Who could have predicted this!?!?? Why weren't we warned?

Does it not? It still does in my experience. Our company has these weird company wide meetings where they tell us how they're doing great, everything's great, but because growth isn't "double digit" due to inflation so there is a pay freeze. (I'd love even a less than double digit pay rise - even though that's still a pay cut with inflation).

Pretty much exactly what you are saying. Employees are grumbling, but don't want to get laid off and are uncertain about the job market.

I love getting socks.

Building a garage so will be laying blocks. Takes bloody ages!

I can see it from lemmy.world

13! That's crazy.

God, I don't miss exams every single year for 7 years straight

God, I wish there were more "X of the week" type shows. I know breaking bad and a bunch of really great shows came out and made the golden age of serial story heavy TV happen - but man, I'm exhausted having to watch 20 hours of something to get any kind of plot resolution.

I mess the days where you could just watch 40 minutes of a show and have a whole story start to finish. So much less exhausting not having to get super invested. I don't have the energy for serial TV shows these days!

After a while I just found it too stressfully destructive to keep watching!

My wife's grandmother went through chemo and was so happy when her hair grew back naturally curly and she never had to get a perm again. Was nice for something to make her happy after it all!

Building a garage. Concrete pour went well, which is what I was stressing the most about. Not I'm just gradually laying blocks on evening and lunchtimes. It's exhausting doing a day's work then cooking, then spending hours building walls - but it's very rewarding seeing it slowly turn into a garage.

Grew up in Yorkshire where we will shorten anything but an "o" sound, which instead becomes very long. So scone rhymes "stone", with extra "o".

Slap bang in the blue area: https://brilliantmaps.com/scone-map/

Yes, I think people are naive about how much humans base their creative work of things they have read/experienced when saying generative AI just copies what came before it. So is almost everything humans create.

A lot of entertainment is very derivative. Honestly, I wonder what kind of stuff will start happening in creative circles when generative AI content becomes ubiquitous.

Look at photography and how it affected the art world (arguably). Once perfectly reproducing images became possible art started exploring so much more than the technical aspect of how things looked. Impressionism, cubism, modernism, post modernism.

Being able to make a picture look like the subject lost almost all value, and art moved onto more abstract endeavours.

What will happen to writing when a "normal" book can be written in a day? What will happen to music when a celebrity singer can just be put into any song with the click of a button?

should say that I’m speaking in terms of epistemology and counterargument. I’d much rather you just acknowledge the obvious truth and move on rather than try further to contort the evidence to make Redditors not racist. Some arguments are fun, but this one is tedious.

Yeah, you're right, I agree with what you've said. It is a racist slur, regardless of the source.

It comes from the Lord of the Rings, that's just someone using it. I don't think it has anything specifically to do with Muslims. They use it to dehumanise, that's true. It mostly spread as use for Russian soldiers that were just rampaging around killing and torturing civilians, or for those shelling and killing civilians, ultimately - behaving rather inhumanly. I've only ever seen it referencing Russian combatants. Honestly, comparing your enemies to characters in a fantasy novel isn't exactly the worst slur in the world.

Soldiers almost always have a slur for enemy combatants, sadly, but honestly I don't blame them. Dehumanising your enemy is a sad reality of war.

I agree that us as bystanders should try not to use such slurs though. Ultimately, throwing slurs around doesn't look good even if the people you're throwing them at are committing atrocities and invading countries.

Edit: I agree it's racist, reminds me of WW2 soldiers's slurs like "jap", "krout" etc. Regardless of the original source, it's a racial slur and shouldn't be used.

Yeah, seriously looked at Reddit alternatives when I saw a post from a big sub about going dark and how they were considering moving to tildes - but then found it was invite only. Seems silly for a million+ sub to migrate somewhere invite only

Yes definitely. Don't pander to his need for theatre. Mugshots and handcuffs are exactly what he wants. His own press team released their own mock mugshot last time. He'd absolutely love it.

Tankie was first used for that kind of communist supporter who kept singing Russia's praises/defending Russia even when Russia was sent 5000 tanks to crush a popular uprising in Czechoslovakia (the "Prague Spring") on August 20, 1968. Some people just couldn't accept that a communist country could do something bad, so defended the action.

Nowadays, it's used to refer to those that are strongly supportive of Russia, completely ignoring the awful things they do. Often these days there's a lot of anti American bent to it. Like, anything anti America and American "imperialism" must be good - even blatant and awful Russian Imperialism.

These days they calmly explain how Ukraine just needs to come to the table and discuss peace (ignoring that Ukraine wouldn't exist if they did so) and blame America for the war in Ukraine for... well... they're America. The people who want war, or are causing the war, are those giving Ukraine weapons - not the country that is literally invading it.