I had a lot of fun completing Celeste!

Partner and I put a bunch of pride themed stuff on the cars in Rocket League a while back and just easily increased the number of slurs heard like 500%

Yeah Ive been doing a lot of puzzles! I’ll try those specific ones out. Ive won a fair amount by noticing that the game has ended up like one of the puzzles I’ve done before. Honestly I think it’s been more helpful than anything else at this point.

Ahh that’s absolutely brilliant. Yeah I think I’m learning a bit, but my biggest flaw at the moment is just getting too impatient and blundering a lot. Not always great and seeing what my opponent is trying to do.

Wow! This is so thorough and helpful! Thank you so much!!

Super interested in this. I have like 10 years experience doing random shit in the software dev world and would love to figure out how to apply my skills to helping out with organizing.

Always check around for giveaways or sales for second hand bikes too. Mfers are always planning on biking but never do it and then offer them up cheap on Craigslist and shit.

Lmao nice. I’ve been trying to learn chess recently. Any recommendations on resources for improving? I’ve been mostly sifting through videos from Gotham chess

The feminazi shit is very alive in chud circles

$50,000 is a life changing amount of money for everyone I’ve ever met. Hell $10,000 is.

If the regulations are so stringent as to prevent people doing this for monetary reasons, then why are we even discussing money?

This is just smoke and mirrors to get around the fact that only people who need the money will sell their kidneys. Do you think Jeff Bezos will be jumping at the opportunity to sell his kidney?

And if there’s not enough monetary incentive, then we’re right back where we started anyway.

I don’t think it’s a reach to say that we should prioritize universal healthcare, universal housing, or universal food access before opening the market up for kidneys.

Way more people die a year due to not having proper medical insurance (in the US) than due to kidney failure. More difficult to get estimates for the lethality caused by food or housing insecurity, but it doesn’t take much imagination to see how these factors contribute to negative health outcomes. And these solutions not only save lives without exploiting anyone, but also raise the quality of life for everyone.

I think it will be a lot easier to take some of these ideas into consideration when everyone has their basic needs met and universal healthcare. I think up until then, we will still have a non zero amount of people having their kidneys harvested to get a leg up in this economy.

One organization called the Coalition to Modify NOTA hopes to legalize compensation and then pass a federal law it has titled the End Kidney Deaths Act. As it’s written, it would award living donors $50,000 over five years — $10,000 per year — through refundable tax credits.

So in the US there are tax credits (work the way you said) and also refundable tax credits. Refundable tax credits will end up paying you money if you don’t owe anything.

I second balatro

Yeah sorry wasn’t really trying to engage on that point about biocomputers, just put it there to make sure we are on the same page on soul. Just always has an otherworldly connotation in my head that feels the need to distinguish humans as somehow separate from the rest of the world. I didn’t really take it that way from your post, but I hate the word soul and I’m just really pedantic idk.

You bring up a good point about the distinction between art and beauty. I think I really like the way you frame that. Something I’ll definitely have to ponder about.

Idk I feel like there’s piece of the puzzle missing here. I think art can be found anywhere where someone wants to find it, if that makes any sense. In nature, in random odd places, the universe itself. Im just not sure if a “soul” (ignoring the fact that souls aren’t real and humans are just biocomputers) is really necessary for art to be real.

It implies a level of intent that I don’t think the perceiver has to be cognizant of in order to appreciate a work of art. The implication here seems that unless an artist’s intent is fully understood by the audience that we can’t really fully appreciate it as art.

Also while people generating prompts isn’t art in itself, I feel like it kind of begins prying away at this notion of there being no human behind the creation in the first place.

I think the most straightforward example is something like the work of a collage artist. There is already this practice of grabbing many different things from different places, other art, pictures, objects, whatever, and it’s the specific combination of these things which gives it this special kind of “intent”.

I of course agree with all of your other points about the way AI generated art impacts society.

I feel like it’s only possible to come across as heavy handed if the satire is objectively less subtle than reality. In a world where climate science has shown us our future for decades now and people continue to bury their head in the sand, it’s really just documentary about what would genuinely happen if a large scale disaster were to occur. I wouldn’t say it’s a particularly clever metaphor, but I think you can’t satirize climate change denial hard enough at this point.

That’s a good idea for a feature

Blasphemy

Untrue to what degree though? One of his biggest scandals was attempting to refuse military aid to Ukraine in an effort to get dirt on Biden. Ultimately ineffective, but his attempted actions in this scenario prove the point.