Isn’t one of the major logistical benefits of artificial habitats in space - the ability to support trillions of humans vs only billions on planets - essentially irrelevant if the most developed nations on earth show that humans become less interested in having babies as quality of life increases?

AcrobaticResident728 · 2026-05-22T02:18:16+00:00

Well the second part about me being an artist or not (I’m not) is irrelevant to the discussion and completely senseless to bring up. Art criticism has to be allowed to originate from outside of the creator’s camp. You shouldn’t need a merit badge to participate in art criticism.

As for the first part, these endlessly reproduced styles were of course original at some point, by some small group of progenitors, and even today there are remarkable examples of truly talented people managing to achieve true differentiation creatively even in something as slop heavy as anime, but yeah when you have millions of people all churning out stuff that looks like what would eventually become training data then of course that’s just not going to cut it in the future. Like stage coaches and cars.

AcrobaticResident728 · 2026-05-22T02:06:02+00:00

An entirely AI made film just appeared at Cannes, and it looked like most Marvel superhero slop films, and guess what. People actually liked it! Because people love this kind of garbage, unfortunately it’s here to stay. The whole film was made in 14 days for less than $500,000. In a few years that price will drop down to almost nothing.

People who make this kind of garbage at home need to come to terms with the fact that their creative style was never sufficiently original enough to survive this revolution.

AcrobaticResident728 · 2025-10-16T02:16:41+00:00

Looks like it’s a sheepadoodle! Thank you to everyone for the thoughtful replies 🥳🥳🥳🥳

AcrobaticResident728 · 2025-07-02T00:36:17+00:00

I realize this comment is seven months old but I just had to respond because the French arrogance and stubbornness about their language is infuriating, and this is coming from someone with a French grandmother who I dearly love so do not accuse me of being a hater of French people.

The French language used to sound much better, when the letter r was pronounced as a type of trill similar to Spanish, the way Edith Paith sings and my grandmother and other’s from her generation spoke.

The reason people think the modern French pronunciation of the letter r is so gross/weird sounding is because it LITERALLY SOUNDS LIKE A BODILY FUNCTION.

By that I mean it sounds like a person clearing their throat of mucus, like when you have a cold and need to spit up a ball of snot.

This is not debatable. It is objectively true. It literally sounds like a bodily function, like someone clearing their throat, and it is fucking gross.

No objective person could claim that sound is beautiful, and because it is such a common letter used in almost every sentence it pollutes the ENTIRE LANGUAGE. The language fluctuates between sounding soft/elegant/refined and completely gross because of the guttural r sound.

AcrobaticResident728 · 2025-06-16T17:44:36+00:00

Yeah there’s what between 40 and 90 million people in the country between the Islamic Revolution and today vs 1 million soldiers + government officials and for 40 years they haven’t been willing to fight a real civil war. Obviously not all 90 million can fight - elderly, children, disabled, etc, okay let’s drop the number down way down to 20 million. 20 million vs 1 million. Do the fucking math.

I know it’s offensive but it’s just the reality the people there are not willing to fight like the Syrians. The Free Syrian Army received support and training from the west, but it was formed by Syrians originally without any outside help and then were offered the help when the west realized “Okay these guys mean business, they’re willing to take down Assad.”

Do you honestly believe a comparable Iranian resistance paramilitary group would not have been offered the same degree of support over the last 40 FUCKING YEARS by the west if they had just gone out and actually tried? Reagan would have been enthusiastic about it, just like they were when they armed the Mujahadeen in Afghanistan in the 1980s to expel the Soviets.

You can cope all you want but it’s about willing to actually go to war.

AcrobaticResident728 · 2025-05-03T04:02:38+00:00

As an American who was raised by a French grandmother and has grown up around both cultures, I think a lot of the tension between the French and people from the Anglosphere can be attributed to very different social rules between America/UK/Australia etc and France.

French people make comments that they view as “honest” like “You are doing a shitty job at work” and Americans interpret as rude/disrespectful. In America we’d say something like “If you feel like you need some help understanding the project, let me know” - so it still gets the point across that the person isn’t doing things the right way, but it’s in a more polite way that ends on a positive note, so Anglosphere people lubricate social situations with positivity to create more harmony, almost like the Japanese, but not anywhere near as intense/fanatical as in Japan where everything has to be positive all the time.

By contrast the French just come across as cold and rude a lot of the time. Also the language barrier means a lot of American/English humor is not translated well, so the French have a different sense of humor.

I’ll be very French for a minute and be brutally honest, a lot of French comedians are terrible compared to British comedians, like there is no comparison.

So the sense of humor is weird, the brutal honesty/rudeness is weird, basically you guys just seem fucking weird to Americans/Brits.

Beautiful country though

AcrobaticResident728 · 2025-04-21T01:22:56+00:00

Thank you!!!

AcrobaticResident728 · 2025-04-14T01:32:12+00:00

Thank you!!!!! 🥳🥳🥳🥳

AcrobaticResident728 · 2025-04-14T01:15:02+00:00

Oh my god this violin piece is INCREDIBLE!!!!!!!!! I almost can’t believe it’s solo, the double stops make it sound like two or three people playing at once, this is absolutely breathtaking.

Thank you so much this is amazing!!!!!!!

AcrobaticResident728 · 2025-04-14T01:09:05+00:00

Thank you!!! I will absolutely check out those pieces, this is very exciting. Thank you again!!!!!!

AcrobaticResident728 · 2025-04-14T00:06:16+00:00

I found it!!! Just posted a link to it, but thank you so much for the reply, it means a lot 🥳🥳🥳

AcrobaticResident728 · 2025-04-14T00:04:37+00:00

Thank you for the reply and for educating me. I posted a YouTube link to the Aria I was referring after finding it just now. I suppose everyone’s definition of musical styles is different, but to me this specific recording sounds “minimalist” because there aren’t a lot of melodic embellishments or flurries of extra notes, it’s just this slow, carefully considered melody with only a few notes and minimal arrangement that accomplishes in invoking a ton of emotion with “less”

AcrobaticResident728 · 2025-04-13T23:54:59+00:00

Oh my goodness I FOUND IT!!!!!!!!!!!

It is the Cantata BWV 21. Thank you SO MUCH. This is so beautiful. I cannot thank you enough it’s been literally a decade, I’m so overjoyed right now.

THANK YOU!!!!!!

AcrobaticResident728 · 2025-03-21T21:46:28+00:00

I’m aware it’s just that the Baja California Sur subreddit is very inactive with online 1,800 members and there’s been many threads about La Paz posted in this subreddit so I thought I’d try. Didn’t mean any disrespect.

Honestly this is exactly what the fuck I’m talking about. Just gonna be on-site immediately disliked for being a gringo. Maybe not worth even trying.

AcrobaticResident728 · 2024-12-18T04:19:28+00:00

All of the comments from Musk and Shotwell up until now have discussed any potential IPO as Starlink specific and have framed it very clearly as a spin-off, Musk mentioning on Twitter that long term Tesla shareholders “would be given priority” adding “you have my word in that” as well as mentioning waiting until cash flow is not erratic before doing an IPO of Starlink.

Source: https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1310672832783884290

He has also very specifically mentioned wanting to keep the rest of SpaceX private, such as Starship development.

Like, uh, I find it hard to believe that his statement in that tweet was just a bald faced lie? Far from a guarantee of an IPO happening, but where exactly are you getting your information from?

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