What other choice is there?

Too bad N95 masks and condoms can’t be made idiot-proof.

You and me both Boomer Doomer.

They do.

But repeatedly pressing them does not make them work any faster.

More vibe coded bullshit. Of course.

The fucking delicious irony.

I had two where I deleted all the tweets and left active just to secure the handles, but they’ve since been swept.

BTW, also a KC person here. Hi there!

I quit Twitter after the kitchen sink incident in 2022.

Quit Reddit for good after the API bullshit.

I like the Fediverse.

And it’s kinda sorta pretend revenue from VCs and circular funding deals.

It’s a start.

Like all anti-corporate settlements, it is ridiculously favorable to the abuser.

CNN leaving the mics on so Elizabeth Warren could try and embarrass Bernie Sanders on national TV and hurt his campaign.

If you’re an artist and you posted your art online it trained the algorithm.

These no talent ass clowns stole our shit. The only way this is ethical is if you took an open source model, trained it only on your own artwork, and are using that to produce new things. (But that requires SOME talent and not being a lazy piece of shit.)

Bummer. Looks like a cool idea art-wise judging by the gameplay trailer.

Too bad these fuckers are too lazy and untalented to do the work themselves.

It’s a combination of time and cost of living.

With each passing year more adults are impoverished and/or working multiple jobs for up to 100 hours a week, leaving little time for healthier activities like cooking. (And this state of being remains no matter which ruling party holds power.)

Also, ready-made and frozen meals are generally inexpensive.

I have a bachelors of fine arts in painting, and I’m dang good at it. I even have two portraits I painted of Patrick Mahomes that he signed and resold at his charity galas, so somewhere on this planet two of my paintings bear the signature of the world’s premier athlete.

I’m a working artist and I get 15-20 commissions a year, but it’s not my main job, and I’m fortunate to have a primary job that I enjoy, pays really well, and has benefits.

I wouldn’t have that if I were primarily focused on being an artist.

I also like that, as an artist, I have no one to answer to and my vision is my own, because I hate the gallery system. Mainly, though, I hate how much harder its become for the art community in general, with people losing jobs to AI Slop, arts endowments being cut or eliminated, and tuition for art school skyrocketing. The reason I didn’t go for my masters was that my graduate TA’s in art school had come from big schools in NY, Chicago, and LA with six-figure debt and they were making $20,000 a year teaching college courses.

Yup. It’s not that deep.

It’s been more of a detriment to me. I’d be tens of thousands of dollars wealthier if not for helping out family when they had emergencies on the promise of being repaid. Eventually I had to change my policy to just gifting people a smaller amount than they asked for and not expecting to be repaid.

On the plus side, I have a handful of very good friends that I’d trust with my life, and that’s a nice result of loyalty.

Asking for proof? Should be a very easy thing to provide given how confident you are that, apparently, this is an epidemic among men.

Far be it from all of us to pretend we’re guilty just because you presume we are.

I’m sorry, but you’re being very unreasonable. I hope one day the men in your orbit stop quietly accepting that you say things like this.

Data.

Stats.

Compilation of actual, verified reports.

But, your response does answer my question, and you should know it’s not 2014 anymore. No matter how fashionable your algorithm has made you think that it is to smear men as a whole, the rest of the world has seen how ridiculous it is.

If you think you get to lump me or your male friends in with these people without being asked to prove it, you should maybe have enough respect for the men in your life that you esteem to actually hunt down some evidence before posting things like this.

Have a great day.

Yeah. :(

I remember fall of 2001 at the Mizzou/Texas game, sitting out the anthem in protest and being threatened by people around me. Every damn one of them was a-okay with this for two decades.

It is nice to see public sentiment finally turning against mass surveillance, though. We’ll see if it lasts more than one election cycle.