Honestly since I've been using duolingo the owl just seems like a friend to me. It wants to help me and only needs the bare minimum effort from me. If I'm too depressed or low energy to do multiple practices every day I can at least do one that I can finish really quickly. If I don't want to speak then I don't have to. If I can just keep my streak going, not only will it help my progress but it'll also make it feel better when I pick up the pace. Ive only had this bird for several months but if anything happened to it I'd blow up everyone on this planet and then myself. With my mind.
“Waaaa waaa the owl is so scary when I miss a day!! >~<” Okay well. Rip to you but I’m different
take over an unprofitable company and force it's employees to stop paying any of its bills as a cost-cutting measure. this buisness shit is so easy
save commute time by repurposing meeting rooms into "temporary hotels" which me and my besties and their newborns can all live in. if any of the zoning and inspection people show up and ask about it, just have my employees casually change the subject. #grindset
The first post makes me question if the second is something Elon Musk just got caught doing.
Just so we're all on the same page with the writer's strike.
If during the strike, it's announced about AI generated shows. We are not watching them. Not even out of curiosity. Let them fail every AI generated show they try make.
The human voice can not be replaced by AI. Don't let them try.
i was in the passenger seat and my girlfriend put her arm out when she made an abrupt stop and her friend in the backseat was like “aww that was so cute that you just instinctively did that!!” and it WAS very cute but i know she used to deliver pizzas. i know i was precious pizza cargo
wetpapert0wel asked:
wait- how do you make money on yt when ppl use adblockers ? i was always advised to turn my adblockers off when visiting a smaller creator's yt page bc, if the ads don't load, the person i'm watching "doesn't get paid." do you know if that's true ?
like, when i watch twitch, i'm forced to watch ads bc the ads help the streamers (i have 3 adblockers on at all times lmao). is it not the same w/ yt?
tbposting answered:
Well, I mean, basically for me it’s like this:
- I hate ads, they are a horrible part of the YouTube user experience, they are intrusive and annoying, and I block them all the time myself. It would be hypocritical in the extreme to demand that other people sit through them.
- If someone wants to support my work, I would much rather they donate a single dollar directly and ad-block all my videos forever, rather than have them sit through the literal thousands of ads they would have to watch to generate equivalent revenue for me.
Ad revenue only works at the scale of thousands and tens of thousands; any one person blocking my ads literally does not make any kind of difference. I earn a fraction of a fraction of a cent off of your view, at the cost of entire minutes of your finite time on Earth. I think that’s a shitty bargain, I don’t want my work to waste people’s time just to make money for fucking Google, that idea makes me feel pretty bad.
I don’t think I’ve ever spoken to a YouTuber who would not much, much rather make their money off direct support from the audience than from ads, we only rely on ad revenue because we’re stuck in the same capitalist hellhole everyone else is and we’ve got bills to pay.
So: If there’s a YouTuber whose work you enjoy, donate a single dollar to them directly through Patreon or ko-fi, or buy a single t-shirt or mug from their merch store, and then ad-block on literally a thousand of their videos with the clear conscience that you’ve done more to support them than ad revenue ever will.
A single dollar direct donation to a content creator whose work you like is worth more than thousands (or sometimes tens of thousands) of monetized views under ad-revenue models.
Block the ads, donate directly.*
(*if you're in a position to comfortably be able to. We know what being broke is like, and we don't need money that you need to feed yourself. If a YouTuber ever tries to pressure you to donate money you can't afford to part with, throw their ass in a dumpster and set it on fire.)
trying to talk about playing the rpg called 'OFF' created by mortis ghost without saying the word beat
If you write down the results and properly format the paper, it even counts as science!
When I was in college, there was a solid year where our lgbt group did this with two bathrooms at the end of a hall that were used by like, maybe 20 people. They would put up gendered signs and we kept stealing them. And then we started writing random things on the walls INCLUDING full word for word copies of personal ads from the back of 1980′s advocate magazines.
It got to the point where the building management was on a hunt trying to find who was doing this and we had to start hiding our faces so as to not get caught on the security cameras. Our faculty advisor came down to the office one day and was like “do you guys know anything about this” essentially as we’re trying to close a comically full drawer of stolen bathroom signs, and we’re like “no” and they were like “great.”
They never caught us.
I see Hollywood is now very into the idea of buying something once and then owning it forever and being able to make infinite copies. Which. Isn’t quite the message they imparted upon me in my childhood. In the spirit of their own long-held stance:
There is no ‘rest of the Mona Lisa’ - it doesn’t exist.
Tech bros fundamentally don’t understand art, and it’s why all AI art looks ugly as sin.
The mona lisa was actually a landscape painting but this random woman decided to just like sit there and block the view and da Vinci just rolled with it
i feel like the fundamental issue that i have with AI art is that it misunderstands why art is interesting. it's not just about a production of images. like yeah of course it can produce images. neat! fun trick! but what makes art interesting is that a person made it. like fundamentally that's what makes it interesting. an ai did some math and was like "this line has to continue so it's going to continue." like, ok? whatever? i wanna know about her eyebrows and the decision to leave them on or take them off. a person decided that. da vinci developed a whole set of skills and talents and then used them and made decisions about why, some technical, some based on vibes, some probably to do with some random thoughts he was having at the time, some probably, yes, based on math and continuity of lines. what's interesting IS THAT a person made it!!!! not just the thing itself!! if pretty landscapes themselves were the interesting thing we'd all just go stand and stare at mountains!!!
idk like this guy being like oOoOo My Robot Painted A Mountain like ok that's great for your robot i simply do not care