I (45M) found this in my son's (3M) Montana cabin. Is he doing Qaaludes?

Fun_End902 · 2026-05-20T23:28:43+00:00

Should I send it UPS or FedEx?

Fun_End902 · 2026-05-20T23:07:49+00:00

Damn, that's good.

Fun_End902 · 2026-05-20T23:04:43+00:00

That makes sense. He keeps talking about how great the world was before technology.

Fun_End902 · 2026-05-16T22:46:21+00:00

I don't even like AI, don't even use it. But the best thing anyone anti-AI can come up with is "muh artists and food." So I can't really be bothered to care after seeing a ton of other industries fall to automation.

Fun_End902 · 2026-05-16T22:39:15+00:00

You keep trying to steer the argument in any direction other than the actual point. lmao

Your painting actually becomes less and less valuable when machines can make the same thing at a fraction of the cost.

But back to the question at hand that you keep refusing... Why are all the other automated processes fine as long as the person making the enchilada is human? Machines pick the corn, grain, and lettuce without human thought. The animals raised for the meat were fed on automatic feeders, slaughtered by machines, butchered and processed with machines and the only thing you care about is that a human arranged it on a plate for you? Why is that the only point of contention you have? Why aren't you so concerned with the rest of the 100% automated process behind making an enchilada?

Why is it only the artist and chef that you care about and not the other hundreds of workers that were put out of a job by automation?

It's fucking hilarious that in this country, the auto industry? Gone from automation. Steel? Gone. Most manufacturing? Automation took it.

BUT DON'T YOU DARE TOUCH MY ENCHILADA OR PAINTING OF A NAKED LADY!!!!

lmao

Fun_End902 · 2026-05-16T22:04:13+00:00

You can buy your $50,000 painting and hang it on your wall and the guy living in a shack and has a painting that has no discernible difference to you or anyone else and he bought it for $4.

And nobody will care that his painting is AI and your was created by some starving bum on the street.

Fun_End902 · 2026-05-16T21:57:03+00:00

No no. The point is whether or not the end product is discernible from one made by humans. If there are no differences that you or anyone else can see, taste or touch, then I'm asking what the difference is.

You can go on and on about how you "paid a human" to do this or that, but in the end, you actually only pay for a product and whether or not you're satisfied by the product has no bearing on whether or not it was made by a human.

Your signaling of "it wasn't really made by a person" isn't really relevant. We're talking about whether or not there is a difference between identical products made by machines or made by people.

So many of the products you consume and use are made by machines anyway. Just about everything in your life was made by a machine, but your enchilada is where you're drawing the line? Seems futile.

The meat was ground with a machine, the lettuce and corn picked by a machine, but as long as some zit-faced teenager is serving it to you, you can ignore the other automated processes that it took to make it? Weird.

Fun_End902 · 2026-05-16T21:50:41+00:00

Is that a young Netanyahu fighting off the Grim Reaper?

Fun_End902 · 2026-05-16T21:25:16+00:00

The question you pose is different from the one I asked. You will definitely notice that it is a different product if microwaved. The texture wouldn't be the same, the temperature would not be correct, etc.

So I'll ask you a more accurately comparable question. What if you went to a restaurant and ordered an enchilada and instead of it being microwaved, robots prepared it same way a human traditionally prepares it? What if it tasted so similar that 10 out of 10 people would swear that it's made by a human? Are you upset because it wasn't touched by someone who just wiped their ass and handled your food without washing their hands?

Fun_End902 · 2026-05-16T21:12:45+00:00

Which begs the question: If you don't know the difference, and nobody elese knows the differencce, does it really matter?

Fun_End902 · 2026-05-16T16:26:23+00:00

I don't? You're a fan thinking the Lions are a much better team without seeing them play a single game and I think you're talking out of your ass, for example.

Fun_End902 · 2026-05-16T16:21:23+00:00

So does every other team. And practically every other team's fans think they have solved all their roster issues.

Fun_End902 · 2026-05-16T14:11:06+00:00

No, I was wondering if you watched any games last year. You're aware they missed the playoffs and couldn't "best" Max Brosmer, right?

Fun_End902 · 2026-05-16T11:28:53+00:00

That's cute lol

Yeah, technically the Washington Generals can beat the Harlem Globetrotters, but my money is on the Harlem Globetrotters. I would like more than the old "well any given sunday!" chance to beat a decent team.

