tamman2000

Sorry, I assumed you were one of the people who doesn't think using AI tools is a valid way to express one's self. In hindsight, you never said things to that effect.

You aren't one of the pricks I was referring to, I should have checked before replying to your comment. But you gotta admit, there are a lot of people who think anyone who uses AI tools is a loser, and will say all kinds of things to invalidate those who use AI.

Or you could not think less of someone for using a tool that you don't need to express their creativity.

You're not alone. Sorry all these pricks think you just haven't tried.

I'm 47. I have tried. My problem isn't inputting pixels, I can do that. I've done drafting with paper and pencil and with CAD tools (I'm an engineer). My problem is knowing where to put the pixels/lines for the thing I want to create (which I can do for a schematic, but not for anything that is to have any realism. I've never had a problem with schematics. I can make a drawing that is very clear in terms of all functional aspects).

I have ideas, I am simply not good at implementation. AI tools allow me to express my ideas. And if you think I'm less than for that, you can bite my shiny metal ass, because I'm not creating for you. I'm creating for me, and sometimes for people I'm close to (usually to make them laugh).

You're missing the fucking point. Nobody is disputing that there might have been assault. Congratulations on winning an argument that you were having with your imagination

This is a pretty gatekeepy take.

Generations are about your social cohort and shared experiences, not a calendar.

I think late X folks who got the internet in their teen years mostly fit in better with millennials than X. Being able to anonymously talk about anything with people from all over the world while still in your adolescence is something that most Gen X didn't get, and I think that particular experience is critical for understanding the differences between X and millenial.

The boundary is nebulous enough that social scientists even came up with this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xennials

I was born in 78, and I definitely have a lot of X characteristics, but when I talk to other people my own age about things like the futility of working hard for recognition from society/employers it becomes really clear that I understand millenials a hell of a lot better than most gen X do...

I'm 1 year older than you and feel the same about fitting with millennials.

The most non millennial thing about me is really important though. I was already in my career when 9/11 happened. Having my foot in that door was huge.

Gingrich was in the house though.

Wasn't he the one who decided that no bill would come to a vote unless the majority of Republican representative supported it?

Not entirely unreasonable except for the whole thing where it's clearly a bronze age myth that has somehow survived into modernity

This thinking is a result of thinking that there is a simple political spectrum. There isn't... Most voters are far too simple minded for voting that way. They vote for the other party when they are unhappy. That's it. That's all the decision making they need. They voted for Trump in 16 because they didn't like the status quo (What simple working person is happy with the rich getting richer and the rest of us getting nothing but rising housing costs?). They voted for Biden in 20 because he wasn't Trump and Trump really fucked up his time in the white house. Then they voted for Trump again because Biden didn't change things.

The Democratic party can appeal to a lot more voters by abandoning a status quo that no longer serves the masses. There is a reason there were people who voted for Trump and AOC on the same ballot. They are people who are upset by the status quo and want change, even if that change is burning it all down and starting over.

We should give them change, because if we don't, they will vote for change from the fascists.

There are too many of them for us to kill them all. We simply can't kill 1/3 of the country... We have to find a way to build a society with most of the people who voted for Trump still being in it.

Now, for the ultramaga, proud boy types... I don't hold back on solutions to the problems presented by that smaller population.

It's always sad/funny to me that they are ok with forcing the bad parts of their faith on us via the government, but reject the good parts that most non theists would support

One of the big problems was that they cut trash service and eliminated regulations on trash disposal