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FuckYourselfWithFire t1_j23w7mp wrote

I mean...it isn't too far off. Lol.

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Syscrush t1_j24kcum wrote

But the mountains are supposed to be green, dammit - I mean it's right in the name!

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[deleted] t1_j249uxc wrote

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whaletacochamp t1_j24s1ve wrote

**I once saw a Hallmark Christmas movie and therefore know all about Vermont and what is Vermonty**

- people in this sub probably

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Comfortable-Job-6236 t1_j256tj4 wrote

Are there people in this sub who don't or havent lived here? why?

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petertheo89 t1_j25xbeo wrote

Can confirm, I'm a Rhode Islander/Masshole hybrid who just followed this sub a few weeks ago to scope out cross country skiing places.

I also want to let everyone know I have no problem with their dogs existing in Vermont

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pretentiousignoramus t1_j25pumr wrote

People looking to move to Vermont

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FuckYourselfWithFire t1_j28j091 wrote

We don't want 'em.

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pretentiousignoramus t1_j28kh95 wrote

They ain't coming for you, missy.

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FuckYourselfWithFire t1_j28kwz4 wrote

*We don't want out-of-staters to move within the boundaries of our state considering almost no one who already lives in the state can find housing as it is.

Specific enough for ya, mister?

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pretentiousignoramus t1_j28l40a wrote

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I get it. I hear ya, but there are also worker shortages too. So, do you want someone to buy a flipped house or do you want overcrowded classrooms and nurse shortages? Lose lose because there's a worker shortages too.

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FuckYourselfWithFire t1_j28ma3r wrote

Personally, I'm a fan of the whole idea of extinction-level asteroids pelting the Earth and forcing human evolution to start from scratch all over again, but Santa never gives me what I want for Christmas. :[

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whaletacochamp t1_j25jn67 wrote

Absolutely. For a variety of reasons. But I’d say, since VT is a tourist destination, the VT sub probably tends to have more out of staters than other state subs. It’s an interesting dynamic

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[deleted] t1_j25vu0o wrote

Yup. I sub r/NewOrleans but have never been but would love to. Gotta think most touristy destinations has that scenario.

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FuckYourselfWithFire t1_j263kzv wrote

Only speaking for myself, but I was born and raised in Vermont in one of the "bigger" cities with some woodlandy shenanigans on the side. It might be a Hallmark movie shithole, but it's MY Hallmark movie shithole. ♥️

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enek101 t1_j24ku00 wrote

right? i came here to say not wholly inaccurate

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fergal-dude t1_j24itoa wrote

I LITERALLY came here to type the exact same words...

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axsnyder t1_j23x448 wrote

Bob Ross met a photographer in Stowe.

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Mother_Coast t1_j2557ij wrote

There is a Bob Ross who lives in Stowe, he makes good bread

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MYrobouros t1_j240j7x wrote

I think I bought this painting at a thrift shop in Bellows Falls

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LenVT t1_j24l3lo wrote

Was it painted on velvet?

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edave22 t1_j23wv6r wrote

I mean… it’s not wrong

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Vermontess t1_j23wy22 wrote

Very Steeple-ey

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whaletacochamp t1_j24s7bn wrote

My neighboring town has a store in a steeple! Very Vermonty!

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EndOfFile2 t1_j23yodb wrote

I can see my house from there

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ZZZCCCVV t1_j249byw wrote

But you can't see Russia though!

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whaletacochamp t1_j24s9k1 wrote

Damn dude you must be tired from carrying that dead old joke for so long.

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ZZZCCCVV t1_j29de2o wrote

Nope. It will remain in history books.

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browsing_around t1_j243xc8 wrote

This is quite accurate to the town I grew up in down around south central Vermont. I present to you Brownsville

Edit: to add, there is a brook that runs through town at the base of the mountain.

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rufustphish t1_j24lj27 wrote

You mean West Windsor 😉

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browsing_around t1_j25l662 wrote

The village of Brownsville in the town of West Windsor is how I think it’s officially listed. But yes.

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rufustphish t1_j289l9h wrote

Just poking fun. I grew up in that area and folks from "Brownsville" always hated being connected to Windsor for some reason.

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amhais t1_j26fg87 wrote

Love me some Mt. Ascutney views!

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zisnotabird t1_j23zx6x wrote

That’s a lot of churches in one little area

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Granite-M t1_j24gew9 wrote

Some of the churches are antique shops now.

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whaletacochamp t1_j24sehq wrote

Or stores...or garages....or grange halls...or houses.

I know two old steeple-d churches that are now private residences, one that is a grocery store, and one that is a garage. I'm sure there are other uses as well.