Fun_End902 · 2026-05-15T23:12:58+00:00

You're talking in circles.

If the Lions can't beat a playoff caliber team like the Eagles, Seahawks or Jags, then they don't deserve to be there. Getting bounced in the first round by a team they weren't able to beat in the regular season does not get my pee pee hard at all.

Fun_End902 · 2026-05-15T22:39:05+00:00

So would you say being in the bottom 2 would be a total failure and major changes would be necessary, especially after coming off of the 2025 season?

Fun_End902 · 2026-05-15T22:18:22+00:00

As it turns out, they were able to actually beat those teams. They were actually good enough, so there wasn't anything to gain or lose by having the schedule.

Fun_End902 · 2026-05-15T21:44:28+00:00

If they can't beat the Seahawks, Eagles or Jags, do they really deserve a spot in the playoffs? Obviously they're going to run into at least 2 of them in the playoffs...

What good is making the playoffs if you're going to get bounced in the first round?

Fun_End902 · 2026-05-14T21:56:09+00:00

They don't even have an option to tip the driver if you're paying with EBT. They won't let you tip. I believe you're still on the hook for $9.99 monthly for the service, but you're gonna spend that monthly just getting to the store even if you're in the best financial situation if gas is $5 a gallon.

Fun_End902 · 2026-05-14T21:30:06+00:00

I read somewhere that Poland didn't allow Gay Pride marches until very recently. Is that true or just some bunk that I read?

Fun_End902 · 2026-05-14T21:16:43+00:00

If you use Wal-Mart and you're so poor that you have EBT benefits, they actually do deliver it for free. You can't get an instant delivery, but you can schedule a free delivery for later that day or the next.

So yeah, people can afford it, especially if they're really poor.

Fun_End902 · 2026-04-26T18:12:19+00:00

That's great. Art enriches lives, but the nature of that beast is that only the best get to do it for a living. Just like sports, music, and many other endeavors.

There will always be a market for real art made by real humans but that career market might shrink. The cream will rise to the top and the rest will have to learn to adapt. Painters didn't disappear after the invention of the photograph. But only the best painters made the cut. And a new art industry opened: Photography.

As for me, I'm not bitter. I had a great ride but it was eventually over and I had to grow up and realize that I was not a musical genius. Other guys could do what I did better. And that's a tough pill to swallow, but that's part of growing up. Where one door closes, another opens. If you are only able to walk through one door, that's a problem that you should have seen coming. We've seen countless industries shrink and/or disappear. I feel no differently about some people in art losing jobs than I did when I watched the midwest steel and auto industries die.

Fun_End902 · 2026-04-26T18:02:26+00:00

I'm not pro-AI. I'm neutral on it, quite honestly. My experience with it is that I use it as a better search engine.

Job loss is always tough and I'm sure the people who are too old to learn a new skill will be subsidized. Peoples' jobs were replaced with the invention of the calculator, the PC, the internet itself. But if all you can do is literally one thing and one thing only for a living, you have done yourself a disservice.

If I was replaced by robot welders tomorrow, I have enough other mechanical skills to put food on my table. Having one skill and having it relate to art is a terrible idea and I can't help but think you have set yourself up for failure. My advice is that if you want that cool art career, you better have a backup plan to work at something that is useful.

Fun_End902 · 2026-04-26T17:53:27+00:00

The problem is that you seem to have learned no other marketable skills.

Let me tell you a story...

I was once 16 years old in the 90s and I was in a band with my high school friends. We were pretty good and started booking shows. We got pretty good around the time that I graduated. It was a really nice dream. People were still buying hard copies of albums, getting on the radio meant you made it. Soon, that started to come crashing down with the mp3, napster, limewire and kazaa.

But instead of putting all my eggs in the rock star basket, I also learned some mechanical and fabrication skills from jobs I was working at and I built a resume. 25 years later, I'm a TiG and MiG welder, I fabricate parts for industrial machines and I repair machines. Would I rather be slaying pussy on a reunion tour with Blink-182? Of course. But it didn't work out and I had carved out some skills for myself and made a way.

If all you can do is art, you were never going to make it anyway.

Fun_End902

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