85068 pts ยท July 26, 2022
This is generally true for every president. You could make a pie chart like this for any president since LBJ, comparing the national debt at the start of their term to what it was at the end, and it would look similar. Clinton's would look much better than this. Obama's would look much worse. And sure, you could analyze it and say why that might be the case, BUT there's no analysis here, so that'd be a double standard. This borders on misinfo, imo, even if I agree with the agenda.
And SpaceX/Starlink's ever-increasing launch count is threatening to completely undo all that progress in the next decade.
Nice. I can trace my taste in electronic music back to this game.
Sounds like the employer's just bad at choosing who to hire
Not every treatment has to be a cure
I submit for your approval:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68BuTbMCrpQ
I think this was was she's talking about when she said "france would not be a weapons arsenal for the US." He was appalled by the idea that every international exchange was funding an unjust war in Viet Nam. The US stayed relevant by making a backroom deal with Saudi Arabia to use the USD for oil trades, which is the "petrodollar" we still have today (for now)Also the music in the background is Dvorak's Allegretto Grazioso. It's one of my favorites. Give it a listen.
Bit of extra context that I probably don't have 100% right but find super interesting anyway:Before de Gaulle, USD was the largely default currency for international trade. He tried to pressure allies into cashing out more USD bonds than the US could honor, seeking independence from US imperialism. He didn't get enough allies behind him, but just the threat was enough to take the global economy off the gold standard. If you ever wondered why the USD stopped being backed by gold, it was him.
Bucees pays significantly higher than other similar job postings in my area ($14-15/h vs $12ish), but they treat their workers like complete shit. I've also never seen a bucees entrance that didn't have anti-union propaganda on it.
Took me a bit too. There's a LOT loaded into this one word. It means a thousand things to a thousand people. There's objective and subjective aspects to sexualization. The artist is talking about the subjective, and you're mostly talking about the objective. I think the word is best used to imply harm (otherwise why use it?) and there's no objective harm here. Nobody appears to have been exploited. No dogs were hurt. So any harm is in the subjective realm, which is what the art seems to be about
I hear coloring the canvas a solid color is a good way to just put brush to canvas to get momentum going, and feels better than starting with white.In minipainting I've seen bright pinks like this used for painting skin. Base paints alter the color of the paint over them slightly (unless you really slather it on), fluorescent bright colors come out more, and pinks are obviously a good undertone for skin. A slightly blue leaning one prolly fits the slightly blue leaning skin tones used here.
If they're really that similar then you shouldn't need AI to prove your point. You could have posted two photos of them instead of fabricated content.
Plot twist: The scar's from the earring.
Pecan and brown sugar, checks out.
Oof. Yeah. Sorry. Sarcasm's hard to pick up through text. I should've given you the benefit of the doubt. What's "adjacent" or not isn't really an argument I'm interested in having. I think both our time is better served elsewhere. I've just seen artists unfairly take shit here for years, and offloaded all that frustration here based off your one comment. I tried to be respectful, but that can obviously fail when things are heated. I apologize for that, and for the misunderstanding.
My bad, I assumed the worst when it could just be a misunderstanding. What exactly did you mean by throwing "easily defined, just like a woman" into a conversation about pedophilia? That seriously raised some red flags. And what does Darvo mean?
The incident was specifically the type of art you just said is fine. It was a non-sexualized fanart of a character from a popular movie series, and OP called artist a pedo. I'm not saying none of that other stuff happened. But I only saw this one incident, and it was pure meanness. That's what I'm calling out, and that's largely what I'm seeing others call out.Neither of us are disagreeing with the other. It's more like we're having two entirely different conversations.
I generally like most of Square's posts. Once in a blue moon he might post something that I feel discourages voters when we should be encouraging them, but all around I appreciate them. And I think we can all universally agree that CSAM is pure evil.That said, groundlessly accusing members of your community of creating, spreading, or supporting it is not something we should be doing.
Hey, in the interest of fairness and context, I wanna share my perspective. I follow artists here. If I see a user post arts or crafts, I follow them and upvote everything. People are dicks to artists, downvoting everything, leaving mean comments that discourage them from sharing their art with the world. So I like to counteract that.Yesterday, Squares was one of those people. He randomly called one of the artists I follow when they posted their (non-suggestive) Spiderverse fanart a pedo.
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nice to see it happen, usually it goes something more like this
Yeah, but... maybe DON'T hack them?Dopamine in particular, to paint a picture: When it spikes, your brain rations it out afterward, which doesn't feel good. It feels the opposite of good. I've seen this called the pleasure/pain seesaw. Pain's not the word I'd use, but that's the idea. Getting your pleasure from hacking instead of the real stuff just means you're gonna be in "pain" for the real stuff, which just makes it so much harder. This can create a negative feedback loop into dysfunction.
#6 I know a jazz drummer when I hear one
You guys are getting rejected? I just get ghosted.
what's your favorite thing about it
#20 just wait until she meets Scott Summers
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Fun fact: Being in the US illegally is not "criminal," it's a civil offense.ENTERING the US illegally is criminal, yes. But travelling via commercial airliner shows they entered legally. If anything illegal happened, it was that they overstayed their welcome. This. Is. Not. A. Crime. I don't see this pointed out nearly enough: ICE guns down citizens and immigrants alike in the name of enforcing civil infractions.
The plan always seemed short sighted to me anyway, reducing the earth's population by half only sets it back to like the 70s.
