Same shit as the US, lmao

I want to believe

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_Nine

So for a story I think it really depends on how deep you're planning on delving into these characters personalities.

If they're side characters you can just do a surface read of trans culture to add flavor to their description, but you don't want to overfocus on it (if you're new to lgbt stuff I would suggest not making a side-character's queerness overly plot-relevant. It comes off as tacky and as cheap pinkwashed inclusivity).

For example: Erin sits next to Emily and goes to remove her bag. Somehow the conspicuously pink blue and white strap manages to catch her hair for no discernable reason. Emily rolls her eyes and starts to unravel the knots and tangles. The annoyed furrow in her brow deeply contrasts with the doting gentleness in her practiced hand movements.

It's a bit silly and rough, but above we establish that Erin and Emily have been in a relationship for a long time. References to their queerness are kept to a minimum and are just woven in to how they interact with eachother (the important part). And the facts we can glean from this can be used to provide context for how the rest of the scene will go, why the two of them react to things a certain way, and what decisions they might make. And we can do that without needing to make overt references to their queer status any more than we already have.

Now if you're trying to do queer main characters, I'd suggest being in the community for a while. There's no advice or story I can give you that will fully encapulate who we are or how we're to be portrayed because every context is different. The same depiction can be pandering or cruel or exceptionally clever depending on the subtle things you can glean just by being around us and internalizing the experience. You can make the world's best attack helicopter joke, better than anything the chuds could do if you can understand and empathize with us innately (I wouldn't recommend it, but there's a transwoman out there who's done it). Like, if you only glean details from second-hand stories, it will be obvious, because there likely won't be any subtlety, even if you're trying really hard.

A good queer MC needs to have their identity planned out from the beginning, it needs to shape how they perceive characters, situations, their own place in the world, and even facial expressions or small little happenstance details others might not notice. It will affect what they obsess over, how they focus, where they direct their energy, what they value. But you have to be able to say these things without being like "his transness transed his worldview" or "xe just couldn't see [thing] the same way after becoming nonbinary." Like, this is one of those situations where you actually have to follow the 'show, don't tell' rule very closely.

If you hang out with lgbt people more, it gets easier. It's obvious when people are distant/outside looking in and there's a longing there. If those feelings aren't healthy then people will notice. It's best to learn as much as you can from people so that you can see them for who they really are and not just how you perceive them. It opens the door to being friends too! 😊

Also, nonbinary topics are something I think you could benefit from researching. It sounds like you might be nonbinary, and the enby community is huge, diverse, and has a million different ways of seeing gender. One of those might be what you're looking for.

B-But I'm the default character. You can't ascribe ATTRIBUTES to me!!!

It's so good! Less random than S1, but the jokes are satisfying.

I got 11 upvotes on a Ho Chi Minh quote in the clown shoes thread. Was that all you guys?

It took me so long to get the gif to show up, lmao

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"Woke" was originally a word in the US black community to refer to people who were class conscious. Specifically to be aware of cooptation and trickery by the bourgeoisie and police. Ironically, like a lot of black slang, it was coopted by whites and its meaning was changed to suit their interests.

Due to the association with activists, it came to mean progressivism, then liberalism, and by that point had fallen out of favor by its original users. Now it just means "thing me no like" for conservatives.

Sons can get their back blown out too. Society is so unfair to men and never considers their needs.😤

Who knew it was so easy to do praxis?

My conjecture based on disagreements I've had with them, their goal is to draw in libs so that the marxists actually have people to educate. Without them it kinda became an echo chamber.

Capitalists culturally appropriated a traditional religious practice into the fitness industry

Therefore Indians are culturally backward

Wut

I think some of them are lowkey looking forward to riling up the hogs.

I've never used that garbage site, lol. Gross.

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The Linux Fox!

All the cool people come from 🏳️‍🌈 and 🏳️‍⚧️. I wonder why???

I know, just providing extra context for people reading. Wasn't really directed at you, didn't mean for it to come across that way!

Dang Yogthos, the libs roll in and you immediately get ratio'd. 🙃

Not all factions of the bourgeoisie really care for LGBT people, and the ones that do are hardly capable of grasping queer theory the same way we do. They do fundraisers to feel like they're not imperialist monsters even if they fail in every other way to make our lives less horrible under capitalism.

