Ask six people to identify the ‘soul’ in a piece of art and you’ll get seven different answers. It’s an entirely subjective concept.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, as the saying goes. Maybe we should stop gatekeeping what art people enjoy and stop brigading them when they dare to like something ‘real artists’ decide they shouldn’t.

Is that not missing an ‘I’? As in

I travelled both though I be one traveller…

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Sorry, you know the rules: pics or it didn’t happen.

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Broken Window Theory in action!

Real leather, freshly cut wood, most fragrant flowers (especially Lillies, Jasmine, Sweet Peas and Roses), petrichor, garlic, freshly cut grass

I mean it’d be great to see some of these ‘public facts’ you mention. I’m not necessarily questioning the veracity of your claims, but this does ironically somewhat come across as a AI written fever-dream without some supporting evidence.

It’s not just ICE cars that are huge. Even new EVs tend to be unnecessarily large SUVs or Sedans.

It’s not my end. You can read the article here https://web.archive.org/web/20250116183852/https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/political-scene/what-does-woke-mean-and-how-did-the-term-become-so-powerful but the podcast is embedded.

https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/political-scene/what-does-woke-mean-and-how-did-the-term-become-so-powerful

But it’s literally based off of a cartoon with a man in a suit, though: https://www.insidehook.com/culture/story-tom-toro-new-yorker-climate-cartoon

No, quite the opposite.

Honestly, I find the vast majority of the arguments against it to be be made from a point of ignorance, propagated by a rabid sub-set of artists looking to generate clicks for their sensationalist YouTube videos.

Some pertinent reading/watching:

https://youtu.be/gWmEXCJIIZ4

https://epoch.ai/gradient-updates/how-much-energy-does-chatgpt-use

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-54271-x

https://craigboehman.com/blog/in-defense-of-ai-art

https://www.fxhash.xyz/article/in-defense-of-ai-art

https://andymasley.substack.com/p/a-defense-of-ai-art

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/how-did-you-do-on-the-ai-art-turing

https://i.redd.it/ch5wpbz7tkje1.jpeg

Hanged https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/hung-or-hanged

Regardless of whoever came up with the idea, recycling does help and you should do it:

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230317-how-recycling-can-help-the-climate-and-other-facts

It may not save the planet on its own, but it is part of the solution.

Thanks for this, but that setting was already disabled, unfortunately. This feels more like a bug than a deliberate result of a chosen setting.