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Guavanaut posted:So why are they taking this line? I can't imagine they (or their editors) are pro-Trump or pro-NATO. I had the same thought, but China Daily seems to be pro-peace and maybe they're just trying promote a sort of status quo? Skios posted:I... I really don't get this one. There is literally no reason shown for the person on the right to be running away screaming from... what looks like just an ordinary genie's lamp? The smoke's a question mark for what it's worth. A monkey's paw would've worked better but genie's also tend to grant wishes with a catch.
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A genie is a common metaphor in AI circles. Like a monkeys paw, it can grant wishes that go horribly wrong. However, with a genie there's typically the idea that if you word the wish exactly right, you can get what you want with no downside. This maps onto the idea of AI alignment, which studies how to very carefully build AI so that it doesn't go wrong
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Guavanaut posted:Shut the gently caress up Fishman. Yeah, the actual issue is much more complex than "White person cooks food from another culture". It starts with "White people typically have a far easier time getting loans, permits and other things needed to start a restaurant" And then you get "Restaurant owner takes authentic dishes, bastardizes them while still selling them as authentic" And then adds in "Hires people from those cultures who can cook the authentic version to cook the bastardize version while underpaying and overworking them." While there are a handful of people who will complain about the wrong person cooking the wrong food, they are a tiny minority, many of which aren't exactly arguing in good faith. They real issue is that it's another form of cultural exploitation, being performed by wealthy, not by the chefs themselves regardless of their own culture. Pulsarcat fucked around with this message at 20:31 on Feb 25, 2024 |
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Kaza42 posted:A genie is a common metaphor in AI circles. Like a monkeys paw, it can grant wishes that go horribly wrong. However, with a genie there's typically the idea that if you word the wish exactly right, you can get what you want with no downside. This maps onto the idea of AI alignment, which studies how to very carefully build AI so that it doesn't go wrong There's also the idiom of "putting the genie back in the bottle," which is where a lot of anti-AI people get stuck that they want to make AI tech no longer feasible when it's already established
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Guavanaut posted:So why are they taking this line? I can't imagine they (or their editors) are pro-Trump or pro-NATO. It's part of their narrative about the general, inevitable futility of democratic and societies.
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Guavanaut posted:So why are they taking this line? I can't imagine they (or their editors) are pro-Trump or pro-NATO. NATO functions on confidence. Amplifying the doubts members have about Trump undermines NATO.
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Guavanaut posted:So why are they taking this line? I can't imagine they (or their editors) are pro-Trump or pro-NATO. I think they are anti-trump, and they believe their target audience is pro-Nato.
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Hey, speaking of people who aren't exactly arguing in good faith, it's time once more for  And now the power of Zionism... makes... Biden sniff you? Don't worry, this metaphor is only going to get stupider as the week continues.  Also Biden caused COVID. With the power of the Jews. Just putting that out there.  My eyes are rolling so hard right now that I think I may have injured myself.  You already used this joke less than a week ago, you loving hack!  And here's where we learn that all of this happened because Elon Musk refused to be sufficiently antisemitic. I mean, clearly he was antisemitic, just not enough.  Now, see, representing the hobbits as Palestine is exactly the kind of metaphor you could have used to make a point here, if they weren't already America and also wasn't this storyline about Heaven? Remember that, the whole Heaven thing?  Aaaaand I guess the Jews are orcs now. Sure. (Of course, we've also seen these people as themselves just a few weeks ago but who even cares at this point.) Pettyfest  
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Yeah "Mordor has a right to defend itself" could be a good line if it were coming from anyone other than someone whose nuanced views on Israel are "lot of Jews there, I hear *spits*"idonotlikepeas posted:Also Biden caused COVID. With the power of the Jews. Just putting that out there.
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Skios posted:I... I really don't get this one. There is literally no reason shown for the person on the right to be running away screaming from... what looks like just an ordinary genie's lamp? The person on the left is a corporate suit with high hopes from AI. The man on the right is an average joe scared of the mystery that is going to emerge.
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Guavanaut posted:no, no, he caused vaccines. With the power of the Jews. COVID isn't real and the vaccines are what kill everyone every winter. Especially the winter before there was a vaccine. Yeah, don't forget that "COVID is just a nasty cold" to them, and the vaccines are just an excuse to inject us with 5g nanobots to turn us trans and gay.
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idonotlikepeas posted:Hey, speaking of people who aren't exactly arguing in good faith, it's time once more for
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Trapezium Dave posted:Leunig: Finally, giving up, the fox turned up his nose and said, "they're probably sour anyway," and proceeded to walk away.
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Trapezium Dave posted:Leunig: I dont know who is worst, Prickly City or Leunig for mistaking trite bullshit for profundity.
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It's a cartoon I might have made when I was 15. It's not wrong, there's just no reason for it to exist
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I dont know posted:I dont know who is worst, Prickly City or Leunig for mistaking trite bullshit for profundity. Leunig. Nobody involved in the creation of Prickly City actually cares about its content. Leunig does.
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Having listened to all of Taylor Swift's discography this past week to try to understand why she's quite that popular, I get not getting it.
