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  • This is entirely apocryphal, but my friends who are very into blind items and celebrity gossip tell me about "yacht girls." Famous (but not too famous) women are often invited to rich guy's yachts as soft escorts. Sometimes there's sex, often they're just there to be pretty and flattering. Apparently Zach Effron is frequently a yacht "girl."

    So yes, I think a fairly significant portion of minor celebrity income is from private appearances (of one kind or another). Speaking engagements for businesses or clubs are another big (legitimate) arm of this trade.

  • Pro-AI mod and self-proclaimed 'communist' got mad for being downvoted.

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  • Having considered things for a day, I would say that I think @MysticMushroom1776@lemmy.dbzer0.com probably was overzealous banning the OP from all those comms over downvotes. That's assuming all they did was down vote some comments in that post.

    If they were serially downvoting a bunch is posts in those comms then that's that.

    But I don't otherwise find the anti-anti-ai rules on dbzer0 to be onerous. I criticize AI fairly often, I just don't do it in the pro-ai comms. Leftymemes is funny territory since it isnt explicitly a pro-ai comm, even if the instance overall is. I do think all comma should post all their rules in sidebar. It isn't enough to assume Instance rules are also included, since those aren't immediately visible to a federated user checking the sidebar.

  • Being Kyle Katarn - Interview with Jason Court

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  • I sometimes still have nightmares about those aqueducts and fuel tubes!

  • Types of development but more realistic

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  • More realistic versions:

    Waterfall: the car is "finished" at the end, but replace the engine with a huge roaring fire. The Dev team continues to put the engine fire out and build the engine for 3x the original project duration.

    Agile: replace the cute scooter and bicycle with the partial car graphics from Waterfall, but mount a uniccyle seat and then a park bench on top of the partially built car.

    AI: the whole thing should always be on fire, and have several spies from different countries taking pictures of it constantly.

  • Being Kyle Katarn - Interview with Jason Court

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  • I'm slightly on the young side for FMV games, but Jedi Knight and Command & Conquer were childhood staples that shaped my tastes in so many weird ways. JK is up there with the original trilogy for "Star Wars that is good and I care about." Katarn is easily the coolest Jedi.

  • World fertility rates in 'unprecedented decline', UN says

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  • Aside from the psychological/sociological side of it, PFAS and microolastics have been shown in some studies to reduce women's fertility and to mess with sperm. So environmental damage is also poisoning us and destroying our ability to procreate. Go team!

  • Quorf

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  • Qursed images

  • I was told this place was about programming humors

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  • Thank you for creating alchemical programming content!

  • Easter Egg

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  • Try this fun prank next time a coworker wanders off and leaves their PC unlocked!

  • Pro-AI mod and self-proclaimed 'communist' got mad for being downvoted.

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  • I guess in your drive-by downvoting you didn't notice the huge argument happening in that thread, specifically from people dogpiling the creator for crossposting from the !imageai@sh.itjust.works to !leftymemes@lemmy.dbzer0.com? So it wasnt even originally from our board!

    https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/46162538

    I can't even see the post anymore, OP might have been bullied into deleting it.

    I saw it before and didn't even care for it myself! i hate Poland ball comics, absolute garbage. But the dbzer0 mods have a point. You can't even mildly critique something like that without the AI haters rolling in to be disruptive. You've made this big stink like you were singled out but there's several loud people in there derailing conversations to complain about AI. In other words, you were brigading.

  • Oh dear

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  • I feel like this is more an autistic or audhd trait. I'm way more likely to forget food exists for 24 hours than to ever eat the same thing twice in a row. My novelty seeking ensures my diet is pure choas.

    Those mangos are really freaking good though right?!

  • Only thing worse than ICE agents...

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  • destroy their ass

    You seem so nice online, I never would have predicted this degree of violent foreplay. And making them lose to you at Catan first, that's some kinky shit!

  • YSK- Enshitification is nothing new and has been the MO of capitalism since the start.

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  • The enshittification cycle Doctorow discusses is specific to online companies and services, but does have a certain general form that is applicable more broadly. But it isnt just "service degrades over time due to the tendency of profit to diminish."

    It's about platforms, aka markets, aka middlemen. An online service doesn't just exist to serve customers. Initially, the platform holder caters heavily to customers and to suppliers. Netflix offers a seemingly unlimited buffet of video for a low monthly fee, but also they seek out content creators to license their works and hire them to make new exclusive works. Epic Games store, same deal: free games for customers, huge exclusivity deals for publishers.

    Enshittification happens when you get big enough to play the sides off each other. Publishers are captive to your platform for access to the audience, the audience is captive for access to your exclusive content. Older companies sold directly to stores or consumers, making it easier to just put the squeeze workers or customers.

    By controlling the platform/market, you can extract wealth from every aspect of it: degrade customer experience, lock in and underpay producers and employees, and if you get big enough you can even start bossing around the government. Look at how much Amazon makes by forcing shippers and postal providers to cater to them.

    That dynamic is somewhat novel. Markets are traditionally regulated, controlled, (and profited by) the government. David Graeber talks about the origins of markets under monarchs in order to centralize sales of goods to supply armies more readily. The modern capitalist understands that if you own the market, then you've won.

  • On Bad Art

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  • Who is dankey kang?

  • Centrist Democrats want a fight with the left

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  • OK but, hear me out: fuck the Democrats. When are we getting behind a new party; a real, actual, authentic, left-wing, coalition party? Where is the national movement to unify and overthrow the duopoly?

  • ‘It’s a Weird Time to Be Rich Right Now’

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  • I'm not sure if I should bring up the homeless vets with PTSD who'd love someone to talk to, for hire or not, qualified or not; or if I should make light of asking my own friend for hire about coping with the depression and anxiety of living in a world that the ultrawealthy have immiserated for their wealth.

    The rich are worried about people hating them for being rich while everyone else is burning out from the stress of coping with living in situations that are literally depressing.

    Maybe people don't need to feel better about it? Maybe the rich should be afraid and feel like shit? Maybe the poor should be angry and upset? Maybe people on the internet use humor to cope with difficult situations and being a wokescold finger-wagger about it is counterproductive?

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  • You: has a bad opinion

    Nobody:

  • Undertale will be 10 years old in 3 months

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  • I feel like y'all aren't ready to hear that Earthbound is 31 years old. The "new" thing you love, inspired by the retro thing you loved, is now retro and inspiring the next generation.