RE: Toying with AI art and mixing it
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And now I've just learnt a lot more about Finland that I didn't know. It's prompted me to look at the map and I didn't realise you share such a large border with Russia. I guess I always imagined the border to be along the bottom of the outcrop that I picture as Scandinavia. Your language being so different to the Slavic languages probably also makes me separate the country more in my mind than the former USSR countries.
The saddest meme I think from those 10 memes I posted is the one with the labyrinth.
After reading this I can see why it speaks to you with regards the war situations more now. I have to admit that I tend to switch off from a lot of new reports on refugee situations, due to the bias that comes with it. One of the things I like about Australia is that we have so many immigrants and refugees I can often hear directly from them.
When the original fighting started in the Ukraine my daughter did rhythmic gymnastics with a Ukrainian coach. There were other Ukrainian parents there too, so I heard conversions on the war. What was interesting was that there were both Eastern and Western Ukrainians and their opinions differed. The West wanted to connect with Europe more while the East wanted to keep ties to Russia. It certainly opened my eyes to there being more complex issues than one side verses the other. I find myself comparing it to the Ireland situation, which ended up being divided in order to try and resolve things peacefully.
Yeah, I write too much. It compensates the times when I don't write anything even though I perhaps should.
It's totally understandable that in countries near bigger countries which have either occupied or invaded the smaller country before, or influenced the country so that there is a kind of a fear mentality around so people want to either avoid war or not be taken to prison because of criticizing the bigger country or it's leaders to maintain the status quo, not perhaps ideal but everyone's alive, so they might even start hating the people who do criticize the oppressing country because it's easier to hate the criticizers, not the actual wrong doers. And I get it, there are plenty of people too who actually do not believe a word the western media or independent media says but believe everything Putin says. This is not just Putins war but then again there thankfully are plenty of Russians who do not agree with Putin and think this actually is a war, not a rescue attempt by Russia.