From Wikipedia

Around the late 14th century in Europe, smaller and portable hand-held cannons were developed, creating in effect the first smooth-bore personal firearm.

They want to complain about the glasses, but all the salient points in the thread have been made, so they went with whatever.

Google search is less than useful nowadays. Google assistant seems to be Google’s inbred idiot cousin. DDG doesn’t seem to be any better. Most of my searches give the same clickbait results that google does.

Honestly, outside of Google Maps, is there any legitimate value to any google product? Is there a single search engine that is brave enough to give 0 results and also literally parses what you’re asking instead of valuating against what the advertisers want you to see?

I dream daily of Google imploding, and every single investor at that useless company going immediately bankrupt and destitute for the disgusting, addled, brain-malware they push.

They deorbit very quickly.

Do you want to work for a company that will intentionally sabotage themselves? Probably not.

Uh, music is content. Some music has more heart than others, but I wouldn’t say that Target is disgusting because they sell cheap prints and wall art.

People get mad that Steam shows them games. It’s like loading up Netflix, seeing the list of movies, and yelling “look at all of these ads”!

Hey, look, it’s somebody having a strong opinion about something they’re ignorant about!

Or it’s because many grocery chains used COVID as a reason or excuse to raise prices and refuse to lower them despite supply chains healing, during a time where literally everything a modern human needs to survive becomes nearly unreashable expensive.

But sure, it’s because cops aren’t shooting enough shiplifters.

Taking a photo on my phone is literally pointing it at something and pressing a button, yet I own the rights to that.

An argument against the work involved in AI art is fucking stupid, and anybody who makes it is stupid.

Talk about how AI art devalues real art. Talk about how (as it has been popularized), it literally steals from legitimate artists.

The " AI isn’t really work" argument is stupid, and I’m tired of it.

That’s like saying you can control the sun for a photo because you can predict where it will be at a given time.

You’re the one gatekeeping work. Don’t make a dumb argument against your own dumb argument.

If the argument against AI is that it’s too little work, then Photography neesds to step it’s fucking game up.

If the argument against AI is that irrelevant companies get to profit off of others’ work, then say that. Don’t make stupid arguments.

Edit: Do I have direct control of the LLMs that Samsung uses to sharpen the photos on my phone? Do I not still own them? You’re yelling at clouds.

Sooo… some people need starlink?

There’s a physical difference sure, in that one is way easier to use as it’s just a button you press while looking at something.

… you’ve never actually made art, have you?

I drew a pony when I was 6? Does that count? Or does gatekeeping art go that far?

See ya in 10 years, friend. We’ll revisit this conversation.

Photographers must have downvoted you. You don’t have to be skilled to take a really good photo. You do have to be skilled to it regularly, though.

Does my camera own my art, and not me?

It is interesting that you could spend a week tweaking the variables in your prompt to get the desired results in your image, and that won’t be considered art.

But spend a second to click a button on a camera someone else made and voila, art…

Sometimes, to rebuild beaches that get swept away in storms.

“Take a title demotion, come back into the office, or quit. Pick one.”

“No, I think I’ll keep working from home until you fire me despite you dramatically altering my working requirements.”