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  The “uncanny” part I think isn’t because it’s done badly, it’s because it’s done well - but not in any of the ways you’d get from a human. By the time a human artist has learned to get that good at shading, colouring, line work, human figures, posing etc, they’ll have also learned about composition and perspective and good storytelling and when to not pointlessly overload the background with weird shit.

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  ok no worries

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  Emergency self/home defense I’ve always found this highly questionable on its own terms. You’re way more likely to get yourself or your family killed if you introduce a gun into the situation. Gun nut fantasies always involve them getting the drop on an intruder in the middle of the night, when the reality is that they’re way more likely to have the drop on you.

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  They're not the only company doing it. Whole thing is dodgy AF.

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  Windows 11 on my media PC every time I boot now asks me if I want to enable backups. So I say no. Ok whatever, corporate cunts are gonna keep trying to sell me stuff. But then it gives me another screen ramping up the hard sell and telling me how important it is I enable sending all my data to them. There's only one button on the screen that's styled like a button, to refuse you have to click a text link. And I've already said no to them dozens of times already, including once thre...

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  > for some people this is meaningless bullshit, in that they are struggling to pay for groceries Good point, and I think this runs to the heart of a lot of ragebait meme stuff like this. It wasn't written for that audience, it was written for people driving an Audi TT on a VW Polo salary.

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  Surely if it’s full of missing women’s driving licenses it’s not a sock drawer, it’s a missing women’s driving licenses drawer. Is the sort of reply I’d post if it were reddit.

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  In certain Austroasiatic languages, your wrists and ankles are your hand-necks and foot-necks.

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  Dems know exactly how they could get a massive landslide in the midterms, and are choosing not to do it.