TheAlbatross

The first image is your artwork.

It represents your slow but steady progress in your hobby. It may not be what you want yet, but it is still a stepping stone on your journey.

The second image is a compilation of your artwork and the stolen efforts of millions of unpaid artists, their works unceremoniously ripped away from them and sold as a tech company's product without any compensation to them for aiding building such a machine. It isn't art.

Keep at it, yo. Art is a frustrating hobby at times, but enjoy the learning.

I think those work because of social and societal differences. Rejecting drugs is a sign of rejecting colonial oppression in Asian, using drugs is a rebellious act against oppressors in the US.

Plus, the US already does have draconian drug policy. It uses drug use and distribution as a justification for long term prison sentences and even extra judicial killings, you just gotta have dark skin or be politically inconvenient. Heck, it just declared a drug is a weapon of mass destruction, but it's doing nothing to go after the massive companies that manufacture that drug, it's just using it as an excuse to bring military level force to civilians.

Comnunism, yeah?

Did a person make this?

When rest in piece gets more attention than nurses, etc? What?

Christmas is more of an industry than a holiday, thus all the products and goods made to market it.

Yeah, this was my point with the "nothing" statement. Obama oversaw and approved some absolutely horrendous things.

I thought I read they did storm the streets of Caracas, during the last Trump admin, in support of Maduro, during a previous coup attempt.

Like the US got caught sponsoring mercenaries and trying to ship in a load of guns to start a coup. I don't imagine everything is peachy in Venezuela, but I do wonder how much of that is due to meddling by foreign powers versus corruption.

News in Latin America is hard to trust one way or another, because it always seems like it's being twisted to support one goal or another. Like, I know the state media is biased, but I also know the Western media is eager to support bloodthirsty actors who want to pillage their resources.

My boss has mentioned AI once, and it was when I was asking for guidance on how to take over a twice annual presentation he used to run. He said I could just get the LLM to generate the presentation then edit it as needed.

I did not do that. I just made the damn thing myself because, by him saying that, I realized he had no fucking clue how to do any of this so I didn't have to either.

Corporate has introduced an LLM we're supposed to be able to use in lieu of asking an HR representative basic questions, like vacation policy and how to get resources for open enrollment. It... barely works. If you happen to use the magic words, it'll lead you to a PDF of the policy you're looking for. I just call or email someone in HR. It's better to build rapport and awareness between home office and the satellite offices, anyway. Makes things smoother when there's an actual issue to deal with and people help people they like, even just a little, faster.

Oh wow that's really gross, I had no idea

It's a weird argument, because he got the peace prize really early into his presidency; before he could have an impact to get America to drop 100k bombs vs 200k, but also dropping a hundred thousand bombs seems like a hundred thousand more bombs than one would have to drop to be called a paragon of peace...

The peace prize did seem pretty pointless since Obama won it for doing nothing. Like don't get me wrong I voted for the guy and wanted him to win, but it was pretty dang empty to give him the peace prize, especially since he then went on to be in charge while some really ugly stuff went down.

I'm not exactly sure what they're getting at, but I did see someone from the Nobel Peace Prize committee call for Maduro's removal just as the US has been ramping up its "anti-narcotics" operations in around the oil and lithium rich country, complete with extra judicial killings of Venezuelans, telling other nations to avoid their airspace and very recently seizing an oil tanker ship...

So it kinda feels like the Nobel Peace Prize committee is trying to add justification to the cause for war that the US is trying to drum up, which is wantonly egregious, so maybe they're implying that both the Nobel committee and Eurovision are tacit supporters and backers of imperialism.