Certified good posting, this put to words some more complicated thoughts I’ve been dwelling on while also broadening my perspective on the whole topic. Makes me want to get into an entirely new subject of reading. Banger job.

Hi honey, yeah, I need to make another trip next year. No, not a business trip. The best korean marathon is calling to me

I found this one particularly inspiring dawg

wanky pontification incoming but while I definitely agree with the spirit of this statement whenever I see it I think that we don’t really ‘deserve’ to be alive by the letter of the word. I think more spiritually minded people than me can easily make an argument that we do fit the strict definition of ‘deserving’ to live but from a material perspective I don’t see how humans inherently deserve to spawn into this random chaos world. It’s just a random chance thing that happened and continues to happen.

but my brain has wrinkles so my take doesn’t just end there. My material stand-in for the more spiritual idea that human beings deserve life is that any human born is owed humane treatment and actualization by the humans that came before, because the human born never asked to live but the actions of the humans before them brought them into existence. therefore, every parent owes their child a dignified, healthy and happy life. stepping back further, every generation owes the next a dignified, healthy and happy life. every society owes the next blah blah you get it.

basically I’ve always seen the right to life as something owed to you by others, a mounting debt humanity must continue to repay, not necessarily something that is based within our character or inherent essence. you don’t deserve to be alive but you don’t earn that right yourself, either. it’s collectively owed to you and in stable societies you get your pay out.

Yes, but at what cost?

Honestly I thought the suffering in the world radicalized me, or the sheer inefficiency of the distribution of resources, or the enforcement of in-groups inherent to capitalist imperialism. But nah, brother, it’s just the landlords. Just thinking about them too hard pissed me off one day.

You present the worst ideas possible but attach them to Approved Brand and a leading blurb and people will immediately regard your racism science with sincerity. Really demonstrates how these monstrously bad ideas got wind in the first place.

Absolutely, I just know lots of people are acclimated to cloud services and don’t see building their own library as worthwhile vs just getting it online. You can totally have best of both worlds.

US moves to primarily exporting slop, as is tradition.

It honestly takes very minimal effort to maintain a digital library for yourself. Swipe up an old office computer from a business auction for less than $50, install linux and start running that as a server from home. Store your media and books on it, set up remote access so you can stream it to yourself from any device. You can functionally replace streaming services for your media needs this way. It has the added benefit of being slightly more material than any cloud services you could access.

If you’re new to this stuff, you can also should pick up a <$100 laptop and slap a user-friendly linux distro on it, and try daily driving linux as well as maintaining your server. Even the oldest, crustiest laptop runs Linux fine. You’ll pick up so many great tech skills doing this and you can still keep a windows daily driver for work or whatever.

Art has never once been a real threat to the status quo in the way the comic is saying.

Art is not the revolution, art can play a part, as in spreading ideology, but that is just the start. To quote a song I really like.

I don’t think I like the framing of oligarchs being incapable of what artists do, which is ‘create universes out of thin air.’ Creativity is something any human can do, and while it’s not lost on me that ruling elites are ghoulish and barely human themselves, the whole thing gives me ‘artists are the cultural elite’ vibes.

I think this folds into why ‘pro-AI’ sides of the debate get the most normies. If you’re not hyper online or theory brained you’re going to see artists dunking on a tool that personally really appeals to you, and not understand. You’ll interpret it as jealousy. You’ll engage in the debates further and when anti-AI advocates enshrine the act of creation as sacred and, importantly, unattainable to non-artists, you’ll rightfully see that as bunk and go further into the slop echochamber.

The puppy won’t get any easier, it’ll only get harder. It will get a lot harder before it gets any better. Honestly puppy training sucks. Are you a big dog person? Do you need to raise this dog? Why not home another older/well trained dog? Senior dogs are in dire need of homes everywhere.

That being said you will rise to a challenge if you set it for yourself. I know you probably don’t resonate with that reasoning right now, but if you try to internalize it you’ll find yourself fighting regardless of how bleak it all seems.

I’m currently playing Fallout 4 on my Steam Deck. The impressive caveat here is that I’m also running 800+ mods on it. I also used my Steam Deck to play Grounded 2’s early access when it came out. I’m not here to boast about the performance or anything, neither broke 40 FPS, but both maintained a stable framerate. I feel like you’re underestimating the use cases for the Deck.

You can’t beat reading, but the Hammer and Sickle podcast is great entry level content and provides sources for further reading.

There’s a good moral to be found here regarding essessentialism, that no one is defined entirely by one belief or action. Its healthy to be able to identify where you agree and disagree with a person, and not necessarily consider their opinions as a holistic package, instead a fracture of differently informed experiences. If you can work together with the parts you agree with, and not be held back by disagreements, you’ll achieve more than those who are caught on purity and optics.

no gods no kings no masters my friends, also no universal healthcare or unparalleled literacy rate or or or i just don’t want to be told what to do!!

you hit it with a “@grok is this true”

but at what cost?

I think there are lots of good arguments to raise against AI, even for personal hobby projects. I don’t think ‘you can learn to code yourself’ will ever be one of them.