Eeh, Great Freeze was an ecological disaster caused by sailor chaos. When Usagi is interred on the Silver Throne after revealing herself as Neo-Queen serenity, she restores the population to their rightful place on earth, then loses her daughter to time manipulation hijinks, which prompts her to ally with Sailor Mars and embark on her great crusade to unite the Sailors and find her lost child, accompanied by her loyal yet enigmatically powerful servant Mamodor…

or, wait hang on…

To be fair, Usagi did go on to cure death and create a neo-socialist workers paradise while bloodlessly uniting all the people of earth…

This is why I’m an Archmage…

The WIAA is aware of roughly 10 trans athletes out of more than 200,000 kids who compete across the state, Kesterson said.

20,000:1 RATIO, FUCKING HELL HOW WILL GIRLS SPORTS EVER OVERCOME SUCH A HUGE PROBLEM??? no choice but to MAKE SURE YOU AIN’T SMUGGLING ANY BALLS ONTO THE COURT!

I really cannot see this ever passing, at least. Laurie Jenkins would have Bob shot if this somehow passes the house & senate and he didn’t veto, and it’d probably be done with Mike Brown’s gun (tho I similarly cannot envision a world in which Ferguson would ever pass this. Guy’s pretty decent.)

If musk gets off on limitless clean energy that’s actually okay.

In order to save the ecosystem, you must be willing to kill the ecosystem!

… J P Morgan Chase is not relevant right now because this is an article about Visa and Mastercard.

And that company isn’t even a little bit relevant right now, nor has my intent ever been to figure out which company is the “most to blame”. But neat, thanks for sharing your opinion, I will continue to consider Visa and Mastercard to be among the few absolute worst offenders.

… The dutch east india company hasn’t been relevant for more than 200 years, but like fair enough. If you want to have “capitalist megacorp fightclub” that could absolutely be one of those few I mentioned. I’m gonna defend that “the primary architects of the global financial transaction system” are good entries onto the list though…

Yeah, I’m also kinda surprised cuba apparently allowed them to operate there? There are few companies that more thoroughly exemplify the imperialist state than those two.

Dunno what it is about genocidal states that makes them want to arm children but it does seem worryingly common…

https://imemc.org/article/69258/

Wow that’s cool - I haven’t been so completely bewildered by a programming tutorial since someone tried to explain concurrency in Rust to me. How neat! I should check out godot.

Terrible beaches in most of the country, if your standard is based on what you find in a travel brochure.

People are always shocked to find out that most WA and OR beaches are designated highways - and then they get there and see them it makes plenty of sense. Km on km of beach with fuck all there, 500m of dune covered in razor grass between you and the houses, occasional 1-inch fjords, the nice soft bits near the dunes sometimes have pits of quicksand, and the whole thing is you-have-to-shout windy and fucking FREEZING. And then theres how shit the beach itself is, which once you get past the dune areas (not highway, precious and beautiful ecology) is just several hundred meters of hard-packed sand or outright gravel and then blump. Ocean.

The nice bits of beach are all protected from vehicle traffic, the parts where you get good surfing waves or scenic vistas or are near a population center, but the vast majority of the coast is only ever visited to dig up clams or blow up dead whales.

Fucking brutal.

Big shrug, I suppose?

(Wait, what entirely unrelated topic was I nitpicking? Genuinely confused, sorry)

You’re welcome to address the “triple down” if you want - I only included it to explain the reasoning in the initial callout (i.e. the image has multiple clear artifacts of AI use - I was just wrong about the reason those artifacts happened). Apologies if you see that as a continuation of the hellbent inquisition but I am genuinely grateful for the more level-headed response.

“For someone so hellbent on inquisitioning people for AI heresy” - I spent one sentence calling out a pretty obviously upscaled image. I didn’t double down particularly hard, and I’ll happily admit I was just wrong that it wasn’t initially generated. You might wanna dial down the melodrama just a tad.

Seriously, there are plenty of visible upscaling artifacts:

(See also the grid in the smoke, the guy in the front left with three hands, etc…)

FWIW I’m sorry I called it AI generated - it just used the way more acceptable version of AI and I got it wrong - but can we talk about how insane your reaction just now was? Because that’s hilariously extreme reaction to what is a minor thing.

Lmao what?, I don’t think OP generated the image (with the legible & intelligible watermarks) - I do think OP (or whoever made the meme if it wasn’t OP) grabbed an AI upscaled an image to use for this meme, the same one that product uses.

… Does who know what a what is?

Edit: Does [the former head of HHS under biden, now running for governor of California] know what a [pharmacy benefit manager, something to do with health insurance bastardry I guess] is?

… Hey, well done for self-hosting your kiddie-diddling image generator! FOSS pedophila only, thank you.

(seriously tho, probably the Agentic AIs would do this too I have just never tested it)