Thanks for the sanity check. This fool’s looking like Jim post-Made in Heaven.

YouTube’s playlist shuffle feature has been broken for at least 11 years. I know this because I remember complaining about it in middle school.

Maybe this is what sowed the first seed in my path to becoming a developer.

There are three types of people:

I think this comment in this thread answers your question or, at least, other questions of a similar sentiment.

Arguing that AI art is bad by pointing out its material flaws is largely unproductive (I’d even argue that it’s counterproductive) because those flaws are theoretically surmountable. This post is a great example of that, and it highlights the reason I actually hate the presence of AI-generated work amidst the artistic world. It causes humans to hallucinate errors in normal artwork, and it normalizes this wack idea that perfection exists in art. It pollutes our intake of artwork and makes it exhausting to explore unfamiliar artists. As a personal anecdote, I used to love finding tracks on YouTube with less than 300 views and a weird thumbnail. It used to be an instant click. Now, it always feels like there’s an 80% chance that it was soullessly generated almost entirely with AI—and so I click those videos less.

It’s not because AI generated music sounds bad, or because AI generated images look bad. Sometimes they look great. But I don’t really give a shit that it looks great if there’s no human context behind it that I can ponder. AI work removes the value of discussion to me. Fuck that.

I’ve seen discussion about the idea of “the curtain is fucking blue,” as it relates to the crisis of thought-terminating cliches; and the scariest thing to me is that, with AI work, the curtains are actually just fucking blue.

This leads me into a whole rant about how “Death of the Author” is so frequently misappropriated, and how it relates to the role of AI in the art world, but this comment is long enough.

Spanish is more inflectional than Japanese. Keigo, the more respectful forms, holds cultural nuance, yes; but it isn’t standardly required for meaning.

Japanese is the more foreign language, but I’ve felt fairly let-off-the-hook as far as inflection goes.

Learned some Spanish in high school and went beyond curriculum because I really like linguistics. Started learning Japanese in middle school, fell off, and picked back up on it a few months ago.

Japanese is definitely more difficult for the average native English speaker.

With virtually no languages beyond dialect distinction can you take an idea from one and directly translate it to the other and be fully fluent—however your rate of success doing so is going to be higher between English and Spanish than it’d be between English and Japanese.

I will say, however, as a native American English speaker, I have an easier time listening to Japanese than I do Latin American Spanish.

Makes me think of this overgrown pinky toe.

I thought surely this was a joke. … I thought.

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My generation has 17 inch long dicks.

I think that is the most “correct” interpretation of it. Maybe they’re saying that it’s been bent over time.

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