damnedfurry
@damnedfurry@lemmy.world
- Comment on I dont want to enter a contract when consuming your product.. 1 week ago:
Well, the purchase is probably already made by the time this is seen, and for those who see it, they probably just ignore it similarly to EULA popups when installing programs.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I wouldn’t show someone Hilter’s paintings. If I had them in my possession they would cease to exist.
You’re completely missing the point (and supporting mine about you, in the process). If you didn’t know who the artist was when you saw it, and ended up liking one of them, would that transform you into a Nazi?
Of course it fucking wouldn’t. The painting isn’t expressing or endorsing any Nazi ideology.
And neither is this comic.
Stop being insufferably obtuse.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Nothing pro-Nazi about this comic.
Liking one of the paintings made by Hitler himself wouldn’t even be accurately described as “Nazi apologism”.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Sounds like you’re the kind of person who’d show someone one of Hitler’s paintings without them knowing it was, and if they said they liked the painting, you’d call them a Nazi.
Try actually reading what I wrote.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I think it’s funny, and this particular comic isn’t pro-Nazi in any way (just referencing Hitler doesn’t make it so), so I have no trouble enjoying it.
It’s just a blend of ‘people reject AI in the role of artist’ + ‘Hitler was rejected as an artist’ + the silly correlation of ‘getting rejected as an artist makes you become like Hitler’, the latter being something no one really believes, but has become a meme once those two things were juxtaposed like that.
Not that deep, as I said in my previous comment.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
As someone who studies humor as a hobby, I assert:
It’s not that deep.
There is no “hero” in this comic. It’s just a joke that combines two simple/known things:
- Hitler was rejected from art school prior to becoming the infamous figure in all our history books (to put it lightly)
- AI has faced a lot of backlash from people who reject it being used as a source of art
So now the rejected robot artist is implied to be becoming like Hitler as well, by painting a Hitler-like mustache onto its face, after it was rejected from being an artist.
Though it’s worth stating that it’s already basically an existing joke that Hitler became who we know him all as, as a direct result of his rejection from art school in Vienna–obviously that’s correlation, not causation.
Not to mention that there’s nothing in the comic itself that implies the robot being angry at anyone other than those rejecting it–Stonetoss has in the past depicted a character as being Jewish conspicuously (drawing them wearing a Star of David necklace/jewelry, etc.), in service of that comic’s punchline, but no such ‘indicator’ is present on the human doing the rejecting here. That’s obviously a deliberate omission.
I think it’s a bit silly to interpret this comic as endorsing Hitler or the Holocaust or anything like that, and that your perception of him as a person, true or not, has warped your assessment of what ultimately is a straightforward and uncomplicated gag.
- Comment on Antz in my Pantz 1 week ago:
Kind of the opposite, looks like evolution is trying desperately to get rid of ants, lol. Possibly replacing them with crabs.
- Comment on You can drive 74 hours and still be in Germany. The American mind can't comprehend this. 1 week ago:
Quoting from my previous comment:
Special District Level: This is where the complexity truly explodes. There are thousands of “special taxing districts” (e.g., transit districts, school districts, stadium districts, hospital districts, fire districts, etc.) that can overlap city and county lines, each adding its own fractional sales tax rate. A single street could literally have different sales tax rates on opposite sides due to these overlapping districts.
Is there anyplace in Europe where sales tax is THAT level of convoluted, on top of city, county, and state levels?
- Comment on You can drive 74 hours and still be in Germany. The American mind can't comprehend this. 1 week ago:
There isn’t zero reason, you’re just unwilling to accept the reasons.
- Comment on You can drive 74 hours and still be in Germany. The American mind can't comprehend this. 1 week ago:
Europe is not a country, and Germany is not a state.
- Comment on You can drive 74 hours and still be in Germany. The American mind can't comprehend this. 1 week ago:
All there is to comprehend is that the US contains states that have distinct sales tax laws.
- Comment on the unseen worlds 1 week ago:
Was wondering why this sounded familiar, saw the article was from 7 years ago (2018) and now I understand, lol.
