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  • tax base in a decade or two

    That’s what I’m referring to. A healthy, well-educated population is significantly more productive than an ill and stupid one. And more productive generally translates to more taxes in the long run.

    Think of how strong of a military the US could’ve had if it were not controlled by companies looking for short term profits.




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    I think we’re referring to different words. Look at the text in the back (which is apparently called “blurb”) - the p is not closed and if it were closed, it would be way too “big”.

    You are right about the x having become a k on the front though, I didn’t spot that.



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    AI slop? The text looks a bit wonky and the ISBN is invalid. It’s either 978-0220331132 or 978-0220331432, I can’t really tell but neither is valid. Besides, the last digit looks like it’s about to fall off.

    But still, the book’s physical condition itself looks realistic. Look at the bottom left corner or the spine for example, there are lots of tiny defects a real book would have. So the image and therefore the cover must both be real.

    Yet look at the ridges on the spine! You can’t (easily) achieve this with regular printing paper. It has to be a real paper book cover. But there’s no way anyone would AI generate the fucking ISBN bar code and sell it like this, is there? After all, I can’t see any pages either though which indicates the cover is standalone.

    I’m confused.


  • yetAnotherUserto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneAm I a good rule?
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    I’m not really relevant to your interaction but I thought it was a little cute. Not tactful, but the spirit was there.

    If I wanted to write a similar message like yours, I’d probably have done it like this:

    Let’s say I were to call you a “bitch”. What would your purely hypothetical response be? 🥺

    That’s:

    • less direct
    • playful (“If I were to insult you” is a very fun way to tease AND pretend to be an innocent little angel)
    • probing the water to see if they’re interested

    At least in my opinion. I’m terrible at flirting though so you may want to evaluate this yourself.