The actual Nazis were nothing but hypocrites themselves. Propaganda did a good job of only showing the elite troops, but not every Nazi supporter looked like a buff soldier with a strong jawline. Most of them looked like normal people living normal 1930s lives, bad teeth, malnourished, scarred by measles and what not. They were telling themselves that their Aryan ancestry made them superior despite their obvious flaws, it’s the traditional Nazi coping mechanism.

And keep in mind it wouldn’t make their ideology any more right if they all looked like demigods. The problem isn’t them not conforming to their own ideals, it’s the violent oppression justified by those ideals.

I wish I was anime
I wish I looked anime
I wish I had an anime name
I wish I could go to an anime school

I think the problem with the marble run is the constant “rrrrrrr tick-tick rrrrr tick rrrr”, but aside from the noise it’s a great toy and a core component of any child’s toy box. It’s also the start of many Rube Goldberg machines running through your living room.

I think this is completely missing the point when it’s talking about “the minutiae of art”. It’s making two claims at the same time: art is better when you suffer for it and the art is good whether or not you suffered. But none of that is relevant.

When Wyeth made Christina’s World, I don’t know if he suffered or not when painting that grass. What I do know is that he was a human with limited time and the fact that he spent so much of his time detailing every blade of grass means that he’s saying something. That The Oatmeal doesn’t draw backgrounds might be because he’s lazy, but he also doesn’t need them. These are choices we make to put effort in one part and ignore some other part.

AI doesn’t make choices. It doesn’t need to. A detailed background is exactly the same amount of work as a plain one. And so a generated picture has this evenly distributed level of detail, no focus at all. You don’t really know where to look, what’s important, what the picture is trying to say. Because it’s not saying anything. It isn’t a rat with a big butt, it’s just a cloud of noise that happens to resemble a rat with a big butt.

M.A.S.H

I try to listen to SMN once in a while, but I often leave it for when I can watch the video. It needs different editing to truly work as a podcast, there’s a lot of info presented as pictures or graphs and skimmed over by the narration. And you miss all the jokes made by the title card monkey.

The post includes a link to the very video, but here it is again: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nD3rSA4FSqk

It’s a very good analysis of political violence in the US. Cody Showdy generally does great work discussing not just the news, but the olds too. Fair and Balanced™©® and all that.

Are you getting paid overtime past 8 hours though? Because there’s a big difference between getting double rates for those extra hours (incentivizing your boss to hire a second worker) and demanding everyone work double shifts for normal wages.

Not directly, but once the law allows for it, employers start demanding it. Individual workers have very little bargaining power to refuse at that point. So before you know it, the 13 hour day is normalized and labor protections have taken a knock back into 1920.

Atypical is pretty good, it’s a coming-of-age about an autistic teen. It managed to evade the Department of Premature Cancellations for 4 seasons and even reached a satisfying conclusion.

11 of those comms are on ani.social, an anime-centric instance where it is totally legit to split “pictures of anime girls” into more specific comms. It’s not unhinged or spam at all, but if you don’t want to see anime, probably best to block ani.social tbh.

I for one like to see all the moe on top of my local feed and not pushed down to page 5 of global.

How important is it to your theory that “hour” is related to “house” in… ancient Assyrian language? Because they’re completely unrelated in English, “house” coming from Germanic hus and “hour” coming from French ore. If we look at ancient Greek, the two are hoora for “hour” and oikos for “house”. I think English post-vowel shift has to be the first language where those two even sound similar.

They already made an editor’s note, but in case they decide to take it down after all: https://archive.is/Kb78K

Who is anon quoting here? Because his text is green, but he’s clearly not greentexting.

The million-milliard system means a billion has double the zeroes compared to million, trillion has triple the zeroes, etc. In the English system, a quadrillion has 15 zeroes, so 4 times 3 plus 3? A quadrillion should have 4*6=24 zeroes.

Just watched it, can confirm that it’s reallyreally good.

I love coming-of-age movies and… what’s the genre called where the main is a bit of a fuckup who can’t really find their place in the world? Because my collection is filled with those.

So I liked our main floaters of course, but one character who isn’t as obviously “lost” is Allison. She’s just as insecure as Megan about her place in the world, but she solves it by clinging to her old friend group and aggressively asserting that her way is the normal way actually. That’s a side I hadn’t thought about before.

I don’t know if they are shopped or just imgen based on these hands, but they look very similar down to the light and dark patterns on the skin.

If the proportions match, I’m saying shop, but I’m still not quite ruling out imgen that tried to recreate this exact picture.

I agree, the text looks more like a drawing tablet/touchscreen handwriting than actual marker on cardboard to me. It doesn’t seem to be affected by the creases in the cardboard and the lines are much thicker for “Taylor” which doesn’t make sense if it’s all the same marker.

Most of these tiktoks don’t even add anything beyond the text or music, but the format makes it very easy (almost mandatory) for people to add their own head in there. I reaaaally don’t get the appeal, but I didn’t grow up in an era of the internet where putting your face everywhere was normalized.