loaExMachina
@loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works
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- Comment on [deleted] 3 hours ago:
No, France.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 hours ago:
I’ve seen a fair amount of Chinese tourists and I don’t recall seeing them act in a way that struck me as particularly proper or improper. They’re mostly just walking around and looking at stuff. I also haven’t heard of specific complaints about their behavior. Some people complain about tourism in general, how some places get too crowded and prices increase, but it’s less about the behavior of tourists. Or when it is, it’s not the Chinese who are singled out for it.
- Comment on [deleted] 13 hours ago:
Then me and Kyle,
We looked at each-other.
And we each said:
“OK”. - Comment on Google it 1 day ago:
I think if wizards actually existed, they would seldom bother with actual curses; which seem complicated to cast and prone to backfiring. Having shown someone a little magic, they’d be very easy to trick into thinking they’ve been cursed, and the resulting paranoia, anxiety and confirmations bias would do the job. I imagine it’d be some wizard’s favorite trick. They’d gloat about it to their colleagues and they’d laugh together in their secret wizard circles.
So a wizard would need a pretty strong incentive to cast an actual curse.
- Comment on Warner Bros Completes Worldwide Sale Of ‘Coyote Vs Acme’ 3 days ago:
Yay, yippee, wahooo!
- Comment on here, have another insult to life itself 5 days ago:
OpenAI released a generative model that emulates the famous Studio Ghibli art style; or more precisely Hayao Miyazaki’s art style. The latter had once said “I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself” when presented with a proof of concept of AI generated 3D characters, an exchange you can watch here. Now, this specific sentence refers more to the idea of using unnatural movements similar to a disability for creepy shock factor; but he also seems avert to the concept of AI art.
- Comment on Thicc 1 week ago:
I think the Puntite queen depicted in the temple of Hatshepsut might be both
- Comment on 🐙🐙🐙 1 week ago:
The same person who’d hug a tripping octopus.
- Comment on How the fuck do I find out where and when all these protests and rallies are happening? 1 week ago:
Depends on where you live, but try to find an organization active in your town whose ideas are somewhat in line with yours. If they’re on a social media you use or have a website with an RSS feed you can subscribe to, use that. Otherwise, try and get in their contacts (many organizations have a contact list broader than their actual member list, so you don’t have to adhere if you’re not sure to commit). Then you get notified for every action they take part in.
To find them in the first place… Keep your eyes peeled for stickers or posters in the streets; and try to find the people at a protest or event said posters advertised.
- Comment on Idioms 1 week ago:
One I like is “Not a snowball’s chance in hell”
- Comment on Why are Maries Sues hated while Gary Stus are loved? 2 weeks ago:
1- Stu has a cool outfit and an afro, is always dancing, doesn’t advertise. 2- Misoginy
- Comment on I have finally been blessed 😇 3 weeks ago:
Likewise! (^w^ | )
- Comment on Am I the only one who feels uncomfortable about many Americans constantly calling people "black" and "white" and making such a big thing about it? 3 weeks ago:
I recommend you check out “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness” by Michelle Alexander.
The basic getaway from the book is this: Segregationists didn’t go anywhere, and since the time of Ronald Reagan, the ways the segregationists found to keep black people down are mostly related to the economy and law enforcement. The stereotype being attacked is now the “gang-bangers”, those from “the hood”. Not all black people… Just most of them.
From the 60s-70s, black people living in near industrial zones where they mostly worked were hit by mass unemployment due to their relocation. Rather than try to find a solution, propaganda stigmatising them was massively produced, the “war on drugs” was started to punish them for the only survival means that some found. Black people serve disproportionately long sentences, and are forever alienated when they get out, often unable to find jobs. Not only those who were imprisoned, but their families and communities suffer from this. This is not only true of drug-related crime; but sometimes things like misfiled taxes. The war on drugs was basically a pretext to over police and arbitrarily arrest black people, and dissuade them from forms of protest against their situation.
