• zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      10 months ago

      evangelicals have been recruiting tatted up new age hippies left and right

      The poverty-to-patriarchy pipeline.

    • privatized_sun [none/use name]
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      10 months ago

      all the babies she refused to vaccinate

      the alt-right, alt-medicine crowd actually will have less autism...their lack of trust of modern medicine means their infants will die in childbirth rather than live on with one of the many chronic conditions we see among young people today who survived their traumatic pregnancy/birth situations

  • Tachanka [comrade/them]
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    10 months ago

    noOoOoOOooooo MoMmy WHy DiD yoU hAvE TO AboRT us NOw wE lIVe IN HeAveN inSTEad oF hELlWORLD, It'S SO uNfAir!!!!!

    ghosts babies are so spoiled these days

      • Tachanka [comrade/them]
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        10 months ago

        nerd ackshually they go to purgatory where they hang out with Diogenes all day

        • ComradeLove [he/him, comrade/them]
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          10 months ago

          Purgatory is a mathematical absurdity. Any finite number divided by an infinite number of years is nothing. What's the point of getting 30 years for each of your mortal sins and 15 years for each of your venal sins?

          • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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            10 months ago

            What's the point of getting 30 years for each of your mortal sins and 15 years for each of your venal sins?

            The idea is that you spent a finite time on earth accumulating sin and so you need to spend a proportional time in purgatory to expunge yourself of that sin, before you can move on to Heaven.

            But then once you get to Heaven, there's still a strict hierarchy. The folks exiting purgatory are recognized as "lesser" and do not receive the Members Only Jacket treatment to which the real hustlers and heavy hitters gain access. You join the spiritual proletariat and become one more lumpen mass of ectoplasmic labor.

            • ComradeLove [he/him, comrade/them]
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              10 months ago

              I think heaven is what really did me in early. I got the idea in my head that it was something like you get a dorm room with thin sheets and inadequate climate control. You woke up at 5a, had some gruel, then went to your spot in the celestial choir and sang to God about how great he is. He sits in a giant golden throne in glowing robes, smiling contentedly and nodding. Every now and then he will point to one person and have them do a solo. It doesn't happen very often, but it does happen an infinite number of times over the course of eternity.

              • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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                10 months ago

                Christian Heaven is very sterile. I'm a much bigger fan of the Elysian Fields.

  • AbbysMuscles [she/her]
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    10 months ago

    Moids are fucking fixated on what women are doing. Does she have tattoos? Is she fucking? She's fucking, right? Probably aborting the pregnancy too. And she's not wearing a dress, but instead she's wearing shorts like a WHORE.

    Everywhere it's the same. Whether they have the legal power to back up their bullshit or not. Niqabs and anti-abortion laws and mass murder and FGM and MGTOW and denial of education and on and on and on. Masculinity can basically be defined by its terror of, and opposition to femininity at this point. How many of men's problems are blamed on women across all generations, and why does every generation of moids fall for it every time? I'm so fucking sick of all of them.

    • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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      10 months ago

      They literally think women are cartoon characters that just go around getting knocked up and doing abortions for funsies, because if her hair isn't natural or she has a tattoo she's instantly a satanic harlot.

      • AbbysMuscles [she/her]
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        10 months ago

        That's a good way to put it. They literally don't view women as human, as other humans with internal lives greater or equal to their own. They never have, at least since settled civilization got going. Not only are we subhuman to them, but we're dangerous. Our thoughts and feelings and actions and self-expression is dangerous and must be rigidly controlled or, somehow, society collapses.

        • daisy
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          10 months ago

          They literally don't view women as human, as other humans with internal lives greater or equal to their own.

          Last sunday I did a Red-Dwarf-while-high rewatch marathon, and was pleasantly suprised by how well S2E6 aged. Lister calling Rimmer out for not understanding your exact point was nice to see again.

          • AbbysMuscles [she/her]
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            10 months ago

            I have somehow never heard of this show but I'm probably gonna check it out soon, ty!

            • daisy
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              10 months ago

              It's a really fun ride! The humour can be a bit crude at times but it's aged surprisingly well. I recommend just going in blind. This is the kind of show where continuity is just a suggestion to be cheerfully jettisoned if it gets in the way of a good joke.

              Some people say it doesn't get good until season 3 with the permanent addition of a new cast member, but I think the first two seasons were also great in their own way. It's funny throughout. There's just a lot of changes throughout regarding character dynamics that keeps the humour fresh. It's not the same people doing the same things for years on end.

              • WittyProfileName2 [she/her]
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                10 months ago
                spoilers

                What's your take on seasons 6-8?

                I know a lot of fans hate the big setting changes that happen in the first episodes of series 6 and 8, and how largely they changed Kochanski's character.

                • daisy
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                  10 months ago

                  I think main-cast changes are vital in a long-running comedy show. New character dynamics are new opportunities for jokes and plotlines. Otherwise you get The Simpsons: stale, stagnant, predictable.

  • Goadstool [he/him, comrade/them]
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    10 months ago

    Every random asshole now having the ability to conjure up whatever mildly malformed image they desire is easily my least favorite part of the developing cyberpunk hellscape so far.

    • hotcouchguy [he/him]
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      10 months ago

      I kinda like it ngl. Just imagine when this fully trickles down to the boomer Facebook memers and the "if someone puts a dollar bill under your wiper blades, call the police" crowd. An infinite feedback loop of people making shit up to be mad/afraid of, but all of it just slightly surreal. Soon the brain parasites will be the dominant species on the planet and we'll all be free in oblivion

    • daisy
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      10 months ago

      "It's been a slow week."

    • KurtVonnegut [comrade/them]
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      10 months ago

      I'm imagining Elon Musk buying Pixar, and he just makes every movie about how his ex-wife should get back together with him.

      • 666PeaceKeepaGirl [any, she/her]
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        10 months ago

        Elon Musk's net worth is listed at 225.2B USD. The highest-budgeted film of all time (Star Wars: The Force Awakens) had an inflation-adjusted budget of 552M USD. This means that if Elon were able to fully liquidate his wealth, he could create a cinematic universe of some 400+ movies about his relationship with his ex-wife, with each movie breaking the record for highest-budgeted film of all time - even assuming $0 in gross revenues from this franchise.

        • Phish [he/him, any]
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          10 months ago

          How is there not a ton of work being put into fixing hands in AI art? Or maybe there is and they just blow at it?

          • fox [comrade/them]
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            10 months ago

            There definitely is, and they've gotten much better. Notice how the focus of the image, the woman, is pretty good, and it gets worse and worse the further out from there. It's really, really hard for AI to do hands given how complex they are and how many poses they can take. Human artists struggle with them too.

            Part of the reason is that while these things have billions of images in their training data, few to none of them have a focus on hands, and even fewer bother to describe hands at all. As far as any image AI can tell, a human hand has the following qualities: skin tone, some number of digits, and some number of fingernails. Except humans are crazy good at pattern recognition for hands, and hands are geometrically super complicated with a vast number of possible poses, orientations, lighting conditions, and, yeah, number of fingers.

            • Tachanka [comrade/them]
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              10 months ago

              they need to have an entire separate database that just trains on hands.

          • FourteenEyes [he/him]
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            10 months ago

            They have incredibly complex geometry that we're pretty much hard-wired to pay very close attention to. Humans also have a really fucking hard time drawing hands.