There’s some hostile people abounding. Let them think what they will, it makes little difference to the sum of your day. I don’t expect you to respond again. I’ll respect you and your opinion just as much either way. But I hope that at the very least, you take some time to consider what you can do to help the people around you create the industries we need.

I do agree that we needed to take drastic action in order to change the course of our country. In fact, I actually don’t like the tariffs because they’re not nearly drastic enough. The shift towards internalizing our needs should have come by empowering our people, rather than pushing away aid.

It’s not a secret that trading internationally for 90% of our needs isn’t exactly healthy for our longevity; but you can’t take blood from a stone. The people need help to get to their next decade, their next birthday, their next check, even to their next meal for many. We should be demanding that the powers that be use their resources to create a workforce capable of doing anything, and facilitating itself. That starts with putting people to work, which means helping them off the streets so that they have an address to put on their resume at the very least.

Have a great day.

Welcome to Lemmy. It sounds like you either come from a place of extreme privilege or you’re not actually sure how the tariffs will affect the people.

The idea behind the tariffs is fine. They want to drive union Members (fun fact, did you know that that’s how the founding fathers referred to citizens?) to buy and trade locally. However, many of the products we use in our day to day life come from industries that don’t exist in the US yet, and it will take years to create the required infrastructure and factories and farm land in order to create those industries.

Effectively, the tariffs would have been fine. If the US had actually been prepared to take care of itself. But it’s not, and it won’t be for a long time. So, the tariffs only exist as an extra tax right now.

Wow. I gotta go look at some pictures I guess. I suppose it has been a while

Is that Tesla on the left? Next to Elon of all people? Or am I misremembering faces and that’s like Ford? That would make more sense

I banned myself off Reddit. Deleted my 10 year old account because fuck em.

I didn’t, unfortunately, obfuscate my comments before deleting them. However, I find solace in thinking that there is a small win in leaving all of that socialist propaganda in their training data

I think that we’re not actually disagreeing, if I’m reading this right. My point about social needs was mostly to do with social media. I could blab some science about how that affects our social needs, but that’s not what we’re really focused on from what I can tell.

We’re both suggesting reducing/moderating our usage of corporat bullshit and particularly American corpos.

However, there is one thing that I noticed which I feel like you misunderstand, or perhaps I misunderstand you.

Stress and long hours in the job and they spent all their money in “stuff”

These are definitely not social needs, but a symptom of the lack of social needs being met. Humans crave companionship, and many people seek that in their items. I think you and I are similar in seeing the absurdity in this, but it appears that you find it more annoying than I do. There is one more layer to this, though, which we’re probably intentionally ignoring; American corpos have monopolies in many areas. I know people who literally do not have access to anything other than corporations

But I was talking more in general

You could have made that more clear. You came off quite pointed.

Him or her

Them is way easier to type and it’s more formal.

I’m starting to get tired about the…

Lost me. People are doing what they must to stimulate their social needs. Let me say that again social needs. It’s not an option for humans, we get depression and shit. We have to buy in to the bullshit at least a little bit because that’s the system we live in, the best we can do is change it from within or start a revolution. If you’re not starting the revolution, the best thing you can do is bitch about shitty circumstances until someone with the vindication does start the revolution

Yet you give them literally all your money and time

And how do you know that the person you’re responding to doesn’t shop locally or work for a locally owned business? Some people practice their politics instead of just spouting nonsense

You’re giving the wrong reinforcement for the wrong reason. You’re afraid of what they may do in several years, so you’re negatively reinforcing the good decision they’re making right now. You should, instead, give them positive reinforcement for making good decisions so that they continue to make good decisions. What you’re currently doing is discouraging them from making public statements about their policy changes.

Bro you can still buy the switch 2 if you’ve never had the first one, I promise

Right? It would be so much cheaper if we just used to the reinforcing steel to create thin tracks which we could put much more thermally efficient and eco-friendly wheels onto. In turn, we could carry exceptionally large loads of cargo or people over vast distances for a mere fraction of the cost (monetary) and a fraction of the cost (to the world) by creating long, highly aerodynamic vehicles capable of moving at ridiculously high speeds that would be uncontrollable for the average joe on the road.

Wait, haven’t I heard of something like this before?

I can’t remember if this was said to me or if I overheard it. Maybe I’m fabricating the memory entirely, but in any case, I recall a conversation where someone said almost exactly what you did in that last sentence. The reply was of course

“Well someone always gets hurt.”

“What do you mean?”

“It costs someone money to put those bathrooms in.”

Cue the “what the fuck did I just hear” alarms

Yeah but what does that have to do with the other posters sister saying it a while back?

Honestly a lot of people just don’t realize how easy it actually is. They think it’s something arcane and strange

Mr. President, that man walked in here with a big blue box, and three of his friends. And, that’s the man he walked past. One of them is worth listening to.

And yet, so many pieces of media still get it wrong

So, to recap, your position is this:

Artists do not deserve the respect that would allow them to be creative unfettered. Gotcha.

I take it as flattery

I respect your position, and I appreciate people who are willing to share their creativity in an inspiring way like that.

However, others don’t see it as flattery. Particularly in eastern cultures, it is seen as mockery or plagiarism. You can choose to disagree about why they don’t want you to imitate their style, but you should always respect the request.

No. We’re acting as if their opinion always mattered just as much as it does now.

While your style is not, can not, and should not be your intellectual property, you should have the right to say “I don’t want you to imitate my exact style” and people should respect that.

Imitators have been doing that since always, long before LLMs

Fill me in a bit. Are you under the impression that artists are particularly okay with/enjoy people imitating their art style?