This is generally true for every president. You could make a pie chart like this for any president since LBJ, comparing the national debt at the start of their term to what it was at the end, and it would look similar. Clinton's would look much better than this. Obama's would look much worse. And sure, you could analyze it and say why that might be the case, BUT there's no analysis here, so that'd be a double standard. This borders on misinfo, imo, even if I agree with the agenda.
And SpaceX/Starlink's ever-increasing launch count is threatening to completely undo all that progress in the next decade.
Nice. I can trace my taste in electronic music back to this game.
Sounds like the employer's just bad at choosing who to hire
Not every treatment has to be a cure
I submit for your approval:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68BuTbMCrpQ
I think this was was she's talking about when she said "france would not be a weapons arsenal for the US." He was appalled by the idea that every international exchange was funding an unjust war in Viet Nam. The US stayed relevant by making a backroom deal with Saudi Arabia to use the USD for oil trades, which is the "petrodollar" we still have today (for now)
Also the music in the background is Dvorak's Allegretto Grazioso. It's one of my favorites. Give it a listen.
Bit of extra context that I probably don't have 100% right but find super interesting anyway:
Before de Gaulle, USD was the largely default currency for international trade. He tried to pressure allies into cashing out more USD bonds than the US could honor, seeking independence from US imperialism. He didn't get enough allies behind him, but just the threat was enough to take the global economy off the gold standard. If you ever wondered why the USD stopped being backed by gold, it was him.
Bucees pays significantly higher than other similar job postings in my area ($14-15/h vs $12ish), but they treat their workers like complete shit. I've also never seen a bucees entrance that didn't have anti-union propaganda on it.
Took me a bit too. There's a LOT loaded into this one word. It means a thousand things to a thousand people. There's objective and subjective aspects to sexualization. The artist is talking about the subjective, and you're mostly talking about the objective. I think the word is best used to imply harm (otherwise why use it?) and there's no objective harm here. Nobody appears to have been exploited. No dogs were hurt. So any harm is in the subjective realm, which is what the art seems to be about
I hear coloring the canvas a solid color is a good way to just put brush to canvas to get momentum going, and feels better than starting with white.
In minipainting I've seen bright pinks like this used for painting skin. Base paints alter the color of the paint over them slightly (unless you really slather it on), fluorescent bright colors come out more, and pinks are obviously a good undertone for skin. A slightly blue leaning one prolly fits the slightly blue leaning skin tones used here.
If they're really that similar then you shouldn't need AI to prove your point. You could have posted two photos of them instead of fabricated content.
Plot twist: The scar's from the earring.
Pecan and brown sugar, checks out.
Oof. Yeah. Sorry. Sarcasm's hard to pick up through text. I should've given you the benefit of the doubt.
What's "adjacent" or not isn't really an argument I'm interested in having. I think both our time is better served elsewhere. I've just seen artists unfairly take shit here for years, and offloaded all that frustration here based off your one comment. I tried to be respectful, but that can obviously fail when things are heated. I apologize for that, and for the misunderstanding.
My bad, I assumed the worst when it could just be a misunderstanding. What exactly did you mean by throwing "easily defined, just like a woman" into a conversation about pedophilia? That seriously raised some red flags. And what does Darvo mean?
The incident was specifically the type of art you just said is fine. It was a non-sexualized fanart of a character from a popular movie series, and OP called artist a pedo. I'm not saying none of that other stuff happened. But I only saw this one incident, and it was pure meanness. That's what I'm calling out, and that's largely what I'm seeing others call out.
Neither of us are disagreeing with the other. It's more like we're having two entirely different conversations.
I generally like most of Square's posts. Once in a blue moon he might post something that I feel discourages voters when we should be encouraging them, but all around I appreciate them. And I think we can all universally agree that CSAM is pure evil.
That said, groundlessly accusing members of your community of creating, spreading, or supporting it is not something we should be doing.
Hey, in the interest of fairness and context, I wanna share my perspective. I follow artists here. If I see a user post arts or crafts, I follow them and upvote everything. People are dicks to artists, downvoting everything, leaving mean comments that discourage them from sharing their art with the world. So I like to counteract that.
Yesterday, Squares was one of those people. He randomly called one of the artists I follow when they posted their (non-suggestive) Spiderverse fanart a pedo.
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nice to see it happen, usually it goes something more like this
Yeah, but... maybe DON'T hack them?
Dopamine in particular, to paint a picture: When it spikes, your brain rations it out afterward, which doesn't feel good. It feels the opposite of good. I've seen this called the pleasure/pain seesaw. Pain's not the word I'd use, but that's the idea. Getting your pleasure from hacking instead of the real stuff just means you're gonna be in "pain" for the real stuff, which just makes it so much harder. This can create a negative feedback loop into dysfunction.
#6 I know a jazz drummer when I hear one
You guys are getting rejected? I just get ghosted.
what's your favorite thing about it
#20 just wait until she meets Scott Summers
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Fun fact: Being in the US illegally is not "criminal," it's a civil offense.
ENTERING the US illegally is criminal, yes. But travelling via commercial airliner shows they entered legally. If anything illegal happened, it was that they overstayed their welcome. This. Is. Not. A. Crime.
I don't see this pointed out nearly enough: ICE guns down citizens and immigrants alike in the name of enforcing civil infractions.
The plan always seemed short sighted to me anyway, reducing the earth's population by half only sets it back to like the 70s.