lovely_reader

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[–] lovely_reader@lemmy.world 11 points 5 days ago

If you aren't willing to work on your social skills, you need to stay in a position where you don't need them.

[–] lovely_reader@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

The radios would need to have a very, very short range to avoid this. You'd need to know that everyone who can hear you can also see you (and potentially follow you if they'd like a word face to face), which is the accountability aspect that's missing from online interactions.

[–] lovely_reader@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (4 children)

What do you carry in there?

[–] lovely_reader@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

No, not morally. What? The Luddites have not always been wrong about the adoption of a particular technology ultimately being a net negative on society/individuals/humanity. Citing their "failure" as a reason to blindly champion any use of technology is kind of weird.

Luddites "fail" to hold back technology insofar as many technologies are indeed adopted, but that doesn't mean their message of temperance has never had any effect on how technology is adopted, or that all technologies have improved life on Earth. And of course not all technology has taken off. Yes, it's hard to stop a moving train once an idea is getting popular, but we all get to choose whether to climb aboard. I wonder why it seems to ruffle your feathers to hear from people who don't.

[–] lovely_reader@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Ludditism always fails

But not necessarily because they were wrong.

[–] lovely_reader@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

TJ's isn't boutique, though. Before I actually shopped there, I conflated it with Fresh Market for years, but it turned out they were far and away the cheapest grocery option anywhere near me until we got Aldi.

I shop Aldi more now because our TJ's is always so busy, but since they're all store-brand, their prices are still usually on the low side (other than meats).

[–] lovely_reader@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

In a way, sure. What's unfortunate with such a medium is what a small proportion of the thoughts in the final product are the prompter's. The machine references countless works that the prompter has no knowledge of, whereas in a medium controlled by the artist, those references (both conscious and subconscious) add meaning to the piece.

[–] lovely_reader@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Art is about thought, not skill.

Skill is required for craft. Can art be well crafted? Hell yeah. Does it have to be? Hell no.

[–] lovely_reader@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

AI makes a picture of something that just completely never happened, so the viewer's imagination doesn't even bother filling in a story. I think your collection is a thousand times better.

[–] lovely_reader@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

If this is in the U.S., teachers typically have to buy their own supplies on meager salaries. Watching one kid literally eat those supplies must be pretty demoralizing.

[–] lovely_reader@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It doesn't sound like they're necessarily his erasers though

[–] lovely_reader@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Real question, is feet-on-the-seat something people are typically arrested for there?

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