johnnyanmac

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by johnnyanmac 5d ago
>I hope we can both agree that the solution to this is YouTube paying people properly The solution is proper competition to google. Because Youtube is pretty much the one true monopoly out there. But as we all know, video hosting alone i
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by johnnyanmac 6d ago
Fair enough. I'm in support of it, but it seems like any company >5m is also going to give a big legal fight if and when they are challenged on such aspects. But I'm all for a good attempt at taking our wealth back either way.
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by johnnyanmac 6d ago
>they think capitalism is inherently evil Modern society has done a wonderful job proving that sentiment right. I can't blame them. >would prefer if everyone was just poor and lived in the woods or something. I'd prefer if e
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by johnnyanmac 6d ago
I think the issue is more on how you audit such things. Governments struggle (partially by design, but still) to get proper audits on who uses what and how much money they make. The theory is great, but I'm unsure how you execute this.
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by johnnyanmac 6d ago
We're talking about mid 30's to low 40's here. I can only get so naked. But I don't tend to keep my AC below 24 personally. I don't need my room to be perfect room temper2
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by johnnyanmac 6d ago
>but the answers are both very personal, and even then, not so clear cut Indeed. Even 2 truly altruistic individuals may answer the questions differently simply because one comes from an individualistic society, and one a collectivist on
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by johnnyanmac 6d ago
Again, you're making a lot of odd assumptions about how I consume media with zero support whatsoever. I donate to Patreons, I buy albums and games, I even buy merch here and there. Prices have raised over the years and I only spent les
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by johnnyanmac 6d ago
I don't really understand your argument. So because me in America was not able to vouch for Japanese labor laws, I don't support human art? My country isn't exactly in the nest position to judge other countries's economi
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by johnnyanmac 6d ago
All true, indeed. However, it does feel especially sobering realizing tech is hitting its own ouroboros point: a point where it starts to break social contracts that it designed to begin with.
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by johnnyanmac 6d ago
> Can we change this? Should we even try?... and is it even worth pursuing? It's perfectly possible. Another aspect of humanity pointed out to me from others is that we are surprisingly sensitive not to the current "quality of
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by johnnyanmac 6d ago
Costco has a policy to cap margins at 14% or something to that order. And it's disciplined enough that it's broken off with major brands that tried to dispute this. It's profit driven in its own way, but against the grain of
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by johnnyanmac 6d ago
The supposed goal of "Make America Great again" is to invoke that 50s era of American exceptionalism. So surely there's something there people miss. And your theoretical implies we have choice in the matter. I'm sure man
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by johnnyanmac 6d ago
>the angst and dismay are really something. Just because you know there's a chance of being punched in the face, doesn't mean it still isn't a bit painful actually being punched in the face. Even if you brace for it. But y
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by johnnyanmac 7d ago
>Design-differentiated products still exist (Apple as mentioned, IKEA, Nike, Linear to name a few), but they're outnumbered in the current landscape and arguably still greedy. I believe that was ultimately what my response wanted to
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by johnnyanmac 7d ago
I think it's in fact forward thinking, in that modern executives lost the taste their older elites had. Or at least they fired the tastemakers for those who pleased them personally, to the sacrifice of proper design. Probably a bit of
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by johnnyanmac 7d ago
Very interesting idea. And I see some historical support for such actions and trends. I think modern day life has had two major paradigm shifts that will make this potebtisl "real human(TM)" marketing not emerge among corporate, t
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by johnnyanmac 7d ago
>could be a utopia where everyone lives in comfort and has more leisure time. It definitely could be. With current trajectory as of now, do you think it will be? >except that generally instead of realising we all have enough of we sha
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by johnnyanmac 7d ago
>Society is not worse off when production requires less labor, Not objectively in every situation. But that does seem to be the case and objective here.
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by johnnyanmac 7d ago
If we're being frank: we've been in a low trust society for a good while now. Grifting is rampant and blatant, all the way up to the federal government. Among many other things, it's about "am I getting scammed". So
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by johnnyanmac 7d ago
>I’m hoping this tired narrative dies out soon. It won't die off until AI stops being used with low effort. Which it is the majority the time used for.
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by johnnyanmac 7d ago
This does make me wonder if I'm being disillusioned or if the community has genuinely shifted in the past 2–3 years or so. Or of this merely a greater societal shift as "history culture" takes off. You'd think sentiments
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by johnnyanmac 7d ago
Well that's why and how we got the current model. Lots of noise, so tools were made to curate and figure out the most consistent artists But it goes both wwys; artists that stand out get ebough of a reputation to boost their prices. U
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by johnnyanmac 7d ago
Unless they've been in a coma all their life until 2022... Yes? You think only pirates are anti-AI or something? What are you getting at?
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by johnnyanmac 7d ago
Why are you making such wide assumptions? I pay for art constantly. Where's this blatantly wrong suggestion coming from?
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by johnnyanmac 7d ago
I don't claim to be an artist and a template is still done with the caring eye of a professional. It's way better than an AI generated poster. Or at the very least, there's many less instances where I've seen overly used
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by johnnyanmac 7d ago
You know the saying where a million dollar company failing is "their" problem, but a billion dollar company failing is "our" problem? We're going to quickly approach that problem in the conning years at this current
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by johnnyanmac 7d ago
>People are just upset just to be upset at this point. Despite this being a technical community we seem to be really bad at understanding scale. A bad artist is at worst like a fee pieces of trash littered in your lawn. Bad AI art is lik
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by johnnyanmac 7d ago
If people were not lazy enough to "introduce variety" to begin with, AI wouldn't have the slop reputation we know it to be today. But any UX designer/engineer will tell you defaults are important. And on social media we&
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by johnnyanmac 7d ago
>But how many artists work for disney? Given their empire these days: a lot. Mostly because outside of Disney there's really not much such thing as "modern salaried artist". You work for any of Disney's 50 subsidiarie
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by johnnyanmac 7d ago
>It mostly doesn’t matter because there’s no economic incentive for it to matter Very generous way to say "executive greed has drained bespoke design out of society. I've been seeing more videos on such a topic, but this one wa

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