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Does anyone speak hairdresser? I need help communicating.

Does anyone speak hairdresser?

No. Not even hairdressers speak hairdresserese. Like drummers, hairdressers/stylists/barbers will all appear as if all their attention is 100% on your description but they are thinking about something within their social circle (hence the real concern on their face). Like drummers, if there isn't some kind of natural affinity between you and who cuts your hair, you will never get what you're looking for.

That said, many clients haven't the proverbial "faintest idea" of what actually works for their face shape and stylists, if they're not suffering too strong of a hangover 🤣, do try to work within those confines.

You can only go in with your remarkably clear and detailed description —still open to interpretation as your hairstyle is not an airplane fuselage, with precise measurements and tolerances—in hand and still hope for the best. Apologies for the length of this reply.

DISCLAIMER: my ex-wife was and still is a fine hair stylist.

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Finding a New Favorite Food (by Jake Likes Onions)

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I was thinking, funny as it is, it might have worked better as a one-panel vignette (I don't know the cartoonist's usual format, if they always follow this 4-panel square layout) with just panel #4, word balloon included, and the text from panel #1 as a caption.

Yeah, yeah, everyone's a critic. In any case, it's pretty funny...but not as funny as your face! 🤡

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Why This Award-Winning Piece of AI Art Can’t Be Copyrighted

While my thinking is in line with what @[email protected] and @[email protected] have already said, why can't "AI artists" just do what everybody in a profit-seeking situation does and just lie about it? "No your honor, our studies have shown cigarette smoking is not hazardous to your health," "yes, your honor, OxyContin is completely safe," or in this case "yes, your honor, I created this illustration." If your conscience is really bothering you, you could claim it was AI-assisted. I wouldn't think there'd be a "Big Eyes" prove-you-painted-that courtroom case. Am I wrong?

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Marvel Fans React To Martin Scorsese’s ‘Killers Of The Flower Moon’

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Is this the best you can do?

First off, it's The Onion. It's satire. Would your reaction have been as crybaby-ish and prejudiced if it came from, say, Mad Magazine?

Secondly, I'm not even going to get into defending Scorsese's body of work nor his achievements in the motion picture arts. I'm going to talk slow and use small words so you can follow along, Mr Comic Book Man.

Copy paste Scorsese instead of marvel shit. I mean every time the same actors, all have one face for all their roles…however in the core mostly the same.…Last Scorsese I watched was the Irishman and boy, what a waste of time that was.

1967 - Who's That Knocking at My Door
1972 - Boxcar Bertha
1974 - Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
1977 - New York, New York
1982 - The King of Comedy
1985 - After Hours
1986 - The Color of Money 1988 - The Last Temptation of Christ
1989 - New York Stories: Life Lessons
1991 - Cape Fear
1993 - The Age of Innocence
1997 - Kundun
1999 - Bringing Out the Dead
2002 - Gangs of New York
2004 - The Aviator
2010 - Shutter Island
2011 - Hugo
2013 - The Wolf of Wall Street
2016 - Silence
2023 - Killers of the Flower Moon

I've left out exactly five movies of Scorsese's oeuvre…oops…filmography. The unwashed masses, you included, tend to remember only those. I'll admit De Niro's presence definitely "colors" a film regardless of his role and I'd go as far as to accuse De Niro more than what with you charge Scorsese. So, Mr. "the world is full of great graphic novels" -- which is how fully-grown, emotionally-stunted adults call (and justify) comic books -- go jump in the East River.

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