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"how am I supposed to explain gay to a child?"
My brother in Christ have you ever actually been around a child?? They will straight up ambush you with the most unhinged, bonkers, nihilist questions with a completely straight face. Questions that will cause grown adults to have an existential crisis if you think about them too long. Just yesterday in class a student stopped in the middle of playing a scale to ask me how does she even know if I exist or not and I had to sit quietly in a corner with that one for like an hour. PLEASE let me explain the gay. Explain the gay is fucking easy.
The great, intolerable lifestyle changes people cite as necessary to limit climate change always feel anti-climactic to me. Insulate houses better, ride the bus, don't buy so much crap, eat less animal products.
The thing is, these are all mostly positive or neutral lifestyle-wise when the infrastructure is there for it. Driving 40 minutes to work sucks even without traffic. Big, poorly insulated houses suck and end up uncomfortable anyway. Buying so much crap sucks because then you're either continually throwing shit out or living with unbearable clutter. Animal products are good in moderation but right now they're the biggest component of most meals.
I made a small website yesterday for a skill share group that I'm trying to startup with some other folks in rural and ex-urban #Virginia.
A Skill Share for Caroline County What is a skill share? A skill share is a group of people that meet to teach each other skills at no charge except for sometimes cost of materials. The goal is to help people learn new skills that they will need or that they simply want to learn. Each member of a skill share will at different times be a learner, a teacher, or a mentor as the skills being learned will sometimes align with their current expertise or align with what they wish to learn.
Ugh, but also there are even more issues related to stealing the labor of artists and destroying their livelihoods that will also look like "technological original sin" when brought up, to which I guess I'd say, we can also talk about local AI models when the artists are no longer starving.
Although, given the costs to operate for video generation, that also circles back into problems that are outgrowths of unconstrained computation.
πΏπΆππΆ "not yet begun to fight"