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'It's not acceptable that she's still here, and that she can post all that stuff on the internet, and that's OK,' student Destiney Hall told the station.

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Censorship

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'I think everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but when it's so controversial like that, it can be uncomfortable for other people, especially if they're teachers,' another student, Lil Enloe, said.

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Censorship

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'I can no longer stay silent about the state of our schools. I will be attacked and threatened, but for the good of our district and the students with whom we are entrusted, I must speak out. This is too important,' the teacher began in her diatribe.

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Bias in media reporting

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Sullivan wrote that teachers are being told to push a 'strong anti-capitalism, anti-conservatism, and anti-American bias' on students.

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The student quotes back up her statement.

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Is “Long Covid” real

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Covid is known to cause small ischemic strokes. People probably have long term emotional and memory issues associated with these events.

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What’s something you think is trashy but seems to be common place in society today

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Grown adults not minding their own business and making judgments about how someone else chooses to style, dress, or decorate themselves or their property.

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So basically what you're saying is that you do not believe that the creation of art is a worthy pursuit, and your bias in this regard is the principal reason for your opinion.

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Define "worthy".

The worth of something is determined by the individual. So, do I believe that producing art has value? Yes, for the producer. Does it have value for the consumer? Only if/when the consumer finds value in it. In a survival scenario, there is no time for art, so it's value then is zero. Once needs are met, production of art may become valuable as free time is available, a luxury. You seem to be elevating the "artist" who sees their production as "a work", when it is actually just "work", non-utilitarian work.

The machinery has cut the "workload" into a microsecond, thus devaluing the cost of production. Further, it has devalued detail work as the detail time has been eliminated. I understand why commercial artists are freaking out. However, many of them gleefully told West Virginia coalminers to "learn to code" when their jobs became obsolete. It appears that the coalminers have indeed learned to code.

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You don't seem to understand what "cultural development" even is.

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Educate me.

From my understanding, culture develops from shared ideals. A person, or group, does something unique and then the surrounding people or groups copy it and add their own twists. Common motifs develop over time and a style or trend can be seen. This continues until a new element is added from within the group, or from contact with other cultures. Then the process starts anew.

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So you're comparing taking other's people work, running it through an application, and generating a similar piece in a few moments to a person observing various art forms, spending years honing their craft, and generating something where you MIGHT see the influence of other artists?

Is this a "how dare you develop a skill I don't have, now I want stuff that makes you irrelevant" mentality?

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No, this is a "your skills have been made an obsolete time sink due to an advance in technology" mentality. You see, when guns became more effective, archers who had honed their skills over years became obsolete, as the skill set needed for success changed. Archers still exist, but in a niche market now, just as the skilled hand artist will become. The new tech opens new opportunities. Instead of the greatest technical skill in a niche being the most valuable, now the person with the most creative ideals when it comes to prompts will have a higher market value. The "arts" aren't dead because of this technological change, they are transformed.

Think about it this way, the youtuber artist bitching about it uses photos taken by another person as a reference. Yet, he/she probably doesn't see her transmutation of the form he's/she's copying as theft, because they're making changes to it and recreating it in another medium. The youtuber cannot see the irony of their own position and you, a blind consumer, do not see it either.

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The problem with AI is that it can’t create art.

It absorbed other people’s images and melds them together.

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Literally all "art" is. A human brain remixing things that it's seen is similar to a computer remixing available inputs.

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We can avoid this rabid nationalism

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Define nationalism.

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This has been going on. Covid has been the biggest event in my career by far. Squeaky wheel does not get the grease with healthcare. It gets replaced. There are plenty of wheels. You go along or you go somewhere else.

As a provider in whatever capacity you just have to do what you truly feel is best for your patient. Do your best to leave politics out of it.

The worm turned on healthcare. And as in so many other instances, the people and not the policy are what gets punished. Shitting on PCPs and Nurses being the worst I have ever seen. The notion that we were complicit in anything is foolish.

I will just scale this back to myself. As an RN I do not have a research level research lab in my garage that I enjoy as a hobby. We rely on research and governing bodies. The CDC, WHO, NIH, and AMA and others all give us or gave us the data points we guide our practices on. The NIH being my personal favorite. Their web content and site are dry and to the point. “Just the facts”.

These entities failed us. The main failure was in their arrogance. “Follow the science” became a joke. My belief is they handled it poorly from the start. Instead of telling people the truth. “This is all we have. This is a new situation. This is a pandemic on a scale not seen since 1918. We have more tools to fight it but no reason to say we can keep it from acting like other pandemics.” I believe a fear of spooking the herd and speaking in false absolutes, spooked the herd even more.

The notion of doing “your own research” is unrealistic. Again I do not have a research lab in my garage. No one does. And wading into the weeds of fringe websites and researchers with axes to grind was always problematic before. Many were loons. Not so much anymore.

The CDC and WHO gave them all the credibility they never thought they would get.

This all became a clown world. Imagine pilots going somewhere than the FAA/NTSB or other industries going with other bodies than OSHA for their rules and safety plans. Are these entities without their problems? No. But would you want to fly under the rule of a brand new governing body for air travel? Or work in a refinery or platform with “Bobs Safety Company” in charge.

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Disney's "Proud Family" reboot.

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Watched a couple episodes of this recently while someone else had tuned in. It's black-face. Pride being a mortal sin kinda puts a conscious viewer on their toes, so kudos to them for naming it aptly. All the characters are self-centered aholes from San Fran. Would not let a child watch without helping them contextualize what they're seeing. The show attempts to normalize a lot of abnormal behavior like spying on people and just being mean and rude. All under the guise of "funny", "quirky", and "loving".

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So, is Satan doing God's work?


Well, if God is omnipotent.....

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Then rejecting Satan is anti-Christ. Ride the spiral and enjoy the ride while it lasts.