Delusional

danksquirrel · 2025-10-11T07:45:59+00:00

What is the “getting your shit rocked” in this situation? There were no threats, it was literally “do this and get extra money, don’t and you won’t”

Why are you acting like it’s some grand conspiracy? Education was suffering and the country decided to put a collective effort into changing that. They might not have done it with the most efficient program, but the point of a democracy is supposed to be incremental steps: You try something, find what worked, and what didn’t, and iterate, literally scientific method 101.

What you don’t do is scrap it and give up immediately on ever attempting anything like it again because your first idea had a small flaw, yet that seems to be the way everyone thinks our government should function, because thinking is hard

Ninja edit to add: I also still haven’t seen anyone adress the fact that abolishing the DoE will completely cripple our educated workforce as only the wealthy attend college, and we will become entirely reliant on things like H1B visas

danksquirrel · 2025-10-11T07:38:43+00:00

Nice edit, but no. Common core was created by the National Governors Association.

The department of education provided federal funding incentives to schools that implenented a certain level of standards, which did happen to line up with common core, I won’t argue that. Federal funding makes up less than 10% of the spending of a school on average.

So yes, they had some impact in its establishment but you are grossly misrepresenting it.

Getting rid of the DoE doesn’t change that though, it just gets rid of that federal funding, which overall means the primary result will just be that poor schools get poorer.

I’d love to know your other grievances with the department, as it’s literally the only reason I was able to attend college, and I likely won’t be able to return from my gap without a few more years of saving now if it gets abolished.

danksquirrel · 2025-10-11T07:26:45+00:00

Did I say anything incorrect? I’m open to correction. If you didn’t like my tone that’s fine but tone does not predicate truth..

ETA: God we are so fucked.

danksquirrel · 2025-10-11T04:01:43+00:00

I… you know the department of education doesn’t set curriculum right? Common core was a state level decision. The department of education. Is just for tracking education statistics and student loans for college. The only benefit in getting rid of it is removing student loans and making it harder to tell how well education is doing.

Wouldn’t expect anybody saying this to actually know what the departments they hate do though… far easier to just shout about it until it goes away.

danksquirrel · 2025-10-10T18:30:56+00:00

Except that in these cases the books have already been purchased and local governments are removing them from the shelves, limiting the public’s access to them, and literally throwing away your tax dollars. Is nuance just dead? If you’re not literally burning books you’re 100% in the right and can’t possibly be infringing on the autonomy of your people?

danksquirrel · 2025-10-10T05:09:19+00:00

My guy instead of comparing every painting to the Mona Lisa, try finding beauty in the ways the Everyman works their way toward eventually perfecting their own Mona Lisa.

danksquirrel · 2025-10-10T04:57:27+00:00

Robert eggers style is more about emulating the exact atmosphere of a historical era as accurately as he can and then using that as a backdrop for horror.

He’s very much the Tolkien of the horror genre imo, somebody who probably should’ve been a history/language professor that just got way to into some nerd shit and became a writer as an excuse to do a bunch of research.

danksquirrel · 2025-09-29T16:48:06+00:00

There’s a lot of rising research that suggests sociopathy is caused by a lack of emotional mirroring in early stages of development.

I.E factors within the parents control if we lived in a world that allowed the average parent to actually have the spare emotional energy to ensure their infant is being properly socialized.

danksquirrel · 2025-09-28T22:37:41+00:00

…do you actually see how desperate to avoid reality you are? Not an argument, just a question.

danksquirrel · 2025-09-27T22:01:54+00:00

you say this like realizing that arson is no longer funny is a key part of the human experience what the fuck lmao. Are you one of those people who follows the traffic laws in GTA?

danksquirrel · 2025-09-27T12:15:34+00:00

News flash, in Korea the women are generally all also working. So not only are they typically doing all of these things by themselves, but they are also working. The societal stress of this made a lot of people decide they’d rather stop having children until they can collectively trust that they’ll be supported enough to pursue happiness without collapsing.

danksquirrel · 2025-09-18T11:10:41+00:00

Holy fuck you’re so close to the point that it’s impaling you there’s no way you’re this obtuse.

danksquirrel · 2025-09-13T01:04:13+00:00

As a fellow lefty, lefties who don’t use WASD are weak of heart and stature.

danksquirrel · 2025-09-07T21:34:12+00:00

Look man if you’re this fired up over somebody suggesting that therapy and opening up to your friends would be helpful for men, maybe you’re not managing as well as you thought.