He cared deeply about his friends and was endlessly passionate about the things he cared about. He worked on Das Kapital until the day he died and did constant research, all while travelling to organize with people and staying in contact with his comrades across Europe. He didn't value working for Capitalists, and used the resources he had to avoid doing so when he could, which is what I think the kids call "based".

This will be achieved under socialism only i’m afraid. Although most likely even then there will be no turning back

Hard agree

Unless you mean the thing that really gatekeep art from the workers: talent.

Talent doesn't actually exist. Getting good at art just takes the motivation and resources to spend thousands of hours practicing. It's labor like any other labor. The "talent" that people perceive in artists is just an inclination to pursue that particular form of labor, or the privilege of having the free time to learn it. What differentiates art from other kinds of labor is the manner in which capitalists value it. Most human beings are driven to produce some art or craft, many dream of it as a hobby or mythical career path. But only sellouts usually make it, and the highly competitive market artists exist in ensure only those who are willing to work with the bourgeoisie rise to the top, while those who want to pursue art for pleasure or escapism are barred from popularity. Plenty of artists who charge a pittance for their work can create things just as well as any "pro", the difference is that they grew up proles and didn't win the lottery. It's the same game the bourgoisie pulls with sports players. Plenty of people around the world are absolutely jacked and spend all their free time thinking about sports. But the ones who make it sell their performance to the bourgeoisie.

You do need to put time and labour in the AI generation. Currently generating something decent require dozens of tries and most likely also post processing to remove artifacts.

Key word: currently. As they get more refined, they will learn what humans find proper and what we don't, and those roles will be automated out too, or someone will design tools specifically for the purpose of automating them out.

If anything the amount of “gruntwork” will increase.

Why would capitalists pay 5 people $35000 per year ($175k total) to produce a couple dozen sketches per day at best, when they can pay one person $60k-$80k per year to make hundreds of finished works. AI works have the speed of being a punch-press operator with the fine-tuning of a CNC-miller. We haven't really seen custom work of this scale before. I think it will be a preview into what physical labor will look like with cheap modular robotics vs current methods based on machine operation and support crews.

Your argumentation is silly because it is exactly what happened with all other automatized trades: it eventually gets concentrated.

I agree with this. I think there will be fewer professionals who get paid more while simultaneously producing more, which will cut out a lot of the skilled workers the same way the first wave of industrialization replaced blacksmiths with metal workers and engineers. But I think in this case the people doing the cheap dataset training won't necessarily need to be artists and they'll probably be outsourced to third parties. So the only artists necessary are the ones telling the AI "create x images based on this drawing I uploaded". And since most companies want a uniform style across their product line, they won't want multiple artists messing with that data, they'll want one person whose style is recognizeable. Similar to how big name soundtrack musicians currently get all the brand recognition despite having numerous supporting technicians, but with AI performing the role of the technicians. Another example is voice artists and actors. Anyone can have Tara Strong in their work of all they need to do is pay for a few voice samples. Or how in the new star wars movies, they found a Mark Hamill lookalike but still CG'd Hamill's face over the actor, making the actual actor himself just a host for someone with brand recognition.

How is that different from the current state?

Small-time artists don't make money on IP. A lot of them are IP thieves in their own right, and get popular by remixing the works of others. Their own characters and stories usually don't get as much attention and they make most of their money on commissions (ie. a person with no skill needs their skill to make an image). Getting your own characters or story to blow up is seen as "making it" and is extremely rare if they don't already have connections with powerful figures. Most pop culture figures have rich parents when you look into it, including animators that a lot of poor artists look up to. The reason smalltime artists get upset about AI art is because it takes away the only thing they can offer, which is the skill to create something a buyer wants. I would imagine more prolific artists are upset about it because AI will increase competition until only the most recognized brands survive, so a lot can see themselves being cut out of the equation and having all their customers go to people who are already millionaires.

to corral the AI art for the sole exploitation tool for the bourgeoisie massive legislation will be requires

I think this goes along with the myth about github's AI program writer making it easier for newbies to get into programming. All it really does it make Github the keyholder. If you take away the necessity of learning a skill, then the person who owns the tool has all the power. Because you won't know how to produce it yourself and will instead rely on the keyholder to give you the answer. Another example is facebook giving people pre-formatted user pages vs people doing their own html. When a tool does the work for you, you give all the power to that tool and its owner. Sure more people than ever have internet profiles, but at the cost of the real owners selling user data and manipulating their psychology. Rather than democratizing the internet by making it accessible to newbies, it instead promoted walled gardens and placed the control in the hands of big business.

