NONE @ NONE_dc @lemmy.world

Designer by profession, Writer by (love) conviction. Reaching mastery is my

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Describing the images for blind people is literally the main objective of the Alt Text, the rest is secondary. In mastodon in particular, blind users are much more welcomed than in other networks precisely because there is usually a culture around it. One of my friends I met at Mastodon is blind, and I always, ALWAYS put Alt Text in the images I post so that he can also be part of the conversation.

Could you... Ehm... Elaborate on that...?

You understood the assignment, comrade 🤝

This is just a Jojo's Stand Power.

I have already said it in other answers, I repeat it again:

• I'm referring to the PRIVILEGE that the rich have of being able to be stupid without major or even outright any consequences.
• Obviously, by pure statistics, there will be MILLIONS of stupid poor people.

No, you're confusing being stupid with being ignorant. THEY'RE NOT THE SAME THING AT ALL. All stupid people are ignorant, but not all ignorant people are stupid.

An ignorant person can be wise if they are aware of their own ignorance and asks for help or assistance; but an ignorant person becomes stupid the moment they forget that they're ignorant and takes care of matters beyond their capabilities.

A poor person is condemned to be constantly aware of their own ignorance, since they don't have the purchasing power or the necessary influence to compensate; the rich, on the other hand, is convinced that their economic success also implies intellectual success, and there is no one to contradict them, because they are the one who puts the money, so they are the one who makes the decisions.

There are rich people who are wise when, for example, they hire other people to solve their blind spots, and obviously there are stupid poor people, millions of them, purely for statistics.

But is this the best and most efficient way for rational beings to organize themselves? Let me be REALLY skeptical about that.

1. I didn't say that rich people ARE stupid but CAN BE stupid without the consecues that most of us face. That's is what we call PRIVILEGE
2. How many rich people you know that are actually geniuses? And how many rich people have you heard who have done the stupidest thing possible? How is the relation between those two?

Are you referring to me or the original poster I quoted in the "source" link?

I think it's only worth buying a Switch 2 if you've never owned the Switch 1. With how continuous the console is and how similar the experience is, only marginally improved, I don't think it's a good idea to get carried away by the hype and buy it just because.

Another point is that if all people just act for their own self-interest, they will have a better life themselves, and if everyone does the same, some sort of proper balance will be achieved.

Hmmm, I don't know... I think that kind of "balance" you talk about is obtained rather at that middle point between the individual and the collective interest.

I think we all act to a greater or lesser extent according to our interests, the problem I see is that we have this idea that life is a zero-sum game, where others must fail for one to succeed, that's where the conflict comes from, because not everyone can win, there are more losers than winners. A cure for this mentality, I believe, is precisely to think about the collective interest understanding it as "what benefits my community also benefits me", it is to achieve individual benefit through collective work and cooperation, if everyone wins I also win.

That's the way 👏

Good to know, pal! I've never used the AI either, never relied on it and never will, never asked it anything...

But my mother has. And my sister. And my sister's friend. And my sister's friend's daughter. My coworkers use AI. My friends use AI. Some of my favorite content creators use AI. I've seen a lot more people talk about how they use AI to do mundane things that wouldn't take them 2 minutes to think about, communiques for the neighborhood meeting, student speeches, Mourning messages....

I've read endless news stories of companies laying off 70% of their workforce to replace them with AI. I've seen endless articles talking about how people use AI as a therapist, as a replacement for friends and partners, as a replacement for human relationships...

I've seen hundreds of morons belittling the work of talented artists saying that "Why are you wasting your time with that? AI makes you something better in less than a minute"....

So, yes. neither you nor I make use of AI, we are not part of the circus. But everyone around us is. And that, whether we want it or not, splashes on us.

That's why the reference to the 1975 Pink Floyd song "Welcome to the Machine".

It also means that! The fish and the loaves, the fisher of men, the fish that Jesus ate after his resurrection. It is a symbol with a very broad meaning.

I have always thought that choosing the cross as the universal symbol of Christianity is the most twisted and sad thing in the world.

That is why I prefer the Ichthys. It represents Jesus's high point, when he performed a miracle for the all the people. For me, it's better to remember people at their best than at their worst.

I have a friend who is literally blind, and even he is able to recognize the true beauty in other people.

Only if I've had a lot of fun and want to know who is responsible for my happiness, or if the game doesn't allow me to skip them.

It's going to have crossplay, so for me it's already GOTY material.

I slam a Royal Flush against the table.

Checkmate, plebs!

Speed Racer (2008) by the Wachowskis Sisters.