American exceptionalism and identity politics have become so ingrained in the culture that it is too painful for people to identify as lower class and needing assistance. Needing help has become considered a moral failing of the individual instead of a failing of the society, and that feeds back into itself to prevent people from changing the culture.
I don't, but I should.
I don't because my fear of donating to a fraudulent/ineffective organization aligns with my laziness regarding figuring out the best causes and procrastinating in making a budget.
Fear and executive dysfunction, together forming the perfect storm of neurodivergent inaction.
Probably for the best.
He's 12 stories high, and made of radiation
Has a pocket full of horses, fucks the shit out of bears
Threw a knife into heaven, can kill with a stare
I second someone else suggestion: the murderbot diaries. It's great.
Most of the books people here are recommending are fairly lengthy, but you can get through the first murderbot book in a dedicated evening.
Each of the novels is more detached than the last - it's great but probably not for someone just starting their journey into fiction
Each of the novels is more detached than the last - it's great but probably not for someone just starting their journey into fiction
Until we get data to the contrary, we must assume they are
Four dogmen?
Horsedogs?
I'm getting Blood Machines vibes
(And by extension Turbo Killer)
Half the price of per kilometer
But many many more kilometers
Yeah I knew they weren't plants but it made the analogy easier to pretend they were 😅
They have plant-ey vibes
They were all like "let's get the Calvin cycle up in this house, lets light it up!" And so they did, and the atmosphere caught fire
Very cool!
It reminds me of my fav, The Oxygen Catastrophy, where basically a plant did something new and caused the earth to freeze. In this case, by converting methane to carbon dioxide, a much weaker greenhouse gas.
I like it!
I kind of feel like "locomotive" itself is a niche so this is more like a collapse of a niche rather than a mass extinction, but I love the analogies
That's my fav too.
"The Oxygen Catastrophy" is just such a cool name.
- Also some upstart bacteria just start pumping out poison that kills almost everything (oxygen)
- Causes the ocean to rust
- Causes the atmosphere to catch on fire
- then causes the earth to turn to a snowball
Fuckin metal
I'm judging you, as I said I would
That's the Holocene, and I'm judging you.
I'm probably going to judge you if you say Holocene, without an interesting non-trivial reason.
Using copilot: > generate and image of Shrek opening a can of beans, but unexpectedly Mac & cheese flies out and lands on the donkey
Unholy union of ai memes
I remember everyone calling her androgynous at the time. Looking back, that was an absolutely wild thing for people to think.
What a sweet deal! Thanks Hello Fresh!
They really said\ 🙅 "Disney+, with ads on us" \ 👉 "Disney+ with ads, on us"
Theme
Create a new sport that you think should be added to the next (or some future) Olympic games.
I've heard that the Olympics are currently happening, so I figured why not celebrate this by telling the Olympic committee how dumb they are for passing over your new idea for an Olympic sport!
Rules
- Follow the community’s rules above all else
- One comment and image per user
- Embed image directly in the post (no external link)
- Workflow/Prompt sharing encouraged (we’re all here for fun and learning)
- Posts that are tied will both get the points
- The challenge runs for 7 days from now on
- Down votes will not be counted
Scores
At the end of the challenge each post will be scored: | Prize | Points | |---|---| | Most upvoted | +3 points | | Second most upvoted | +2 point | | Third most upvoted | +1 point | | OP’s favorite | +1 point | | Most original | +1 point | | Last two entries (to compensate for less time to vote) | +1 point | | Prompt and workflow included | +1 point |
The winner gets to pick next theme! As always, have fun everyone!\ Previous entries
I've been trying to find this video for a while with no luck, and idk what other community to ask.
The video features this yellow dancing CG blob alien thing, and the lyrics go something like:
> We made AI to do the dumb stuff, so we could do the fun stuff\ > But now it does the fun stuff, and we became the dumb stuff
Does anyone remember it, or know where to find it? \ The little singing alien thing popped up a few times on my FYP but I feel like I'm taking crazy pills because I can't find any evidence that it ever existed.
