So your argument pretty much falls apart

Trying to make this claim without looking at Grimes’s followers standard-issue posts is very funny.

with AI you can give it very precise requirements on what you want to see

Setting aside the fact that you could do this already with a sufficiently well-tagged library of traditional pornography, you’re neglecting two big caveats

1. People’s porn tastes are so rarified that they need exacting specifications in order to enjoy it

2. AI consistently and faithfully delivers on queries, rather than pumping out a bunch of vague approximations full of uncanny valley graphical artifacts

There are people who would pay to have porn videos created to their taste.

And they can already do that with Cam Girls, for infinitesimally less than it costs to run a high end AI model.

Now people who have such extremely specific desires don’t have to shell out thousands for a private video from their favorite star.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veblen_good

The high price is what makes the luxury good appealing. If everyone can get it, then it isn’t what a handful of high rollers are after.

The real “money in AI porn” isn’t reshuffled budget-tier bulk content. It’s the promise of exclusive ultra-high-end luxury taboo. And the end of that road is just the porn version of Star Citizen. Someone who has baited a bunch of 4chan stogies with more money than sense into putting up $40k for the opportunity to have a five-way with Leia Oregon, Jessica Rabbit, and Rhea Ripley in six months to a year, once we’ve tuned the prompt just right.

But that’s not any kind of industry. It’s just scams.

The average techie does NOT fit the mold of “tech bro”.

Largely because Techies actually understand technology while Tech Bros mostly just know how to repeat something they half heard on Joe Rogan in the middle of a sales call.

If we continue to lump that large majority of nerds in with that group;

Bros, traditionally speaking, aren’t considered nerds. They’re more often thrown in with jocks.

Mate, you can use AI for porn

A classic scarce resource on the internet. Why pick through a catalog of porn that you could watch 24/7 for decades on end, of every conceivable variation and intersection and fetish, when you can type in “Please show me naked boobies” into Grok and get back some poorly rendered half-hallucinated partially out of frame nipple?

just the fact that it’s an automated goon machine should tell you that we are not going to live this one down

The computer was already an automated goon machine. This is yet one more example of AI spending billions of dollars yet adding nothing of value.

So your argument is that weebs are musk stans/MAGAts?

My argument is that Musk stans are often Weebs and MAGAts.

I mean, scratch a Musk-stan and you’ll likely find a Weeb who is also a MAGAt. These aren’t exclusive.

There are a dozen teenage sailor moon cosplayers who likely have restraining orders to the contrary.

Chud in a jacked up F-350 with Molon labe bumper stickers, Don’t Tread on Me License Plates, and a big Fuck-You QAnon themed MAGA Flag versus Weeb driving a Rice Rocket covered in horny anime stickers

harmless

wholesome

ecchi

Mods, ban him.

Let a Hundred Flowers Bloom: National Republicans Online Edition

I mean, the cycle started with the implementation of capitalism. Italy was functionally feudalistic (particularly in the southern territories) until the mid-19th century, with state power relegated to a hodgepodge of principalities. It’s only really been a unified country since 1870 and lagged on industrialization until the Cold War Era, when the US Marshall Plan made it an industrial and shipping beachhead for NATO-bloc manufacturing and trade (as well as a military base to strike out at North Africa and the Middle East).

The waves of Italian immigrants weren’t fleeing capitalism. They were fleeing the two World Wars and the industrial collapse of Europe. Americans, by contrast, won’t experience the same immediate socio-economic pressures to leave. So I suspect a lot of the reverse-migration we’ll see to Italy will be coming from an American wealthy middle class seeking to retire into a post-industrial retirement playground rather than an Italian underclass seeking gainful employment and safety from chronic civil wars and invasions.

Italy is going to be more like Florida in the 1990s than New Jersey in the 1920s.

I was imaging this meme just last week, while my wife finished renewing her Italian passport and stuffing a bugout bag full of Euros.

Too early in the morning for this…

Some people love the “Every panel is the punchline” kind of material. It’s very CTRL+ALT+DEL coded. Maybe give them another few years and we’ll get a new Loss out of it.

Trump fans and tankies act towards progressives

🎶 One of these things 🎵

🎵 Is not like the other 🎶

Sure. But this is an argument for piracy far more than quality.

If you’ve got the money to burn and consider emulation a hassle, you’re still buying a new Switch (tariffs pending)

Haha. Not in the US, thank you Mr. Trump very much.

That’s still just Nintendo with extra steps.

I mean, some people just rub other people the wrong way. Like with cats and dogs. Cultural differences, aesthetics, body language and the reflexive responses, natural aversions… they all play a role in a first impression.

Politeness is about getting past those initial impulses and giving one another an opportunity to prove they’re more than what they appear at first blush. And about dampening your own eccentricities so as not to startle or offend inadvertently. But politeness is a learned skill, while reflexive responses are innate. People make whole careers out of diplomacy and decorum. You shouldn’t feel bad if you fumble it occasionally and you should be willing to give others an opportunity to redefine themselves if they come off clumsy or inept.

The difference between Donald Trump and the rest of us is that Trump could borrow a billion, lose it, and borrow another billion.

None of us are ever seeing that kind of credit. What we get is almost always worse than the ROI, thanks to double or even triple digit interest rates.