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I'll go to bat for 1989, Folklore, and Evermore at the very least.Hostile V posted:So I'm lurking just to watch this trashfire as a trans woman who used to read this comic and now revels in this motherfucker's misery but I just want to say as someone who read a ton of old webcomics that were contemporary to this one: congrats on, somehow, managing to do a worse take of "literally retelling LOTR" than Least I Could Do did. This is really harsh, but on the other hand you're not wrong.
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“The rubbish that is written...” - A Political Cartoonist
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Phlegmish posted:It's a cartoon I might have made when I was 15. It's not wrong, there's just no reason for it to exist Eh, he is patting himself on the back and declaring he has special insight for not liking something popular. Which is sort of pathetic under most circumstances but comical so when it's an eighty year old man taking inordinate pride in not liking pop music targeted at children and teenagers.
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Don't let them pretend for a second that cranks like Leunig trying to make a deep point about the shallowness of modern music were not themselves fully hooked by the mass marketed tunes of their day.  It's also bad form to gripe that people enjoy things. Who would be so shallow as to... go to a concert in their lifetime?
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idonotlikepeas posted:I'll go to bat for 1989, Folklore, and Evermore at the very least. 1989 is the best example of her work. Folklore the best thing she’s done. Lover was my favorite but none of it felt like it merited the phenomenon she is. Gonna listen to Beyoncé now since she seems to be the best comparison.
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Hostile V posted:So I'm lurking just to watch this trashfire as a trans woman who used to read this comic and now revels in this motherfucker's misery but I just want to say as someone who read a ton of old webcomics that were contemporary to this one: congrats on, somehow, managing to do a worse take of "literally retelling LOTR" than Least I Could Do did. Is it worse than when User Friendly hamfistedly made it about Linux somehow? EDIT: The Least I Could Do one, I mean.
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So hey, fun fact: Bilbo's 111th birthday was Frodo's 33rd birthday, and there was a pretty good amount of time before he set out for Rivendell. This isn't a kid. This is a well-to-do landowner in his mid-30s who is getting his hair sniffed here.
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ZeeToo posted:So hey, fun fact: Bilbo's 111th birthday was Frodo's 33rd birthday, and there was a pretty good amount of time before he set out for Rivendell. This isn't a kid. This is a well-to-do landowner in his mid-30s who is getting his hair sniffed here. It is kind of spectacular how in basically every case Tats manages to fail to understand the source material and then butchers his analogies.
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ZeeToo posted:So hey, fun fact: Bilbo's 111th birthday was Frodo's 33rd birthday, and there was a pretty good amount of time before he set out for Rivendell. This isn't a kid. This is a well-to-do landowner in his mid-30s who is getting his hair sniffed here. In the book, 17 years pass between the time Gandalf leaves and comes back, so Frodo is 50 years old when he takes off for Rivendell.
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Hostile V posted:So I'm lurking just to watch this trashfire as a trans woman who used to read this comic and now revels in this motherfucker's misery but I just want to say as someone who read a ton of old webcomics that were contemporary to this one: congrats on, somehow, managing to do a worse take of "literally retelling LOTR" than Least I Could Do did. Post avatar combo. I’d recognize Jon Allison’s style anywhere.
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Amjad Rasmi Clay Bennett  Drew Sheneman  Matt Davies  NEMØ  Looks like it's a series about People We Should Care About Instead of Navalny. This time around, Julian Assange, who, I'll note, is not actually dead. Holding a literal red pill, which I guess makes sense, since Assange is also a rapist. Gee, I wonder why that isn't on his little bio card here? Do I need to point out the irony of someone who conceals their identity posting praise of Julian Assange? Randall Enos  Yaakov Kirschen (Dry Bones) 
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100YrsofAttitude posted:China Daily woah man.. if you think about it... if there wasn't all this War... there would be Peace. holy poo poo
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Angepain posted:woah man.. if you think about it... if there wasn't all this War... there would be Peace. holy poo poo China Daily's comics tend to have very Nothing statements, but this one is Especially Nothing. You could get more thought provoking commentary from Speak, the Hungarian Rapper.
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Neito posted:Is it worse than when User Friendly hamfistedly made it about Linux somehow? Oh also I learned fairly recently there was an arc in 2017 where one of Rayne's previous hookups transitioned and the entire arc was like "hey I'd like to get to know the real you, also I support trans rights" and flipping through it, the comic's heart is in the right place (note: it is also extremely LICD, so like, yeah) and like gently caress me the LICD guys are out there supporting trans people, the LICD people, the bar is in hell, Tats!
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wizzardstaff posted:"What's the best way to depict my nation's virtuous war? I know, I'll draw a soldier aiming a rifle at a group of unarmed, surrendering people." Not to mention that the actual, literal message of the comic is “actually everyone agrees with everything we do they’re just afraid of doing so publicly”
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ZeeToo posted:So hey, fun fact: Bilbo's 111th birthday was Frodo's 33rd birthday, and there was a pretty good amount of time before he set out for Rivendell. This isn't a kid. This is a well-to-do landowner in his mid-30s who is getting his hair sniffed here. Tats just really needs to draw children being sexually harassed, he just needs to, it's important. Why are you even questioning this. Blocked.
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