Like, she doesn’t have a breakdown and people are like “you’ve changed and are terrible”. It’s after x # of years, them saying “we are human beings worthy of being treated like human beings, which you have always had trouble doing”. Jane was really the only person to do that in the earlier seasons.
Which is a thing that happens (to) a lot (of us on the spectrum) but was one of the first times I remember seeing a character I identified as with get that kind of feedback that wasn’t something that was enacted upon them at their worst but a thing they manifested through “being themselves”.
I feel like it's less that Daria isn't as smart as she thinks she is as that everyone around her isn't as dumb as she thinks they are. Which is why there's a not insignificant amount of comeuppance for her in the back half of the show's run.
You can -- there's an option to "hide" it in the dot menu on the right side of the panel, though again, I don't really notice it so I don't even bother to make the effort -- but there are non-AI functions on it that are context dependent which can be actively helpful/useful.
I also don’t have a real aversion to AI existing, per se, I just have no plans to use it for myself — it feels like I’m cheating myself using it and, also, it is not a particularly good product — so it’s possible since it doesn’t make me viscerally angry, I just don’t notice how intrusive it is.
The firefly prompt window in Adobe illustrator
So, as far as I’ve found, the option is always there, but in my experience, it’s not *that* intrusive in illustrator (see screenshot for context). I almost never use Photoshop, so it’s possible the “please use me” factor is way higher on that program.
My rule when writing in a critical context is usually “things are so hard to make that anything that isn’t actively harmful or dangerous shouldn’t be considered bad”. But this movie is a prime example of fitting that criteria.
Come for the Anna Karenina framing, stay for the Venture Bros. reference.
Watching sports played competently but not spectacularly is so much more important to a full appreciation of what greatness actually looks like than watching players perform poorly.
I was asked to use it briefly for work -- I was doing graphic design stuff that's difficult to produce at scale -- and I literally typed into the prompt field the prompt I wrote above, and I was given a bunch of options to choose from in another window. All of these options were very bad/useless.
For the AI prompt bit, there's a floating bar that basically gets in your way the entire time (think, like the properties window, but smaller), and you can type shit into that bar to have it do stuff for you.
I was like "Oh, maybe I can use this for when I need 96 instances of a specific shape and don't want to count that high" and their response was "Would you like this stolen artwork instead?".
I tried the AI prompt thing in Illustrator once to see what it could do in terms of automating repetitive tasks, and asked it to make "a single black line segment 100px long, weight of 5 pt" and... got a bunch of poorly done Mondrian paintings in return. Seems like it's only gotten better since.
Christian Bale as *Bruce Wayne* is perfect, less so with Bale as Batman. In terms of non-IP, PSH as Lancaster Dodd in The Master felt like a perfect marriage of character needs and actor skill set.
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Thank you, I appreciate your sympathy. Though it is how I learned to avoid the people who smoke weed in garages at parties. You gotta hang out with the people who smoke next to the garage. They haven't given up on things *completely* yet.
I have personally encountered people who do exactly that (for various reasons, "the elections are rigged," et al). I just don't think they have any sort of effect on why people vote or don't. But they definitely exist and I have had to talk to them at parties!
There is a whole chapter in Bill James’s true/popular crime book about this which has essentially convinced me of its plausibility, it’s basically the only non-sports belief I have that could qualify as a conspiracy theory.
I’m not usually the type, but the joke on that was that margins on selling weed and shrooms are not particularly high (especially after legalization). He just loved selling weed and shrooms, as it let him smoke/do shrooms for free and that was basically his favorite thing.
He loved The Business until the day he died. In a different life, he would have been a weed farmer and not spent half his life in prison for drunk and disorderly conduct. (As in crimes his committed while drunk, not literally that charge.)
Wilbo and I don’t agree on a lot, but this is a subject (that our ability to do cost/benefit analysis is very bad) with which we’re very much on the same page. And my dad was also dealing drugs — shrooms and weed — so let’s not forget that he was putting the work in, too.
Humans will cut off our nose to spite our faces if we perceive it will save us money, even if doing so will have worse long term effects/consequences than just spending it now whether they are “privileged” or not. That’s what we are all saying.
Part of this is that being poor/broke/under financial stress hurts your cognitive abilities when you have to deal with money in measurable ways, and also how humans deal with perceived loss (esp, of money,) as opposed to the benefits of what they are receiving from spending the money.
That was also not Will’s basic point, which is that often people don’t realize how much easier their lives can be made by being willing to spend money on stuff they think is dumb/a waste, instead of turning their life upside down for the explicit purpose of avoiding spending that money.
150 would have been less than what he had in cash on hand before he got that sick. And he is the most destitute man I knew that wasn’t “actively” unhoused. (Before his last place, he lived in a literal crack house where his “roommates” stripped the walls for copper wiring to sell for drug money.)
Not really! Like a month or so before his brain turned to swiss cheese (mets’d to brain) but after he couldn’t work construction (couldn’t breathe because of the lung cancer ). And, again, that’s 10X what you called a privileged amount to be able to spend on something to fix an issue.
Statute of limitations have passed, on account of him being dead: Mostly just smoked less good weed/fewer cigarettes while selling the good stuff, didn’t eat out as much, literally just stuff like that. He used to work home construction/help his friends with trade work, but not that last year.
I was not “pro” him “needing” to do that (it made him feel better, so I didn’t argue), to be clear, but that’s a separate idea from 150 dollars (in today’s money) as some mark of privilege, at least based on my lived experience/that of most of the people I know even having grown up working class.
