Thorny_Insight @ Thorny_Insight @lemm.ee

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every AI image i have seen has tells of being AI generated

Except the ones you didn't realize were made by AI. You by definition can't know how many have passed for you as "genuine".

I disagree with the premise that such mosaic of online pictures wouldn't be "original" piece of art. It absolutely qualifies by my books

In Finland we have plenty of national "flag days" every year. I don't see people putting up flags on their porch or anything but many has flag poles on their yard and flying a Finnish flag has no racist implications to it or anything like that. It's a traditional thing to do and especially the elderly are pretty strict about it.

I've got a similar one that I managed to open up, but the USB port is soldered in

Freshly ground coffee, pine forest and wet asphalt are pretty nice.

When it comes to humans, my favourite smell is no smell.

AI will be only be able to produce art that already exists or realism.

Well, that is not true at all.

Generative AI isn’t just limited to imitating or copying existing art. It’s fully capable of creating original pieces, much like humans do. Sure, AI models learn from large datasets of existing art, but that doesn’t mean they’re limited to mere copying. Instead, they take these inputs, find patterns, blend concepts, and can then generate something entirely new. This isn’t too different from how human artists operate. They too absorb influences from the world and other pieces of art and generate new ones based on that. Nobody is creating art in a vacuum.

The additional benefit AI has is not being tied down by existing concepts. Human creativity often gets shaped by cultural trends or personal experiences, but AI can step outside those constraints, giving us a fresh take on art and creativity in ways that many human artists can't. Not to even mention that you need a human in the loop to write the prompt. AI doesn't create art alone no more than a paint brush does.

Well debate about wether taxes are good or not are a whole another discussion. I live in a wellfare state myself so I don't mind the relatively high taxes I'm paying because I've benefited from what the government spends it on my whole life and continue to benefit in the future as well, not to even mention the people less fortunate than me.

If you're broke, disabled and unable to provide for yourself the government will provide you with an apartment and money for food. 200€ a year is pennies compared to the benefits people like this are receiving.

I don't know where you live but the property tax on my house is 200€ a year which is less than half of what I spend on groceries every month. If I end up disabled and without a job, the property tax, from a financial perspective would be among the least of my worries.

If you mean that the average person doesn't exist in real life then you're correct, but to claim that what is statistically average cannot be determined, then that's just a bunch of nonsense.

Having rented before and now owning my own house I can gurantee you that there's a major difference in the freedom between those two.

You think homeowners should not be required to pay property tax and build whatever they want on their property disregarding all safety regulations and building codes? I can definitely see how that would go horribly wrong..

But what does it matter if the value of your stocks drop in a market crash? Assumeably you're in it for the long run so you can always just wait for them to go back up before selling. Even if a property might hold it's value better during a crash, which is not guranteed either, that would still be irrelevant unless you intend to sell the house, which again would be difficult during a market crash. If you want something that holds it's value that you can liquidate at any time then perhaps you should buy gold instead.

If you're invested into something such as S&P 500 and something happens which causes a significant number of those companies to go out of business at once, then we're talking about an extremely rare world wide event that'll effect your investments no matter what they're tied into. Keep in mind that the ~7% yearly average growth of the stock market includes events such as both world wars.

So the government is your landlord then?

Depends on wether it's a loving or an abusive cat owner. Cats are carnivores and need a diet consisting of mostly meat to stay healthy. If buying meat products is against one's values then don't get a predator as a pet.

And just investing in stocks means I won’t have a diversified portfolio that could resist a financial crash as much as real estate can.

That's nonsense. A house would be equally difficult to liquidate in a financial crash than stocks would. Probably even more so. If you have a diversified portfolio and enough savings so that you don't need to touch your investments then you'll handle crashes like that just fine. The stock market has always bounced back up. Always.

I’m someone who believes landlording is immoral

Wouldn't that then mean that there would be no rental apartments available and everyone would be forced to take a loan and buy a home? To me this kind of thinking is just the opposite far end of the spectrum where as what is optimal is likely somewhere in the middle as is the case with most things.

I think chain locks are generally considered to be more difficult to break that u-locks. Both are equally easy to cut with large enough wire cutters but with an angle grinder you need someone else to hold the chain still while as with u-lock you can hold it yourself.

Youtube and Twitter. Technically Facebook and Instagram too but only to post pictures on my business profile as an advertisement.

Samsung default one seems to get the job done just fine

I couldn't know. Nobody knows that I do either

What country is full of skinny homophobes?

• I monitor my personal finances carefully and try living well below my means
• I have effectively no social media presence
• I do childish things when out in the woods by myself such as play with puddles, make streams and larp a soldier with my outfits / gear
• My wardrobe is a bunch of near identical clothes. I basically wear the same thing every day. When I need a clean shirt I grab the one from the top of the pile.
• I eat once in the morning and again around 10pm. I also skip dinner a few times a week because I can't be bothered to cook
• I leave most of my lawn uncut. From the street my house looks abandoned.
• I carry a folding knife with me always
• I intentionally avoid trends
• I don't lie, not even white lies. I might not speak the whole truth but I never say something that's untrue.