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Cake day: June 8th, 2023

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  • I’m pretty sure that racism exists outside of capitalism also.

    I’m going to need some explanation as to how capitalism is the primary source of power for racism, so much so that you cannot be anti-racist without being anti-capitalist also.

    It’s not that I disagree with the statement. It’s that the statement takes a massive leap when it says “racism gets its power from capitalism”, and I’m not able to follow.

    I need a couple of steps between to fill the gap.







  • bizarroland@lemmy.worldtome_irl@lemmy.worldme_irl
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    29 days ago

    I have an aunt who cut off the rest of the family and is living her own best life, and as revenge for that, when my grandfather died, the rest of her siblings gathered together and forged her signature on the inheritance documents, and screwed her out of her cut of 1.25 million dollars. (split 5 ways with two of the ways going to my mentally disabled uncle, instead of 6 ways the way it should have been)

    I was relatively young and didn’t realize how fucked that was until it was past the statute of limitations and nobody could do anything about it, but I will gladly report that every single one of my aunts and uncles wasted their money and had nothing to show for it within three years.

    However, I am sad to report that my evil grandmother, who was divorced from my grandfather, became the steward of the half million dollars that my mentally disabled uncle got, and it was all gone before she passed away.




  • I think for me, it depends on the size of the studio that’s doing it.

    If you are a single person or a two or three person group, putting a game together out of passion and releasing it for an inexpensive price and clearly marking that AI was used in it so that the people who get up tight about that can harumph away, then sure, no problem.

    I would say, for anything that’s actually important, a human being should be behind it.

    AI art is entirely too fickle to be used for most things and should be considered inspiration and actually be redone by a human being.

    You should definitely playtest the finished product as rigorously as possible, because AI coding is, you know, decent, but, if you don’t understand what the AI has written, then you have no idea what the outcome will be.

    And you should disclose that AI was used in the making of this product because some people will feel personally offended that you spent your own time and your own effort and your own money making something using AI even if it’s free, and even if it wouldn’t exist if it weren’t for the AI.

    It is my opinion, and slightly controversial, sure, but there is a significant portion of the people that harumph AI do so specifically because it gives them the freedom to condescend on something and not because they actually have a legitimate grievance against that use of AI.

    So you should definitely give the pooh-poohers something to poo poo on for the same reason why public buildings have toilets, but at the same time, should people list legitimate grievances or issues with the final product, you should take those valuable criticisms into consideration and make changes accordingly and be prepared for that.






  • A more useful statistic on that is figuring out how much it costs for this loan. $413,500 over the course of a year at 17% interest is a touch over $70,000.

    That means that you have to pay the bank $70,000 the first year before you can actually start paying down any of your balance due.

    Assuming that your loan balance is 413,500 after any down payments were made, and you don’t have any PMI, and you have a 1% annual property tax, you’ll be paying a touch over $7,000 a month.

    Of that $7,000, about $613 of it will go towards the principal balance.