Sorry, wrong term. Price gouging. The market is absurd and most of it is thanks to WATA's pump-and-dump shit.
MossyFeathers
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Maybe if you weren't ~~scalping~~ price gouging that shit then there wouldn't be a market for knockoffs. Personally, I don't care if I have a knockoff or the real deal anymore. As long as I and the console can't tell the difference, who cares?
Why'd they put black people in antarctica? What?
What is the middle picture?
The real question is, is there anything outside your brain that is affecting your decisions. Otherwise, congratulations! You have free will!
Well, yes. We are a collection of inputs and outputs. We cease to be in a vacuum. I can't find the study, but I'm almost certain I remember reading about an experiment where scientists removed a rat brain and studied what happened when they gave it everything it needed except external stimuli. They found the brain atrophied and eventually just stopped. That doesn't mean the same would happen to humans, but it suggests that external stimuli are necessary for consciousness.
Our lives appear to be a chain of cause and effect impacted by our surroundings. Any prediction or anticipation we do is in response to external stimuli priming us to expect some form of action or inaction to occur.
To try and put it another way, your response was predetermined, as is mine. The text on the screen released photons in a pattern my brain could recognize, which were then focused by my cornea and projected onto my retina. Those photons were translated into a mix of chemical and electrical impulses that traveled up my optic nerves and into my brain. From there, they were filtered through a highly complex series of algorithms that used things like prior experience and personality to decide whether or not I should respond, and if so, how I should do it. At no point in this did I actually get to choose, everything was cause and effect with my choice being an illusion.
This isn't some grand conspiracy theory about lizard men hijacking your brainwaves; it's just simple cause and effect. You responded the way you did because deep inside your brain, you decided that what you wrote was the best way to respond based on prior experience, and so you did. The same is true for me.
The man destroyed the large blue and white Porcelain Cube at a busy private opening for the exhibition “Who am I?” at Palazzo Fava in Bologna on the evening of September 21. Local police arrested a 57-year-old Czech man who has been identified in Italian media as Vaclav Pisvejc, a provocateur and self-proclaimed artist known for targeting important works of art.
Ai himself is known for smashing works as well. The exhibition’s curator Arturo Galansino noted that several works in the show document the destruction of a precious ceramic. The most famous of these is Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn (1995), a triptych of black-and-white photographs in which the artist holds and then drops a 2,000-year-old vessel. It is a commentary on China’s deliberate erasure of its cultural heritage.
Ai himself is known for smashing works as well.
Hmmm...
Well Ai Weiwei, it seems you got your answer.
While I doubt the vandal was actually trying to make a comment on the artist's reputation, it does seem very appropriate that one of his sculptures would get smashed at an exhibition called, "Who am I?"
I mean, it's pretty obvious free will is an illusion if you stop and think about how the universe functions. If everything is governed by physics, then why would we be special? In order for "true" free will to exist, it is necessary to exist outside the realm of physics in order to make decisions without said decisions being affected by the chemical and electrical signals in your brain. You have to be able to make choices that won't be influenced by the physical world, which, afaik, there is no evidence for.
However, even from a philosophical standpoint: if we rewound time to the last major choice you made, so that you could make it all over again, would you do anything different?
Keep in mind that we rewound time and you don't have any new knowledge that you acquired after originally making the choice.
Personally, I can't see a reason why I'd make any other choice. As such, that seems like a much larger existential crisis in the same vein that you should be concerned with.
I'm normally against AI in commercial/political works (basically anything that is meant to be distributed), especially when it's just a straight generation with no human additions, but please. Holy fuck, this is amazing. I love this. I can't explain why, but the mangled bodies in the park are hilarious.
I am very excited and looking forward to seeing this after this review. Might have to make my dad go in blind when I watch it LOL.
Could have been a Sims expansion with a smol filter on.
reverse nepobaby? How does that work? His kid gave birth to him and then hired him?
That makes a hell of a lot more sense than what I thought it was. But why'd they censor "Nazi"? I assumed it was a slur because why else would you censor an "n-word"?