Haha yeah. I had started to write the sentence about him boasting about his deal making skills, but it felt clunky so I changed it. Clearly I didn’t catch that I hadn’t changed it to boost, but your right, somehow it works.

Ehh…whatever. TACO is going to TACO. It’s all a pathetic shell game to boast his ego. And it’s a bonus for him if it gets the news cycle to move on from the story about the Canadian national who died in ICE custody.

This is a disgrace. From an npr article I read about this the “evidence” of him being a gang member completely boiled down to because “we say he is.” They claim their “proof” can’t be elaborated on at all because it’s sensitive national security information when this clown show administration has literally been discussing confidential military strategies in fuckin Signal.

They shit out the flimsiest of pretenses and their brainwashed base eats it up like it’s goddamn caviar. Nope, it’s literal shit.

But…but…Trump better for economy!!! I was promised lower egg prices!!! This is clearly the fault of the Democrats. /s

Sigh

Trump and his White House is full of weak and pathetic crybabies. How anyone buys into his fake strongman image when he get so pouty and has temper tantrums over the stupidest shit is beyond my understanding.

Isn’t it great how his reasoning is "well I personally didn’t find it on a parody account so it must have been true!! :( " Fact checking? What’s that?

I honestly find it fascinating that you view artists as the “rich kid narcissists” in comparison to AI proponents as more of an everyman. My personal experience is those the most engaged in AI stuff are college educated, often in STEM fields, silicon valley with money types, whereas the generally the working artists I know come from middle income or poor backgrounds. I don’t say this trying to attack you, or invalidate your experience, I’m genuinely curious. Would you be willing to elaborate on why you view them this way?

Because AI bros love the smell of their own farts and they get off by convincing other people that they should also smell their farts. (Only partly /s)

But more seriously, I’d say it’s just a symptom of the world we live in where there is tremendous pressure to commodify and commercialize everything in the most “efficient” way possible, including creativity.

I think Lemmy’s general demographic skews towards techy early-adopters and lots of STEM background folks and it shows with topics like this. I’m not saying that’s a negative thing, just that it’s the vibe here.

Art is just such a broad topic, it gets messy. Plus I think the verbage around discussing it isn’t as universally defined as in other topics. It doesn’t always fit neatly into categories and boxes that can make it harder to have nuanced discussions.

Since the fall of Roe v Wade they sure love to shout how “It’s a state’s rights issue.” …so let’s demand the federal government reinstates more stringent rules for dispensing meds on ALL states because apparently teenage pregnancy is actually a good thing now and dis hurts my poor republican fee-fees. Iron clad logic. I might be a little impressed with the level of mental gymnastics these idiots go through if it wasn’t so pathetic and harmful.

Maybe people actually are constantly crying around him?? …Maybe their eyes can’t help but water up because of his reportedly horrible body odor.

I feel like Harry Potter became mainstream/popular in my area roughly around the release of the third book. Or at least that’s when I remember becoming aware of the series. I was in elementary school and attended a small non-denominational christian school. It kind of just depended on the families, some were fine with it, like mine was. My mom read the first book to my younger brother and I as part of our nightly reading together. It was just emphasized that this was a fun fictional story and not real. There were other families who didn’t like the concept of magic but were otherwise ambivalent, and of course some were convinced it was all a ploy by satan trying to convert children to witchcraft. The details are all pretty fuzzy, but I think the stances generally tended to follow the denomination of the family, but not always.

Oh dang announcers said Scoot will not return because of an ankle sprain. :/

It’s a small sample size, but from what I saw in pre-season, the Henderson/Ayton connection excites me. Looking forward to seeing how that develops in the regular season.

Alright LETS GO! The Blazer’s youth movement starts here!

Yeah Herro is a good player, but as a major core asset in the return for Lillard, he doesn’t strike me as a great value for the Blazers when they already have a guard rotation of Ant, Sharpe, and Scoot in a post-Lillard roster. Obviously getting a third team involved is an option, but the theoretical trade options I’ve seen floated around this scenario still seem light compared to other potential trade packages from other teams. I hope there is a solution where the Blazers are able to do right by Dame AND get a good return. Seems like a pipe dream at the moment.

Lifelong Blazers fan- obviously bummed about Dame requesting a trade, but his position at this point is understandable. It does surprise me how he’s handling it though. Sure there’s going to be lots of chatter and smokescreens (and maybe this news is part of it), but is he really so shocked that there’s teams other than Miami putting in trade offers to aquire a player of his caliber? Not saying the Blazers should totally ignore his wishes but this type of ultimatum of “Miami or bust” puts Portland between a rock and a hard spot.

I guess I shouldn’t be surprised, but I am, at how hard spez tried multiple times to push his spin about reddit was subsidizing “competitors” for so many years, so this is only fair! :'< The entire interview just comes across as defensive, cranky, and snide.

I got the vibe that his belief is that the users of 3PAs have somehow “betrayed” reddit by having the audacity to not use the official app. Then saying that 3PAs don’t bring anything of value to reddit, reeks of jealousy. I started using BaconReader long before there was a official app. I can guarantee that reddit would not have become as habitual for me if not for those apps, and I’d guess that’s the case for others here too. I was really hopeful the blackout would encourage reddit to work out some compromise so then I could enjoy going back to the site. The more of these comments I hear though the less appealing re-joining reddit seems.