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I usually like these comics, but this is some xenophobic bs. Put the British flag (or any flag) in the first panel and it’s just nationalistic propaganda. Not cool.

Don’t worry, they’re plastering the same shit in your news as “prediction markets”.

Same thought. Imagining crawling a boat through miles of that maze to spend an hour in open water before having to turn around to crawl back. Smh.

The rare happy ending PBF comic.

[equivalent to burning] down that person’s house

Lol, no. Not even close to the same thing. Go hyperbolize somewhere else.

I know it’s mainly religious connotations, but all I think of with that title is the Josh Hartnett movie about NNN before NNN was a thing.

Look at the bit behind the top of his ear. In the og, it’s trimmed short. In the new meme, it’s untrimmed and curly.

And in the parts you circled, it’s clearly more styled and “neater”. The original is messier, with bits sticking out.

Compression doesn’t add/change hair.

Definitely was. Changed has lips, nose, even his hair.

https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/db800eba-6e5e-4bd5-8950-6a5e2c8ab73a.png

Why do people constantly fall into “suffering one-upmanship” when discussing making things better? Who does that benefit? Why not simply agree that it’s wrong and work together to solve both problems?

Funny how that never happens.

in a time where we should be looking to reduce our energy spending

Data centers are definitely a problem, but all progress in curbing carbon emissions points toward increasing energy use. The problem (that has been put off for too long) is that power generation itself relies too much on carbon heavy products. We should have carbon neutral, or even negative, power generation by now, but it’s been fought and put off for decades now, so this is what we get to deal with.

That screenshot is such pyscho behavior. “Our algorithm will access any and all data it can on you to answer your question, whether you ask it to or not! Isn’t that great??”

“Can’t have shit on the North Lawn.”

If you are saying it’s ironic for the author to do the same thing they are criticizing, then yes, you’re saying that. Otherwise, there’s little to nothing similar about them, hence my original comment.

In an inappropriate medium?

Huh? How do you get from “generated slop littering is bad” to “all moderately long pieces of writing are bad”?

If he’s actually trying to be helpful, I think it’s worth attempting a calm, earnest conversation about it with him explaining how this choice of his is a lost resource to you and how much you value his input over that of an algorithm.

It still may not work, but someone thinking they’re doing the right thing is typically easier to persuade over someone who is maliciously trying to push you away.

He kinda looks like Tim Robbins.

No. They’re quite imaginable for anyone paying attention, and obvious outcomes of the choices made by him and his cronies.