[-] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 11 points 3 hours ago

Consider that you're watching a person react while you're in a totally calm state of mind, and prepared for what you're going to see.
You can see them react to the car, step in front of it and hit it. To me the appearance is of a person who sees the cars motion as the source of danger, so they react to that. A moment passes and you can see the priorities sorting as they see the kids getting up, the cart still in the road, the lost shoe, and the panicked looking driver.

They're running around a lot, but they're holding one of the children within 10 seconds of the incident.
It might not be the perfect response in hindsight, but "car danger: make car stop. Now driver danger: make driver stop" is not an unreasonable first reaction. Particularly if you don't know if the driver saw the accident and is going to just hit them, pause and then keep going, or realize what he's done and then flee, running them over.

[-] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

Is their vpn free? You're signing up for a VPN service that has a limited amount of bandwidth provided at no cost.

Their angle isn't to sell your data, it's for you to want to upgrade to the paid plan.

You won't find a VPN that has no ability to share information about you.

[-] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago

It's really not a euphemism. There will always be a language that's the most common for international trade, diplomacy, travel, and general discourse.

It was not always English, even when Britain was at the peak of its empire.

It's easy to claim that it's role as the lingua franca is bolstered by the international position of the US and Britain over the past 150 ish years, but that doesn't make it a euphemism.

[-] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 days ago

I think it just stands out because you suddenly understand a word in a different context. When English does it it doesn't stand out because it's so riddled with words from different origins that basically any random mouth sound passes as a plausible English word.

I went to a cafe and perused the menu, but I didn't see anything I liked, not even coffee, so I waltzed out and went to the gourmet delicatessen across the street where I got a Reuben with extra sauerkraut. Hard to say no to corned beef.
Afterwards I picked up the kid from kindergarten, and we picked a restaurant to go to. I wanted sushi, and they wanted tacos, so we compromised and got hamburgers.
We went home, took a shower with the new shampoo, got into our pajamas and read our favorite genre of story: macho poncho wearing jungle robots singing opera karaoke in a salsa tsunami.

We didn't adopt the words to be cool, it just fit better. It's hardly surprising that other languages would at least occasionally find one of ours useful in some mysterious way that words blend across languages.

[-] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago

Depending on what you're doing with it grain size and texture can also matter. Not sure I can think of how it would matter for salt in a cookie, but using rock sugar for butter cream frosting would work poorly, for example.

[-] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 13 points 6 days ago

How the did it with the steam deck was nice. It wasn't a pre-order in the usual sense, since you didn't pay anywhere close to full price. Just a refundable $5 that would go towards the cost of purchase when you bought it.

I don't mind that for hardware, since it cuts out scalpers and doesn't obligate you to purchase something before you know the quality.

[-] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 219 points 6 months ago

It's because people looked at a line of a diff without looking at the actual context.
It's like finding the line in a diff where someone deleted a call to "check password" and concluding that this means the service is no longer verifying passwords.

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/update-on-terms-of-use/

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/faq/

We never sell your personal data. Unlike other big tech companies that collect and profit off your personal information, we’re built with privacy as the default. We don’t know your age, gender, precise location, or other information Big Tech collects and profits from.

Basically, they consolidated and clarified their data privacy policies to be legally accurate. People took a content change to be a policy change on the assumption that you can't just delete words in one place and put new ones somewhere else.

[-] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 348 points 1 year ago

"I see you for who you are, you are valid, and you still suck" is a "delightful" take.

[-] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 259 points 2 years ago

Jesus. That's almost as dark as the reality of things.

[-] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 260 points 2 years ago

The weird thing is, they don't actually sell the jars anymore. "Ball jars" are not made by the ball jar corporation after their antitrust lawsuits for being a fucking jar monopoly. So they sold the "ball jar" rights and now only do aluminum cans for food packaging and high end satellites and satellite launch systems.

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Cozy fox drinking tea (sh.itjust.works)

crochet fox drinking hot tea, cinematic still, Technicolor, Super Panavision 70

Not quite what I was going for, but super cute regardless.

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Went camping in northern Michigan this week and I was quite popular with the local biting flies.
Delightfully, I found this local food samaritan doing their part to save me, and they were gracious enough to show off a little for the camera.

[-] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 167 points 2 years ago

The idea could be perfectly cute, and I feel like it would have been so easy to not make it "shame-y".

Like, "just a nibble", "pretty good!”, "yum!" and "my favorite". "I couldn't possibly...", "if you insist", and "thanks Grandma".

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by ricecake@sh.itjust.works to c/imageai@sh.itjust.works

Been having fun trying to generate images that look like "good" CGI, but broken somehow in a more realistic looking way.

[-] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 191 points 2 years ago

This doesn't read like seething to me.

Like, it's great that people are unionizing, because even if there's the best possible relationship between businesses and labor, the union still makes that relationship more equitable.
But that doesn't mean that the creation of the union has to be viewed as hostility between labor and business.

I'll be interested to see if their good reputation holds up to pressure,but as of right now I haven't heard anything that makes me want disbelieve their statement.

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Made with the Krita AI generation plugin.

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digital illustration of a male character in bright and saturated colors with playful and fun expression, created in 2D style, perfect for social media sharing. Rendered in high-resolution 10-megapixel 2K resolution with a cel-shaded comic book style , paisley Steps: 50, Sampler: Heun, CFG scale: 13, Seed: 1649780875, Size: 768x768, Model hash: 99fd5c4b6f, Model: seekArtMEGA_mega20, ControlNet Enabled: True, ControlNet Preprocessor: lineart_coarse, ControlNet Model: control_v11p_sd15_lineart [43d4be0d], ControlNet Weight: 1, ControlNet Starting Step: 0, ControlNet Ending Step: 1, ControlNet Resize Mode: Crop and Resize, ControlNet Pixel Perfect: True, ControlNet Control Mode: Balanced, ControlNet Preprocessor Parameters: "(512, 64, 64)"

If you take a picture of yourself in from the shoulders up, like in the picture, while standing in front of a blank but lightly textured wall it seems to work best.

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He's not nearly as chubby as he looks.

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