The consistency of the fingers, the continuity of the falling strap on their right shoulder, and the difference in detail levels between the character and background were the tells for me that it was probably real. Also now that I’m looking again, no shading that doesn’t make logical sense.
Also, the pixels and having seen quite a few AI fakes in my time
Saint Vitus is one of the top things I miss since leaving.
Back in the day on the very rare occasion that I had a 7 or G train car all to myself, I’d belt out the loudest operatic singing voice I could manage. There’s nowhere on Earth more isolated than an empty NYC subway car, gotta seize that opportunity.
Proud Noman from Nomansland reporting for duty
I’m in this picture and I like it
First part absolutely true. Second part problematic, the Republican enclaves of NYC are not the underprivileged areas and Republican-leaning voters can’t participate in the Democratic primary unless they register as Democrat in advance. Underprivileged areas voted Cuomo because they’re conditioned to vote for candidates they see as “safe” - A lot of them are black boomers who’ve seen some shit and feel like they owe their safety to the Democratic establishment - And because of low information.
That is exactly what he was hoping would happen. He doesn’t read the room, he just demands power until his financial backing runs out.
Crater Lake is closing for five years after this season, for renovations. Good call timing-wise I’d say, kind of like going dormant to avoid harsh conditions. Stay under the radar of the people in power looking to wreck anything remotely good about this country.
Wish more people caught on to this! The AI wave is not an economic boom and it is not motivated by any sort of consumer demand, it is very much a concerted push by industry to further impoverish the working class on several fronts (Monetary, mental, organizational, etc). That’s why it has continued flying in the face of all economic logic for the past several years.
Fairly certain it stacks in more western nations than it doesn’t. I know a woman in Australia who fucked off for almost a full year after saving up time for a decade.
Pretty sure that’s considered wage theft in all 50 states. But not surprised it happened to you, wage theft costs Americans more money than any other crime, literally billions of dollars annually. As far as I know there is no law enforcement proactively policing this stuff, anything that goes unreported goes uninvestgated and unprosecuted.
Rolling them over would be better, but most full time jobs do cash out your unused PTO onto the last paycheck of the financial year. Some jobs let you roll over a limited amount, and sometimes that amount increases each year.
The people downvoting you don’t understand that they’re part of the reason our country keeps doing shit like this. Unwillingness to do some radical self-examination or entertain hard truths about the history of the place they live help ensure that it’ll keep happening. A lot of people can only emote at bad things and refuse to understand how or why they occur.
Should we actually get better the long-term broken trust is merited, because if we cannot present a proven way to prevent this from ever happening again then it most certainly will.
When you lease access to information, you literally don’t have any stuff.
People sometimes don’t believe me when I tell them I’ve literally never used Spotify.
Don’t forget to tell them to go to the shows!!
Musicians are real people who very often hold live performances in high-population locations, you can see them directly with your eyeballs, hear them directly with your hearholes, and physically hand them actual cash with your flesh and blood hands!
Edit - To the people complaining about ticket company charges: You need to get into your local music scene and the +95% of bands out there who aren’t big enough to play venues that have ticket company contracts. There is a world of music out there completely free of that system and you’re neglecting it.
Show me a paid job that you think doesn’t feature hierarchy and I’ll point out it’s hierarchical aspects that you’ve yet to notice.
Unpaid jobs, like parenting or being a good friend, plenty of those are actually hierarchy-free.
Bakunin’s famous authority of the bootmaker where he differentiates between demanded coercion and earned deference.
Eh, depends how much you enjoy intense bitterness and an upset stomach.