Not sure why this author is spreading “paid software is convenient and just works” rhetoric. Simply isn’t the case. You just get addicted to trying to solve your problems with money.

spendy culture in general is disconnected from reality

be advised that these programs are often co-opted by local officials to boost numbers and reduce actual available services to incarcerated populations, or to deflect blame for employee drug smuggling

your experience will vary depending on the county

its wise to partner with an existing, experienced program first to learn the field a bit and avoid the pitfalls counties lay for beginners

for example, many counties will use bureaucratic expense approval hurdles or materials clearance and transportation hurdles to slow down and exhaust your efforts, but there are people with the specific experience and networks to navigate that stuff already in some cases

it isn’t about surprise silly goose its about moving the interaction from a suspected unknown to a known interaction in our collective threat models

silly goose

Yes that’s the specific reason they give. They’re fascists though, ultimately they just like finding excuses to throw away mail, so you don’t give them any.

propaganda like this is so fucking sad

colonizers don’t have anything to value in their culture and they don’t have a future so they want to rip on people who aren’t buying their garbage

This is what I was also going to advise! Pick a couple of styles to emulate for a purpose and use them. In my 20s I picked up block print so I could write to my buddies in the armed forces without the censors throwing my stuff away. It also comes in handy for whiteboarding at work. If you are into game design, maybe pick a style from one of the D&D dungeon illustrations and it might come in handy for your purposes?

now there’s an angle

their podcast diet usually

you think grok is people huh

but yeah i will block if people agree with you

yeah you get it, “people twitter” =/= AI Slop in my mind

do you think people come to lemmy to see people posting grok jokes

keep a rag bag handy and just wipe up cooking grease with those, them throw them in a pile next to the wood stove

you end up needing the oily rags to wipe down the wood stove anyway or else it will rust

it’s just a crappy and lazy image regardless of origins, but the fact it is AI makes it crappier