They don’t give a shit for the real art workers producing content already owned by their bosses, they are only interested in their own class interests

I agree with you on this one.

I agree art needs more workers who are paid fairly and don't need to be so competitive to get a decent wage. The gig economy is toxic and offers people less for their work than its true value. A lot of young artists will spend 6-8hrs on a work and charge $30 for it. That's $5/hr! Far lower than minimum wage.

Due to this demand for cheap art, AI turns people who don't do any labor into salesmen who "sample" the labor inputs of others so that they have a product to sell. In this case I side with the artists, and not the wannabe capitalists trying to use technology to wrench the means of production away from the productive forces.

Yeah, most artists are poor as fuck or use it as a second form of income to some shittier job. Calling it "petite bourgeois" to make like $500/yr on commisions is a bit disingenuous. Plus tons of formal artistic work is just making corrections, doing draftwork, or the repetitive gruntwork of someone who has a bigger name than you.

What AI replaces are the above. The people it will elevate are the big-name artists with brand recognition. They'll use AI to do the gruntwork. Instead of teams of concept artists you just get one highly paid person to draft inputs for the computer to interpret and then have it auto-generate hundreds of lookalikes. Architects can use AI to work out the fine details while they just focus on "the vision". Animators won't need tweeners or posers or texture artists or modelers, just someone with a recognizeable art style to feed data.

What AI creates is petit bourgeois content creators. You can already see this on sites that allow AI submissions, where hundreds of copy-paste grifters cheaply produce multiple AI generated images per day, based on someone else's art style, with no skill or talent of their own, and charge people for the copyright. It's taking the ownership of the means of production from laborers and giving it to hacks who would've never put in the effort to learn to do it themselves.

Contrary to popular opinion, copyright and IP make AI image generation more lucrative, because skill is no longer a barrier to entry. What makes an AI work valuable is the "ownership" rights to the image itself, because that's what's being traded in a transaction. In this way it's quite similar to NFTs and draws the same crowd of supporters.

Marx was frequently ill and had a condition that made his skin break out. He didn't usually take jobs other than writing gigs so he was usually poor, pawning a lot of his stuff, and living off Jenny's inheritance. She still loved the fuck out of him, though.

For fun he regularly played board games with his friends and neighbors, and was pretty chill with people coming over to his house. But I definitely wouldn't call his lifestyle "active". Lifestyle-wise he has far more in common with the pothead who can barely afford rent but lets people couchsurf anyway than the swoletariat.

On June 4, 2021, Bell was arrested in Cleveland, Ohio, on charges relating to "attempted endangering [of] children and disseminating matter harmful to juveniles."[148] A public information officer with the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor's Office, said "the 15-year-old victim, who had established a relationship with Bell several years prior, attended his concert in December 2017 [...] While there, Bell violated his duty of care and, in doing so, created a risk of harm to the victim." The Cleveland Police also found that Bell had sent the minor "inappropriate social media messages" for "months leading up to the concert." Bell was 31 at the time of the alleged incident.

Oopsie

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_statism

Because people post stuff like this without a hint of irony or self awareness.

/r/gatekeepingyuri

She is the best

Because you boiled the struggle of an alliance between multiple neighboring Mayan ethnic groups to resist colonization and subsist on their own land without being beholden to the interests of European/USian powers, something many other indigenous societies succumbed to, including the Inca and Aztec Empires to "playing commune out in the jungle". It shows a complete and naive misunderstanding of the issue. You speak with authority when you have nothing of interest to say. That's how it was so easy for me to clock you as white.

Your opinion was so much more haughty than my original explanation and when you encounter resistance to your holier than thou mentality you cry like a little fascist. If you really are a marxist then do some self-crit and distance yourself from this superiority complex you've got going on. It's unhelpful.

The point, which is going waaaaaayyyyyyy over your head is that it's not the place of a bunch of white people to surmise or steer the discourse on what indigenous people should be doing. If you respect them and their autonomy, as you say you do, then you would listen to what they have to say or mind your own business. An armchair socialist isn't the peer of actual fighters and border defenders. Buying some coffee doesn't mean you own a share in your investment or whatever you think that affords you.

To my understanding, the majority of the population in Mexico are mestizo, which makes calling them settler seem a bit off.

https://cosmonautmag.com/2021/12/dialectics-of-dependency-by-ruy-mauro-marini/