They aren't actually trying to make "art". They want to create a commodity that is a facsimile of something real, but only to sell it. They have no passion for materials, or ideas, or techniques.

AI "art" is soulless, blatant IP-theft, commodity slop.

You are def preaching to the choir here. I started drawing as soon as I could hold a crayon. I made art all thru school, majored in drawing in college, and now I'm a professional potter. I do all kinds of other artsy things too.

I don't hate bad art - I hate "non-human, based-on-stolen IP" art.

I stopped posting anything about for fear of being swarmed.

I don't understand why Trump thinks Bibi will listen to him now, at all. The hostages are free; it was the only thing holding Israel back from totally devastating that area.

Hamas was always gonna renege. We've lived thru this before. 1970s and 1990s and on and on. Trump will have egg on his face.

true, i'm not laughing at AI art that someone makes. i'm simply never taking them seriously ever again, about anything. i'd rather see something that looks like shit with a human soul behind it! it's not complicated! or, conversely: if you need a visual, pay an artist. that's how it's always worked!

All AI "art" whether written language or visual imagery is theft at its core. IP theft from the ground up.

The people using AI to "create" didn't have the skill, or drive, or passion to create something of their own from scratch so they are using their fancy scanner/copier slop program to cosplay.

Which in my mind necessitates the need to slut shame her. She failed up, again.

There's also a lot of non-MAGAts with businesses on Etsy who are livid about this.

The MAGAts in the Etsy forum are just a tad quieter these days. They were getting off on Alligator Alcatraz items being sold there, but the rush of celebrating public cruelty has been overwhelmed by economic pain.

When prices were going up under Biden there was a constant deluge of news stories about it because the media did not like Biden and wanted him to lose. Under Trump there is not a constant deluge of news stories about coffee prices because they like Trump and want him to win

If it weren't for double standards, the mainstream media wouldn't have any.

UPS is a hot mess and it ain't just stuff coming from China. The end of the de minimis exemption is screwing UK and Canada too. UPS is having to destroy a bunch of packages because of tariff confusion. Buyers don't know they are responsible for paying the tariffs and the fees are egregious.

Everyone understands this except MAGAs and their flying monkeys. The whole thing just sucks.

Photo array from "Incels-R-US"

Yikes!

I’m old so this feels like a similar story in A Chorus Line. “Six months later I heard that Karp had died. And I dug right down to the bottom of my soul and cried. Cuz I felt nothing”

I’m so sorry! This just sucks for everyone. I’m in the US but if buyers are paying egregious $$ for Trump’s stupid tariff boondoggle then they don’t have disposable income left to buy handmade pottery either.

Sucks all around.

And ha ha, two old ladies griping about tariff damage is funny to some, but spare a thought for the micro-sellers on places like Etsy whose shops are being decimated by Trump's Gilded Age economic mentality ushering in another recession. It's all funny until the stock market crashes again.

It may sound like a nothing burger, but I'm reading all the commentary from Canadian and UK sellers in the Etsy forums. They no longer sell to the US because the tariff mess is confusing and makes their items unaffordable.

Their shops are suffering and I can't imagine it helps Etsy's bottom line.

All the Bernie people: "Rules for thee, but not for me"

They would be singing a different tune. None of their rules bind themselves, only "establishment elite" Dem electeds with long track records.

Platner is not the incumbent. How is anyone trying to "primary" him?

I get that we all want younger candidates but this guy hasn't ever held elected office anywhere, somehow he gets to be treated like the incumbent? He has to earn it just like everyone else.

If Platner can win the primary, he deserves to go to the general. What I object to is the framing that Mills shouldn't run because of age, or Platner being anointed by Bernie, or "Schumer is pushing this" anti-Dem party BS.

Let him run, see how he does.

Exactly. Most jobs in US don't provide medical coverage, and wages haven't kept up with inflation, much less healthcare inflation.

All Americans deserve healthcare coverage. Period.

How much of this "bad at messaging" is because all the media wanted to do was beat up Biden for crap that BN was doing? How much was the media in the tank for Trump because he sells more papers and clicks?

Corporate media milked this mess and didn't cover facts, just vibes.

"Dems suck at politics" but Biden got 100 hostages released, and Trump only got 20?

That's a messaging problem by the *media* of which you are a part. That's a reminder of how much y'all suck - you did everything to tank Biden because of this issue when you knew Trump would be worse.

What could possibly go wrong?

I DEMAND AN IMMEDIATE CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATION INTO WHY TIME MAGAZINE USED A PHOTO THAT LOOKS LIKE PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP HAS TRUCK NUTZ ATTACHED TO HIS NECK! THERE IS NOTHING MORE IMPORTANT HAPPENING IN AMERICA RIGHT NOW!

And why shouldn't they have that coverage anyway?

People get sick, have accidents, etc. Everyone should have healthcare. Period.

Able-bodied without dependents, and fully employed, doesn't mean you can afford health insurance. Health insurance is freaking expensive, most jobs don't provide it, and Medicaid coverage (expanded thru ACA in some states) was a godsend to people.

Why does Johnson hate working people so much?

Age is oversold as an issue for "electability". American politicians get access to THE best healthcare in the country.

My mom thought Bob Dole was too old to be president in 1996. He lived for 25 YEARS after that.

And sanity isn't tied to (relative) youth. Just look at John Fetterman. =P

Primaries are where the candidates get tested, vetted, and show their political skills. If Platner makes it thru without sticking his foot in his mouth (like St Bernard of the "Planned Parenthood is the Establishment" school of dick-stepping) then maybe he's ready for a general.