Im a philosophical Idealist so 100% the viewer. That viewer can be the artist themselves but the point stands - only observer can view art.

The process of creating art can be an art in itself and so does the meta societal situation of art culture but all of that still only matter in the pov of the viewer. So, the creation, creator or any context itself is not important for definiting art unless that’s the meta subject.

Thats why AI generated art is fundamentally art because if the viewer doesn’t know the context the effect of art upon their conciousness is exactly the same.

It’s called outside!

Joking aside, its fundamentally unlikely as if you’re not paying you’re the product and maintaining a dating network is a lot of work both in admin tasks, technical tasks and legal tasks.

You’re overthining. There aren’t enough billionaires for abstracts like this. Just create specific teams fir evaluating each individual billionaire’s due.

Dude if they’re close friends they definitely talked about your dick many times before so you shouldn’t worry too much.

As a fix maybe you can discuss this with your girl so she can clarify to her friends in some form that she’s getting plenty of dick despite the pic. Clearly she cares and seems like she’d go through with it. Just be open about it - your partner should be able to support you through this even if its silly, especially if its silly actually.

Camera and accelerometer can let you do a lot of really creative things! I’ve tried a few projects but the main bottle neck is battery so it has to be some inside use that can be wired with power. I saw some guy stick it to a dryer with an app that notifies when dryer is done.

A lot but here are the most recent ones (all non fiction)

Immense World : How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong
Essential for understanding how other creatures live in our world and insight on how ours evolved to what it is right now.

How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question by Michael Chur

Really great intro to practical ethics that is incredibly accessible as far as ethics books go. Everyone should at least skim this.

A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy by William B. Irvine

Best introduction to in my opinion the most important philosophy branch of western culture - Stoicism!

Can’t stand corn fructose and palm sugar based snacks. Terrible everything - engironmental impact, texture, health impact, flavor. It’s just the cheapest possible option that ruins everything it touches.

Im pretty sure one of the richest cities in the world can afford couple of blocks of riots.

Check out teaching programs in Thailand which is probably the most trans safe country in the world. If you’re a native English speaker with teaching training you can get a work visa and a ~1k usd/mo job which is more than enough in this region and generally the organization hiring you handles everything including housing except the flight and initial embassy application.

The trans culture here is ancient and thus a bit different though so you might need to familiarize with that first and see if its acceptable for you.

Feel free to PM me for more info. I don’t have particular experience here but I’ve seen people do this and I do live in Thailand almost full time now.

Can we just finally have rocket skates on bigger rinks? Put some ramps in it and you’ve got full rocket league.

I wouldn’t go with “mandatory” but no doping tests would be quite something!

I’ve stopped contributing on Reddit a long time ago and only visit niche communities as a news feeds mostly.

I’ve actually been working on scraping powered rss feed generator of my own to avoid visiting reddit all together but turns out its a bit more than a weekend project to put all of the pieces together.

What a childish take.

What a childish take.

What are you even talking about

What a childish take.

Young adults needs stronger world frameworks that don’t feel forced on them.

IMO that’s a virtue system!

I’ve been a Stoic for over 20 years now and managed to convert dozens of people to progressive thought just by discussing virtues that are inherit to human nature (justice, courage, wisdom, temperance). People like abstract virtues because they’re easy to incorporate to their personal world models with very little friction and friction is the real thought killer.

Most people are truth seeking but can be very slow learners and some really rebel against strong friction so there’s a need for more abstract approaches like - using “colorblind” instead of arguing race, using “cosmopolitan” when argueing geopolitics, using “secular” when arguing religion etc etc. Every other argument can follow afterwards.

This is the way.

The world is not America - so how come this is an issue in other places?

This white guilt argument just doesn’t hold up to any scrutiny and is just nazi propaganda. Let’s be honest here.

I don’t think this precedence will ever get set because we don’t have universal global IP protections. The west will never set it due to fear of China winning the AI race.

In their opinion (which I agree with) this is the greater good and someone’s mastodon posts or similar being fed to AI training machine is a lesser evil compared to losing technological advantage to the biggest authoritarian state in the world.