They want artificial employees to discipline the labor market but what they will get instead is a deskilled labor force and business structures that are even more resistant to adaptation.

When being a contrarian asshole becomes your marketing strategy.

It’s projection. She knows that in her retirement she has stopped “providing value”. I doubt she paid you for the ad-hoc legal and accounting work you did for her, so she is happy for you to provide value without compensation. I would simply tell her that if she doesn’t want to have to find her own retirement home she needs to start paying for your services. This is the kind of person who thinks value is what you pay for, so long as she isn’t paying you she isn’t valuing what you do for her. The whole “you are a negative value” is exactly what she is to you, she is taxing your time, energy and emotions to make up for some perceived economic loss for raising a child she chose to have.

It took me about 4 tries to find a good therapist. I know it’s discouraging but keep your eyes open for a good therapist.

“I have money in the bank that measures my value”

Remember, every accusation is a confession. If you don’t want to be a waste of time to be around then don’t act like that’s true of others.

Back in the day people would gather on a porch and play music. Relatively free. Wish I knew how to play an instrument …

But maybe if I use AI I can be wealthy. Sure it is accelerating climate change and will undoubtedly cost lives, but that is a small price to pay for me to horde money like a dragon.

I’m skeptical they could do it in a way that meaningfully inherits stability from Linux. Imagine bolting on their service control on top of systemd or map their registry system to /etc. They either bring all the bad over to Linux or write something that doesn’t support the windows ecosystem.

Oh I didn’t mean that I am a contrarian, obviously we are the exception 😉

More like Jesus became a big problem for people with power and was made to suffer for it. Bonhoeffer was not saying that we should conceal our suffering in a way that it isn’t a problem for others. This was is in a larger essay about how people cope with Nazism at the time, very clear-headed but was calling out those who did little because they didn’t want to suffer and how we judged harshly those who lost everything.

I prefer Bonhoeffer’s take: we should judge people less by what they have or do and more by what they are made to suffer.

Lots of people on the internet are competing for who is the most contrarian.

I’m going to call a spade a spade.

In the same spirit, Americans are more interested in telling themselves they are right than recognizing what is good.

If you don’t like the competition then don’t participate in said competition. Other people don’t agree with you that it is an arbitrary rule and that’s okay.

So you would say a godot competition is silly because it restricts developers from using other game engines? Now you’re just being silly.

Some people provide translated subtitles and the app does have a built in translator function. I found it’s enough to converse, but definitely niche.

I haven’t been banned yet, but then again I save all my shitposts for the fediverse and stick to book reviews on RedNote.

The rules being “idiotic” is a different issue from whether using pre-existing assets as placeholders is okay. For instance, one could argue that genAI, even during the concept phase, is an unfair advantage like taking steroids for a sports competition. For the purpose of fairness they have a blanket ban on genAI, not simply because “AI bad”.

Like I said, when talking about morality you’re talking about a subjective perception of value. All the other issues I mentioned, like them not following the rules, have objective criteria to say “yes they broke the rules”. If your perception of authenticity includes gathering inspiration not from the originator but from a tool that samples art for you, then you would obviously conclude the end result is authentic. If however you define authenticity as something uniquely in the domain of the living, then they would not agree with you.