Profile-based judgement was always sky high, I don’t think AI summaries will change that much.

Walk slower, cross the street and take a completely different route.

Trump does what Putin wants. And Putin wants the NATO to fall apart. This is not the usual TACO stuff. If it was, then Trump would threaten the other members at least once per week to withdraw which is not the case.

You mean per day, right? Please don’t tell me for an entire year. Because that would be worse than what I assumed. That’s nothing, that’s not even enough to pay a tax adviser. Sorry, but… are you still just a kid or teenager?

There is still a chance but it’s so tiny that you better leave it out of the equation. Almost nobody makes it to the top, with the top beginning at “I can focus purely on writing my books and don’t have to do side jobs like lecturing, writing bogus articles for tabloids, teaching writing at evening school, making covers and frying burgers anymore”, but you’re still sitting in a tiny broken apartment and eat cheap ramen, you’re still forced to shit out 300-page-books every 1-2 months for some niche genre and you’re still working at least 80 hours per week and you’re still only self-publishing using Amazon’s print-on-demand service and you still have to crawl all kinds of social media groups and forums to advertise your books and to remind your audience that you’re still alive. This is how it was before the AI boom. How many decades can you go like that, hoping to reach the point where you get an actual contract with a publishing house? Twenty? Thirty? And even then you’re still far from that point when there’s a demand to translate your books into another language (which would be the point where you can actually rent a small house and earn enough money to feed a pet like a cat or dog too). Do not fall for the apex fallacy. This is hard work. Ask yourself how much shit you can eat and if shit cakes are your favorite thing in the world. Because this would be your life then. Most authors give up because they want to live at some point.

So ask yourself: How much are you willing to sacrifice? If the answer is “Everything!” without any doubt or hesitation, then you might get somewhere in a few decades. If you’re talented enough, insane enough and very lucky. And if the AI bubble bursts too of course. This is the hard truth.

I worked in several art-related industries. You obviously didn’t. You don’t know anything.

I have experience. You don’t.

Around 40, mostly bots. The community block list is much longer.

You either give it away for free or nobody’s ever going to see your work. That’s the hard truth. You’re never going to make money with your stuff no matter how good you are.

Nah. It’s only colonization if white people do it.

Go on.

Keep going. You’re only proving my point.

It served mostly US interests. Without the US, the NATO will be extremely weak. So weak that populists will say “Why are we spending so much money on our military budget to keep up with NATO standards and exercises if we don’t have a chance in case of an attack anyway? Why don’t we spend all that money on something better instead and just negotiate with [insert aggressor]?”. Just look at the political landscape of EU countries. Look at extremist parties left and right. They’re already trying to widen the cracks. It will only take a slight breeze to make the whole thing fall apart after the US left. The NATO is done.

Thanks, I already saw the other comment.

Therapy is (at best) nothing more than having a person sitting in front of you who repeats what you’re saying. This can be helpful for certain patients with mild problems. Patients who have trouble with connecting with themselves. That’s about it. At worst, therapy can make problems a lot more serious or even add new ones.

Go on, keep spitting in my face. I’m used to my problems not existing for other people including therapists. I know the drill by now.

It’s not naivity. It’s a very particular mixture of stupidity, insanity, egocentrism and megalomania.

But does Xerox still exist as a company? Of couse. If you worked with them and their machines you know how long the list of their fuckups is. You know how it only keeps getting larger.

The alps are not exactly small either. But somehow you keep running into tourists and influencers constantly.

Why do you feel the need to throw bogus arguments at me which aren’t related to what I wrote? Just to “win” an argument that is only in your head? Because I have no clue what you’re talking about.