F that. Blaming everything on smartphones and social media is a copout and just wrong. If anything, the smartphone and social media is showing more people that they’re not going to be able to escape the capitalist rat race, and will never be able to make it big as an entertainer, influencer, or whatever else has a luxurious easy way of life.

I was afraid of the system before it was cool. Afraid of getting laid off. Afraid my landlord was going to raise rent on an already overpriced POS rental. Afraid I won’t have enough to retire. Afraid of getting asked to work overtime and afraid I’d get fired if I refused.

This crony capitalism sucks ass by design. Social media has a lot of beautiful people living lives most of us can only dream about, while many of us toil at 9to5’s we hate. Everythings more expensive. No rule of law for the most elite and powerful people in this country. They rape children and steal all our tax money and get away with it.

It ain’t social medias fault. Social media is helping to show many how much their life sucks and there’s no hope. The people supposed to be fighting for us aren’t doing shit. The checks and balances don’t work. People are seeing that this whole USA freedom nonsense was a complete fucking lie.

Same score but an LOL instead of ???

Seen it directly, on a small shih tzu type dog.

They still bark, just no noise, not even like a cough. You can just hear the sound of air forcing out. Kinda like their vocal chords are removed. I don’t know the actual procedure.

Very strange when you hear it. Seems very cruel too.

“To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.” -Bertrand Russell

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If you automatically and by default call it slop, I’m going to assume your art is slop.

If you use AI as a tool to create art, then of course it’s art and you thought it up.

LLMs are just tools. It ain’t that complicated.

To me, it’s like saying cgi isn’t art because it takes away from using paint brushes or colored pencils or whatever. I don’t remember when computer graphics first started coming out, were people calling it CGI slop? Probably too long ago to know.

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This is just capitalism, isn’t it?

Athletes and entertainers that make millions do so because people pay for it in large numbers. This is what capitalism wants and does.

I agree with your sentiment but I think you’re just critiquing capitalism. If I had my way these people would be taxed up the wazoo. No baseball player or Hollywood actor should ever be worth 10s of millions, let alone hundreds, or billions.

Another point that I didn’t see mentioned: some can make a lot of money, or just easier money, compared to getting a real 9-5 type job.

I don’t care what the original creator said. Gif is pronounced Gif, and peanut butter is peanut butter.

A quick death is a mercy he did not deserve.

The purpose of windows on a new machine is so you can access the Internet to download Linux.

Religion is the enemy of freedom, period.

It’s not that you’re not supposed to care, it’s that you’re supposed to despise with blood thirsty hatred the out group, and take pleasure in their suffering.

MAGA christians are fucking evil. I’ve experienced a few of these people firsthand. They’re cruel as fuck to their core.

I’ve been there before. I notice it when I develop a tolerance to caffeine and it doesn’t wake me up.

Depending on how much you take, your withdrawal might really suck major. If you can afford to lose a weekend or any 2 day consecutively, go cold turkey those 2 days. You’ll lose those days cause you’ll feel like absolute shit when the headache kicks in. But then on Monday go back to caffeine but only around half of what you usually do per day. You’ll feel amazing getting the caffeine again after the cold turkey weekend, and you’re tolerance should go down. This has worked for me in the past.

Or wean slowly. Whatever works for you.

Those 2 days suck though. I love caffeine…

Anecdotal, might not apply to you. I knew a guy like this, was a roommate for a while.

He had a similar issue. He said he would literally set an alarm clock in the opposite side of his room, so that he would have to get up and walk over to shut it off, hoping that would wake him up. According to him, in his sleep daze he would go shut the alarm off and go back to sleep, and not even remember doing it… Crazy.

Regardless, I noticed he drank tons of cheap diet soda. This contains caffeine. He’d drink around one or sometimes two 2-liters of this shit per day, from the afternoon after work, until late into the night, usually gaming.

I told him about the caffeine. He said it made sense, and that also “it might be why he had trouble falling asleep at night”… Fucking DUH.

Long story short. He tried cutting it out for about a week. Mentioned a minimal improvement in being able to wake up, but said he felt like shit the whole time, so went back to his old habit.

He probably felt like shit due to the cold turkey caffeine withdrawal, which I tried to point out. He went back to his old ways.

Anecdotal, but check your diet, caffeine intake and times of day, exercise, consistent sleeping patterns, etc. That’s my 2 cents.

There’s also the other illegal activities like money and financial fraud, tax evasion, money laundering, etc. This was huge with Epstein, and everybody’s focused on pedo stuff. They might think if they can disprove the pedo stuff then everything will go away.

Who knows though. It could be all of the above, and much more. Working with Russia illegally in some way? There could be treason there in some way involving the president of the US. Wouldnt be surprised if Musk too, and others.

Uhhh, this would actually explain a lot right now…

But I think magic jesus definitely would’ve raptured up all the innocent kids and such.

So it’d be like what we’re seeing now with trump in charge, just with all the decent people gone.

But then again I don’t actually know how it would work, due to the simple fact that fairy tales aren’t real.

Nah bro