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Given the average intelligence of most humans, I’d be willing to wager that most elephants are smarter than that.

Everything this idiot says tends to be the opposite. And frankly, I can see it.

The Europe I see (as a Canadian, with immigrant parents from Portugal) is the same Europe I’ve always seen; It has it’s share of problems, sure. But for the most part, they’re older, with a lot more history to draw from, and as a result are just more level headed than the idiot teenagers revving their engine and trying to pick bar fights that is America.

Europe as a continent has been through enough shit that they’ve kind of, as a culture, learned to say “woah…okay…let’s take a step back and look at this a bit before deciding to be an asshole.” Canada kind of inherited some of that by virtue of sticking in the commonwealth longer and having a peaceful transition to independence instead of kicking our feet and threatening to move out at 16 like some bratty teenage countries did.

(Apropos of nothing, I also think that this is sort of the problem with a lot of Eastern Bloc countries. With the fall of the Soviet Union, a lot of them (Russia Included) were kicked out on their own all of a sudden and are essentially entering the teenage years of their independence)

Does that mean Europe is perfect? No…of course not. Far from it.

But they’re a hell of a lot more put together and strong than the U.S. is at the moment.

Trump is projecting, as usual.

I’m talking about when I was a teenager. Neither iPhone nor android was a thing. I’m talking dumb phones

Since she had been identified as under 16, they feared “her friends will keep using Snapchat to talk and organise social events and she will be left out”.

FFS, we all got along just fine and dandy with group-chats via text message. We weren’t fucking cavemen.

The fact that this is her fear (and the fact that it’s a legitimate fear) proves just how much controls like this are needed. It’s literally digital crack that they think there’s simply no other way to communicate anymore (both her and her friends)

And rightly so!

I’m hoping that the chain-of-command is so broken because of the bumblefucks in charge at the top that Venezuela actually gets some good licks in ala Ukraine to Russia.

I know its doubtful, but a man can dream.

It’s not a colonialist threat. It’s effectively an act of war.

I have to believe that the latest bluster and threats and posing from Trump is because economically, culturally and just from sheer manpower alone, Russia is very nearly spent. Trying to force a Russia friendly solution while they still have the “appearance” of superior force.

In terms of credit and monetary compensation it most certainly is.

I can’t quite wrap my head around how to relate to AI generated art.

Simple. It’s not about art at all. But about “artists”.

Let’s use an example. Let’s say that you’re a rich person and you want to hire someone to paint a landscape portrait for you. You tell them in detail exactly what you want and they go and do it. Does that make you an artist? Of course not. It makes you the procurer

So if we replace that hired painter with a computer, does that mean that because no human artist was involved that the title of “artist” automatically reverts to the procurer, meaning the person that told the computer what to do? No.

Regardless of who (or what) creates the art, the person telling them/it what to paint isn’t a damn artist and doesn’t deserve any financial reward.

I literally have no horse in this race, but I still feel sick to my stomach thinking “please don’t cave in to this asshole and completely waste that many lives and years for nothing”

This is a make or break moment when Europe has to tell America to fuck off or it’ll be absolutely heartbreaking.

Because if no actual artist was involved in its creation, I’m not giving money to a corporate suit who pushed a few buttons on a computer.

Good. Fuck em. I’ll sit back and enjoy while the rest of the world proceeds to set up a trade network that bypasses the U.S. entirely, fostering far more cooperation and goodwill than America’s Hegemonic diplomacy ever has. America can get fucked for all I care.

Immediately reshoot Season 8 of GOT with what I thought was going to happen.

Just imagine these two guys were just sitting in a waiting room for something completely different and are now associated with super-gonorrhoea because some asshat snapped their photo for a stock image website…

simple solution. Either he gives up his business interests or the election is declared null and void. Third option is that the people remind him what happens to tsars when soviets rise up.

Those are his only three options.

At first I thought “Goth Clowns”. But then I realized that would just be mimes.

It shouldn’t be a crime if it’s objectively hilarious.

With the number of politicians/mayors who get killed each year in Mexico, how in the hell is someone allowed to get that close to her? Holy shit.

TFW high priced business lawyers walk in and tell little worm eaten idiots what happens if they don’t walk back their stupid claims.