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Stop Nazi-fying skeletons and start skeleton-izing Nazis

Ishbia’s purchase of the Suns was approved in Feb. 2023. Since he’s relatively new as majority owner of the team, I’ll give him some benefit of the doubt and assume in this situation he is working to make things better with his position and either only recently became aware of the price issue or was only just now able to change it, rather than simply making the change now for optics. You can be cynical about those who set the prices before him.

Look at A.I. Trump’s face — he almost looks like a human.

The lens sharpness and focal length seem a bit off between the foreground and the background but I don’t know enough about photography to say with authority if this is particularly telling. The poses and the gloss just seem too perfect and there is no apparent motion transpiring. Musk’s face also seems to lack depth as his left cheek looks like it’s just painted onto the same plane as his face.

After feeling like the image was off, I reverse image searched it with the text cropped out and found no results that did not have the text superimposed. Out of curiosity and without any idea of how reliable they are, I tried a site that claims to be able to detect if images are AI and it said it was ~98% sure it was generated through Stable Diffusion.

It does not assume that

They’re around each other often. One shouldn’t have to resort to AI to manifest an image of them beside each other. IMO, using AI in propaganda (even if factually accurate propaganda) makes the message come across as phony and those in agreement look disingenuous or dumb since the propagator couldn’t even bother to use reality in their imagery.

Generally, bakers are blue collar hardworkers who do not gluttonously hoard their resources and instead sell at prices necessary for sustainability with a modest to moderate level of profit margins; eliminating one baker would reduce the number of skilled workers who know how to produce goods/services critical to society. The same cannot be said about people in certain other positions whom the aforementioned hypothetical you might instead want to kill.

If the artist believes that bakers’ role in society is not comparable to certain parasitic roles, that subtext has been lost in the satiric trope inversion.

Edit: Apparently this is an old comic, so the inferred modern subtext is not the artist’s intent. I was trying to think of a better scenario for what the artist was trying to convey. You want to kill a child but the child has O- blood and is registered for organ donation upon death?

Can somebody with art skills make a comic of a Make-A-Wish kid wanting to spend their wish on shooting a health insurance CEO as vengeance for bankrupting the kid’s parents for the cancer care? Maybe a panel or two of Make-A-Wish refusing and the kid saying something about how they’re gonna die soon anyway so the deterrent of penal punishment would be useless against them? Cyanide & Happiness could probably pull this off

Do you really expect that to happen?

You know, studies show that keeping a dildo inside the house is more dangerous than a loaded gun. That’s why I own 10 guns, in case some maniac tries to sneak in a dildo.

It says Virginia right there

People tend to be among their age group online. Social media and online forums are conducive to echo chambers.

It’s giving deep sea diver being imploded inside their old timey diving suit

Breloom’s Pokédex number is 286. The number of tweets on Luigi’s account seems to be in flux since certain screenshots apparently show more than 286; I think it’s possible that either Twitter deleted some in the aftermath, or it could be that the count varies based on if someone is logged in or meets other privacy criteria (I don’t know if Twitter actually works this way, just a guess). Alternatively, (and I can’t find an archive of this on the Wayback Machine to check) I theorize he could have begun a personal trend of changing the Pokémon to match the number of tweets as he tweeted and then later became radicalized (no evidence, just a theory with minimal assumptions).

Because the Breloom inclusion is so abstract and tied in with more clear “clues”, people are trying to find meaning behind it. The Bible verse is just one instance in which the number 286 happens to coincide with possible motive; AFAIK, he hasn’t specifically and directly referenced Proverbs 28:6. Similarly, people are linking this number to insurance forms/code/documents and identifying passages of text that pair 286 with possible motive. There are also theories each connecting a handful of the many other idiosyncrasies of this Pokémon to motivation/action/etc. These connections seem tenuous to me with the evidence so far; until he directly states what the Pokémon means or stronger evidence for a meaning (if any) arises, these speculations remain spurious.

I wish grammar is easy two

I find it interesting that the Google search trends for the Pokémon in the top left has skyrocketed. I can’t find any clear reason for the peak in searches in December 2022 apart from maybe a (shiny?) raid in Pokémon Go or a holographic card being released.

I’d use Lemmy on my mobile browser if it kept me logged in. Probably an issue with my phone/OS.

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