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BeckyKleitz t1_j24ydv5 wrote

I have a friend who has a hydroponic growing store in an old church. Been there for years and years.

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Alternative-Bee-8981 t1_j2421de wrote

Kind of looks like Stowe from the rec path. Such a quiet walk.

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whaletacochamp t1_j24sqtb wrote

>Such a quiet walk

Spoken like a true flatlander lol. So quiet minus the shrieks of spoiled rich children on vacation, people who have $4k moutainbikes and won't leave the path, cars whizzing by on the nearby road, etc.

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Alternative-Bee-8981 t1_j24t3uv wrote

Well I went there the morning I was getting married and just walked around for an hr or so in the morning. Thankfully it was very quiet, and what seemed like a couple of locals saying Hi as I passed by.

Other times though it is more like you described 😂

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whaletacochamp t1_j24rxly wrote

I love how it is simultaneously picturesque, quaint, calm, and bucolic and yet also has undertones of dread, apocalypse, and stagnant growth lol.

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amoebashephard t1_j23yme2 wrote

The only thing it's missing are all the fingers we have

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thqks t1_j24qgdv wrote

Open the doors and see all the people?

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amoebashephard t1_j24qos1 wrote

If you look in the water, there's reflections of buildings that aren't there.

Checks out

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canter22 t1_j23wq19 wrote

I’ve driven through Vermont… very Vermonty.

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ceiffhikare t1_j24hnq5 wrote

Not enough churches.

Like for the most secular state how TF did we end up with every ville, hollow and hamlet having at least 2?

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trashmoneyxyz t1_j26htuh wrote

Deadass Randolph had like over 5 and that’s a town of 2000+ people. I’d pretty much navigate/ give directions using the steeples as landmarks when I lived there

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yeseweserft123 t1_j27qgii wrote

In my town only one is still a church. The others consist of a food shelf, a mechanic, and a thrift store.

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mnemosynenar t1_j2davld wrote

Because it's not really "secular".

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alphabet_order_bot t1_j2daw8b wrote

Would you look at that, all of the words in your comment are in alphabetical order.

I have checked 1,261,621,605 comments, and only 245,207 of them were in alphabetical order.

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Leeebs_OG t1_j23z3ol wrote

Hey that's my house

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noelesque t1_j247q1c wrote

Oh hey, just like the Romanian version of Jericho from Wednesday.

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MyNameIsMud0056 t1_j27p0rl wrote

I wish Jericho actually looked like that lol. Would make it a more interesting place to live haha

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Otto-Korrect t1_j24kqh9 wrote

Just add foliage, snow, pumpkins and maple buckets. :)

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rufustphish t1_j24lefj wrote

What was the prompt you used?

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PorkFriedBryce OP t1_j24me4a wrote

"Vermont"

https://preview.redd.it/h6do1dahtw8a1.png?width=861&format=png&auto=webp&s=488b01a26a869b433367fdb934d51dd130f605c8

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whaletacochamp t1_j24sw11 wrote

So it literally just combined those pictures. Cool.

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PorkFriedBryce OP t1_j24t4cn wrote

Not quite, those 4 were the outputs from the 'Vermont' input, then I selected the bottom right image and upscaled it to download

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whaletacochamp t1_j24updr wrote

Ahhh that makes more sense.

Pretty sure #1 is AI picking up on the Monitor barn quite a bit, and #3 is the sleepy hollow farm that everyone takes pictures of to photoshop like crazy. AI just made them slightly less noticeable lol

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AllyEmmie t1_j25tkc3 wrote

Why didn’t you pick the first result? It’s infinitely closer to what Vermont is like, than the one you uploaded here lol

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taez555 t1_j24t65b wrote

Needs at least one singlewide with a bunch of half working vehicles and broken farm equipment in the front yard.

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Soci3talCollaps3 t1_j25x96l wrote

The housing density is accurate, but the church density is a bit high.

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lanphear7 t1_j243ics wrote

Funny. Looks like my hometowns church.

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5teerPike t1_j247wdq wrote

Well is it thinking or is it looking at every image of Vermont and then making a new one out of that?

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AllyEmmie t1_j25u7u8 wrote

Your theory is exactly how these art ai work. They pull art from other sources and smoosh them together into a new images

That’s part of the reason why AI art can be bad: it can steal faces, paintings, photos that don’t belong to it and make something new from those things.

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5teerPike t1_j25vdq7 wrote

I absolutely believe it's a tool and its value is undermined by grifters & theft. We should do our due diligence to call that out, and not waste time arguing over the subjectivity of what is or isn't art

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Pongpianskul t1_j249kpy wrote

I hope it is thinking!

