I was trying to think of something before clicking on the post and money was literally the first and only thing I came up with

Notes app maybe? Then in a year or so you stumble upon your notes and are all confused because you didn’t write down any context for your thoughts

That’s the worst thing. At this point, they shouldn’t even be allowed to even ask that

Holy shit, 120$ per week? Now I definitely feel like I’m being ripped off 🐧 I thought we were having it good with 25€ per donation plus the odd additional promotions.

It used to be like that for me too - extra money to spend on leisure time. Mostly video games, in my case. Nowadays, I can’t go that regularly, sadly, because my new apprenticeship is full-time and doesn’t leave too much time to go donate plasma. But 120 sounds amazing

I’ve been there myself too. I didn’t necessarily have to donate plasma twice a week for a couple months since I could have asked my parents for money, but I’m very reluctant when it comes to asking for money and want to do things independently, on my own as far as possible. So yea, while between jobs, I was reliant on this steady source of income to be able to afford rent. It sucks but that’s reality. And yea, I quite agree that this is an underlying systematic failure of the government and not necessarily a fault of the blood bank

raise your dongers

Load times that don’t take ages with the internal SSD of the PS5 is a huge boon too

I see both a bean and a beam. Checks out, I’d say

Are all of these “laws” in place because incendiary weapons are especially cruel compared to a simple shot to the dome?

I hope you’re better now my guy ✨

You might get the impression that we are lol

I bought the game like 4-5 years ago for my Switch and binge-played it for like a week straight for a total of 45ish hours. Then abruptly stopped and never picked it up again, not even finishing the main campaign once. I probably should

Can you not?

Missing glottal stops in front of the syllable-initial vowels 🤓

For sure, yes. I’m not arguing that AI has its uses. The main thing I was discussing with my friend was that the way AI is used commercially right now is damaging to a lot of industries, that it’s a trend being used by companies to make their products looks better than they are, and that they profit off other peoples’ work. AI is a tool, yes, but what I was so adamant about was that there should be regulations and policies that make clear what is and where it’s ok to use and what isn’t

Both ideally. But I get your point

I think the main difference is intent, inspiration, and feelings portrayed through art. AI may be able to replicate a certain style or use a motif, but the three aspects I mentioned are absent with an AI. It is, indeed, different to put into words what you mean - I’ll give you that.

When he’s not being a contrarian, he’s a very good friend whom I’ve known since I was 10. It’s just when it comes to these subjects, he’s not talked to

I might give this a shot.

Yea, I think it’s equally important to know when to move on from things. No point in trying to win him over. It’s just frustrating to realise that there’s no convincing your conversation partner

I’ll check these out, appreciate it!