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Photography had particularly dramatic effects on the livelihoods of painters who operated on the fringe of the mainstream. This included the portrait miniaturists, whose markets fell drastically, particularly after the introduction of the
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by breppp 10mo ago
it's an automatic bullshit machine so essentially it creates cliches as an automatic process this doesn't mean this can't be controlled by someone talented
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It killed realist art and it greatly reduced the "market" of available paintings, which back then was really a market, art was usually commissioned for the same reasons you take a photograph today
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I am not sure I agree, a camera on the surface of things is the most boring machine. It shows you what was already there. It is still can be the basis of several interesting art forms I don't see why this can't happen with AI, or
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by breppp 10mo ago
Yes, which was the point I was trying to convey. However it did also kill the profession of painters (the craft in art vs craft). Which might unfortunately happen to the more commercial side of music
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Painting (portraits for example) as a profession largely disappeared, while art based on painting evolved (impressionism, cubism, etc) due to the camera. My point is that photography is essentially a simulacra of reality, yet it unexpectedl
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Depends, the camera killed painting and is a positive for art in my opinion It's not obvious that LLM generation won't create more interesting music experiences (for lack of non-marketing speak for self curated music)
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Probably a net positive for future open source music generation LLM models
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The Phobia List(phobialist.com)
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That doesn't explain why he visited Hezbollah and showed overwhelming support, probably aware of the organization roots and past actions such as kidnapping journalists or killing politicians or its self professed goal of creating a the
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His criticism of the Western political system was always way too simplicist and why it has immense appeal to college students. Essentially it can be summed as any Western action must be rationalized as evil, and any anti-west action is ther
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The USS Liberty is a single incident in 70 years which is a case of mistaken identification, only in Iraq there are at least 600 Iran associated deaths of US troops ( https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military&#x2F
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So why Iran won't be fine since the US just wants to remove them off the Chinese sphere and remove a Russian arms supplier? I don't follow the logic why Iran has no way out
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> Ok, I don't see a comparison happening. Israel seems to kill americans on a regular basis. Saudi arabia doesn't seem to be much friendlier either, not to mention refusing to align with our proclaimed values Both statements ar
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probably less, your examples are related to weapons and an arms industry innovation is accelerated by sanctions and boycott. This has happened to the Israeli weapons industry due to lack of access to weapons especially in the 1960s and 1970
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Cuba and the US were very close to normalizing under Obama IIRC. What do you think about Vietnamese-US relations?
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Generally the Saudis aren't that great supporters of terror as they are made out to be, Qatar would be a better example. The most important difference is that the deranged things the Saudis are doing aren't aimed at the West whic
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Examples: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_hostage_crisis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Beirut_barracks_bombings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Francis_Buckley
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I think that's an overly simplistic and false view of Israeli-Iranian relations since 1979. Israel had tried to help Islamist Iran negotiate with the US through the Contra debacle, shared intelligence with Iran against Iraq (failed rea
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I wonder what Iran has done to receive sanctions
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The CIA had supported coups in many countries yet these countries have not kidnapped 50 diplomats, that's probably the single worst thing you can do diplomatically. Countries as religiously deranged as Iran are close US allies (Saudis)
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I don't say it's a cultural oddity, western culture had its fair share of self-destructive regimes which ideological underpinnings created great disasters, especially in the 20th century
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As far I remember a large reason for the water crisis is subsidizing water for agriculture which does not fit the local climate This is based on some ideological pillar of being autarkic, as the Islamic Republic was generally built upon the
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I think you identify the cycle of radicalization correctly but only on a specific side. There are people in this thread comparing Trump to Hitler. I don't think Trump is the US finest president but those of my family who weren't s
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It doesn't, but historically a lot of the reasons people consume art is due to fashion, and art is a way to put you in in and out groups. So naturally if someone has different political beliefs, or has went too "commercial" p
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> The problem here is that this is like a grocery store charging me money for every bag I bring to bag my own groceries. Maybe they can market it as the Github Actions corkage fee
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yes, it was a cool feature showing which of your data has leaked and in what leak I remember email and phone being the major ones. A kind of improved haveibeenpwned
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I did and I guess I missed the part where it says European health data was stolen by Israeli intelligence to make some European blood for passover. I thought I read some company was acquired by an American company that also has Israeli exec
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Nothing new, racists through the 19th century and 20th used Zionism as a euphemism for Jews. Protocols of the Elders of Zion is one such example, the Nazis were also obsessed with Zionism We also got 2000 years of Europeans blaming Jews by
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only thing that has happened since the 1940s is that National Socialists have become Social Nationalists

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