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- Comment on A little bit of Monica in my life, a little bit of Erica by my side 10 hours ago:
Cuba bringing out the hits, Puerto Rico exporta solo mierda.
- Comment on Hope his set doesn't bomb 10 hours ago:
ok, so why are you busting my balls? I don’t own a house , nor do I live in the US. Why are you saying I’m privilaged for pointing out that my fucking meager existence wouldn’t be all that impressive even if I was a millionaire, and that these fucking US comedians are undercharging the saudi pricks for the whitewashing they are doing?
- Comment on Hope his set doesn't bomb 11 hours ago:
That is an incredibly privileged thing to be able to say tbh.
how? I’m pointing out the financial situation has gone to such shit that having a house and a profession that pays what a profession is worth would make you a millionaire.
Note that I’m not saying that all professionals are millionaires or own houses; which is the fucked up part. No one is paying what things are fucking worth.
- Comment on Hope his set doesn't bomb 11 hours ago:
americans have done gigs at fringe, hannibal burress (seen in this shameful BS) did shows at fringe and talked about them at his stand up
- Comment on Hope his set doesn't bomb 11 hours ago:
Fuck it man, I’m doubling down.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millionaire#Historical_wort…
Depending on how it is calculated, a million US dollars in 1900 is equivalent to $37.8 million (in 2024):[18] $24.8 million using the consumer price index, $61.4 million using the gold price[19]
Being a millionaire doesn’t mean shit anymore. It means you own a house in a city and are a well paid professional.
If the fucking Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia wants me to personally whitewash his terrible regime, he better get me eight figures at least. Otherwise it’s blood soaked chump change these days.
- Comment on Hope his set doesn't bomb 16 hours ago:
Comedian Tim Dillon said on his podcast last month that he signed up for financial reasons. He said he had been offered “a large sum of money” — $375,000 for one performance — and said that other comedians had been offered as much as $1.6 million. He told his detractors to “get over it,” adding, “So what if they have slaves, they’re paying me enough to look the other way.”
This is the most fucking damning part. You’re accepting a paycheque that is so fucking small to boost an oppressive regime, for something that can barely buy a house or two in major cities? Like, if you wanted a decent house in london, 375K isn’t going to fucking cover it. Negociate properly if you’re going to sell out, at least bump it up to 8 or 9 figures. To MBS you’re literally worth the same amount of coins you’d give a homeless person.
- Comment on Hope his set doesn't bomb 16 hours ago:
So the article has a link to the “visit saudi” page with the line up. Some additional disappointments are hannibal burress, Omid Djalili (… not sure how dissapointed I should be of him, since I consider him a fellow ethnic minorty Brit, but he could be "the people in Riadh could do with a laugh, just like when I was in Tehran) , but the jewel is the “about saudi” section which shows you what a fun holiday destination Saudi Arabia is :
Alcohol and Substances
Alcohol and narcotics are strictly prohibited by law, and violations can carry serious penalties.
General Conduct: Courtesy and modesty are highly valued.
Because nothing says “fun holiday” like “you better wear that burkha, and not drink anything, or your ass is going to jail for a very long time”.
You want soft power? Stop being an oppressive, economic hole, and be a place actually worth visiting. The reason Japan and Korea can get away with their horrid conservativism is that they allow artistic expression, and can maintain an economy and social presentability in a way that people aren’t fleeing the country/region in droves and foreigners want to experience their culture firsthand because it seems safe, novel and luxurious. Flavours of Ice cream and chocolate aren’t going to cut it.
The most notable recent cultural export from Saudi Arabia is Masameer county, and that’s not the kind of place anyone wants to visit… although I really had fun watching it. Doesn’t mean I want to go to Riyadh to live like those idiots, the same way I don’t want to go visit Nova Scotia after watching Trailer Park Boys.
- Comment on Ah, ah, ah, yeah! 1 day ago:
come on rusty! It’s time to get/give up!
- Comment on Was it worth it? 1 day ago:
Conservatives think that assistance to the less fortunate should come from charity instead of the government.
that’s just the bullshit they make up to cut social welfare programs
- Comment on It's official: EA is going private. 1 day ago:
HAH! the sims is about to get nuked
- Comment on It's official: EA is going private. 1 day ago:
Let’s say gamers do that. The average EA/“Fifa” buyer will see the box art with Messi/Whoever and buy the fucking game.
- Comment on You mustn't allow yourself to be chained to fate, to be ruled by your genes. 1 day ago:
If I had a nickel every time a media work ended with two people fistfighting I’d have three nickels, which isn’t a lot, but more than you’d think. (Ass Creed Ezio)
- Comment on EA are about to be bought for $50 billion by Saudi Arabia and Jared Kushner's investment firms, claims report 1 day ago:
Boycott time
- Comment on Oa oa a 2 days ago:
Every commercial that comes on TV is a prescription drug ad.
