This is actually probably as good as any US copyright shit can be. Wholly generated works aren’t copyrightable, but an actual artist using an AI to do some generative fill or something on a photo isn’t screwed out of their ownership. Time will tell how it actually gets used I guess

You may enjoy this talk/blog post: https://ianwrightsite.wordpress.com/2020/08/24/marx-on-capital-as-a-real-god/

I had a specific sandwich the morning of an infusion, 5+ years out I genuinely can’t think of that sandwich without getting nauseous and I haven’t been back to that restaurant since

I will not make a power dynamics joke and instead just wish you the best of luck

Fellow Breloom fan!

Starting to think this Hitler guy might be a Nazi

I’ve made an edit

I think someone’s original comment was actually making a joke about the gold the Swiss laundered for the Nazis - they were saying that Switzerland is bad

I haven’t fully finished it yet but I’m also losing it over this. I knew the Sino-Soviet split was a disaster but I didn’t know how deeply China worked with the US as a result. I guess I understand now why they were able to convince the US to tie their economies so deeply together

Vietnam stays winning

Is this actually from 1993 or is it one of those forums that measures all dates as September of that year - the eternal September

Genuinely might be my favorite scene in the movie. One conversation and it lays out everything so perfectly and precisely while never leaving the metaphor of the Matrix. Especially the comment about these people being the very people they are trying to save - but until they are, they can’t see through the system. It’s how I feel every time someone tells me I’m being hyperbolic about capitalism or idealistic about socialism.

headstrong, I’ll suck you off, headstrong, I’ll suck off anyone

I believe that’s only in the animated version, in the comic he just fails to save him. The comic gets weird as hell tho, beyond just the typical complete misunderstanding of communism, capitalism, really anything about material reality or human nature.

Previously I’d always said Buttigieg but a Newsom/Buttigieg ticket would not surprise me at all either, I am just assuming the rat will still be involved. AOC will be an even more controlled opposition than Bernie was, she’ll spend the primary talking about how the frontrunner doesn’t go far enough then she’ll get in line and endorse around February 2028.

Ah sorry, I was just being a smartass, no idea how much VR is on mturk now. To be clear I think you’ve got an accurately bleak view of the future of this stuff

My one quibble: that’s not the future of gig work, it’s the present

The phrase “South Korea has no first graders” had such “the west has fallen (mom took away my PSP)” energy I had to do a little digging to see if the numbers were being fudged - 157 elementary schools is about 2.5% of the elementary schools in ROK assuming this data from the ROK Ministry of Education is accurate. Not an insignificant percentage for something this crazy, but I’d like to see this data over time. I worry I sound like I’m awarding Pinocchios but it irks me to see that headline presented as if it’s the majority of schools

Including Gerald Ford is a good bit

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