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I feel that social media has opened the door to too much open hostility to acts of kindness. Strategizing around a best move politically rather than having an open heart, even to people that may hate you.

It was Harris' choice to post this publicly for people to react to. If it was simply about being kind then it could've been a private communication to the Cheney family directly.

It was performative at its core and woefully out of touch as well.

This isn't building bridges though. No Republican is going to be moved or softened by this statement. It's going to actively alienate the people who are supposed to like you though. The best move is to simply say nothing at all.

All this bullshit tells me is that those in power are still seeing this as nothing but business, like what we're going through is simply a contract negotiation. No hard feelings. That they can watch their colleagues cause the death and misery of thousands and then leave that at the door and go grab a drink with that person.

Same. Much easier to eat

There's definitely this aspect, but at least for me with strict parents there's also loads of examples of:

'Huh, doing this particular chore every two weeks instead of every week doesn't actually cause any real problems and isn't a world ending disaster like my parents seemed to claim'

Becoming an adult meant finding out just how much of my childhood was personal preference of my parents and not some sort of objectively correct way to live. Life has been a lot better now that I can do things the way I prefer.

AI art kind of feels like technology that has some really cool potential, but was taken in completely the wrong direction.

Like image generators are just dumb. Describing in text what you want a picture to look like is exactly the wrong approach. We even have sayings about this exact issue! A picture is worth a thousand words. Well even with a thousand word prompt, it's still incredibly difficult to get the picture you want. This is ignoring all the tracking down of various loras and what not to try to control the output a bit better.

No, the whole image generator concept is just a dumb gimmick of extremely limited value to anyone.

The real value (to me) would be empowering already talented artists with custom loras and LLMs trained on their own art to help speed up repetitive parts of their art creation process.

To enable individual artists to scale up their work into larger logical chunks. Maybe they've already mastered noses or eyes or this one specific squiggly line that really comes up quite a lot for some reason. To take someone who's already talented and give them an even faster and smoother workflow to get to what new and unique idea they're trying out now faster.

Basically the same way auto complete helped programmers but for artists.

Maybe this already exists, or maybe it's still being worked on, but to me this seems like the way we should've always been headed. Humanity is about building better and faster tools. Not just trying to cope with randomly generated slop.

But because it's comics and they need to keep selling them it's not like things are allowed to truly get better. If it ever does the universe is rebooted and they start over.

The city is literally cursed and goes through shit constantly partially due to that.

Honestly if the city is literally cursed, then the best use of resources is a) curse breakers or b) relocation program to somewhere not cursed. And then quarantining the city so no one can get in anymore.

Somewhere along the way we built a system that doesn't actually require you to do or make anything. And that's been absolutely horrible.