All of the examples I gave were real things I saw and the only one I really liked was the plaster artist. I’d definitely pay someone for something like that if I won the lottery.

Another expensive thing I saw that I really liked was the hallway overlooking a client’s full-sized basement basketball court that had 5 or so kinetic sculptures on the wall. That dude had great taste in art and definitely picked out everything himself

But is it mango specifically or any fruit croissants? Strawberry croissants are pretty common around here but I’ve never been to France to know if it’s common there too

What’s the big deal?

The stone might be salvageable

The person who wrote this clearly isn’t familiar with rich people. Billionaires and multimillionaires do this stuff. McMansions are for the poor millionaires.

The ultra rich use imported marble for their bathrooms. They fly in the best plaster artist in the country to make a mural in the foyer. The butler’s pantry is lined with $100/sqft wallpaper. The desks are made of rare Italian old growth hardwood.

Some of it is gaudy, some of it is tasteful. But it’s hard to comprehend just how expensive everything in their houses are. They spend a million or two dollars on AV alone.

Source: I was a pro AV commissioner/programmer for a long time. Fun fact: AV was deemed “essential work” during lockdown. Another fun fact: rich people stopped tipping entirely during lockdown.

It’s because video games are a hobby you can play in isolation and being a shithead often has no consequences online.

Similar to how small towns tend to be more xenophobic than big cities due to a lack of exposure to different people and viewpoints

From my experience playing online games, there’s a higher percentage of people publicly using slurs than the general population.

That’s not an admonishment of gamers as a whole, though. I’m not blaming “gamers” for anything

Don’t know anyone who plays Stellaris so I have no idea how true this is lol

Nowhere did I say it was a red flag to play video games so you’re countering a point I didn’t make with reasoning that supports the point I did

Playing games is not a red flag in itself but some games certainly are. So getting clarification is about checking for red flags…

But…Isn’t that the whole point of this post…? Playing video games doesn’t mean you’re a shitty person but there’s enough shitty people into the hobby that you need to get clarification? Why phrase it that way when we’re making the same point?

“I’m currently playing through [single player game]”

Ah ok, we’re probably good

I know but unfortunately moms can be racist, too.

Oh, you play video games…?

Good luck getting a court to hear it when you won’t have a shred of evidence to show

Kinda? Not really, though. If anything it, the model’s response would just include “anti-commercial license” at the end and they’d get rid of that with further training

What is stopping corpos from scraping everyone’s posts and stuff from the fediverse and train their AI?

That very real and enforceable “this comment cannot be used to train AI” crap some people add to every comment that definitely makes bots not scrape the comment, of course!

A chicken sandwich with a biscuit for bread

One of the best feelings in the world is seeing purple links when browsing Wikipedia

I totally misread your comment, my apologies

I’d wager more people are worried about their loss of income than making the boss an extra 50 cents, though