Three thoughts: one a rebuttal, and one a support, and one a bigger picture for your stance.
1) The F35 is 4 times more expensive than an F16 per jet, even in today dollars. It is also 3 times more expensive to maintain, with a cost per flight hour around $44000.

And we salute you for not doing it.

“ Anyone who knows politics knows it always comes down to economics and class.”

Granted, with the orchestra, it gets into more epic symphonic metal like Nightwish or Dimmu Borgir, as well as some straight up classic rock ballads (“How Can I Be A Hero?”) or quirky metal-flavored Broadway pop (“Party All Around The World”), so a lot of it is very different than Dethklok’s regular stuff. Which, you…

Rebuttal: the entire Doomstar Requiem project, either as the animated rock opera or the album, is amazing.

So was Pepe the Frog. But whether folks liked a meme in its original context (or even cared to see the original context at all) is immaterial to its use elsewhere. It’s a signifier that you’re in the “in” crowd to get likes and upvotes, nothing more, one that almost incidentally happens to be related to a previous…

Burger King burgers are seared with artificial smoke and burger flavor to give the illusion of burgerness, even though it does actually have higher quality meat than McDonalds. On the other hand, McDonalds burgers are really just flat oversalted meatloafs, but they make no attempt to disguise this fact other than the…

Dude is so misogynistic that he thinks the reason his son is going to jail has nothing to do with the woman he terrorized and injured, but with unrelated famous men.

^THIS.

Andy Baio’s reporting on this, though far more even handed than I, is what really clarified for me the problems I have with these models, on the theoretical, practical, and personal levels, as well as my frustration with the simplistic responses by generally callous and callow supporters of these sorts of projects.

Sure. The question, though unintentionally, is a strawman. It assumes that A) all the AI is doing is what artists do, and B) we would be fine with any artist doing what the AI is doing.

Both are wrong.

Because that’s not what the AI is doing, not what artists do, and using AI as a responsibility-launderer for the…

“The fact that she would have averted the repeal of constitutional abortion rights does not make her good.”

You’re not going to convince these folks. They literally don’t care about the theft involved, and they don’t even understand the underlying data collection well enough to understand that theft actually happened, and they don’t care to. It’s ALL strawmen about how we’re Luddites who don’t understand that the AIs are,…

Totally agree, but I also think it’s worth pointing out even the mild performance issues on a game released for literally the number one game franchise in the world. Now, is it still reasonably the number one game franchise despite that? Sure, or at least I ain’t offended by that reality. But this “medium-sized dev”…

As an American, even I recognize that they’re gonna need a skin graft for that burn.

Sure, but we might have 250,000 dead from COVID instead of 1 million. No one is arguing its a utopia or that Clinton was an actual leftist, thank you for that strawman. But you’re cynically arguing that Trump was a typical example of “both sides” instead of someone who was markedly terrible and even antagonistic…

The argument here is that voting for Trump while ignoring that Trump was exactly the kind of person that Trump promised to fight is dumb.

You know this, but I think people can still frustratedly state the obvious.

...yes, exactly, that actually sounds pretty goddamned awesome.

It’s worth noting that if Cinderace comes with the Hidden Ability it had in the previous generation, just like the 7-Star Charizard came with its own Hidden Ability, things could be quite a bit more complex. Libero changes Cinderace’s type to the single type of the move it is using just before it uses it. So every time…

If you buy stolen goods, or someone steals something and puts it on the street with a sign that says “Totally not stolen, take something”, or a robot that someone else programmed to automatically transfer parts of someone else’s work to you drops those pieces into your hands like magic? The original owners are not…