I’ve been incredibly broke before and I think it’s different kind of protective. I’m frugally protective at trying to keep something working but that’s a different kind of possesive.

Of course you will care about food when you are starving. And you won’t care about scraps and leftovers when you are not.

But like that was a change of not being afraid to lose something you can rebuy. I’m sure their is plenty of non disposable items that you would have and ideals that you hold onto as truths about yourself. And im sure you don’t viewing housing and transportation as disposable.

Yeah I think they misunderstood what was happening cause they were getting wealthier as they got older.

Honestly, you just become more protective of your stuff and things you consider yours as you get older.

There are plenty of nerds that are super conservative about their fandoms and what is allowed to happen with them and same for all kinds of niches but the idea we would get more conservative with money really assumed we would accumulate more of it and assets. But what people do have is their apps and thoughts and those… Those people will be just as conservative as the boomers are about their money as they get older.

Seconded

Yeah but I have JPEG’d a photo a lot and never seen the text get that swirly. It feels purposeful.

But, never ascribe malice when the more likely answer is stupidity. You are probably right.

Interesting. I think that does seem like a legit way to get stuff that looks like this.

Nope the others aren’t AI generated either. Same weird filter on all of them to make it feel that way. Seriously don’t know why or how they did it.

The sleeping face tied up in twine is iconic

I don’t actually think a single of these photos are AI generated which is insane.

I still wonder if it was purposefully done to make them look AI generated cause I have compressed photos to 144p and they don’t look that warped and fluid. Like they fed it backwards through an AI generator.

P.S. pretty sure they are all real. Seen these photos on reddit years ago.

I have no idea how they managed to make the photo look AI generated with compression and it now has me thinking it’s literally gonna be a style to make real photos look like that, like someone predicted at the start of the AI generated movement.

Have, you lost Ted?

They apparently couldn’t be bothered to to type out

Generated?

The truck one is one of the only ones that I know is real cause I have seen that photo before.

Don’t know what level of compression they went through to make the photo look like that but it didn’t always.

Absurd fake crunch? Dude the bed is meant to support the weight you aren’t supposed to put a pallet on the bare aluminum frame like that. It’s exactly how it crunches when people put heavy things across the top of their bed like that.
Trucks aren’t magical. They still have limits.

Oh I usually block the ads via a pihole and don’t even bother logging in. Tubi is great

But everyone that agrees with me on one thing must agree with me on all other things or else they are morally wrong and inferior! /s

Yeah but if they double the price and only lose 1/3 of their customers that is a profit. They are aiming for that equilibrium price and honestly more people are willing to pay to never have their entertainment end than we could ever hope for.

So this has been true of YouTube Red since the beginning. It’s one if the reasons I got it. But they use watch time as the way to divide your money out. It actually makes it extremely unfair split for people that make great but short content. It’s also why longer content became more popular around that time and those 24/7 streams run like that.

Also why creators started doing channels of just padded run time content of like building legos and eating things. It’s to secure better and funding.

The current setup is pretty busted and feels like the wheels are coming off again.

I’m thinking same logic as the saw blade collars in wild wild west.

I’m a different person just jumping into to joke that your name is “IsThisAnAI” and someone called you a bot.

Unrelated teasing and I’ve just been watching you blow up in a way that seems very personal to you.

Like you immediately jumped to a personal attack on a stranger. I agree that the whole everyone is bots or Russians is stupid but also I don’t even know what you are upset about at this point.