We in Scotland take no responsibility for this crime against humanity.

Fried Mars bars have a lot of heavy lifting to do to make up for this one.

Never trust anything the British came up with during rationing.

You mean the place with 45 weirdos and a bunch of money laundering and tax evasion? They just import workers from real Honduras outside the “agreement of co-existence.” Not gonna have the same option on Mars.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-22/honduras-prospera-libertarian-utopia-caribbean-roatan/107045960

Also important to remember that the difference between a millionaire and a billionaire is about a billion dollars.

https://futurism.com/future-society/apocalypse-compound-fails-wealthy-residents-turn-on-each-other

Having scrolled linked in more than usual this week, it may have primed me for this post.

Yes. It’s not the end of the world (or is it?!?!?!), it’s just such an assault on the senses that I check out. I didn’t win anything, but I wouldn’t have known until I started redacting surnames. It’s like middle aged celebrities who get too much cosmetic work done that I now assume they’re even older than they are.

Amanda got four tickets to the local water park. She’s good.

I assume. I don’t know her life.

I have honestly been online long enough and carry myself such that it’s probably completely possible to dig and find me individually. I just didn’t want it to be able to be done without any effort, or accidentally by the well-meaning goofballs who think that this is making the flyers seem special.

Honestly, I just did a reverse image search and the sheer depressing popularity of this “style” is providing a certain security through obscurity.

Someday there may be skilled cohorts of prompt engineers who can make generative AI sing in a way that is, if not art, then impressive in its own way, and the ones who are in demand will likely put in thousands of hours of effort at learning and refining the systems they manipulate.

This is not that. 🤣

Would you rather have just got a text based email?

Yes.

A PowerPoint screenshot?

Also Yes, though the email would have better.

I know we tend to go hard here in the Fediverse, but an exhausting chain of eye-assaulting slop from the adults who are influencing my kid’s education is exactly where my personal line for “mildly” infuriating is.

LOL, yeah. I’m just trying to remember how real medical illustrators try to show bones and muscles in the same drawing. The AI did do a good job making her look really sad about the travesty going on below her neck. 🤣

All the internal organs are laid out as though we’re seeing the front view, the proportions are kind of off, and though I’m less certain about it, the “choices” made on how to depict the hip skeleton and musculature look, well, sloppy.

I believe in the trailer she’s also saying, “Why would I deceive you?”

Aside from that, it’s like reddit with instance drama and an older, weirder demographic.

Yup.

and D E A N, apparently.

1. There’s a piefed NSFW instance. Google it.
2. !football@sopuli.xyz
3. maybe !Space@mander.xyz ?
4. Again, probably need to go general. Try !gaming@lemmy.world

Check “all” from time to time, search community listings, and be ready to pounce on a community that sounds interesting if someone mentions it in a comment anywhere. There are far too many created communities for the number of users, so aiming a tier more general than you think you need to is often a good idea.Then, frankly, a lot of interesting discussion happens in generalist communities that happen to post something (often a meme) relevant to someone’s interests.

Honestly, I like CTD, but with just a few more songs, Superman’s Song, The Ghosts that Haunt Me, and Afternoons & Coffeespoons, you should probably have enough for a lifetime, LOL. Superman’s Song may even be vaguely familiar if you were reading comics in those days, as it came out not too long before the (in)famous Death of Superman arc.

I’m sure “most hated” has already been covered, so I’ll go farther down the list and pick one that’s a little hated and IMHO more than “not bad”: Crash Test Dummies.

Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm gets clowned on by people who remember it, but (1) it’s pretty good, and (2) CTD’s first three albums are full of super catchy folk-pop-rock with decent lyrics. Some of the third album, and then subsequent stuff gets deeper and deeper into Brad Roberts’ then-current interests and generally doesn’t grab me, but more power to him.

Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm itself was undoubtedly picked to be sonically polarizing and grab more attention than some of the slightly less “Crash Test Dummyish” tracks.

On the afternoon of August 20, I visited the website of a shadowy group called Neighbors for Strong Communities. Days earlier, it had begun spamming Californians’ phones with a bullying warning: Paramount might leave the state, taking thousands of jobs with it, unless Attorney General Rob Bonta settled the lawsuit he and 11 other AGs filed to block the studio’s takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery. The site offered to help me write to Mr. Bonta. It also suggested that I describe a time when I or someone close to me had lost a job or struggled to make ends meet.

I hate using AI for any of my writing, but I think we have to be looking more at the ground-level bad humans here. Seems like there is a background prompt setting the guardrails.

While I had to learn that Microwave ovens don’t magically work on the resonant frequency of water molecules, they do work by inciting motion in dipole molecules, and water with those little H atoms hanging off to one side is dipolar, so microwaves are rather good at heating them up. This means that you’re sort of working in the same realm of temperatures and humidity as steaming or even boiling, for good or (mostly) for ill.

Heating frozen food specifically engineered to come out okay from a microwave? Well, it’ll come out okay. Re-heating soup or re-steaming tamales (mmmmm. tamales…)? Pretty decent. Heating up anything that wasn’t meant to have “wetness” as a major part of its mouthfeel will go poorly, often disastrously if you don’t try to work around the microwave’s limitations.