Now, compared to segregation, this is as big a net, but not such a tight one: This systems allows some black people to escape this system and get a situation equal to white people… But of you look at the bulk of the stats, many aren’t better off than during segregation.
These were at first, right-wing policies bore by the Republican Party, but Bill Clinton ended up doubling down on them instead of opposing them, because he didn’t want to appear “weak on crime”, since then there has been no opposition to it in mainstream politics.
Colorblindness helps this system, because it keeps you from naming the oppressed group, and thus from seing the oppression. It makes it easier to swallow the idea that the millions in prison are no-good gand hooligans from the mysterious land of “hood”, but that for the most part, black people are doing fine, because those who went to the same school as you or are among your coworkers are doing fine.
- Comment on Am I a bad artist 😂? 3 weeks ago:
“Bad” I can’t say, you took no risk, and this made no mistakes.
Using triangles for the bodies is a good idea, as triangles are a good shape, you can do anything with triangles. Have you consider increasing the amount of triangle, as such?
two triangles bodies more triangles
I dropped the round heads in the last one, because honestly, circles are an overrated shape. And you can do anything in triangles, why use anything else?
You can find any number of foolish ressources online, none of them tells you the truth about triangles. All sorts of websites and yet more websites try to teach you how to draw, without even mentioning triangles in any of their tutorials.
- Comment on Just another wrong in a sea of wrongs 4 weeks ago:
One of the big reasons why it’s considered unsafe to swim in floodwater is the hygien: Remember the sewers must be overflowing. Plus, the water can have engulfed any amount of chemicals (oil, gaz, battery acid…)
- Comment on This Cybertruck shaped man is destroying our government 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Well, I'll be damned 4 weeks ago:
Maybe it’s not Trump? Maybe it’sTristan/Honda from Yu-Gi-Oh!
- Comment on New poster for "A Minecraft Movie" 4 weeks ago:
Idk, I think Tenacious D and the Pick of Destiny was good enough to make up for a bunch of bad ones…
- Comment on New poster for "A Minecraft Movie" 4 weeks ago:
Oh, I didn’t even know he was in that movie, didn’t really watch it or pay attention to its promotion material…
- Comment on I gotta start using folders or at least labeling these somehow 5 weeks ago:
I classified my memes and sorted them in folders and sub folders (like, the “wojak” folder is a subfolder of “rage”). I might have a slightly different problem.
- Comment on New poster for "A Minecraft Movie" 5 weeks ago:
I don’t think even Jack Black can save that one.
- Comment on Childhood memories 5 weeks ago:
Are you a wombat?
- Comment on Hexagons are bestagons, we shall destroy Pentagon! 1 month ago:
The triangle’s where it’s really at ∇ . Hexagons fanboysare always saying “but what about benzene? Obviously only a superior shape must occur naturally like that!”. But hear this, hexagooner: What about ozone? What about water? Also, don’t you know we can make hexagons by grouping triangles ? Heck, you can make any polygon with enough triangles.The only question is why we’d ever want to do that if we already have triangles, because triangles are the best shape. Δ ∇ Δ ∇
- Comment on Is it normal for high sugar contents like in cake icing to make my uvula tickle? 1 month ago:
Understandable, u and v are originally the same letter, so the words are really “vvvla” and “vvlva”, just a small permutation…
- Comment on Life goals 1 month ago:
Louder!
- Comment on The internet...was certainly something lmao 1 month ago:
Wow, thanks. Mystery solved and to trauma.
- Comment on The internet...was certainly something lmao 1 month ago:
I’ve been hearing about it for years, but I’ve always been afraid to look up what it actually was.
- Comment on A bit rubbery... 1 month ago:
I don’t think putting something in a freezer would disinfect it. Stop the microbes from breading while it’s inside, but they start again quickly as soon as it gets out.
- Comment on May I offer you a Big Chungus in these trying times? 1 month ago:
I am the globglogabgalab the shwabble-gobble shwivel-shwavle glibbliglaglaglab
- Comment on Europeans watching US/CA relations implode 1 month ago:
Doesn’t Mexico have a saying like “So far from God and so close to the United States”?
