Half? Fucking rich people bitching.
it’s funny cuz at first glance this looks like generic reddity sarcasm, but it made me think: while a lot of people paying half their wages to rent are in poverty, a lot of people with expensive homes are also probably living outside their means. all I know is my rent ain’t anywhere close to half
I have to stay on social media. Somewhere, there is injustice happening and only I can stop it.
Only I can stop the guy in my phone from saying “Only I matter!”
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replace 3 of the 4 blueberries with actual drugs to cope with the sad from the little pocket computer for a fulfilling and short life lol
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Blueberries here have been ridiculously cheap, same as strawberries. They’re like $1-1.5 per punnet so we’re pumping them into the kids at the moment
Oh that’s good to know. I remember blueberries used to be very expensive, but I don’t pay attention to prices cuz if I want blueberries it’s a rare treat and my brain can only hold so much information, price comparison not being one of those things.
Rent not own and it’s only two.
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I can but I don’t. I don’t like eating or drinking things that make my poop black.
Yeah, but- and stay with me here- what if those robots made a movie with superheroes in it that costs $1 billion to make and you could see it if you want to pay $20?
Or pay nothing in money but rather spend your time in learning FOSS which would be necessary to build a Matrix AI. This because if you ever trusted Closed Source Software than you deserve the inevitable suicide that I can guarentee it’s writers wrote upon you.
For some reason I read this in the voice of Nacho Libre.
I get to lay in a bed by myself, all of my life. It’s fantastic!
Just one more angry post about XYZ and I’ll win my cause and change people’s minds.
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jordan, @jordan_stratton
Being alive during this modern era is great. Robots are creating artistic soulless versions of people, I spend half my paycheck on rent and the other half on 4 blueberries, and I’m addicted to a little pocket computer that makes me sad everyday. Fantastic.
At first I thought your entire comment was just
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And I thought yeah… that sums it up.
I dont care about AI art, I set healthy boundaries with technology and find fulfillment elsewhere, and while income inequality sucks I’m grateful for what I have. You could call this gratitude bootlicking but I call this tweet “Moralizing Depression”.
You can do both.
You can be grateful for what you have while realizing that the current state of the world is bullshit.
Yeah, but I unironically believe that being alive in the 21st century is great and fantastic. I’m not sure people here feel that.
To be fair, the backlash comes from AI being a very real threat to many artistic fields that were already very hard to make a living in. What they have isn’t much, it’s hard to be grateful for less.
It also represents the first. Chance the common person has ever had to make their visions come to life.
If you look at art as an elitist tradition largely fuelled by the wealthy and supporting only a very, very small number of living artists, requiring a kind of professional leap of of faith that anyone who isn’t blood related to a wealthy person would be called stupid for making, then AI art doesn’t seem so scary anymore.
If everyone has the ability to create compelling images, audio, movies even, then we don’t need people to spend 4 years in art school and potentially the rest of their life breaking their backs trying to get someone else to notice their art, while contributing to society only as much as whatever job they’re forced to work while trying to make it contributes.
Few people who aren’t wealthy buy art. And most of the art they buy is from established artists. It’s an oppressive and classist status quo that were all worse off with, that will survive AI nonetheless as the rich place an even greater value on “authentic” art.
Who AI art is really going to hurt are the people who draw furries, sell prints at farmers markets of copyrighted characters, and create bland soulless corporate visual bullshit for a living. I guess that’s most artists, and yeah. It sucks for them, but stopping this train because Microsoft wants a photorealistic dog dick for their next logo ain’t happening.
If you look at art as an elitist tradition largely fuelled by the wealthy and supporting only a very, very small number of living artists, requiring a kind of professional leap of of faith that anyone who isn’t blood related to a wealthy person would be called stupid for making, then AI art doesn’t seem so scary anymore.
Well, I don’t look at it that way. Art is a creative tradition, one that every person is capable of realizing in some form or another (and should, for their own health). Artists are, by and large, common people, too. Millions of them have made that “professional leap of faith” without a safety net because they wanted to pursue their passion for art, not because they thought they might one day make millions off of their works.
I get that it’s really cool that people who haven’t dedicated their lives to art can now bring their visions to life. But I personally think it’s callous and unfair to call artists the greedy ones in this equation when they’ve, by and large, always been struggling to get by despite what they contribute to billion dollar industries and to society.
I also challenge that only the very wealthy buy art. That may have been true for much of our history, but the ability to sell copies of their art while retaining the original has given consumers much cheaper ways to enjoy art. And that’s not counting all of the art we get to view/listen to for free, even if it wasn’t made specifically for us. Patreon and similar sites have also created a great way for people to support and interact with the artists they love even if they aren’t wealthy. I think it’s fair to say that we’re living in the least classist era of art.
I might be in the minority here but I love my pocket computer. Never has it made me sad, and only has enhanced my life
People are definitely obsessed with their phone machines, but I just think mine is OK and I use it only in small durations as needed. I enjoy using Real Computers far more than the pocket sized ones.
I mean the outside world is what makes me sad and my pocket computer helps me to escape from reality.
Where I live… try 70% of your paycheck on rent. Heck, a lot of agencies and landlords won’t rent to someone like me unless I was earning £10k more.
I’d start by abandoning xitter if I was him…
It’s pronounced “shitter” because it’s just Twitter but way shitter.
oh I’m aware how it’s pronounced 😉👍
The sadness part is real but confusing because it also makes me laugh.
It makes me laugh like Donnie Darko before the jet engine falls on him
Implying humans have souls.
Not a great way to start.
Do you take everything literally?
I think about that often … we are lucky.
For those of us just a bit older, we know a world before an internet and worldwide communications. We also saw it come in and take over the world.
I don’t like the details and what happened, how it happened or what went wrong … I just feel fascinated that I happened to be born when I was because I got to this unbelievable change.
It’s like being the generation that saw the world switch from horses to cars … or candles to electricity.
It’s a monumental shift in human civilization and we got to see the start of it. And I don’t mean just my generation, everyone reading this now is still living inside the infancy of the modern internet and communications. It will change so much more in the future. It may be good, it may be bad, it may be neither, it may be both … but it will definitely change and we’ll look back on this moment in time and either be nostalgic and think of it fondly and quaint … or remember when things were a lot better.
Honestly, the fact that I can just talk to people on the other side of the world with zero effort is wild
And you can share your cat memes with them!