“Ask your doctor for Generisolene! Only Generisolene cures what ails you” really? I’m going to go piss off my GP because I saw an advert? I think my doctor knows what medications I need better than my fucking TV
- Comment on Why is lemmy full of insufferable lefties. You could be left wing and end up becoming right. Simply because of the insufferable people you meet here: don’t fit into there rules your gone, your trolled 2 days ago:
No jimmy kimmel was fired by a private company because he said things that were not true,
Cite reference. He said the truth. Or just give up and delete your account.
- Comment on Why is lemmy full of insufferable lefties. You could be left wing and end up becoming right. Simply because of the insufferable people you meet here: don’t fit into there rules your gone, your trolled 2 days ago:
Hate to break it to you that’s just not the reality we live in
Jimmy Fucking Kimmel got cancelled by the US MAGA Nazis. STFU.
- Comment on What do ambulances do with patients cars? 2 days ago:
They can of course get other departments like ambos,firies,etc
ambos
I like the “both” department
- Comment on Why is lemmy full of insufferable lefties. You could be left wing and end up becoming right. Simply because of the insufferable people you meet here: don’t fit into there rules your gone, your trolled 2 days ago:
Why is IRL full of insufferable right wingers? You could be right wing and end up becoming left. Simply because of the insufferable fascists you meet IRL: don’t fit into there rules your gone, your persecuted for your gender, race , sexual orientation , country of origin or anything else the cancel culture happy fascists don’t like.
- Comment on HÖNKHALT 2 days ago:
Balenciaga IKEA bag : geordiRejects.jpg
Upcycled IKEA bags : geordiPoints.jpg - Comment on HÖNKHALT 2 days ago:
AND RUM?
- Comment on Anon works in a nursing home 2 days ago:
looks good in the comment. the post is still broken
- Comment on Anon works in a nursing home 2 days ago:
did it end for you at “she tells me that” as well?
- Comment on relationship 3 days ago:
hell of a chromatic chord when they all orgasm at the same time and hit different pitches
- Comment on nostalgia 3 days ago:
The difference here is that an artist has control over the medium. Every letter was put there with intent, every stroke carries meaning. Deciding not to do these things can also carry weight, and even the decision to let chaos decide is a choice.
no they don’t. That’s my whole point that there’s artworks where the artist doesn’t have complete control over the end result, and it’s the point.
It’s been done by Cage, people using radios in musical performances, introducing animals into artworks, using the brush like an idiot (Pollock) to achieve these things; in more modern mediums, the entire genre of rougelikes rely on chance to have certain things not be completely fixed, and emergent behaviour is a valuable aspect of creating interactive worlds that contain automatons.
And I would gladly take pollock out of the artistic cannon if I could.
- Comment on BREAKING NEWS: We did it, guys! 20 poptarts! 3 days ago:
at this point it’s less about the dog’s stability skill and more about the owner’s stacking skill.
- Comment on Jimmy Kimmel is The Most Boring, Cringe and Unfunny Comedian Ever; People Should Boycott Disney for Getting His Show Back. 3 days ago:
Not really. A milquetoast guy shouldn’t have been fired for that, so rehiring him makes sense. Yeah , he sucks, but his entire existence is to not harm or offend anyone.
It’s free speech, he should definitely be allowed to have his mild show.
- Comment on nostalgia 4 days ago:
and I didn’t even have to jerk off in front of you for you to get it!
- Comment on nostalgia 4 days ago:
One of us already wrote all of Shakespere
- Comment on nostalgia 4 days ago:
not everything that people do is art, you can’t have nothing isn’t, then everything would be! And there’s no room for all that shit, like bees with top hats…
- Comment on nostalgia 4 days ago:
In a way, sure.
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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.
Here’s the part where I get mad at people in the thread that say I have no understanding of art (history). There’s been several ways of creating art that have been discussed that have the artist leave aspects to chance. It’s been done by Cage, people using radios in musical performances, introducing animals into artworks, using the brush like an idiot (Pollock) to achieve these things; in more modern mediums, the entire genre of rougelikes rely on chance to have certain things not be completely fixed, and emergent behaviour is a valuable aspect of creating interactive worlds that contain automatons.
Is there too much uncurated content in a Gen-AI work? Depends how much effort the creator put into the work, and what they are trying to do with it. I’m pretty sure for the actual scenario at the heart of the discussion, shitposts and strawberry textured elephants can have a few “happy accidents” without harming the central message… of the strawberry elephant.