aiislove
14hr ago
Gucci Guilty Cologne pour Homme
Someone once asked if I was a mechanic because I smelled like "motor oil" and then he corrected himself and said I smelled like "Gucci Guilty pour Homme." I bought a sample and it smells good to me.
Fat Electrician
This was my go to in college. I still love it, very sexy to me.
Chanel [...] Antaeus
Antaeus is good, slightly dated to my nose. I had an Antaeus stick deodorant I bought in France and it was very nice. I love Chanel's Le Lion but it is crazy and strong and too much can make me slightly nauseous after having drowned myself in it a few too many times.
aiislove
4d ago
You've posted a reply to a post that was removed. I didn't get to read it, does anyone have a summary of it, or at least a reason why it and a handful of comments below were removed by @Amadan?
I am not a fan of censorship/posts being removed especially without any context, but I'm assuming it was done because the post had some call to violence or something.
aiislove
10d ago
Everyone agrees that "being white is better than being non-white
I have an extremely long schizopost brewing about this exact topic that I don't have the time to write right now, but the tldr is that this entire framing IS implicitly accepted by everyone in the modern west (right and left alike) and it IS a hubristic arrogant stifling ridiculous situation that leads to terrible outcomes and excludes all evidence and experiences to the contrary while privileging literal white supremacy to the exclusion of every instance where being white may actually be a disadvantage for example in sports or in the face of male sexual competition with more dominantly gened people. The blindness to this reality is born out of a combination of arrogance, laziness, and an unwillingness to course correct or admit mistake/defeat/obvious humiliation.
aiislove
12d ago
Idek but I travel all over the world and I find people who are openly hostile to me when I tell them I'm an American- and/or from a red state- is a huge red flag. This kind of bigotry is so inane and ubiquitous that I just seek out people who don't judge me no matter where I'm from. I've met people from all kinds of places that are openly hostile to Americans or the American empire and never would I consider judging them based on the country they're from rather than by the things they say or the actions they take. To treat someone poorly based on their nationality is always a bad sign no matter what part of the world you're in. (This pattern matches similarly to people in blue states who are begging to hear some trump denouncement/land acknowledgment from you as soon as you're identified as being from a red state. If you're someone who sees half of your countrymen with such contempt I'll just find somebody else to talk to rather than grovel) And this comment probably makes me sound like I am a rude person but I should specify that I am extremely polite when I sus out that someone is judging me and am tactful enough to disengage with them gracefully. I have had multiple instances where I was traveling abroad with other men- one a very liberal German, another a jew from NYC, and had locals harass and yell at them specifically while in the same breath were kind and apologetic to me. I think the defining factor is the level of respect you show toward others, which I make a habit of being conscious of, and others often are not.
aiislove
12d ago
Yes, I think this homogenization of culture is disturbing. Europeans emulating Americans isn't as sinister to me as when I see the same from more exogenous cultures- I've met Thai people in their 20s and 30s in Thailand who know American tik tok slang better than I do and most Koreans in Seoul under 30 speak better American English than most ADOS here. Bizarre.
aiislove
15d ago
I think a more interesting and expository question is why the left can't bring their own anxieties about black dick into anything.
aiislove
19d ago
donate the money to some trustworthy and effective organization fighting for privacy rights
Ah, this is a good idea, I don't know why I didn't think of that myself. I'd love to know if anyone here who knows of any good places to donate for this sort of thing. The other night I did a little research on the topic and the ACLU had a long screed against Flock cameras but I know the right generally dislikes this organization. I'd be happier donating to a neutral or bipartisan org instead if anyone can recommend one.
aiislove
19d ago
Is there anything I as an individual can do to push back against Flock cameras or broader mass surveillance in the US?
Reading 1984 as a sixth grader I was horrified by Big Brother and the authoritarianism illustrated in the book and always felt that if those things came to life it would be right and imperative to fight against them, and every year I’ve seen more and more authoritarian overreach that disturbs me.
I do not vote as I believe it’s a massive waste of time at best. I am not fond of solutions such as “call your congressperson” or “show up to your local council and demand change” because these are similarly time wasting activities in my opinion.
I am frustrated by the acceptance of the public for these technologies with terrible implications for the present and the future. I don’t want to break the law in order to fight them and don’t want to become more of a target, which seems inevitable if you want to speak against it publicly. I feel very disappointed in people around me and the modern west when I realize the state of mass surveillance today.
aiislove
20d ago
I was not aware of Pongiluppi's art until just now. It is not what I'm into at all but it is effective for a certain market or applications where you would want that kind of style. You're right that a lot of AI art generators create things that look like his style, but really that's more of a problem with the taste level of the entire internet that scraping every image then weighing the output (or whatever) leads to this sort of aesthetic too often. I constantly have to tell ai generators to stop making everything look so high contrast, so epic, so deviantart, so hollywood 2010s film poster bla bla bla...........
