Bob? Hey, Bob? Bob! Bob Prevost? Bob Prevost, I thought that was you! Hey, hey! Now, don't you tell me you don't remember me because I sure as heckfire remember you. Do you have life insurance? Because if you do you can always use a little more. Am I right or am I right or am I right? Right? Right?

I understand what he was saying but in the scope of the series it was a lot of fun. Not to mention the cinematography was beautiful

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To take a step back and realize amateur art is good. Each story will not be a Dickens level and each art piece will not be an Avedon and that’s okay. Art is artistic for its sake and an attempt to interact with the world. AI robs us of that

I think Miyazaki was right when he said it is offensive against life itself. It robs one of the opportunity to interact with life. This is how I did get interested in film photography as it thus allows some of the randomness with genuine art creativity. At the same time I think we as a society need

Even where one can make an argument of creativity, as you said very well at the end of the day it’s no different than me commissioning something (except the ghost writer or actual artist is still using original art and not just a random algorithm). Thus one of the reasons I am so against Gen AI now.

So, I’m going to fully disclose and humiliate myself here. When AI first came out, I bought that argument. And as someone who doesn’t have the means to travel it seemed like a decent way as well. But then it quickly dawned on me that it produced nothing but slop. It’s a slot machine and ultimately

Tbh I’ve never seen any evidence that Vance believes Catholic teaching or takes the Gospel seriously.