I had never really heard of him outside of wrestling until the memes, and since then his movie career has actually been on a pretty impressive trajectory.
Theme
Try to recreate a classic exploitable meme using AI!
I'm gonna switch up the scoring a little for this challenge, so be sure to read the score section:
- Most ambitious: the most complex meme or the meme that I (a layman) feels would be very difficult to describe via prompt.
- Most recognizable: the meme is the easiest to identify, and is the most accurate to the original
- Do not include the name of the meme in the prompt: the challenge is to find a novel way to recreate the meme, not just get the model to spit out an image it was trained on. You can use words that are in the name of the meme, but avoid telling the model to just make the meme.
Rules
- Follow the community’s rules above all else
- One comment and image per user
- Embed image directly in the post (no external link)
- Workflow/Prompt sharing encouraged (we’re all here for fun and learning)
- Posts that are tied will both get the points
- The challenge runs for 7 days from now on
- Down votes will not be counted
Scores
At the end of the challenge each post will be scored: | Prize | Points | |---|---| | Most upvoted | +3 points | | Second most upvoted | +2 point | | Third most upvoted | +1 point | | OP’s favorite | +1 point | | Most ambitious | +1 point | | Most recognizable meme | +1 point| | Last two entries (to compensate for less time to vote) | +1 point | | Prompt and workflow included | +1 point | | Prompt includes the name of the meme | -1 point |
The winner gets to pick next theme! As always, have fun everyone! Previous entries
Canada\ United states\ Mexico\ Free-trade of\ Arts\ Research\ Technology
I really tried to get it to generate Mac from the film Mac and Me, but it just wouldn't
What would aliens think if they leaned we evolved fear as a survival mechanism, but we intentionally seek out situations that trigger our fear response, for fun?
Horror movies, extreme sports, thrill-seeking, it's all weird.
Edit\ Changed the title and added an extra line to make it clear I'm talking about the fear response, and not specifically about extreme sports
Not to count my chickens before they hatch, but I think I've decided my next contest theme, if I win one in the near future
> a large green pear with a large mouth. the mouth is open, showing large blunt teeth, and a tongue. the pear is on a meadow with small hills, on a sunny day. oil painting
I know FNAF is a "kids game" but putting it next to the Care Bears seems a bit excessive lol
Theme
Unexpected Astronaut!
What could possibly be unexpected, unusual, or surprising about astronauts or the situations they find themselves in?
Rules
- Follow the community’s rules above all else
- One comment and image per user
- Embed image directly in the post (no external link)
- Workflow/Prompt sharing encouraged (we’re all here for fun and learning)
- Posts that are tied will both get the points
- The challenge runs for 7 days from now on
- Down votes will not be counted
Scores
At the end of the challenge each post will be scored:
- Most upvoted: +3 points
- Second most upvoted: +2 pointS
- Third most upvoted: +1 point
- OP’s favorite: +1 point
- Most original: +1 point
- Last two entries (to compensate for less time to vote): +1 point
- Prompt and workflow included: +1 point
The winner gets to pick next theme! Have fun everyone!
Theme
Cozy Catastrophy. It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine.
Rules
- Follow the community’s rules above all else
- One comment and image per user
- Embed image directly in the post (no external link)
- Workflow/Prompt sharing encouraged (we’re all here for fun and learning)
- Posts that are tied will both get the points
- The challenge runs for 7 days from now on
- Down votes will not be counted
- No memes
Scores
At the end of the challenge each post will be scored:
- Most upvoted: +3 points
- Second most upvoted: +2 point
- Third most upvoted: +1 point
- OP’s favorite: +1 point
- Most original: +1 point
- Last two entries (to compensate for less time to vote): +1 point
- Prompt and workflow included: +1 point
The winner gets to pick next theme! Have fun everyone!