I don't think any art style is "discredited" by AI, in the same way that PS2 graphics didn't "discredit" Alex Colville's art from the 1960s that looks freakishly similar to PS2 graphics. The reproducability of a style has more to do with the models/technology than the artists, for example AI can much more easily create artwork in the style of Van Gogh or Monet than it can create a high quality vector graphic design in the style of, say, Herb Lubalin, but it doesn't really mean that the value of a Monet painting is now less than the value of any graphic designer's work.
aiislove
22d ago
This is not my experience at all, it is mostly the bad artists and creatives who publicly dislike AI art. Kazuma Kaneko for example who is an extremely talented genius illustrator (his Persona 1/2 designs are some of the best video game related art ever IMO) has produced a video game with a bunch of AI art trained on his style, he's obviously fine with it but the reaction from the public has been hysterical. Nick Knight is a very talented photographer and embraces AI, that's only two examples off the top of my head but I can think of more if you need me to. No artist or creative who I genuinely respect has come out openly against AI. Most of the creatives vocally against it are pretty mediocre at best or just terrible deviantart level hacks
aiislove
22d ago
AI is just the democratization of slavery, bringing to the masses what used to be the exclusive domain of the few.
Yes this is a great point, and why I find the hatred of AI art from a particular class of consumers who never produce art themselves but who consume it really irritating. They want the luxury to demand that the art they consume is hand drawn or hand painted or hand sketched or hand CGI'd or hand photoshopped but never ever hand prompted. They would never demand that their checking account be artisanally hand crafted on papyrus spreadsheets and totaled by sheer brainpower but cringe at any art that wasn't toiled over by hand. They want creatives chained to their workspaces dammit! Never mind that the fundamental problem is that they lack the creativity or motivation to produce artwork themselves, and even now when the barrier to entry is as low as prompting an LLM, which makes them look even worse to anyone who actually creates things.
To your other points, noblesse oblige has died out long ago in the modern west, which is why it's so degrading to participate in society broadly. And it died off so quickly- my grandparents' generation were clean, elegant, sane people- my parents' generation, not at all.
Anything good or beautiful that happens to arise for a time is an accident that can only flourish under very precise and precarious conditions [...]
This is starting to become evident to me. It's too bad but you put it nicely.
aiislove
24d ago
Bob Dylan
I really can't stand Bob Dylan. He is the most Harrison Bergeron attendance award mealy mouthed nonsense I've ever heard in my life and boomers should be humiliated that they share a generation with him
Is Sufjan Stevens not on either of these lists? Devendra? (Both lists are paywalled for me so I can't check.) Why has the indie hipster folk movement of 2006 to 2013 been so thoroughly memory holed?
aiislove
24d ago
a rather rightest view (castrate all chads)
How is this a rightist view at all? I am not trying to be uncharitable but I broadly view all of leftism as an attempt to castrate all chads. The right is much more tolerant of letting chads be chads.
aiislove
28d ago
I am not a math person at all but I believe you could interpret 2rafa's wording in two different ways. She said:
Taking stock, in 12 years, more or less in diversified primarily-US and some global equities, with reinvestment, I made 400%
This either means that you went from, say, $100 and ended up with $400 (a four hundred percent return) or you started with $100 and ended up with $500 (a total return of 400% on top of your original principal).
The first gives you 12% the second gives you 14.34%.
aiislove
28d ago
Gender identity immediately breaks down outside the context of the narcissistic modern west. Everyone else who's ever lived has lived in direct relationship to those around them. Placing the onus of deciding the gender for ourselves leads to strange or ridiculous outcomes some percentage of the time. Traditionally you are just whatever gender the people around you assign to you which would correspond to genitalia nearly all the time.
If someone asks for my pronouns I am irritated that I have to decide for myself because I think it should be designated by someone outside of myself in relation to the averages and experiences of society. If they assign an exogonous gender to my imagined self then it will tell me something about me, or them, but at least it relieves me of the pressure of having to assert something about myself.
Picking your own gender and asserting its correctness is dumb and ridiculous but completely consistent with the dumbness and ridiculousness of the modern west.
Oh really? I have a whole bottle of labdanum oil, I love it. What do you dislike about it?
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