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Rayquetzalcoatl

@ rayquetzalcoatl @lemmy.world

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  • "No eating for free allowed! You must only watch it rot on the beach!"

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  • Oh goodie, the insurers are fully engaged! I'm sure they will help clear the quickly rotting food off the beach just as much as the volunteers who are physically there doing actual work.

    God I hate pencil-pusher culture, it's so weird 😂

    Thanks for the quote! I realise I replied snarkily - I'm not mad at you of course, just at the quote

  • Do you have any tips on how to look for art created entirely by humans?

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  • Sure, it's an arbitrary distinction to you. To me, not so much. Different feelings, I guess. 🤷‍♂️ Have a good one! ✌️

  • A photo taken of a US soldier Explaining to other American soldiers they are being cooked by a Radar, Orgun-E Afghanistan 2003

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  • I think the downvotes are because the commenter you're replying to was doing a joke

  • Do you have any tips on how to look for art created entirely by humans?

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  • I hear you. It's hard to trust that art you see is genuine art by people anymore, and it's only going to get more difficult as these AIs swallow and plagiarise more and more of the human effort that they can.

    I can't give you easy advice on this. Find an artist you trust. Follow them. Learn to appreciate older artists who are dead. Learn to love fewer artists.

    What I can tell you is this: take time away from the internet. This whole Generative AI boom has shown me that a disconcerting number of people, probably even the majority, honestly and seriously do not give a shit about authentic human effort and creativity. Being real, being authentic, being creative, any of the things you or I might view as essential to the human experience don't matter to them. They want content to consume, and that's that. Don't give a shit where it comes from. Don't give a shit what it means. Just stick it in front of their eyes for a few seconds before they move onto the next thing. It's really fucked up.

    So, go outside. Reconnect with your real friends, in contexts where these marketing machines can't lie to you. Talk with human beings. I've started going to galleries in my area. I'm sober at the moment so I'm spending a lot of time working out at home or running. I went out to a film night screening Palestinian films made about the genocide. Met a lot of people there.

    Get away from the internet when you can. It's not a healthy place, and it can make people a little bit sick, I think. Make art for yourself.

  • Do you have any tips on how to look for art created entirely by humans?

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  • Oh do stop it, you know what the OP means.

  • ‘Stranger Things 5’ Earns 23.6 Million Views in Week 2; ‘Sean Combs: The Reckoning’ Hits 21.8 Million Views in First Six Days

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  • Wait what's boggle?

    I thought it was gonna be scarier! Like, more Haunting of Hill House. But then it became a bit more 80s action horror instead which is fine but just wasn't what I was looking for is all!

  • ‘Stranger Things 5’ Earns 23.6 Million Views in Week 2; ‘Sean Combs: The Reckoning’ Hits 21.8 Million Views in First Six Days

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  • I fell off somewhere towards the end of the first season when it became clear it wasn't what I'd assumed it was (a horror show with some drama).

    I legitimately cannot believe it's still going. I feel like it's been going for my entire adult life. I assumed it had ended years ago with the guy who died! Eddie?

  • Google

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  • Interesting, you might be right. If that's the case, though - and I don't have any sort of formal education in fingering so this is a layman's perspective - it looks like the starfish is misplacing his fingers.

    Surely the starfish would find it more effective to use the more nimble and dexterous tips of its fingers to touch those sensitive nerves around the rim, rather than the middle of its digits which are much harder to apply directed pressure with? It's also harder to control how much pressure one applies through the middle of the digit as opposed to the fingertip, although I recognise my frame of reference is human fingers and not starfish fingers.

  • The biggest problems with Lemmy right now

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  • I don't think they were saying users need to have an interest in decentralisation, more that some of these complaints seem specifically like problems with a very core principle of Lemmy (decentralisation), and that disliking a fundamental and (as far as I'm aware) unchangeable aspect of a platform might mean the platform isn't a good fit for those users.

  • Google

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  • I hate to ask... But would that even feel good for the sponge? Would that even feel like anything? From what we can see, there's nothing in there. The starfish's fingers aren't stimulating anything; they're just waggling in the air inside the sponge.

    Beyond simply the stretching of the hole, I can't see the sponge really getting anything out of this act. And the most I can see it doing for the starfish is providing a convenient carry handle with which he can bring his friend with him wherever he goes - which is neat but the sponge also walks so it feels unnecessary.

    Unless either or both parties involved get off on the more cerebral aspects here?

    I am not an expert on digital stimulation of sponges, though, so I am totally open to being wrong here!

  • Doctors

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  • What's the first punchline? I see one punchline.

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  • I'm gonna defer to women's experiences on this one, as I don't experience it myself.

    I think I've lost the thread of what you're saying mate. The comic is totally different if you remove the punchline, you're right.

  • Doctors

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  • I mean I don't experience being asked when my period was or having symptoms I report being flippantly put down to "being a woman".

  • Doctors

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  • The point of this comic is to express frustration about a current and long-standing issue I've heard many women express frustrations about, which I understand to be: doctors not really listening to them when they list specific issues or symptoms, and "railroading" them into it not being something to worry about, or putting it down to them being a woman.

    The question can be seemingly routine, but as a guy who doesn't experience this kind of thing when I go to the docs I can certainly imagine how frustrating it could be to encounter these questions upfront and to feel unheard, especially by a medical professional when I'm worried about something.

  • Doctors

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  • I wonder if that's a bad analogy or just not a very good one 🤔

  • It should be spelled "consomb," not "consume".

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  • You and I certainly pronounce either "consume" or "womb" very differently if those words rhyme for you 😂 where are you from, out of curiosity? No judgement, just curious as I'm not sure I've ever heard an accent where those words rhyme!

  • Woman Hailed as Hero for Smashing Man's Meta Smart Glasses on Subway

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  • I'm sorry mate, I think I'm just misunderstanding what you're saying. To me, the point is what actually happened in this situation.

    I see you've mentioned sexual assault and harassment a lot in these comments - I don't see any reference to that in this article but it's hardly an article really is it, is there some more context that I'm missing from somewhere else?

  • I like to travel

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  • Haha, sorry yeah it was a bit much

  • Woman Hailed as Hero for Smashing Man's Meta Smart Glasses on Subway

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  • In multiple threads you've been really focused on sexual assault and harassment happening but I don't see where in the article it says he was doing that? I'm sorry if I'm completely missing something

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    In Honour of October

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    Telephone Line

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    In Spite of Everything

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    Nothing Changes If

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    World's Smallest Hot Dog

  • Web Development @programming.dev
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    Approaching a build with MERN - but is it the best choice?

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    Providers that don't abuse push notifications?

  • Fuck AI @lemmy.world
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    Finally witnessed somebody use ChatGPT instead of socialising

  • WordPress @lemmy.world
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    Boss is "vibe coding"