I bought a book a few years ago and I think it is called Climatopolis. The first chapter talks about how major cities in certain parts of the world (focused mostly on the U.S.) are fast becoming super heated islands because of all of the steel and glass and concrete in densely packed over urbanized areas and furthermore, that there will be no escape for the poor and disenfranchised because the asphalt absorbs the heat so night gives no reprieve.

I think there is a ton of truth to what you’re saying unfortunately. The apathetic part hit me hard.

Put that way makes it even more hilarious. Look at this dummy that cares about the environment. Carbon footprint? Is that when I stick my size 13 up your namby pamby ass, boy?!

“Most humans are inherently lazy.” Do you have any scientific data to back up what appears to be a heroically sweeping generality?

I can’t wait to see all the Alex Jones, Jordan Peterson, Joe Rogan, Tucker Carlson A.I.-likes.

I really hope the trolls put those people’s (and others like them) likenesses in compromising positions using A.I. fuckery.

Ding ding ding! The same reason we believe that our planet is more than an insignificant mote of dust in the vast dark void of chaos.

Really well said. The definition of art could be argued ad infinitum, and nobody will be any closer to an answer. What is a fact, is that at it’s core art requires a recipe, and each element can be interchangeable, whether it is colors, perspective, medium, tools, pressure, speed, shapes, etc etc, & with A.I., it is just a streamlined process like you said, of taking these elements and mixing them in novel ways. The argument that A.I. could never match human art is such bullocks since as we all know, there is nothing wholly new. It is all recycled content at this point, with variations and arguably, A.I., will be able to add and subtract for those variations a lot faster than humans ever could.

Good bot.

Nice thumbnail

I’m going to subscribe to your instance since you seem to have such cool ideas to help the fediverse and care about privacy.

Cool way to show to explain it by showing it in action thanks a pot, you MVP you.

Maybe this makes me a dummy, but I don’t understand the point of the bot? Like is it supposed to replace links that people post here from YouTube, with Piped instead?

Grocery delivery is a good stop gap, but you’d need all the various grocery stores to be on board. Municipal and state governments could literally subsidize the costs of maintenance and fueling delivery vehicles to incentivize this method, and even offer rebates for customers who participate, but nah that’s all too hard and will eat at the bottom line so let the world burn I guess.

Exploding heads? I’m in GA, but also don’t care about local stuff because I live in south. I just go for stuff outside that scope for a broader sense of what’s going on.

Can you actually have capitalism without the profit motive? I am skeptical.