Sitting with difficult feelings is always an unpleasant experience. Sometimes, the best we can do is to express them in some way other than directly. Write them down just for yourself, make poetry, paint, sing. And if you really need to, you tell me and I'll yell back at the cruel people for you.

Putting the "Dr" in "dere".

If you need to play historically accurate music, however, you still need the historically accurate instrument. It is a pain to find a maker, then wait the time it takes to have it made only see if it gets damaged in the mail.

I mean, what's next, having to pay extra tax on books, legal documents, newspapers, and playing cards? I understand buying American as an American, but if it's a product that is heavily associated with a foreign culture, I think import taxes should be waved if purchased from that country.

The cost of the tea was about $72. I also had to pay import duties for the first time in my life. The total after the duties was around $100. This makes each cup of tea around $18. I feel like having to pay extra taxes on teas is something that has lead to wars.

Since they are just using the images and not plot, voice acting, or setting, it is devoid of context and individuality. This is what A.I. does, only it fucks up hands and fabricates writing.

The amazing art is considered outliers and are scrubbed from the datasets. The mediocre art doesn't have context to make it less cookie-cutter when shat out of A.I. It's like that meme about how all the male anime protags look the same.

Machine learning DOES have a place in model prediction, but I don't need an LLM giving me advice on things that even the people in the datasets it was trained on gets wrong. I don't need Generative A.I. for art and music because it's all derivative from pools of mediocre art and music.

What happens to the city that finally outsources their work to another country because power and labor are cheaper there? I don't really have a problem with A.I. per se, just how it is being exploited into areas it has no place being.

This might seem alright on the outside. That city is getting x number jobs. It'll stimulate the local economy blah blah blah. What happens when the model for A.I. changes? What happens if there are no breakthroughs in the theory and all the models become essentially the same?

But then it leaks into politics. Politicians are starting to tout A.I. as much as the businesses because of lobbying and funding their careers. What was that Ross Scott quote? "I can't tell you who'll be the next president. Money. That's who". "We're investing in A.I. and creating x jobs!"

But these people hear it from other business owners and so on, all the way back to the Googles and Microsofts. The Googles and Microsofts just want as much invasive user data as possible to sell for their profits and exploit using marking and keeping tabs. A.I. is just a tool to harvest your data.

They don't even need to use A.I. to support it. They just regurgitate what everyone else is saying about it. If they DO even implement it, they can turn a blind eye that it isn't doing what they expect because they can blame employees for not utilizing A.I. more if their profits don't go brrr.

Businesses hear from other more "successful" businesses that A.I. will work miracles for productivity and increase revenue. The "successful" business owners are seen as visionaries because they make more money than others.