If you got laid off for your ethics, it’s probably a good thing in the long run

Would you rather have a rough time now, or slowly be hollowed out inside over the course of years before you get screwed over anyways?

Ethics don’t help you, but lack of ethics catches up with you. For most people, they don’t even benefit much before the other shoe drops

It’s not real, so empathy is not required. Cartoons often have horrifying implications if you look too closely, because they’re not trying to represent reality

If you’re putting yourself in the place of the mother pig, you’re zoomed in to far. The absurdism is in the situation

Think of it this way, if the reason for the child dying was making some parallel to something real, like splitting the family due to deportation… That’s something grounded in reality, it would be horrible

But there is no situation where doctors turn children into meat as a service. The premise is absurd. There’s no danger a real person would ever go through this, this is pure fancy

The mother’s reaction isn’t to laugh at her pain, it’s to let us sit with the moment and let the joke land

Well I’d take the destinations on the Shinkansen for wherever I’m going now…

Peppa pig isn’t real. This isn’t a situation that could ever happen

Can you suspend your disbelief so hard that a doctor turns your child into processed meat because of a misunderstanding?

If I try, I don’t know how to empathize with the situation except to be angry at the doctor, or the fact that a hospital offers that service at all. It’s an absurd premise

This isn’t a joke about a mother’s pain. It’s a comic about wordplay, and the disturbing implications of “our world but everyone is pigs”

I like to tell people anyways. Then I ask them what they think I’m going to say. Then they tell me what they think I’m going to say unprompted

And eventually, they’re correct

Because it’s misinfo to reduce people bringing food to the pool. Same with the pee indicator thing… Someone must’ve been on a crusade

But the cramps thing just isn’t true. Light exercise like a walk or casually swimming is great

It honestly wasn’t. Like yes, it was a real problem, there was a lot of bad, often legacy, code that had to be reviewed and maybe patched. Industrial control code tends to be notoriously bad, and so you never know if this traffic light or that power station is going to glitch out until you dive in

But even as a kid who just knew how to take things apart, I knew it was a nothing burger. Real work went into it, but the fact people in the industry were taking it seriously means there was little actual danger

Why do they all layoff workers who actually do the thing? Why do they always leave in layers of management? What’s up with return to office, why is zoom of all companies doing it?

It’s consulting companies like McKinsey. They go to the board and say “you need a strong CEO to boost stock price”. Then they go investment groups and say “look at this strong CEO, you should invest in this company”

The worst part is what McKinsey thinks makes for a “strong” CEO means they’re specialized at doing something, usually something evil

Uh… No. They don’t like war here, they love a war on the other side of the planet, where either we’re punching down on a county they don’t do much with or backing another country

I’m telling you, it doesn’t have the artifacts of an AI image. Maybe I’m wrong, but I haven’t been wrong yet.

I know Photoshop and so I can spot shops, I know AI so I can spot how it generates images. I tried to give you a quick run down of how I examine it

Someday I’ll be wrong, but I don’t think that’s today… This is an edited image, not AI

Zoom in on the first picture, then on the second picture.

If you want to hate on Gen image AI, at least learn to spot artifacts - every method of creating images has artifacts.

The first one has a faint halo around the letters but has regular edges - so perfect it seems like a vector image, with the possible exception of the letters

Now zoom in on what you posted… The colors of the edges are weirdly colorful and dreamy, the background is irregular in comparison

All methods of image generation (including photography) has artifacts, zoom in and look at the edges. Learn the artifacts.

If you think there’s any human who isn’t a walking contradiction, you haven’t understood anything about human nature

They can slap a Ford sticker on their cyber truck and people will probably leave them alone.

This is contributing to making a billionaire bringing on fascism go bankrupt… Yeah, I don’t love personal property damage, but they’re disappearing people.

If you’ve got a Tesla, spend 20 minutes and $20 bucks and buy a sticker to disavow the company… Otherwise I really can’t bring myself to care

They do exist… They’re over at Lemmygrad.ml, I ventured over when I had the same question

Their ideology is a mess, they don’t have a roadmap beyond “workers of the world unite, then we’ll figure everything out”. And some of them think China and Russia are communist, or at least socialist… Which first off, they’re not, but more importantly they’re authoritarian regimes, which gets glossed over

It’s a fraction of the left, and a fraction of them are so focused on America bad they ignore what China does, and a fraction of them outright deny China or Russia have ever done anything wrong… I’ve encountered them online, but it’s very rare - especially if you don’t go looking for them

If only. I’d support the idiot if he actually had any chance of getting humanity to Mars

That’s wasteful and dangerous

Harvest the beast for batteries and GPUs

Oh yeah, we have so many trains. They go everywhere, we have a very comprehensive network of them

Oh wait… Did you mean passenger trains?

Honestly they’re probably taking a loss to punish people who miss payments on their eggs. One person on the debt treadmill is worth a lot more than a few cents… Loans are so shady as an industry, the smaller they are the more they’re just looking to further exploit the poorest people

Either that or they think the dollar is about to deflate lol

It works great if you’re starting from 0 - you see every keystroke, you get hours of background information you may or may not need. It’s dumping the entire process from start to finish on you. You can follow along, understanding what you can and copying what you don’t

And then slowly, more and more of the excess information is just things you already know. Now you’re looking at a 40 minute video that may or may not have one sentence of information you’re searching for, the entire thing explaining it to you like you’re a total newbie

It makes me want to pull out my hair

Well it’s signed idiot of the East, but…

It takes a relatable concept, combines it with a couple Korean tropes from manhua, and does it all with fresh art. It’s self referential too

Now look at it in context. Clearly this is a webcomic artist, it’s not badly done, but it looks like it was done quickly. It has a message - “sorry, I didn’t have anything special to say, I’ll share the feeling of getting caught doomscrolling”

Based on the name and the comic, the artist seems to have a self depreciating sense of humor… It seems in line with that

It’s stupid. It’s layered. The layers are stupid. But it’s stupid and layered on purpose with a clear message. That’s art

It reminds me of a video I saw today where someone bought a pineapple and put it on an exhibit for a laugh, and came back to find a glass case around it. He asked his professor about it, and the professor complimented the way the glass case pressed down on the pineapple leaves.

The guy then owned up to it all, the venue decided to just leave it as is… But they said they had no idea who put the case on it