"We were told AI was inevitable! That everyone would use it, and that it'd be in everything!"

By who?

"The ones who sold us the idea and infrastructure!

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...wait a minute."

^I know how unlikely that last part is, lol.

Especially in the ways the long dead, as well as both their hopes and regrets can serve as further inspirations for creation.

Case in point:

youtu.be/uxfoa23skHg?...

My approach would be to at least present them as an inspiration, with the way they can both harness darkness and inherent light, then combine them to make beautiful things.

Tolkien probably put it best: "Beauty defined by the inclusion of sorrow"

It's WAY too good for him, but at least this means they'll be someone over him calling the shots that might have some respect for what they do, since Netflix believed in KPop Demon Hunters even though Sony wanted to pass on it.

Neat. I liked it.

2016: 92 million abstaining votes

2024: 90 million

Constant vigilance, people. This is a product of that faltering.

After the Crimean Peninsula incident, I saw people saying that a Russian invasion of Ukraine was implausible.

It's basically the fallacy of appeasement all over again.

*not 80 yet, but close enough.

He's 80+, survives mostly on McDonald's, likely has a history with drugs, and at one point "knew" that the body was like a battery and exercise made it burn out faster.

It's only a matter of time, and it wouldn't be a bad bet to think there's not a lot of it.

If the last couple years on the political side of social media has taught me anything, it's that for competent government, anything less than perfection is a complete waste of time to the loudest voices, but incompent government is never criticized by those same voices.

Failure can foster wisdom.

Apparently, a system in which a privileged class is not allowed to fail creates anti-wisdom.

Literally as self-destructive as those idiot comedy relief characters from those 90s edgy neo-slapstick cartoons.

Even Shakespeare did most of what he did as a result of patronage which technically came from his state's budget.

Glad the anime got a better response than the Manga.

Oh... boy... 🤢

I finished the first draft of a fantasy novel I spent the last few years working on, and I feel that especially right up to the end, my writing and storytelling skills improved dramatically.

And it's not even excusable as a mistake, because roughly the same number of people sat out in 2016, the year of Trump's first term.

You're self-contradicting by claiming "not all bad or good" with FDR and painting current events as all bad.

Anyone with Google can make every modern Democrat as "complicated" as FDR, but you're prepared to paint everything as "all bad" even while Trump has gone far beyond the DNC.

You're not saying its real name because you know that anyone with media literacy can disprove you with Google, just like you shy away from me every time I bring up anything Trump has done.

You've got nothing of substance to say, just hot air and buzzwords. You bring up FDR, yet demand perfection.