Black is white, up is down and short is long And everything you thought was just so Important doesn't matter

i think that a lot of the value of art comes from the effort.

Many things that we do are only worthwhile because of the difficulty.

I think this is one of the biggest disconnects between people who create art and people who don't (me). I don't understand this sentiment at all. I don't care how much effort a piece of art took or what the process was, I care about the output. But I know lots of people who create art and this stuff about the process and difficulty really seems to matter to them. Which is fine, they are entitled to like what they like, but I just don't get it.

I don't like AI art because it steals from artists and looks like crap, but the fact that it's easy doesn't matter to me.

I wonder if this is part of the disconnect between artists and AI boosters (I am neither).

This is an underappreciated benefit of the Web starting out as a bunch of documents, and then becoming an application platform. Even web apps are very text-first. Copy/past and crtl+F tend to work on most pages. And the fact that most views can be accessed via URL is handier than many people realize.

https://vger.app/posts/lemmy.world/home Voyager for Lemmy!

Lots of good answers here. You might want to read up on Existentialism, a line of philosophy grappling with exactly this problem. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existentialism

That you know of.

True, but getting some details wrong seems to fit with the theme of the meme.

I like the iNaturalist app: https://www.inaturalist.org/. When I see something I'm interested in whether plant or animal, I upload a picture and it tells me what it thinks it is. And they're trying to collect good data about flora and fauna so there are volunteers who review submissions and agree or correct it, so it's not just an algorithm doing the work. Obviously when you upload it it's a computer making a guess but people usually review the uploads later, and you can get emails with the results of those reviews.

Someone else mentioned Merlin for birds, which is cool because it can do image ID or bird call ID.

Oh I'm married so 1) the bar to get laid is lower 2) there's a ceiling on the amount of poon I can land in a week. Really frees me up to do important things like fart around on Lemmy.

Hell yes. I've written a unit price calculator, a tip calculator, a "how many plates do I need to put on this barbell to reach X weight?" app, a "am I connected to the Internet" app, and a few other small things. Other people have already written apps like these. But these apps work the way I want them to, and they were good learning experiences.

Chase poontang all day every day. Not even joking, I know myself.

I mean, a lot of "chasing" would be working out, eating healthy, and earning money, but I know why I'd do those things.

Zoltan!

You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.

That's frighteningly plausible as well!

The move toward authoritarianism is frightening, but the 2 things give me hope right now are 1) the size and endurance of protests so far 2) the fact that Trump is terrible at executing long-term plans / TACO. If we keep this up he will give up while claiming victory.

Long-term, the scary thing is his advisors (e.g., Stephen Miller) telling the next authoritarian who gets elected "I could have made Trump a dictator if he didn't suck. That was the practice run, you ready for the real deal?"

Cookout at a park? Reserve a space that has a roof and grill, and everyone else can bring sides?

No. I have doubts that it actually happens except in extremely rare instances. I wonder if some women blame a lack of attraction on height because saying other things gets an ever worse reaction?

I disagree with the person you're replying to - romantic partners and friends have a lot in common but they are not the same thing. And just because you were romantically interested in someone doesn't mean you owe them friendship. These things are difficult and if you don't want to keep being a friend for whatever reason that's fine.

Ever seen the documentary on The Aristocrats joke? Bob Saget's parts are great.

Sweet! What does mine say?