I think people know, they just don’t give a shit because they think they’re entitled to have art and artists are arseholes for not giving them exactly what they want

When you put something out there, you allow for the possibility that people will see your work and incorporate it into their mental catalog of art and artistic process

…except when a person is doing it, they’re doing their own thing to it. They take an idea or two and filter it through their own lens and stylise it

Think about it like this - when you do data scraping, you’re still interpreting the results. You’re looking at the data and going ‘ok from this I can draw X and Y conclusions based on this and that’. AI art is like if we removed you from the process - we just shoved all the data into a black box and it goes ding “X is Y”. If you asked it why that’s so, it wouldn’t be able to tell you. You can’t see how it works so you have no idea if it’s reasoning makes scientific sense. It would not be admissible in a paper.

If you pirate shit then you have no ground to stand on for complaining about AI training.

…don’t most people kinda agree you don’t pirate from small artists where piracy is actually hurting them? There’s like, honour along thieves when it comes to piracy, and this is stepping all over the little guy who’s actually hurt by this just to get your grubby little hands on something you think you’re entitled to

Congratulations you’re now a snake

A cheap fountain pen like a Lamy safari. Maybe some brightly coloured ink too.

Growing up I loved pens and my dad had some vintage Watermans he used all the time which were unquestionably Cool Pens but also really “fancy” so I wasn’t allowed to touch them, and we just didn’t know that way cheaper and less fiddly fountain pens existed because all of his came from the op shop with ink from borders and not an actual pen store. 8 year old me would’ve been estatic that not only do easier to use cheaper options exist, they’re bright yellow and also you can put any colour in them, not just boring black.

…I feel like everyone answering “Powerball numbers” or “apple stocks” is completely missing the spirit of the question

Nearly - a single bacteria is a bacterium. There’s some Latin rule going on here but I’m not sure I’d reccomend going into those weeds

That’s because it’s actual cult propaganda. As in “it’s literally made by the church of Scientology, based on the founding literature of Scientology as written by Scientologist leader L Ron Hubbard, by Scientologist actors”

In a vacuum? Yeah it’s cheesy sci fi. With context? Hoo boy…

Demons are real and they live inside your computer delivering your emails and internet. Before computers they used to screw around with physicists and mathematians and break their theories but now they’re too busy to do that anymore.

Not religious in the slightest, my dad just saw me asking what Beastie on his BSD machine’s screensaver was and decided to fuck with me when he realised I didn’t know what a demon (in any sense of the word) was

It’s one of those things that feels really obvious if you cook a lot of east/south Asian dishes - shrimp sauce and mushroom soy sauce have a pretty similar aftersmell to them because they’re so concentrated

Niche hobby website from the 90s that’s both really useful and still updated (somewhat) - the Parker pen penography. Look at all those pens! Genuinely the most useful source of info on the topic of old Parkers that isn’t a big hefty coffee table book. Most of it probably isn’t too interesting to non-fountain pen people, but there’s some articles about the history of Parker and their decline that might be interesting if you like economics and buisness (like the one about the Itala

Idk if this is true for the US but where I live in Scandinavia red is a common house colour because historically it was a cheap colour you could get from mixing red ochre and oil, so red barns aren’t uncommon. Then again the US midwest does have a lot of Scandinavian immigrants so it might’ve bled over culturally because there’s lot of farms up there?

If you don’t like it as a ceral, you could try making biscuits out of it? Rolled oats biscuits are pretty good. I know I’m risking my Australian citizenship here but you could try doing an Anzac biscuit like thing to it. Super simple biscuit that lasts forever that just needs rolled oats, golden syrup, bicarb, coconut, and some flour.

Alternatively you could make a muesli bar and eat that. I know they’re not that healthy but when you’re making it yourself you can like control that sort of thing

(I personally eat muesli with yoghurt so there’s a bit of body to the entire thing, but that’s already been suggested)

In Norwegian marshmallow is just marshmallow, but if something has marshmallow bits or marshmallow like properties (like say the white stuff in a bag of Haribos) it’s called “skum”, which means foam

I’ve had a 3d printer for years and I still can’t really get over how nuts it is. Like it feels like one of those things you’d read about in science magazines as this amazing super scientific thing the scientists out in MIT have in their labs like a supercomputer or some expensive toy people who build stuff on YouTube have in their garage next to the lathe and big fancy CNC table, but no, it’s just, here. On my desk. Being used to casually print stuff that I’ve designed myself on the computer like it’s nothing.

My great grandad was a carpenter and I wish I could’ve shown him it. I wonder what he’d think, seeing something that was once only in the realm of handcrafted diagrammes and days of building now a few hours of modelling and printing away.

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Clair Saffiz now has Her own channel and some of the other former Bon Appetit chefs appear in her videos. Most of them are pretty nice informative cooking videos, but she does occasionally do the “Clair has a mental breakdown while trying to cook something” format like with her gingerbread house video

Hey at least Rhino appears to be run kinda like a co-op where the employees own the company, which is actually really interesting I’ve never heard of a co-op for a software company

Also same boat - Autodesk sucks and is the Adobe of the industry yes, but like, the alternative is freecad and I’m sorry but freecad kinda sucks especially when it’s standing next to like, Fusion360. It’s got the learning curve of a vertical line and is kinda missing a ton of stuff

Given this is Lemmy/Reddit overspill I think the more unpopular opinion mentioned here would be “you shouldn’t be apathetic towards social problems and instead actually try to do something about them”

I do 3d modelling as a hobby so I’ve got a nice big of art stacked up over the years but weirdly enough the thing I’m really proud of is this real life replica of the Splatana stamper from splatoon. It’s a really complex thing that I spent ages on trying to get every little detail as perfectly accurate as I could using only 720p screenshots of low res models and I even made a version that can actually function as an actual stamper. It’s an actual thing that I can hold in my hands, and so can you! Not to mention some of the CAD things I had to do were surprisingly complicated. Like you would not believe how hard it is to emboss a curved surface in fusion 360.

I honestly don’t know what my best work is artistically, but I’m fond of all the little Interior design stuff I do, even if it gets a fraction of the notes anything fandom related gets. The pride rooms are nice but there’s also an entire house I did if you scroll down the tag a little

First one’s Limbus company - “waifu” Rodion is actually a really great character (she’s a self proclaimed girlboss!) And English class probably isn’t quite right - you probably don’t read Korean post modern poetry or Camus or a Chinese 20k page critique of Confucianism and domestic abuse in a bog standard English class. It’s also set in an absolutely batshit insane uber capitalist dystopia where magic may or may not exist and you can break the laws of physics by abusing human suffering. It’s a deck building thing where you get to muck around with alt timeline versions of your 12 guys (the aforementioned literary main characters) and it’s pretty fun. Don’t know how else to really sell it. Meursault is there? And like a corporation version of the SCP foundation?

Second game is splatoon, specifically the second one because you get a gun that’s a straight up a bright yellow PN-90 in the campaign mode. There isn’t much to explain, splatoon’s campaign is just, kinda like that and is a shitty way to sell the game because it’s uh, primarily a multiplayer game.

You know all those books and literary analysis you had to do in Englidh class that you hated? Yeah what if we made a game about those guys? Oh and don’t worry, we got guys from all over the globe, so we’re going to make you relive that pain regardless if you’re from Spain or Korea. Oh you liked that part of class? Good news! We made Rodion Raskinolov an anime waifu!

Alternatively: solving a centuries long race war in the only way we know how - with 13 year olds and 90’s themed warfare! It’s not a child soldier if the military doesn’t know about it! We swear this is deadly serious we gave the kid a FN P90