People have various criteria for art, such that it should be original, authentic, true, meaningful, reflect the values of society, or whatever else. I...
I’m not referring to pop art. I mean what I said, art that is cheap and produced in mass. There will always be a place (market) for it in a capitalist...
It’s not much of a threat to graphic design yet, even for low-end work. It’s output if far too generic and it can’t really do typography. That may cha...
Midjourney AI. It has a feature where you can upload an image and the AI will generate a prompt from it. In this case it generated the prompt: A paint...
I'm looking for an aesthetic experience. Technically that can be found anywhere and anytime, though it's usually much easier to find in art, who or wh...
Finished 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami. I liked it. Always been a sucker for a drawn-out love story. Only skipped a bit toward the end. Could have skipped a...
It claims to be a PG-13 rating but I would class it at G. For example, if you make a prompt for Michelangelo's Statue of David it will only produce on...
In an interview, he said that he didn't like to compete with color so he abstracted pictures into black & white, and also claimed that abstracting to ...
There isn't a way to apply science to superstitious notions because, if for no other reason, they cannot be measured in any way. Ghosts cannot be meas...
I think if Orwell could have imagined an artificial general intelligence in 1949 his book 1984 would have been a bit different. Can you imagine the po...
I’m pro-choice, by the way, in case that wasn’t clear and it matters at all, and I wasn’t arguing for or against abortion because that wasn’t the poin...
It was there from the start. It was the entire focus, actually, and abortion was merely an example. I could have used many other examples. I guess it ...
The basic difference is that believers are 'bonded' in their shared belief system, which isn't necessarily a bad thing. Atheists may be somewhat bonde...
We seem to have lost the plot here so I will ignore this part. Really? You can't even imagine parents who were initially unwilling but ended up with a...
There would seem to be no moral issue for women who are unable to give birth, given that there's no choice in the matter. You seem to be suggesting th...
I did not mean to suggest in any way your participation in this topic is inappropriate or whatever. Honestly, I value the perspective of people from o...
Unwilling parents have been known to rise to the occasion and a child add much to their lives, so the overall effect could turn out to be good in many...
I know you're not American. This is a discussion about American politics, or rather, a discussion about an American politician, so of course it will d...
I pointed out that a religion is not "as we make it". It's highly dogmatic by nature, in other words, and when revisions are made it's by religious le...
I don't know about Spain (and I can't read Spanish) but the US postal service is quite reliable. Regarding rejected votes due to human errors in mail-...
Why would someone not believe in mail-in voting? Hopefully because there is evidence that shows it’s unreliable and not because a politician says it’s...
From what I know of Spanish history I would expect socialism to be less popular there than in the States. Actually I have that backwards, Franco was c...
Socialists are usually accused of having too much confidence in the state and left to their own devices they’d walk wide-eyed into an Orwellian dystop...
Kant was a walker. I usually walk the dog two miles a day and do think it helps thinking because… Increased Blood Flow: Walking gets your blood pumpin...
From his position as president Trump did spent months insisting that mail ballots were a Democratic plot and the election would be “rigged.” We all wi...
According to your understanding of election rigging, the article describes both sides as guilty of it, so how could it be considered propaganda if it ...
“The President spent months insisting that mail ballots were a Democratic plot and the election would be “rigged.” His henchmen at the state level sou...
I think their best trick is brainwashing you into believing that people like Jeff Bezos are nobility. They have money and the power and influence that...
Referring to pure fiction, like Orwellian Newspeak, as though it were something real. I just finished reading 1984 and according to the story, words t...
I tried making figgy pancakes this morning, stirring a fig into the batter. They didn't cook and the result was more like figgy pudding with a thin bu...
Eat your inflorescent heart out. :razz: https://designpraxis.biz/img/fig.jpg Dropped a couple into my green smoothie this morning and they added a nic...
Speaking of baked condoms, our fig tree out back dropped a bundle of syconiums the other day and I made a compote of them with half a vanilla bean, a ...
The phrase "hot mess" comes to mind. I'd say there's more to it than mere blather. Not that I've noticed but I haven't read all of it. Generally good ...
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