“I’ll give you a buffalo nickel if you’ll calm down just a little bit.”

Friday, I’m in love. On another note, learned I was born on a Friday, just today.

The vast majority of people don’t have a creative bone in their body. Most people are some variation of stupid. Intelligence and creativity usually go hand in hand.

Perhaps you disagree? Consider, just being here, in this space, having this conversation, puts you well above most people in intelligence. And your friends and coworkers likely reflect that intelligence. Still don’t believe me? Sign into Facebook with a new account, look around. And those are the people who can and do use technology.

I’m barely above average, 119 IQ, but I’ve got down in the trenches, at work and in interpersonal relationships. Yeah. Most people are dumber than me, and that’s scary. Odds are, you’re smarter than me.

And no, even among the smarter set, most people can’t make an image without a website to do it for them. I worked at a shop that was part graphic design. It’s appalling how clueless people are at creating the simplest thing. And I am no artist.

Exactly my point. No one is forced to read bullshit on FB.

No, no, no. Some people can say as they choose, some cannot. In any case, we’re all forced to listen to it and participate.

Word.

Phone for, uh, phone stuff, while I’m out and about. Pixel 4a, $70 on eBay.

PC and TV screen for internet.

Crappy $25 tablet for reading epubs.

Lemmy: NO! I want all my use cases on ONE device that doesn’t do any of them well!

OK, pay out the ass for it along with the associated global warming and ecosystem trashing. Oh, and the slave labor that took to produce it.

Lemmy: NO! Not like that!

Love how these commenters are all offended by a thing that will never get off the ground, or be heard again.

Y’all were around for the first time, right?

BAM, there it is. Isn’t that song always the answer to these posts? Because it should be.

Absolutely untrue. The CEO has a fiduciary duty, not a “line always goes up” duty. They are expected to act in the best interests of the company. In other words, they won’t see legal issues unless they pull something in-your-face malicious.

My last CEO announced to the board, two years in a row, that we would purposefully be losing money to build our staff and products. They applauded.

Bingo. You would be a fool to sign up for some of those positions without a golden parachute.

“So you can make me do stupid shit and then fire me for doing that stupid shit? Imma need some padding.”

One note I never hear sung is AI’s ability to jump-start creative works. EDIT: Proof at the end!

For example, I wrote a horror short that was stuck in my head. What if I had used AI to write it for me? I certainly would not have used the output verbatim, not even close, but it might have presented me some twists, vocabulary, structure, etc., that I had not thought of.

Same goes for code. I had an idea to automate Google Calendar entries with certain events at work. Couldn’t quite get it right, had ChatGPT write it. Did it work? Of course not, but I found the pieces I needed to put it together.

Maybe you just need the right words. “explain to my wife what depression is like” That worked well!

I’m extremely creative, but not in the typical artistic ways. What I’m good at is taking junk and upcycling it into useful end products. I could input garbage items I found, see what an image generator or chat does with it. Well, let me put my money where my mouth is.

(Pulled this idea out my butt just now, no planning, testing prompts, totally ad lib, input and output quoted as-is.)

Towed a large, sealed, flat, thick, plastic container out of the river last month. (Fuck me, about sank the canoe untangling it from the dead fall!) ChatGPT: “what can I make with a large, plastic gas tank?”

1. Water Storage Tank

Repurpose the gas tank to store water, especially for outdoor activities like camping, gardening, or as an emergency backup. You can install a spigot at the bottom to make it easy to dispense water.

LOL, that was the idea! Going to hang it in a tree at camp, pump creek water into it with tiny chlorine tabs, make another shower. Or maybe use it for the bathroom I need to make? Hmmm…

2. Compost Bin

With some modifications like drilling holes for ventilation, a plastic gas tank can be transformed into a compost bin. The tank’s large size provides ample room for organic waste.

Great idea, but I’ve got all the space for compost I need. Although… Put it on a frame so it can be spun?

3. Outdoor Planter

If the gas tank has a sturdy base, it can be converted into a large planter. Cut the tank to create drainage holes, fill it with soil, and plant flowers, vegetables, or herbs.

Holy shit! I’ve been plotting on making floating, yoga-pad mats so I can grow in the creek without animals screwing it up. I have circular saw blades, can fit pots I already have or scrounge for free. I can make my own soil from local organic muck and sand. Let’s see, play around with the buoyancy. Guess what I’m doing tomorrow. Hot DAMN am I stoked!

tl;dr: AI will add to our creative endeavors, not replace them.

Neither is true.

One element is to smile with your teeth. If a woman smiles with her mouth closed, it’s just a friendly thing. Old gf told me that and a couple of decades of observation have born that truth out.

Know that face you make when you really want to smile, but are obviously holding it in? That can work.

Making strong eye contact, holding-it-in-smile, then blushing away, just to look again with a full-teeth smile sends a strong signal.

OTOH, if you have to consciously think about how to compose your face, you better be a trained actor. Humans have a solid sixth-sense for the disingenuous.

In any case, don’t merely stare without expression. Yikes.

Thank you for your witty and concise answer!

Downvotes like this is why I’m hating lemmy. OP asks an honest question:

Nerds: FUCK YOU!

Yes, the majority of servers are Linux, and yes, most are Debian, of which Ubuntu is a variant.

West Virginia is the very opposite of barren, just poverty stricken. Nevada would be a better example.

It’s fast enough in the drive thru. Notice how dining in has become worse in every way? Fuck me, you can’t even get your own salt and ketchup. They don’t want us hanging out because it costs them more.

Perfectly normal, but not like this.

https://www.opensecrets.org/obama/inaug_2009.php

PURITY TEST ALERT! YOUTUBE LINK DETECTED!

Jesus y’all are a bunch of lock-stepping little fascists.

Cannot stress this enough, never say this to a woman. Just don’t.

When my wife smiles her attractiveness jumps x10. It’s almost surreal to see the difference, love it.

Don’t ask someone to smile, make them smile. Do something worthy, earn it. Asking is lazy and unworthy. A man is basically saying, “Be pretty for my amusement.”

Solid tip from an ex-gf who always shared men and women stuff I had never heard: If she smiles with her lips closed, it’s a friendly thing, at best. If she smiles with teeth, that’s more genuine. You can’t force genuine.