We printed 400 copies and 200 of them sold in pre-order, which covered the costs (of professional illustration, typesetting and printing). I had an existing audience and have done all my own promo work, plus arranged a book tour with an event a month from December to May. Direct, easy, hassle-free.

LLMs are trained to give responses that humans like. Unfortunately, humans tend to prefer "Confident and Wrong" to "Uncertain but Mostly Right".

Thank you!

Populism has a very clear definition in political science and it is used by both left & right. Just because it is used by fascists doesn’t make it inherently fascist. I am not suggesting populism is a great idea but it’s ignorant to paint it as an only far right technique.

Oh dear.

What are you bringing to this discussion except an attempt at negging and your unsupported personal opinions?

www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv...

www.opendemocracy.net/en/can-europ...

You can search for stuff yourself, you know “Populists can be from the right or left of the political divide; left-wing populists (also known as social populists) combine left-wing politics with populist themes and rhetoric”

www.idea.int/blog/explain...

You’re factually wrong. “A wide variety of populisms exist, on the Right and Left ends of the political spectrum, yet far-Right ones are much more pervasive.” www.institutmontaigne.org/en/expressio...

I was referring to the question posted alongside the dictionary screenshot.

For me: yes and no because the main art form in my life is perfumery and that exists in a realm of consumer safety, fire safety, environmental safety, laws pertaining to the activities of sourcing, storing and disposing of materials… so in this case yes, but you also need some basic competence.

Over here, the word “change” is now nothing but a dog whistle.

Always!

Holy echolalia, this should win some kind of medal

Actual lol

If you are sure that you want a biological child, and do not yet have one, do not wait.