- Comment on Twitch's largest political streamer, Asmongold, shovels racist and xenophobic messaging to his audience of 52K+ live viewers 1 week ago:
When the fuck did Asmongold become the largest POLITICAL streamer?
He didn’t, not even close—the OP made that up to augment the ragebait level of their post, lol.
- Comment on Twitch's largest political streamer, Asmongold, shovels racist and xenophobic messaging to his audience of 52K+ live viewers 1 week ago:
and then goes on to say “why would you add people to your country that don’t speak the language” in English and not the native tongue of the tribe that the land was stolen from
The irony of this is that people who are hardline isolationist/against immigration use that having happened as fuel for their argument, because ‘look what happened to the Native Americans when Europeans were able to immigrate en masse’, and they argue that that’s what’ll happen to them if they allow immigration now.
- Comment on Twitch's largest political streamer, Asmongold, shovels racist and xenophobic messaging to his audience of 52K+ live viewers 1 week ago:
Yeah, the voice someone’s born with is definitely what should be focused on, when it comes to criticism.
- Comment on Twitch's largest political streamer, Asmongold, shovels racist and xenophobic messaging to his audience of 52K+ live viewers 1 week ago:
I have watch history turned off anyway so I wonder how it’s deciding that I should watch these clips.
This is why, lol. Since his videos are generally popular on YouTube, if you have no watch history for your recommendations to be based on, it’s just always going to feed you whatever’s popular, which will include his stuff.
You’re doing it to yourself, in other words. I actually have watched a couple videos of his in the past, and yet, because it’s rare, I never see his videos being recommended to me. Hell, in my experience, stuff recommended to me is rarely similar to things I’ve seen more than a month or so ago.
- Comment on Are foldable phones as good/bad as they say? 5 weeks ago:
The 10% of the time when it’s both folded and unfolded must be sublime.
- Comment on Owned (stocks) 1 month ago:
Yeah, this is a flex of naivete re PayPal, more than anything, lol
- Comment on Anon takes up microdosing 1 month ago:
Not to mention it’s 4 years old.
- Comment on Punctuation 2 months ago:
I thought he was just in character.
- Comment on sus 2 months ago:
Watch out for those sexually dransmitted illnesses
- Comment on Anon orders food 3 months ago:
If women’s compliments towards men were the same as men’s compliments towards women, I think men would also dislike it.
Nah.
Every time I’ve ever heard of an experiment where indignant women do/say to men the exact same things that they hate getting from men, they’re always astonished to see the men’s reactions as practically universally positive:
If the goal of the experiment was to make men feel the weird combination of creeped-out and ashamed that comes with everyday objectification, then the experiment failed. Instead, these fellas look flattered and expectant. You can practically see them plotting the nearest route to the cheapest hotel.
- Comment on Doordash deserves it's fate 5 months ago:
If the weather is too shitty to bike, why would I want to put a delivery driver in those conditions.
I mean, I really don’t want to bike in the rain, but that’s no big deal for someone in a car, lol.
- Comment on Doordash deserves it's fate 5 months ago:
The fact that even with the fees charged to the restaurant and to the customer, the majority of these apps still aren’t even profitable, lol.
- Comment on Doordash deserves it's fate 5 months ago:
Yes. Those people consider things like this part of the “cost of living”, not the luxury that it is.
On average, people have more of an issue overspending than they do underearning. That’s why even among people making six figures, 1 in 4 of them live “paycheck to paycheck”, which people assume to mean ‘barely make enough to make ends meet’, but what more commonly means ‘deliberately chooses not to save/spends every dollar earned’.
- Comment on Doordash deserves it's fate 5 months ago:
Okay, now it’s $74. Now what?
- Comment on Gemini wont talk about Bernie Sanders 5 months ago:
This seems reasonable, honestly.
- Comment on Don't forget where we came from and what shaped us as a species. The Jungle. 5 months ago:
Where with all the animals if all went vegan now?
Why are the vegans sounding more like cavemen than the meat-eaters?
- Comment on Don't forget where we came from and what shaped us as a species. The Jungle. 5 months ago:
Where with all the animals if all went vegan now?
Why are the vegans sounding more like cavemen than the meat-eaters?
- Comment on I'll take the job! 5 months ago:
Bukkakazon