The Mailbox Test, like the breakfast test, is an excellent way to tell who you can allow to wield power in your society. Goes like this: If someone is hurt trying to destroy someone else's stuff in order to take pleasure from their pain, do you sympathize with... The aggressor because he got hurt? Or with the guy who owns the stuff, because he wasn't the aggressor? You can have people in your society who fail the Mailbox Test. That's okay... they can work at hospices, or shelters for orphaned kittens, or something. But you cannot allow them to vote, or otherwise wield political power. Because if you do, they will open the gates of the city to the enemy. I am personally tired of everyone pretending that people who enjoy ruining things for random strangers are just kewt smol beans who are only aggressive because of all the complex socioeconomic factors and lack of resources. They knew someone would be hurt by what they did. They knew that someone had done literally nothing harmful to them. And those two ideas, in combination made them feel pleasure. And they went and did it. That is the sign of a rotten soul. Defending ourselves and our property is not just a right, it's a moral obligation. Otherwise, we just kick the can down the road for someone else to deal with, someone who may not be able to defend herself. I don't care if a vandal breaks his arms trying to destroy my stuff. Because I value my stuff more than a vandal's arms. And the fact that he tried to destroy somebody else's stuff shows that he, too, values his arms less than the opportunity to hurt somebody. We cannot allow such people inside the city, and we cannot give the keys to those who would open the gates for them.

matt, you're completely neglecting the person using the ai to create the art generated art doesn't appear from thin air it takes a person, with a vision, and a desire to see it manifested, to create art with ai there is a lot of ai slop, yes. most generated media is not art. but the same could be said for any medium or tool. it's not suddenly "art" if i draw a line on a piece of paper just because it was created by human hands what counts as "art" is determined by the vision, guidance and will put into the piece by the artist. just because a tool makes it easier to manifest that vision doesn't make it any less "art" this is the same conversation and same argument people have been having about art for centuries. many said it wasn't "real art" to use a digital drawing tablet when the technology was new, but in hindsight we can see how silly that viewpoint was. i think the problem is your framing; you view the subject of the discussion as "ai art", which puts the "ai" in the role of the artist. this isn't the correct framing. it should be "art created with ai". this frames the ai, correctly, as a tool utilised by a human. that's the *entire* argument and i think you'd see that more if you adjusted your framing a little tl:dr; it is possible to create art with generative tools. most generated media is not art. but most media in general is not art. not everything humans create is art. it takes intention, vision and will to create art. nothing about generative ai tools takes any of those away

“The grand fallacy of the political left is that evil is localized in some set of 'oppressors' from whom we can be 'liberated.' That is also its great attraction, for it allows people to attribute their dissatisfaction to other people.” — Thomas Sowell

Wait til she finds out about social security numbers…

We’re releasing the Epstein Files day one. There are no Epstein Files. Here’s video proof nothing happened. Ok we had to edit it. There are no Epstein Files. There are Epstein Files, but the Democrats made them. Why do you care so much about this Epstein guy? What are “Files”?

He IS right, no one cares about Epstein. We do however care about EVERYONE ELSE that's not been held accountable yet and that won't stop.

Something monumental just happened today. Trump's comments about Epstein. Something just broke.

AOC is a girl from the Bronx! You think we buy your bullshit? Oh, Sandy! youtu.be/NyLKjp-xDWw?t=56

Calling all bleeding heart liberals: Here’s what we’ll do. Give us your address. We’ll invite all foreign people to live in your home. You must feed, house and pay all legal costs. You can’t move out nor evict anyone. You can’t lock your doors ever. Once you’ve done that we’ll take your self-righteousness a little more seriously.

if one more person tells me “capitalism is making people starve” i’m going to lose it the poorest people in America are literally gigantic. like medically unexplainable balloon-shaped and built like refrigerators. we’re not dealing with famine—we’re dealing with doorways having to be widened have you seen what capitalism gives broke people in this country??? you can wake up at 2pm, take your government-subsidized Ozempic with a 3,000 calorie $9 “coffee” milkshake from Starbucks, get driven to Target in an air-conditioned car you don’t own, buy 40 pounds of seed oils and corn syrup with an EBT card, tap pay on your iPhone, and then go home and watch Netflix while you suck your vape in a recliner until the next time you’re ready to shovel food into that nasty mouth hole your shampoo has biotin. your snacks come in resealable zip pouches. your cats eat grain-free. your dog wears a thunder shirt. you’ve got twelve $7 body washes for different moods. your teeth are rotting from Mountain Dew. your fridge dispenses crushed ice. you have a bluetooth air fryer that makes chicken nuggets shaped like Paw Patrol characters. you’re on six medications and still have the nerve to say the system is failing you you don’t cook. you don’t walk. you don’t build. you don’t fix. and yet your lifestyle—degrading as it is—is still propped up by diesel engines, shipping containers, water treatment plants, and a thousand invisible laborers you’ll never meet capitalism isn’t making you starve. it’s keeping you alive in spite of yourself it gave you DoorDash. it gave you weed delivery. it gave you plus-size lingerie and mental health apps that send you push notifications like “you’re doing great sweetie” even though you’re a fucking emotionally unregulated lunatic. it gave you multiple streaming services to distract you from your own shitty choices. and you’re mad because it didn’t also give you meaning??? capitalism didn’t fail you. it cushioned your fall. it wrapped it in cheese, deep fried it, and let you finance it at 17% APR but the most ungrateful part is: the system is still carrying your ass on a reinforced mobility scooter through the Walmart to buy more of that trash you call food take away profit and by day four of your revolution you’ll be shitting in a bucket and trading hot cheetos for insulin in a parking lot SHUT THE FUCK UP

Just picked up takeout for me and my friend. I already paid $43 for two meals. You didn’t bring it to my table. You didn’t refill my drink. You tied the top of a plastic bag and spun an iPad around asking for a 25% tip. I’m so sick of this new trend. PS: I tipped zero.

Some are furious—not because there was war, but because there wasn’t. No deaths, no escalation, just defused threats. And that’s the real tragedy for them: peace doesn’t help them hate Trump more. #ceasefire

What happened? They’re indicting you on the Diddy party thing? Just asking

Tomorrow, we were supposed to resume peace talks with Iran. Yesterday, Netanyahu chose to attack Iran. Today, he’s asking us to join a war we were trying to prevent. No.

This is just the tip of the iceberg

You arrested a dude paddle boarding by himself.

Dude. This is a clown world. All of our "leaders" are insane.

FYI … Your hard earned tax dollars paid $3,000,000 for Chelsea Clinton’s wedding - and wait for it - also a $10,000,000 mansion.

Well, we know what they'll be wearing at the next women's march!