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Most Americans are just insufferable social media sock puppets at this point with no interest of what is really going on.

We have too much debt and we are going through a time of austerity. Trump is a side show for the sock puppets to have content to talk about.

Anyone who can't see that is probably a sock puppet themselves.

Austerity sucks. The alternative is worse long term. Get on with your life and delete social media. Stop being a mindless fucking sock puppet.

It is just economically clueless people talking nonsense.

Whatever basket we come up with has all the same properties that cause the Euro to not displace USD but worse. Much worse.

Exactly. The attitude is just so totally ignorant. Otherwise, just consider practically all equal temperament western music a ripoff of J.S Bach.

Of course, someone who knows nothing about music like this wouldn't know that.

The irony is that it could be argued hip hop is one of the few western pop musical art forms that isn't a complete J.S Bach ripoff.

This wasn't the business model.

The business model was you could sell books over the internet at a much cheaper cost compared to Barnes and Noble or Borders because they weren't paying for physical locations and there was no sales tax on the transactions because it was on the internet.

I just don't agree with any of this.

This is a difficult time compared to what? The black plague? WW1?

This is the easiest time ever to be alive.

I would say on a 200 year time line though, the way the black plague broke the power of the Catholic Church, the internet has broke democracy.

The idea democracy is ascendant is pretty delusional IMO.

This professor is still living in the unipolar moment that has passed.

When a car moves over the ground, we do not call that running, we call that driving as to not confuse the mechanism of the output.

Both running and driving are moving over the ground but with entirely different mechanisms.

I imagine saying the LLM has thoughts is like pretending the car has wheels for legs and is running over the ground. It is not completely wrong but misleading and imprecise.

IMO it depends on what skill level of beatmatching and mixing we are talking about.

I have seen some unbelievable performances by matching wizards who added a whole other level to the performance with their skills.

The set itself was different because there would not have been a way to slice and dice the set together without those skills.

Really no different than a virtuoso performance on any other instrument.

I am learning Blender too after failing to learn Maya 20 years ago.

To me, it is like learning to play guitar or piano. You just have to do 1-2 hours a day of practice and do it everyday.

There are so many good youtube videos that it just will depend what you want to do and how you like the person doing the tutorial. Then at some point just start trying to model random objects that interest you.

There is practically nothing Krita can't do in terms of image editing but people that don't even use the software keep calling it a digital painting program.

Anyone coming from photoshop would have no trouble using Krita. It is practically a photoshop ripoff with more digital painting tools.