@Tanukemon053 the argument was made to me that newer pokémon are also designed to be more plush-friendly so that they can make more money. that hlped explained modern designs a lot
hot take: manhattan is relatively affordable outside of its main bottleneck - rent - if you're willing to forego the luxury layer
its functional layer is very low-cost: public transport (big one), coffee, pizza, delis, free parks + museums + events
most people want luxury tho
It should be pretty obvious at this point that AI is a "force multiplier" not a "labor substitute".
It helps experts be better at things they are already good at. It doesn't let beginners match experts.
If you can't write, anything you write with AI will be unmitigated slop.
If you aren't a software engineer, anything you vibecode with AI will have security holes and won't be able to scale past a toy demo.
If you blindly trust AI to deliver on a research task without knowing the subject matter, you won't be able to fact-check it.
There's this weird misconception of AI as something that completely levels the playing field. I don't see it that way at all. There are mathematicians deriving novel lemmas with off-the-shelf models. Normal people can't do that.
AI is a tool that makes experts better. It doesn't make everyone into an expert.
@zoesenaa this is the theme of the season that i wish i had more references for because it came up a lot, especially with the read last episode from Bevan about "journalism shouldn't be about myth-making for an aristocratic class"
@apat10 The scene with Kwabena where she straight up admits she doesn't know how to have relationships was so powerful. Harper is finally seeing the symptoms!
i love seeing all this discourse about hudcon because the way that those two don't give a fuck and just love each other is beautiful and makes all the discourse so pointless and parasocial lmao