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5teerPike t1_j24bho6 wrote

To be honest and fair, I don't really know the math of it.

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Pongpianskul t1_j24iwvm wrote

Me neither but I think your guess about it uploading every image of Vermont it can find and then making a new image out of a mix of those is probably barking up the right tree.

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5teerPike t1_j24jxqv wrote

That's the best way I can describe it but it is definitely more complex than that, to the point where it isn't always simply theft.

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AllyEmmie t1_j25ueqe wrote

It’s almost always theft. An AI can only be programmed to the limits of the human mind. It’s much easier for the AI to cobble an image together (stealing) than it is to code the AI to make something completely original and new.

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5teerPike t1_j25vkjv wrote

If it has access to every image on the internet from a free or for sale page to the entire library of Congress, I don't think it's inherently a tool of thievery.

I also cobble images together with images I didn't make. It's called a collage.

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CHECK_FLOKI t1_j249ccy wrote

Jesus fucking christ. Lol.

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LordJeppy t1_j24ojrn wrote

Oh I've been there, it's Something Falls, VT right? 🤣

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VermontZerg t1_j24q1ja wrote

These AI generators have got so good over the last 4-5 months, insane if you look at older posts, an dnow.

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PorkFriedBryce OP t1_j24tnhs wrote

Yup that's what compelled me to post, iirc the last 'Vermont AI' post was just snow, trees and mountains smashed together in a scrapbook kinda look....this is a whole different level

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kaboomerific t1_j244z51 wrote

Coincidentally, this is also what I think Vermont looks like 👀

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MEuRaH t1_j24w858 wrote

Vermont is the least religious state in the union.

It's not actually covered in churches. Should be a lot of small shops and farms instead.

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ResponsibleExcuse727 t1_j249ohv wrote

Bet you could find somewhere that this is 95% accurate. Mountains look a bit off for some reason

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RandomHero565 t1_j24hdx2 wrote

Who's Al? Friend of yours?

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0thell0perrell0 t1_j24qhhu wrote

His real name is Chevy Chase, but you can call him AI.

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whaletacochamp t1_j24tc0t wrote

But only if he calls you Betty first.

On an unrelated note, anyone know why I'm all soft in the middle now?? I've got such a short little span of attention too...

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Fudthebiker t1_j24sexf wrote

What I love to see every morning when I step out onto my porch in my flannel shirt, hot mug of Maple syrup in my hand...

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MEuRaH t1_j24vyl5 wrote

The least religious state in the union... covered in churches.

Close but not close, imo.

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Jsr1 t1_j25d8a5 wrote

Looks like island pond

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mannershmanners t1_j26kc4s wrote

I mean… it’s not far off. Maybe more barns than churches. And the colors aren’t quite right.

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inelasticplastick t1_j24fvc8 wrote

this is really beautiful

did u make this urself with ai ?

care to share ur process?

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PorkFriedBryce OP t1_j24kvo4 wrote

Not affiliated with the company/org, just thought the tech was cool!
All I did was input "Vermont" and then wait for the output which was the image posted above. Mind boggling to say the least...
Midjourney Research Lab

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inelasticplastick t1_j24mhr6 wrote

the body of water looks similar to one near me. interesting how many churches there are!

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whaletacochamp t1_j24stm3 wrote

It's a stream dude....they all look pretty similar lmao

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inelasticplastick t1_j24tonr wrote

ok. is there a problem if it looks similar (the way it curves, the width, etc. ) to the one i know?

edited cuz i posted before finishing my sentence

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AllyEmmie t1_j25uqd4 wrote

You can’t “make art yourself” through AI. The AI stole images off of the internet that belonged to an actual artist, and then made a new image with it. Any prompt created through AI isn’t your art. It’s stolen material.

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nixxon t1_j27ed0a wrote

Theoretically that'll get sorted out when people start trying to sell these (good luck with that, btw). Like sampling in music. You can do it if you're creating something new, but you have to pay the creator.

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inelasticplastick t1_j26e82b wrote

can one make art themself with a pencil?

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AllyEmmie t1_j27xp3l wrote

I don't understand the relevance of your rhetorical question.

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inelasticplastick t1_j281t96 wrote

i wasn’t asking my question rhetorically

i view paper and pencil as analagous as art-making tools

my understanding of the law regarding art reproduction seems to be different than u. i guess ais alter images prior to delivery. if that’s the case, assuming the amount of alteration is sufficient, i don’t see any infringement

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AllyEmmie t1_j2aodpa wrote

If a human being makes art, and then posts it on the internet, with their brand or signature attached, and then a human-made AI STEALS THAT ART, so YOU can make art WITH THE AI, then that should be illegal

I don't know why you're saying what you're saying. AI is BAD.

