Too much movement makes your joints hurt and too little movement also makes your joints hurt. This would imply that there's an optimal amount of movement that allows your joints to not hurt. This is a lie.

at least when people whined about AI taking creatives jobs, we were talking about like. people making art not solely designed to sell you something. but advertising? you are crying about people who work in advertising? fucking advertising??? FUCKING?? ADVE-

yeah, people having their jobs taken by automation is pretty bad. it doesn't equate to defense of the corporation to not want their workers to be fired to save costs for said corporation. i am against the evil economic system that takes away people's income, insurance and livelihood in order to make a worse product for cheaper, is that really such a ridiculous take?

Ok but we are talking about advertising. We are talking about people who work in advertising. Advertising? We are talking about the Fake Bullshit Industry aka advertising? We are talking about an industry which objectively makes the world a worse place for no benefit, advertising.

I am not a fan of an AI ad, or any ad. If you make ads for a living you don't deserve to keep doing it 'just because' like. hello? is this thing on??

nobody is replacing head of marketing, theyre replacing actors, camera crew and vfx artists who are trying to make rent between their tiny little indie projects. i dont think mcdonalds should exist either but i will defend to death that the cashiers not be replaced by automation. nobody is crying about the "soul" in ads, this is not reactionary, if you believe in worker owned means of production you should be vehemently opposed to all of this shit.

It is infact reactionary to be opposed to automation because automation is not this inherently bad thing. Automation is infact necessary for a lot of massive societal needs! Automation allows things to be produced at scale and cheaply!! Automation is good when it's benefits are not allocated only to the wealthiest, most powerful people on earth!

I think this little trick you are doing is kind of slimy. Conjuring up these poor starving artists, working on indie projects in their free time(lol) who just have to work in advertising. And then shifting to talking about mcdonalds cashiers, like. No I'd like to focus on the fact that people making ads, from the poor little vfx guy to the ad executive, are part of an industry that is a net negative for all of society. I don't care about their jobs being automated away because they should not exist in the first place!

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me: ah nooo i accidentally cut myself. come look at this cut

my haemophiliac friend: you know that's not what it means right?

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Me as an art critic: this piece really explores the… Misogyny of the artist 🤔

It’s crazy that countries on the edge of the Sahara desert are reversing desertification by just digging half circles

The ground in these places is too compact for water to soak in during wet season which leads to flooding but digging these holes gives the water a place to stop and soak in. And they’re pushing back the desert with this. By just digging holes.

The new plants also help even more water soak into the ground which reduces flooding even more.

These places also give people places to grow food and graze animals like people are turning completely dry compact desert into a refuge for wildlife and plants and solving regional food insecurity just by digging holes.

The half-circles are called zaï! They're a traditional farming practice in the Sahel desert, and their introduction + reintroduction can be largely credited to Yacouba Sawadogo, the man linked above! He reintroduced and innovated on the zaï on his own farm in the 1980s, and did extensive outreach (along with scientist Mathieu Ouédraogo) to encourage other farmers to adopt them as well.

He also promoted the use of cordons pierreux, which are basically just lines of rocks to reduce erosion, preserve sediments, and increase water absorption.

Immensely cool dude. He's been a personal hero since I learned about him.

Doctor Who the hell is this guy

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