Honestly, I always believed that if people like something, it’s “like-able” for anyone. It’s just a matter of understanding why and putting yourself in the shoes of the people that do like it.
So many many things that I at first didn’t understand or like, I tried hard to understand better and like as well.
From music, to food, to movies etc.
“Taste” is something that you build. It’s critically engaging with everything, and trying to understand it as best you can.
Ocean going… Basel….
The little robot is way less confusing than 4 armed Santa tho
But piracy is a MUCH smaller issue than theft. Piracy doesn’t deprive the original owner of any material thing. Piracy might decrease sales and profits (research actually says the opposite 🤷♂️).
And we have no idea the actual material impact AI will have on the arts. From the reaction we’re seeing it might even make people turn more and more to physical hand crafted art.
We’re already seeing that social media is favoring videos of artists’ processes much more than the final results.
So yeah, no, I don’t see this situation as so much more terrible than theft. I really don’t understand how it could be.
To me it seems the main issue is not even AI, it’s capitalism. If artists didn’t need to sell their art to survive, we wouldn’t even have this discussion.
Still not theft? Things can be bad without being theft.
No AI is the product of any theft. If we’re talking about piracy, piracy is NOT theft. I thought we all agreed on this already.
You mean the guys that literally genocided native peoples? That wrote into the constitution that black people were worth less? That only rich land-owning people should be allowed representation?..
That’s not true. But their signifiers of wealth are invisible to the common folk. They wear sweaters that cost as much as a used car. Jackets that cost as much as new cars. Their watches cost more than a house.
I think a good look on how they live really is succession. The clothes they wear don’t look crazy expensive, to us. But they are more expensive than you could even imagine.
Idk man, if we had the drugs of the Victorian era but the worker rights of today, I think everybody would be happier 🤷♂️
Nah you gotta feed and house the slaves. With workers you just pay enough they don’t die and many will even live in cars and eat trash.
The problem is the system that was set up hundreds of years ago (“liberal democracy”) ended up just incentivizing psychopathy. This system always brings the worst people in society up to the top. Either in government or business.
You can’t be a genuinely good person and become a general, a congressperson or a billionaire.
Some of the push for “safety” has been responsible for cars lasting less and getting larger as well… but I’m sure this is NOT what they mean.
At your age you be profen?? Is this a flex cause you can get it up as an old man or are you admitting you’re a teenager? Cause you be profen ALL night long?? Hey guys this guy be profen!
It’s not banned, but it’s not forced. Only mandarin is forced (all other languages are optional to the school), and teachers are forced to pass mandarin exams to teach. And even in Guangzhou most people speak mandarin in a business setting, so parents make their children focus on mandarin even if they are native Cantonese speakers themselves.
But dude, it’s like a much milder version of language consolidation than what happened in France, Spain, Germany or Italy. They literally killed people for speaking the wrong language.
It’s just that I am inclined to not believe the white supremacist colonizers on what counts as “repressing minorities”.
Real criticism based on reality, yes. Empty claims based on propaganda, no.
Repression of minorities? Seriously, can anyone in the west even judge any country like that? Why, because you’re the experts in oppressing and repressing minorities?
Bro China has autonomous regions with self-governance for all major minorities. And they still spend a lot of federal funds to develop their regions, building schools, hospitals, power plants, roads, trains etc.
The federal government built one of the largest Buddhist temples in the world in the Dai autonomous region, for the Dai people. They sponsor cultural and religious festivals, spending federal funds to promote minority culture. All minority languages are taught in school in their respective home regions.
When has the US, Canada, Europe ever done anything like that? Japan doesn’t recognize its minorities at all, Sami are repressed in the nordics, and don’t even get me started on native peoples in the US and Canada.
Seriously this is all pure propaganda. It’s literally the meme “China lifts hundreds of millions out of poverty. But at what cost?! 😱”.
Trains > light-rail > (preferably traffic separated) trams > bikes >>>>>>>>>>>>>> cars.
I feel like it doesn’t have to be so extreme either way y’know. Getting a new better tool while your old one still (kinda) works is not wasteful. What’s wasteful is for cars to be manufactured purposefully to breakdown earlier. For TVs to break right when warranty expires. That’s something that impacts the world INFINITELY more than you holding on with white fingers to some old shit that’s falling apart.
May I just ask… why? Why this obsession with old and used things? Seems like misplaced concern for the environment/the world.
Misplaced I say because our individual impact is negligible, and 99,99% of all problems stem from like 10 massive polluting corporations.
Ah yeah well, that kind of stuff aside of course. But dude, my grandpa also has the soap taste gene, and he started growing coriander and eating it and now he loves it. Idk if he likes the taste of soap now, or the taste itself changed. But he eats coriander all the time now.