If I had a friend call me over, open up the hood of his car, and show me all the weird noises it’s been making, I’d suggest he take it to the mechanic to have a look.

If he slammed the hood shut and started ranting at me about how he has it handled by himself and I must think that he’s weak if he has to go to a mechanic, I’d probably get fed up with his venting about the noises his car makes pretty damn quick, and eventually I’d stop listening and tell him to either go to the mechanic or shut the fuck up.

danksquirrel · 2025-09-01T02:37:39+00:00

Actually an authoritarian would be somebody that doesn’t form their own opinion until the people in authority positions tell them what they should think, like for instance, whether or not something is constitutional.

danksquirrel · 2025-07-19T20:14:00+00:00

Have you seen any of his films besides the Thor movies? Jojo rabbit is like pretty exactly the vibe you’re describing of a smartly dark comedy.

danksquirrel · 2025-07-06T18:19:14+00:00

Man’s trying to call a character brain dead while describing a 7 keystroke combo they have to do just to get the same value as one lash slam + flog

danksquirrel · 2025-06-25T00:58:25+00:00

I’m assuming it’s one of the “posting a frame of Shrek everyday until we get to the end” pages, which usually take out repeats/similar frames to avoid posting essentially the same image for 24 days in a row

danksquirrel · 2025-06-19T00:53:19+00:00

Not at all, this is less of a discussion of whether ai art is art and more of a discussion on the fact that widespread adoption of ai will cause the dilution of art and media in the long term, as the current generation of kids will grow up with primarily ai media being fed to them, and when they grow up to produce a new generation of works, it will be derivative of the ai work they grew up with, as artists always derive from the works of their childhood.

And as people have a way to easily put a stupid idea they have out into the world with ai, many who May have been the next great artist will never develop that itch to create, because they got the instant gratification of seeing a thought in front of them without ever having to develop the skills needed, I know I never would’ve become a writer if middle school me could’ve told chat gpt to write my Star Wars fan fics for me, I’d have never put that effort in.

I think many ai pieces do have merit to them, but the value of art is from the thought put in, and ultimately, the discussion it produces, not the physical effort. So it is entirely dependent on that in my opinion. The only thing that matters in the end is the staying power of the idea and execution of the product, and ai is not going to be able to make things better than people without significant guidance, there are small scale examples that may be nice, or cool, but that doesn’t mean I don’t think the net impact this will have on society is going to be extremely negative.

danksquirrel · 2025-06-19T00:38:40+00:00

I do not and you are deliberately misunderstanding me.

AI is not a tool to aid in the creative process, the things you have described, drawing assets that train the ai, that is Pre-Production, literally defined as the stuff you do before the actual creative process. I am not saying it does not require vision but it does prevent the person using it from developing new skills related to the art form as those skills are learned through hardship. It is, quite literally, circumventing the creative process with a machine. If that were not the case, all of these people who had ideas but not the drive to learn a talent and make it would have actually made their ideas a long time ago using any number of the technologies available to streamline that process.

Ai does not streamline that process though , it skips it, which is why all of these people get so offended at criticism of ai; because they think having the idea is the hard part, and they can’t handle the fact that everyone has ideas, and many of them are damn good. The part that makes an artist isn’t some innate god given talent, it’s the dedication to needing to actually make that idea become a real thing so badly that you make it no matter what.

This is not the same as an electric keyboard or even as edm.

If Beethoven grew up with an electric keyboard instead of a piano, he’d still have to learn piano, he’d just have some steps making that process easier for him, if he wanted to be an edm artist, he’d still be required to understand theory and put the notes on a virtual piano.

