[-] skisnow@lemmy.ca 9 points 19 hours ago

A lot of people think of "venomous" as being a one-dimensional property like strength or speed that you have to build your way up towards. But really it's just how this substance your body produces that reacts with another substance in another creature who evolved on a whole other continent to you.

There doesn't need to be a strong evolutionary imperative to be able to kill a herd of elephants, it's enough for there to not be a strong disincentive not to produce enough venom to do it.

[-] skisnow@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days ago

If you think that replacing a person with an object cannot be an artistic choice

Literally nobody is saying or thinking that. What we are saying is that there is absolutely no way that OP's prompt contained "...and make the optimist BE the glass itself...".

The irony is that you're giving OP way more benefit of the doubt in your reading of what they produced than you've given me, and instead argued against a complete strawman.

[-] skisnow@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 days ago

You have my sympathies, but that still doesn't mean you get to post complete nonsensical garbage where a glass of water is talking for no reason, that took you less effort to create than it did to read, and expect people to not tell you to jog on, when there's a whole wealth of creative artists out there who are putting in the energy but getting their space flooded with slop.

The web has objectively become much, much worse in the past 12 months because quality is getting drowned out by quantity.

[-] skisnow@lemmy.ca 11 points 3 days ago

Don’t talk about ability to draw as though it’s some sort of elitist trait denied to the working class. People who can draw can do so because they put the hours in.

If you can’t be bothered putting the effort in when expressing yourself, why the hell should anyone else be interested in what you have to say?

[-] skisnow@lemmy.ca 27 points 3 days ago

The reason this one is blatant AI is that the imagery doesn’t make any sense. Why is the glass of water itself the optimist?

[-] skisnow@lemmy.ca 29 points 5 days ago

The downvotes are for the unnecessary holier-than-thou rant at the end attacking everyone using this very site.

[-] skisnow@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 week ago

I've been inside a few big companies and I've seen exactly how it works.

In order to manage huge organisations, they divide them all up into cost centers. And the website is considered marketing so it gets given a budget on the theory that it brings customers. It uses the budget to make games and it does indeed bring customers.

Then a few years later, the shareholders are asking why their stock hasn't outperformed the market, and they put in a CEO tasked with fixing it, and the CEO asks the head of the department in charge of websites what can he do to address the fact that his department is losing money instead of making it.

[-] skisnow@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 week ago

Trump has now ordered NIST to reverse their recommendation on Rust.

[-] skisnow@lemmy.ca 18 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The horrible cruelty regarding Cambodia is that the reason they have such a high trade deficit is that most Cambodians are too poor to be able to begin to afford anything that America has to offer.

It's one of the poorest countries in Asia, they could cut their tariffs to 0% and the net effect would be less than the measurable rounding error on total American exports.

Trump is going to tank the economy of an already poverty-stricken country and plunge it into exactly the kind of instability that destroyed it once already just because "fuck you, give me more".

[-] skisnow@lemmy.ca 34 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Bees live less than two months, so if only 80% of bees died in the last 8 months that would suggest a sharp recent population increase. And even if you take it as read that it means bees dying and not being replaced, 8 months is still a terrible timeframe to use because it's literally saying "there are 80% fewer bees now, at the tail end of winter, than there were at the height of bee season".

I'm not saying there isn't a bee crisis, just that this factoid is very badly worded.

[-] skisnow@lemmy.ca 23 points 2 weeks ago

Simple, all you need is a 6 ohm resistor and a 0.18457216 ohm resistor in series.

[-] skisnow@lemmy.ca 46 points 3 weeks ago

It's sickening how they genuinely think they're bailing Europe out and deserve compensation for it, when they themselves are a big part of why there's so much instability in the region to begin with.

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