On Bodegas Mt Vernon has this one Asian owned corner store that has decent food and seasonings, around the corner off Eager St. there is proper deli and grocery store type spot, and then across the street from Starbucks there is University Mart.

There are Ethiopian and Asian markets that also cook their own food somewhere not far off from the library. I haven't gone yet but this woman who owns a bookstore said the Ethiopian place is good.

The only proper bodegas is "El Bodegon" in Fells Point near Johnny Rads.

I think to be a true bodega they have to have general goods and a deli that cooks food on the spot. Bonus points if they have a cat and a dude who sells mid out front lmao.

I always forget those two, i'll keep em in mind.

Hampden, Charles Village, Bolton Hill, and Mount Vernon are your best bet imo. North Charles is cool to hang around, but i've never checked for apartments.

The best option would be a hotel/extended stay while you figure out what is next.

I know in MV, they have a week stay hotel/apartment situation. Think its about $85 a week?

The city should focus on expanding and working with the current bus system. The streets are already congested, more buses won't help. On top of that most other cities do fine without Buses.

Maybe they should expand the charm city circulator?

It might be a hot take but a lot of the problems in Baltimore, minority communities, and many cities across the country would be solved by a bottom up solution rather than top-down one

The city can pour millions of dollars in any program or such for policing, education, parks and recs, and such but that still doesn't address the culture that a lot of the people from these high crime areas come from. Does Baltimore have a robust outreach program that can address the dysfunction and trauma that some of these people come from? I'm gonna look into it myself...

Addressing these issues with policy, and funding, and whatever else more so feel like band aides and covering up larger issues that are very complex...

If its a bottom-up solution, then that would be people getting into the neighborhoods, locally organized groups and such, but it seems like a cyclical problem when a lot of people who are either from the areas or the city/state in general might not even wanna try going there and doing work. Like wasn't a dude who was working close in the area shot a few years back?

I suppose either/or wont work...I feel like a mix of these band aide government solutions and local organization would do the trick...but thats over years. Baltimore didn't become this way over night and we can't expect change over night either...not without displacing a bunch of people at least

I've been haning around this subreddit and make music; techno, ambient, electro, etc.

Its funny, because if you go back and listen to some early techno and the like, there was always little hints of AI and general futurist technology. Techno music is humans trying to sound like machines. Now we have machines trying to sound human.

To answer your question, i think there will be general split. Some people simply wont care, and music is music, whether it is AI/machine generated or human made. On the other hand, you'll have people who have a hard "no" on all music generated from AI. There is likely a sliding scale to that, like i'm not quite sure if AI could accurately capture the pain expressed in blues or the nimble improv and soul of jazz.

You can match and learn how to mirror vocal inflection or the small techniques that a jazz artist might have but i think ability to recognize human spirit in certain types of music, like rock, blues, jazz, soul, etc.

Personally, i think we should be moving AI towards genres like techno, house, Ambient, etc. I'd love to have a techno jam with an AI buddy that looks like BMO from Adventure Time.

As for becoming a professional artist...i think its better in any scenario to get a good day job that can afford you to have fun with it in your free time rather than explicitly going into it.

Of all the transhumanist possibilities, this is my leas favorite. I'm more interested in life extension, exoskeletons, etc.

How much individuality is left in hivemind? Doesn't something like this happen in Neon Genesis?

I' more interested in joining the collective conciousness of the greater galaxt or universe than just humanity...then again, maybe that has to start with humans?

I could see this turning into a situation where the human hivemind is set on drawing in other collectives to expand the general mind...this is neither bad nor good but would unfavorable for those who dont want to