SanguinePar

Not the same instance, but there’s !conspiracytheories@lemmyunchained.net

I wouldn’t put it here, because it wouldn’t really be a question, so would likely break community rules.

Seconded - I’ve been cutting my own hair for about 25 years now, must have saved a fortune. Still using the same clippers.

It’s clear you’ve given this a lot of thought 😁

Would the poop retain the invisibility after exiting your tiger body?

No worries, hope you can ID it! 👍

The Giant Spider Invasion, maybe? It was on MST3K, but I think it was pretty successful on initial release too.

This is what I was going to say too!

I’m not sure if it was the premiere, but I do remember being called to come and see it - so it must have been some sort of event, or else they wouldn’t have called me in specially.

Anyway, yeah, those eyes at the end. The rest didn’t bother me at all, but those eyes haunted me for years.

They’re harmed by both IMO.

Real artists may be influenced, but they still put something of themselves into what they make. AI only borrows from others, it creates nothing.

I realise no-one is paying someone to make a banner for this forum, it would need to be someone choosing to do it because they want there to be a banner. But the real artists whose work was used by the AI to make the banner had no choice in the matter, let alone any chance of recompense.

Agree with that. I don’t think the two are mutually exclusive though?

Yeah, but if you drew it yourself then they wouldn’t expect to be paid. Unless you plagiarised them to the degree that would trigger a copyright claim, they would (at worst) just see it as a job that they could have had, but didn’t. Nothing of theirs was directly used, and at least something original of theirs was created. Whereas AI images are wholly based on other work and include no original ideas at all.

That doesn’t change that real artists who made real art will have had their work used without permission or payment to help generate the banner. I’m with OP.

(Forty) Seconding the HHGG game. Sheer joy. And utter frustration.

!oldweb@lemmy.ml might be of interest - not hugely busy, but has some links to old internet stuff.

This is maybe not what you’re looking for, as it’s not about growing the money so much as using it to help others, but sharing just in case it’s of interest (no pun intended).

https://lendwithcare.org/

My wife has used this a lot - she reads up on microbusinesses who need a loan to develop, lends small sums (like less than £50 or so) to them and after a while usually gets her money back and then reinvests it in a loan to another microbusiness.

It doesn’t make a profit for the individual lenders as far as I know, but it’s a way to assist people in improving their lives. Kind of cool, I think.

If you’re using Windows, you could look into Microsoft Powertoys, a suite of cool extensions which adds some nifty functionality.

One of them (I can’t recall its name) allows you to quickly call up a toolbar for special accented characters, and other symbols - eg, if you want the © symbol, you type C, activate the toolbar via a keyboard shortcut and it’s there to select along with ç and other relevant options. I use it all the time, it’s really handy.

EDIT: Here’s a link, and that tool is called Quick Accent

😁👍

“Listen… Do you smell something?”

Likewise, it’s beautiful, so elegant.