Inflation covers everything* but not everything has gone up in price.

• not literally everything but more than the essentials like groceries

Hackernews is a VC-funded website for techbros who want to feel like they’re cool and smarty hackers. It has an even higher percentage of know-it-alls than reddit. MBAs who got into it for the money.

I give her credit for sticking to the Epstein files and I give her credit for being vocally angry about the delays. I will not give her credit for being “smart”

And again, not at all the first rat off the ship. She bailed when Trump snubbed her.

Don’t give her that credit. She stopped getting what she wanted so she bailed. She was not the first rat off the ship either. She didn’t come to her senses or anything.

That said, I support her efforts to splinter the party. Not because I agree with her but because it benefits me

Calling academia “evil incarnate” for that is a bit much.

That’s not what happened. You came into a thread spouting negativity for no reason, don’t act like you wanted to learn

This really should be a “I see how it could be interpreted that way, I could have phrased that better” moment. Your use of language was just atypical, I doubt people think they’re smart for downvoting it. Calling him the “no kings hitman” implies he’s a hitman associated with the rallies or a hitman sent to kill the organizers.

If someone murdered a politician on MLK day, would you call them the MLK hitman? Probably not

Feels like people are assuming they’re generating images and calling it concept art but there are so many ways an artist could use it in the process of making concept art. A process that starts with pumping out as many minimal-effort concepts as possible… Do you really want to colorize 20 sketches that will likely get scrapped or would you rather stick it in a homebrewed ComfyUI workflow and have a slightly worse version done in 30 seconds?

I know this is the fuck ai community and I do agree with the sentiment but hating on “AI” as a vague idea is a bit ignorant. There are legitimate uses for it, they’re just overshadowed by the awful ones getting pushed to us by corporations.

Holy fuck guys we’re not “pushing hard” for or replacing concept artists with AI.

We have a team of 72 artists of which 23 are concept artists and we are hiring more. The art they create is original and I’m very proud of what they do.

I was asked explicitly about concept art and our use of Gen AI. I answered that we use it to explore things. I didn’t say we use it to develop concept art. The artists do that. And they are indeed world class artists.

Did you just try to correct the title while admitting you have absolutely no idea if you’re right? Also, none of those bands are anything alike. That’s like saying “I don’t like guitar music”

Keep your musical ignorance to yourself, man

I’m not going to argue if either is good or bad but that seems like a really arbitrary line to draw in the sand. You could argue that AI was necessary in the OP video to make a young Mick Jagger. You could also argue that your linked video used AI in the worst way - that it wasn’t a tool to realize an artistic vision (clips they didn’t deliberately generate were funny so they used them)

This video is a MUCH better example of genAI as a tool for art. I don’t have the link handy but the Making Of video is crazy. They utilized AI to create the exact look they had in mind

Calling him the “no kings” hitman kind of implies he is on the left but it doesn’t seem like that’s what you meant. I imagine that’s why you’re getting downvoted

“no kings hitman”?

This is like me going to europe.pub’s politicalmemes community and complaining that it’s all about EU politics

I had to memorize all the most recent presidents in order. My teacher suggedting using a nemonoc device. I jokingly said “Her tech jiniff kirbicx” in a robot voice - HRTEKJNFCRBC

Hoover, Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton

I loved firmware modding on pre-smart phones! My first eBay purchase ever (with the help of my parents) was a USB cable for the ridiculously large port on my flip phone. I blew my friends’ minds with my custom text on the front panel

What happens when it’s “too late” for your chat software, though?

I get the analogy but it’s just chat software. Discord isn’t that important to me that it’s going to be a tragedy when it boils and by then, there will (hopefully) be an equivalent alternative we can move to. If not, we’ll use something “worse” and it’ll be fine.

But until then, it’s still the best by a wide margin even if it has a stupid nitro button.

Discord sucks but every alternative has some major caveat that makes it suck more. Most people don’t want to use separate apps for voice and text. Most people don’t want to manually type in servers to play games.

Not defending them at all here but there’s no compelling reason for most users to change when discord works and it works well

They call the software “pretty cool” so many times it made me laugh out loud