. Go girl!
The vast majority of people don’t have a creative bone in their body. Most people are some variation of stupid. Intelligence and creativity usually go hand in hand.
Perhaps you disagree? Consider, just being here, in this space, having this conversation, puts you well above most people in intelligence. And your friends and coworkers likely reflect that intelligence. Still don’t believe me? Sign into Facebook with a new account, look around. And those are the people who can and do use technology.
I’m barely above average, 119 IQ, but I’ve got down in the trenches, at work and in interpersonal relationships. Yeah. Most people are dumber than me, and that’s scary. Odds are, you’re smarter than me.
And no, even among the smarter set, most people can’t make an image without a website to do it for them. I worked at a shop that was part graphic design. It’s appalling how clueless people are at creating the simplest thing. And I am no artist.
Exactly my point. No one is forced to read bullshit on FB.
No, no, no. Some people can say as they choose, some cannot. In any case, we’re all forced to listen to it and participate.
People feel entitled to support because there’s no financial outlay, it’s “free”. Also, “it’ll just take a minute”.
The ideal situation is to do the work and negotiate their help in return. “Be glad to help! And you can do $X for me sometime!” Cool thing about that is soliciting help paradoxically makes people like you more. Do the job, then ask them for help. And follow up on that ask or you will be taken advantage of!
Related:
“He that has once done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged”.
The Benjamin Franklin effect is the brain’s effort to resolve the cognitive dissonance we experience when we do a favor for someone we don’t particularly like. In order to rationalize our behaviour, we convince ourselves that we must like the person otherwise we would never have done them the favor.
Not 100% agreed with that last quote as it works for people you actually like. But that’s the general idea.
One note I never hear sung is AI’s ability to jump-start creative works. EDIT: Proof at the end!
For example, I wrote a horror short that was stuck in my head. What if I had used AI to write it for me? I certainly would not have used the output verbatim, not even close, but it might have presented me some twists, vocabulary, structure, etc., that I had not thought of.
Same goes for code. I had an idea to automate Google Calendar entries with certain events at work. Couldn’t quite get it right, had ChatGPT write it. Did it work? Of course not, but I found the pieces I needed to put it together.
Maybe you just need the right words. “explain to my wife what depression is like” That worked well!
I’m extremely creative, but not in the typical artistic ways. What I’m good at is taking junk and upcycling it into useful end products. I could input garbage items I found, see what an image generator or chat does with it. Well, let me put my money where my mouth is.
(Pulled this idea out my butt just now, no planning, testing prompts, totally ad lib, input and output quoted as-is.)
Towed a large, sealed, flat, thick, plastic container out of the river last month. (Fuck me, about sank the canoe untangling it from the dead fall!) ChatGPT: “what can I make with a large, plastic gas tank?”
- Water Storage Tank
Repurpose the gas tank to store water, especially for outdoor activities like camping, gardening, or as an emergency backup. You can install a spigot at the bottom to make it easy to dispense water.
LOL, that was the idea! Going to hang it in a tree at camp, pump creek water into it with tiny chlorine tabs, make another shower. Or maybe use it for the bathroom I need to make? Hmmm…
- Compost Bin
With some modifications like drilling holes for ventilation, a plastic gas tank can be transformed into a compost bin. The tank’s large size provides ample room for organic waste.
Great idea, but I’ve got all the space for compost I need. Although… Put it on a frame so it can be spun?
- Outdoor Planter
If the gas tank has a sturdy base, it can be converted into a large planter. Cut the tank to create drainage holes, fill it with soil, and plant flowers, vegetables, or herbs.
Holy shit! I’ve been plotting on making floating, yoga-pad mats so I can grow in the creek without animals screwing it up. I have circular saw blades, can fit pots I already have or scrounge for free. I can make my own soil from local organic muck and sand. Let’s see, play around with the buoyancy. Guess what I’m doing tomorrow. Hot DAMN am I stoked!
tl;dr: AI will add to our creative endeavors, not replace them.
Preventing, or even slowing, climate change (happening) and ecological collapse (close to the point of no return today) won’t happen without massive depopulation. Massive depopulation comes with economic and societal collapse.
I’ve watched the world population go from 3.76 billion when I was born, to 8.03 today. That should scare the living shit out of us. If we could magically dial it in to 2 kids per 2 adults, we’d have a nice, slow slide back. (If it isn’t obvious, some kids will die without reproducing.)
All economic systems depend on growth. Yes, line must go up. The same people that say the economy is all gambling and impossible to predict, too complex, are the same people who think their economic ideas can be planned to maintain a steady state. Weird.
tl;dr: Thomas Malthus was right.
Yabu was not nearly such a sympathetic character in the first series, or the book.
Been telling you libs to get armed, train, learn, prepare to defend yourselves. Been saying for years, these aren’t a bunch of dumb, fat, rednecks.
Lemmy: LOL! Gravy Seals! What a bunch of pathetic losers!
Also lemmy: The right-wing fascist Christians are taking over!
ALSO lemmy: Give up your guns!
Fuck it. I can’t protect you, I can barely protect my own family. Have fun on the trains!
Thank you for your witty and concise answer!
Downvotes like this is why I’m hating lemmy. OP asks an honest question:
Nerds: FUCK YOU!
Yes, the majority of servers are Linux, and yes, most are Debian, of which Ubuntu is a variant.
Robert Heinlein did an interesting thing. He and his wife Virginia wanted to tour the world, but didn’t want to do the usual trip, London, Paris, Rome, etc. They decided to tour the Southern hemisphere. Those essays are mind opening.
Heinlein made a point of asking cab drivers to take them to the very poorest part of any given town in order to get a handle on the various economies. Think on that. (This was a guy who fucking loathed the Soviets, went to Moscow and calculated the true city population by observing shipping from his hotel window. His numbers turned out to be accurate. Virginia learned Russian, from listening to records, so as to not get faked out or fucked with on the trip. LOL, those two were extra.)
One of my favorite bits finds them in Paraguay or Uruguay, I forget, and old Bob is angry with the cabbie. The were driven to a part of town with tiny little houses, flowers in the windows, neat gardens, clean roads, zero trash, all that.
“I specifically asked you to take me to the poorest area!”
“Oh senior, these are the poorest people. They are on assistance and are very ashamed.”
This was all from Expanded Universe if you’re interested in reading more.
Give this a shot as well:
West Virginia is the very opposite of barren, just poverty stricken. Nevada would be a better example.
Perfectly normal, but not like this.
PURITY TEST ALERT! YOUTUBE LINK DETECTED!
Jesus y’all are a bunch of lock-stepping little fascists.
Astounding rebuttal. I am obviously wrong. The votes prove it!
CEO at my last company refused any security access he didn’t strictly require. He’d just laugh, “Yeah, no, don’t even want that.”
In my IT experience, it’s the department heads, or people an outsider thinks is important, that get spear phished. Job before last, the HR woman got overrun with attacks. LOL, she was the most useless, clueless person in the company but she sounded important on paper. Director of Human Resources. She had two people under her in a 35 employee outfit.
“I’ll give you a buffalo nickel if you’ll calm down just a little bit.”