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Well like, you could have a hammer without the canoe, you know

Minimalism isn't about "as little as possible". It's about only having what you need. Basic tools are part of the "only what you need", unless you got readily access to a shared supply of tools

Where? In my country there isn't less variety, no

As a rule of thumb, there typically are very few people clamoring for volunteer leader positions. It's a constant problem you see even in irl non-profit organizations, unless they're fairly big/famous

It just turns out that, it's actually just a lot of responsibility and work. Most people realize this, and don't have the capacity to do the work, so often there even are no candidates for the leader positions.. until someone reluctantly steps up because otherwise the organization would die

At least, that's my experience in the real life organizations and clubs I've volunteered in

Britain was also broke after WW2, and couldn't really afford, nor did they want to, keeping India

So in a way India's freedom was fought and won violently, it just wasn't mainly India's violence

You need to rebuild roads to maintain them every couple decades anyway. That cost is already baked in, it just depends what you so with it

I wouldn't call bread or yoghurt prepared instead of processed personally though, they've been through multiple chemical and biological processes.

Ultra processes foods is something that tends to be more appropriate I think. That's stuff like chips or fast food. Though even that I consider fine to eat in moderation, and I, personally, do. Though I agree it would be better if I completely cut those out. I just tend to eat a lot of pre-made foods due to disability reasons (frozen pizzas, pastas, and the like)

But yeah, I do know that the US has some very lax food laws unfortunately. So maybe that is a big part of the difference

I feel like this is you fighting phantoms. I highly doubt anyone would want to actively help someone die instead like, referring them to a psychologist or therapist or something

I guess it still leaves store-bought bread out I guess. Or yoghurt. Or milk

But nah, I really do think it's extreme. Pre-made food isn't bad for you

Either that or I'm just being European, idk

People didn't use to call those AI images. They used to call them images with a filter

Sure, some form of machine learning was involved, but so was your Google search for the previous decade. Unless one specifies what one means by AI, I still stand by my statement

In addition, OP's image was still real, even if it had a filter on. A lot of people's images have such filters on, especially since often they're applied automatically. That's the whole difference and the point

That's fair yeah. I'd say it'd depend upon the definition of modern history, but unless it's fairly narrow and recent, then yeah. Certainly not within the accepted definition of modern history

Speaking as someone in Europe

The US has a major effect on the rest of the world. Elon is a big concern even if you don't live in the US

..and you don't wanna see what's gonna happen aa the US progresses more into fascism and sets their sights for outside their borders. Hell, they've already done that with Canada and Greenland, even

So I see people arguing whether this is AI or not and I just wanna say that

What people should take away from all of this is that we're rapidly approaching a point where we're simply unable to accurately determine whether something is generated or not. And we, as individuals and as a society, are not ready for that. We're heading into a different world, and we better prepare for it, as well as re-examine our relationship to art and images before we're forced to do so by the circumstances