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Thank you very much! I love the new direction. I'm very pro-empowering our mods and admins to make the good decisions.

Thanks for what you're doing. I know running stuff is a massive hassle.

You really, really, really need to see women as people-who-might-be-friends, and not exclusively as fuck objects.

The update now is just "Edit: Welp" and I wanted to point that out to you if you hadn't seen it because it got a laugh out of me. Relatable.

I'm on team YDI.

None of those articles are anything other than news. They look pretty normal-news to me. Onion stuff is supposed to be beyond the pale and ridiculous. Moscow getting hit by drones at this point is just news. That it coincides with something matters not a whit because there's like a war going on.

Trump saying anything pro-Russia with regards to Ukraine isn't news for the same reason. He's actually already said a lot of similar stuff already. It's just not unexpected, it's not surprising.

I actually went and gathered a bunch of links about Trump saying pro-Russia crap for the past 6 months and then I was like, "Who wants to read this?" We all know it's been happening. It's just not hard to believe anymore.

I think they should probably stop allowing "Trump or the White House posts a photoshop of Trump as something ridiculous" posts because those are also no longer surprising, but Trump 2028 apparel was surprising at the time. I remember seeing that and showing it to some people in my life who didn't believe me when I said that was coming. The "but I was intrigued" story belongs because that is also ridiculous, especially to anyone who knows anything about LLMs. I don't think the foreign movies one should have stuck, but it's for sure more oniony than "and there were more drone strikes."

So, yeah, YDI for these. These are regular news stories now. I'm sorry, but that's just the world we live in.

Statistically, the US is fat, so drawing fat people isn't inherently fat shaming.

This is a joke about how my generation is old. We just also happen to be mostly fat people.

Thank you for sharing your views!

One thing I've noticed is no one is judging anybody for being here. It makes sense that not everybody is everything.

My cat hates other cats which is why he is my cat.

He really has it all figured out.

"Seeing things I don't want to see is unfair" is patently ridiculous when the ability to curate your internet experience exists.

I've blocked an insane amount of NSFW communities. That's not unfair to them, or to me.

One of us!

I love your comment and agree with it wholesale.

I have gone into the fuck ai community multiple times when it hits the 'all' feed and stated that I have absolutely made a living selling art. That the people bitching about AI tend to be the people who aren't paying artists now, and that all the artists I know are fine with AI art.

And why are we fine with it? Because no one wants to draw someone's Sonic OC. No one wants to have to draw some asshole's latex fetish to pay the bills. The problem isn't that AI art is stealing from artists, the problem is that capitalism makes it impossible to exclusively make the art you choose to make and survive.

But liberals hate hearing that the system is the problem, and love anything that tells them that they are "right" and "just" by simply clicking a downvote button.

I used to give away free art whenever I had the time because that's what got me into it- I was too poor to afford to commission someone, but everyone deserves a visual for the character they're playing or for their avatar on a forum. So I had to balance giving people who couldn't afford it, free things, with doing art for people who could pay, so I could live.

People who claim to support artists loooove to give zero dollars to an artist to fix this problem, but preach about how evil gen AI is.

Gen AI never cost me a single customer. People who do commissions, will continue doing commissions. Gen AI is a tool of the capitalist class to cut costs, and in that, it doesn't matter if some prick is abusing someone on a forum somewhere- the owner class doesn't care if you're making a poor kid feel bad about using AI instead of being bougie enough to pay. They'll cut that cost and ignore your outraged and there's nothing you can do about it.

So to me, it's just another way for the haves to fight the have-nots. Oh, you're too poor to have your own artist? We'll bully you off the internet!

I think that should be up to the moderators of the community when they make that decision at the start of the community.

As it stands now, the anti AI crowd wants everything segregated. They whine and complain even if they happen to see AI used in communities they don't even belong to.

Segregating gen AI to only being used in communities that are for gen AI is kind of unfair to those who like to use it, and while people who dislike it shouldn't be forced to interact with it, people who don't shouldn't be disallowed from using it at all times, either.