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inelasticplastick t1_j2apr4k wrote

it’s not illegal tho

all creative outputs are iterations and there is law about how much a work needs to change in order to be “different enough”

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AllyEmmie t1_j2bb6tl wrote

Copyright is a law. And if an artist makes something by their own hand, YOU ARE NOT ENTITLED TO TAKE IT, AND CLAIM IT AS YOURS.

YOU can't do that. And an AI shouldn't be allowed to do that either.

AI takes ORIGINAL art pieces, mashes them together, and gives you the result of the prompt you typed in. It's highly grey, lawfully.

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werdnak84 t1_j24mkz5 wrote

.... they're not entirely wrong.

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0thell0perrell0 t1_j24p0bp wrote

Yeah I'm pretty sure my summer swimming home is right behind that church. It's a little too close to the river though. I like how it's all churches.

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CHECK_FLOKI t1_j24sfyi wrote

No snow at all. AI = garbage lol

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AllyEmmie t1_j25uwmp wrote

There wasn’t a whole lot of snow until just around Christmas this year so is it entirely inaccurate? Lol

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expenguin t1_j24t3p8 wrote

Thank GOD it didn't pull that stupid red farm house amidst the over saturated autumn leaves.

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mossybishhh t1_j252l49 wrote

I've driven through here before

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freehand_underhand t1_j25evkf wrote

I've only been once passing through, but it was a whole lot greener. I remember Vermont being really really really green in December.

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Condemning_Authority t1_j25j245 wrote

Can’t tell if it’s dark on purpose, a slight at the church, or just sunset

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IndigoHG t1_j273u3p wrote

What kind of Lovecraftian version of Vermont is this??

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How_I_wish_ t1_j27g984 wrote

The river looks off for fall. 🤷🏻‍♀️

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mpyre1111 t1_j28elt8 wrote

It does look like this, and it's uniquely beautiful.

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Shadedavid t1_j28eygj wrote

It’s the greatest hits album cover

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AllyEmmie t1_j25vcnl wrote

AI art isn’t real art, it’s theft.

As cool as AI art is, it would be more beneficial to everyone if you hired an actual living breathing artist to paint or draw this prompt for you.

I hope this sub does the right thing and bans the use of AI.

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Annual-Bet-5123 t1_j28ix69 wrote

Dunno why you're being downvoted, you're right. The programs have been found to use images of working artists without consent to make "art", and it is problematic until protections are put into place to give rights back to the creative industry.

Although it seems harmless, it's hurting a lot of small artists trying to make extra income.

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AllyEmmie t1_j2ap7qi wrote

AI Art is a horrible invention, regardless of how cool people find their prompt results.

They literally steal art from the internet. It's not okay :/

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ShellyMea t1_j27nabh wrote

So I have a question and hope it won’t offend anyone, my husband and I and our kids have been vacationing in VT, NH and Maine for many years, my husband as a child would visit with his parents, few months ago we bought a second home here in VT the people we encounter with seem very nice always friendly, very welcoming but it seem when I come to this group almost feel like we are nuisance, and vermonters would rather us not be here. We don’t live for free here we pay bills and we pay our taxes we don’t take jobs away from VT people, we hire local people to do work in our home. Again never met anyone that hasn’t been kind and friendly.

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ceiffhikare t1_j27wmj3 wrote

" We don’t live for free here "

You really dont belong here, that kind of thinking is welcomed in TX, AL, or FL. We try to take care of our people up here whether the private sector has a use for them or not.

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FuckYourselfWithFire t1_j28tcw8 wrote

"bought a second home here"

See, that right there is part of the issue. As another commenter rightfully pointed out, there is a shortage of workers here and so people from out of state may need to move here to work, but you're not contributing to fixing that issue. You're just taking away a home that a local person could have bought for themselves and their family and it's not even a house you need. I know people that have put off buying their first house for up to 3 years at this point because there's just not enough available for a reasonable price, because all of the potential options are being bought by out-of-staters for over-market prices, and these are people whose families have lived here for generations but are now being forced out of state due to a lack of housing.

Of course we're not going to run you out of town with torches and pitchforks. Vermont as a whole prides itself in caring for the people within our boundaries. But you're only hurting our situation, not helping it.

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IndependenceFun2371 t1_j25fuev wrote

Its rainbow colored now, like the rest of the country. SHAMEFUL, DISGRACEFUL, NOTHING TRADITIONAL AND WHOLESOME.

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AllyEmmie t1_j25v18f wrote

Are you missing the /sarcasm indicator at the end of your sentence?

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