Wasn't a huge fan of the move to 3D animation but it wasn't all bad. Movies like The Mitchell's VS The Machines and Klaus show that 3D animation can have a ton of soul and style. Think the problem is most corporate studios just failing at making good stories / art most of the time in pursuit of the lowest common denominator.

That said, fuck AI slop. Soulless by definition

I imagine what you normally do to prevent poop particles should be fine. Also I believe most people wear underwear under bike shorts? I cycle almost daily but just wear regular clothes or gym clothes so not entirely sure with padded bike shorts.

Also, having grown up all my life with bidets and "bum guns", it never hurts to clean down there with some water and soap anyway.

I was checking to see if Broken Earth had been mentioned! It's the only story I'm aware of that does second person (not all chapters).

Now I'm kinda weirded out that all the people I see in bike shorts are going commando under there...

Edit: Well there you go. Suppose its no different than skin tight swim shorts.

Would that be a disassociation?

Brain's taking the joke too seriously and trying to imagine what divorcing yourself would entail

The attack is being investigated as a possible bias-motivated crime.

The levels of avoiding saying "hate-crime"

They actually get into this in the other panels that aren't posted. Having trouble finding non-reddit links to it though https://www.reddit.com/r/theotherendcomics/s/9X4C16J7yi

Also, not very experienced adding photos from my phone to comments but trying to attach screenshots

Love that this is how I found out

it is the right moment for everyone who builds systems of control to reflect. It’s the right moment to pierce those layers of abstraction that allow you to get through each day, and question why it’s so financially lucrative for the system you’re building to exist.

Because there is no abstraction as leaky as a man waiting outside your hotel at 6:45 in the morning with a gun and murderous intent

Amazingly written article, last line giving me chills

Mom too busy edging to reply properly

Cool! Key takeaway for me from this is Trump didn't get more popular, Dems just got way less popular. Kind of brings a bit of my hope in humanity back a little

I kinda want them here so they can be exposed to leftist ideas and become thigh-high wearing, Linux using furries.

But that's probably just me huffing hopium

Had me in the first half, not gonna lie

TWO international reporters shot in a single day.

Here I thought the article got the nationality of the reporter wrong only to find out they're just aiming for reporters in general now apparently...

This was the discussion on a recent post, which seems to be deleted now, about "AI" art on beer cans in the Mildly Infuriating community.

It's really upsetting how much art is now seen as AI looking when AI art only looks that way cause it was trained on great art. Anything stylized, slightly sepia, realistically shaded, etc etc, automatically assumed to be AI when some people have trained decades to develop this style themselves, but now it's just slop style

After trying a search, opened Lemmy to see if it was my connection, immediately see this meme. Thanks for the troubleshooting confirmation Lemmy

Aunt went to a Catholic school, they made her switch. It's not just a middle ages thing

And it was Zelensky who was apparently "Gambling with World War III"... Tough times ahead methinks.

Fuckin Cheeto

I honestly hadn't considered that eBook licensing data could be used in the way they describe in the article. EBooks becoming part of big data surveillance somehow feels especially disheartening to me.

Lately I feel like I've been duped for years since I used to believe strongly in the phrase "if you're not paying for it, you're the product" but it feels like with every paid product or service nowadays you're STILL the product...

But a pirate is always free 🏴‍☠️

A link to the whole conversation on Gemini is linked in the article. This is the conversation for anyone else interested

I was wondering if there was some kind of lead up to the response or even baiting, but it really was just out of nowhere. It was all just typical study help stuff. Some of the topics were darker, about abuse and such, but all in an academic context.