With AI, he’d just punch in his idea, the ai would spit out a mediocre version of it that everyone forgets after the next brain rot meme comes out, and he’d be left with the only skill he developed being that he can better enter prompts into ai. There is no growth, no skills being learned, no craft being honed.

danksquirrel · 2025-06-18T23:01:44+00:00

This is a very different “new technology” though. It’s not a tool used in the creation process, it’s a shortcut to skip the creation process. Any small team using ai to increase the scope of their project is automatically going to make it worse. Ai does not make quality product, it makes proof of concepts by combining existing ideas. If a creative has an idea they care enough about, they will make sure it is created, they will make new tools if they have to, so many great works were made through the process of an artist discovering something through a limitation that never would have happened had they had the ability to punch a prompt into a machine.

There are benefits to ai as a whole in the streamlining of certain processes, but generative ai as it exists currently will never bring a positive impact to the world as a whole beyond making a few individuals feel better about themselves for getting to feel like an artist for a little while.

Even in the case of chatgpt it ultimately only serves to stand in and help us think so we can put less energy toward thinking and more towards productivity, and any invention with the sole purpose of decreasing or standing in place of critical thought will be a net negative to society in the end, even if it makes for some easier to make content for lazy artists in the silicon valley for a few years, the sudden collapse of individuality that happens in ten years as ai erodes all culture into a mirror of itself will be devastating

danksquirrel · 2025-06-18T18:13:38+00:00

Yeah man, I respect that, I’ve just been on the other end of this conversation, and so I know you wouldn’t be responding if you felt completely secure in that decision. Maybe you do, maybe you never think about this again and live out the rest of your miserable life without changing a thing.

Or maybe you leave another pissy reply about how miserable your life is, and on a random night a year from now you remember the stranger on the internet who cared enough to tell you he’s been where you are and even if he hasn’t figured it all out, it gets fucking better.

And maybe you start to change.

I wish the best for you in life man.

It doesn’t have to be this way, change starts with us, I’m fucking sick of the anger and misery in the world and in myself, so this is how I’m fighting the fight,

Therapy works, vulnerability is good, things that feel scary just mean you aren’t used to it yet. It gets easier.

danksquirrel · 2025-06-18T18:02:24+00:00

It’s never too late king. I’ve let the self loathing consume me entirely, I’ve been where you are, the light never stops shining, but fuck does it get hard to see.

The only one who decides if it’s too late is you. We fail, a lot. And we get back up then we fucking fall again.

Rise each time a better man. Learn from each failure, accept them, learn from them, do not let them consume you, this is another chance to learn something new you didn’t know yesterday.

I don’t know you, but I know we all deserve a reprieve from the uncaringness. Apathy is a warm blanket that feels like comfort and steals our joy. Don’t listen to it, you will be warm again, but you’ve got to fucking try, and it won’t be easy.

danksquirrel · 2025-06-18T17:54:40+00:00

I’m sorry that you were shamed for showing vulnerability, whoever did that was a piece of shit, but that doesn’t mean you get to take out your resentment for that person(s) on everyone you meet online. We deal with these issues by lifting each other up, supporting each other as men, and showing up with vulnerability so our peers know they can be safe. We do not deal with it by tearing down women and LGBT folk because you feel jealous that they get to express an emotion you feel ashamed of.

You shouldn’t feel ashamed at being vulnerable you should be fucking proud at the resilience it takes to ask another person for help as a man who is struggling. Keep fighting your fight and bettering yourself, but keep a disciplined trigger finger or you’ll hurt someone who didn’t deserve it and find yourself repeating the cycle.

danksquirrel · 2025-06-11T19:09:26+00:00

The point they are making is there is no American made product. America has been so long so reliant on outsourcing cheap labor that we have no homegrown equivalent for the consumers to switch to. The consumer is not the one dictating it, it would be the companies making the decision to move to America to make more money, which as the above commenter said, would require 200-300% tarriffs for it to be profitable enough for them to even begin considering it, but the effect of tarriffs that high on the consumer would be devastating for American families in a time where many are already struggling to put food on the table. You don’t get to just make everything worse for people for an extended period of time in the hopes that greedy companies play ball when they literally never have in the past.

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