I was going to reply to: lurch (he/him)@sh.itjust.works. - but couldn’t because of the removing by the mod, so I’ll post it here:

I’m not sure about this. Because if the Democrats are winning by large margins, it means they are in some way either representing the will of the people, or providing a viable alternative.

The reason I want a “Tax the Rich” party is because the Democrats are not representing my will or providing a viable alternative to the Republicans. I personally believe, that if the billionaires were taxed out of existence, and the to 10% were taxed to never become a billionaire, the entire nation would be function better, no matter where you are on the political spectrum.

I also believe that most people see the excess of Musk and realize that his abilities to control military assets (Starlink), to influence our government, and to live, seemingly outside of the law and any consequences of any of his actions - I believe they see this excess and understand he should not exist.

I have no faith the democrats will perform any required changes, even if they won the mid terms in a landslide. Nor do I believe they want to, I believe they are all rich.

Hmm. Ok… Lol.

Personally, I don’t think the Democrats are “Tax The Rich” at all. I think they have been captured by the rich.

I don’t know exactly how to put this, but I feel personally embarrassed by this.

I think this is going to shift world order more than expected. Every country now must be nuclear. Trump is going to try to install himself as a dictator. I think violence will have to be the answer. Man it’s depressing.

And actually Game Art Icon too.

Maybe the real problem is the AI slop, which is really just humans being lazy.

In my immediate neighborhood there are two pastry bakeries. One has lines of people summoned by the TikTok/Instagram, who take videos of themselves eating. The other is known to locals, but never self promotes.

You can imagine, that the non-promoting one has amazing pastries. The best I’ve ever had. The TikTok one does have a trendy fancy interior, made for videos.

People want to be seen at a pastry place. That fake pastry place wants to be seen as an awesome bakery, even though really, without the marketing they are below average. Some guy wants to be seen as writing pop music, even though he can’t. Another wants to draw, even though I won’t spend the thousands of hours required.

Art is really about understanding the effort. Human effort.

Somehow, I can just imagine having AI slop music, and AI slop movies, and AI slop everything.

If a movie house is going to be Steve Jobs Pixar, they are going to hire the best real artists and the best real writers, and do something that means something to be human. They aren’t interested in slop.

If a movie house is going to be just for profit, are they going to even pay for the generative AI to do a few more iterations. I think they will keep it at slop.

Anyhow, a bit too much babble. Must sleep.

I always thought that it is because, after a period, in theory, you would take a slightly longer pause when speaking. Like the break between the last sentence and this sentence in your head.

I wish there was a way to flag users who use ChatGPT to generate answers- and then let me automatically ban anyone above a certain threshold.

median vs mean

Is the script basis written by the original author, is it corporate?

Wow, this is stunning data. People just lost their minds in the pandemic.

What does it say that for a good 30 seconds I thought, “maybe it is the way to go, -could it hurt?” Is this reality now?!