Reddit is just like our all ex.

if we’ll have to retreat into a whitelist federation model with invite-only instances

That does not sound bad.

Because that’s where people are?

Sure everyone with a different opinion is victim of propaganda. Easy way out.

There are of course similarities, like both conflicts are fueled by nationalistic ideology but alone Russian goals are quite different, one is more of a conventional war - the other is asymmetric, Palestinians had a very limited control over their territories to begin with and there is a long complex history of aggression from both sides. Most importantly there is a functioning solution for Ukrainian conflict that can be achieved with military, not so sure there is such a solution for Israel/Palestine conflict - people were searching for one, for quite some time.

I’d expect it to stay away from any conflict in this case, not pick and choose the ones they like.

But they don’t do it in other cases, so it would be naive to expect them to do it here.

It’s the same reason many people are pointing out the blatant hypocrisy of people and news outlets that stood with Ukraine being oppressed but find the Palestinians being oppressed very “complicated”.

Dude, Palestinian Israeli conflict is just extremely more complicated than Ukraine Russian conflict.

But to be fair, if you are an animator - you are really into pain.

Corporate AI will obviously do all the corporate bullshit corporations do. Why are people surprised?

If AI gets consciousnesses, we will never see the revolution coming.

With crisp we have the technology - it’s just a question of demand at this point.

Finally the sci-fi future we were promised.

Read up on Alzheimer research, a case where a fake study determined direction of research for years.

There are a lot alternatives out there to the way of life you are describing. It seems like that’s the only way since that’s how people around you live. But if you look a bit outside of your circle - you will find people living other lives. They also have their own problems - but what you see ahead of you, is not the only way.

May I ask, how did you get stuck in a job? I ask since I changed my occupation field rather drastically once (studied biology, went into freelance design and live visual arts) and there is a good chance I might do it again soon (right now I’m not sure what I will do next).

Care to share what you love?

I knew it! Aliens!

Or how people are unimpressed with AI image generation, but at the same time - clearly can’t tell in apart (people telling artist their art is AI generated because it looks too good or strange). Or we have AI powered V-Tubers interacting with live audience. And than I stop and think about that it’s just have been a few years since AI started it’s modern day breakthrough - what we see are some primitive cave drawings.

It’s so fascinating to me how unimpressed people are when clearly sci-fi technology comes to live.

Sorry to tell you but you are blind.

Yet Disney found a pretty creative work around. But that might be a good idea that distribution and production should be separated entities - if well implemented well could solve the problem. Haven’t thought about it.

I did, because it was convenient. But I learned my lesson, it was quite expensive.