1. Try not to fall into the trap of groupthink. The “reddit hive mind” was one of the worst things about our predecessor, and it seems to have followed us here.

2. Understand that humans are not, and never will be, perfect. Endless purity tests do not accomplish anything other than turning away newcomers.

3. For the love of God, pick up a hobby. My feed on any given day is 99.8% US politics and activism. I’m not saying that these things aren’t important, but it gets exhausting when it’s the only thing people want to discuss.

“To make a cup of coffee, you must first invent the universe.”

Exactly. Hence why he used a text-to-speech program to talk. He had a degenerative condition called ALS that took most of his motor functions. It would be very difficult for someone in that state to do something like that.

I just can’t wrap my head around the idea of a predator in a wheelchair, mechanically speaking. Does your penis even work if your whole lower body is paralyzed? Maybe it’s better if I don’t think about it too much.

I’m not sure professor Hawking could molest anyone even if he wanted to, what with him not being able to use his legs and all.

^ Boy, that’s certainly a rare sentence I just typed.

Tbf, that’s one of the better states on workers rights issues.

I hope those creatives tell Google to fuck off.

Username checks out.

For one art is not a luxury. That is a capitalist myth that tried to keep culture and basic pleasure away from the working class.

See definition 2a. Art is a luxury.

If turning a a picture of you cat into studio ghibli style brings you even a brief modicum of joy, then you go do that and you shouldn’t have people harassing you for doing so.

Except to achieve that joy, you have to steal from people who have to actually work. Gen AI is designed to plagiarize the work of artists for the sake of replacing them. You aren’t siding with the workers, you’re siding with the parasite class.

Edit: screenshot with less clutter.

Let me get this straight: you’re a “communist”, but you want working class people to suffer so that you can have a luxury? Okay…

Who exactly do you think is selling commissions? It’s not the wealthy conspiring to keep down the working man, it is the working man. It’s starving artists who are one bad life event away from financial ruin. If you want art and can’t afford $50 (sometimes much less), then maybe go without it. You don’t exactly need it to live.

Get ready for a lot of false positives.

She’s a human being that deserves a fair trial.

I think OP was looking for something within their power.

I’ll just leave this here.

Not really. You just interpreted it in a less shitty way than intended.

Voltaire never said that. He lived under a monarchy, so it wouldn’t have made sense if he did. That quote was made up by a neo nazi and falsely attributed to him.

Considering who’s pushing it the hardest, it probably is.

To be fair, people tried to shoot him too.