That is precisely it. Generative AI is a tool, just like a digital canvas over a physical canvas, just like a canvas over a cave wall. As it has always been, the ones best prepared to adapt to this new tool are the artists. Instead of fighting the tool, we need to learn how to best use it. No AI, short of a true General Intelligence, will ever be able to make the decisions inherent to illustration, but it can get you close enough to the final vision so as to skip the labor intensive part.

That’s actually me removing semicolons from Python.

The most fucked up part is that, if I could, I’d happily take in some of that trash to repair and recirculate it, but corporations make that as difficult as possible so as to not hurt their profits.

Tax her, then

Airbnb

Is not really a thing around here.

Another option is to sublet the flat you are living in?

No way in hell I’m giving someone access to my pets without being acquainted to them for several years, first.

Limit your food/entertainment costs by shopping at discounters

Outside of Canada/US/Europe/Japan, things aren’t that easy. Entertainment costs for most people, me included, are already zero. We also only ever shop at a discount because that’s how we all grow up - only rich people get to pick and choose.

Make a strict budget of how much you are able to spend per week for food, essentials, etc. and try to stick to it.

Same as above.

There are food banks, and even opportunities to buy really cheap food that’s close to its expiration date.

We generally call that substandard living. At that point, might as well be a literal slave.

Get some part-time job

That doesn’t really exist here either. Besides, if I could “just get another job”, there wouldn’t be a problem to begin with, right?

So now you’re moving goalposts - it’s no longer about whether or not people got killed, but whether you find it justified that they died? I’m sorry, but unless we’re talking about a literal Nazi, I can’t agree with that sort of view.

in the US, there are tons of banks offering cash for opening accounts, so I abuse those to make myself feel like I’m sticking it to them

No such thing here, AFAIK. You’d be lucky to get a plastic cup with the financial institution’s logo on it.

Artist. Publicly, I keep my artwork on the same handle as I’m using here on Lemmy (although you might not find it too easily, DDG is only returning results for a different artist when I look).

Will our efforts in philosophy ever lead to a non-circular answer to the worth of life? I.e. will mankind ever create or find its purpose?

Yeah, they were just shot. There’s footage of the bodies on the street, by the way.

It varies a lot, since I make a living from commissions and they’re super irregular. Generally speaking, after necessities (food, water, rent and internet), I have less than 100 usd left over. Also, it’s not really an overdraft fee.

there’s not a whole lot here to help you with unless you just want to rant about banks

That’s pretty much what I wanted to do, yes. Never have I left a bank thinking “wow, I love what they do for me”.

Roughly 80 usd

That’s the idea! They can just break even, if they bought a place but aren’t currently living there. Otherwise, leave the property on the market so someone who actually needs it can get it.

It seems to me that if a house exists, someone owns it, unless you consider government possession NOT ownership.

Even if you argue for the ownership of a house, the land it sits on is ultimately owned by the state, so I don’t think that’s a very productive topic…

So if the government possesses the house, they should provide it as housing for free to someone, right?

Not necessarily for free (although, as I stated, that would be ideal), but certainly not for profit.

And a person CAN buy the house, but if that person is not going to live in it, he should provide it to a person to live in either rent free OR at a price that is not more than the taxes and costs so that it is essentially provided non-profit. Correct?

That would be incentivised, yes.

That’s the ideal solution, but not the only solution.

So there should be no land ownership

There already isn’t, in absolute terms. A government can reposses any piece of land within its territory (maybe with the exception of embassies) at its own discretion.

Another simple solution is that the taxation on any land should be proportional to its market value deduced from a “usefulness” score, i.e. tilled land used for farming is very useful, therefore shouldn’t have increased taxes. Empty houses aren’t useful at all, therefore high taxes are justified. This is a developed application of Land Value Taxation.

I’m saying “owning” land shouldn’t be a viable way to acquire profit. It’s a really basic statement, and it’s not a new idea either.

Show me proof of your god’s existence.

The hypocrisy is in claiming to know the truth from a hypothesis with (currently) unknowable factors.

Can we possibly test for the simulation hypothesis? Not at the present. Thus, to say that it’s true is just as bad as claiming a sky fairy made the world in seven days

“I know you’re a leprechaun because I believe that. You must be a leprechaun.”

Any basic book on banking. When I say basic, I mean the sort you’d read to get an entry level job at one.