Posted by beckyhop
So anyway, a reminder of where all my stuff is.
"You aren't OK with AI Voices but you're OK with Miku????"
First off, never insult my dearest friend Miku like that ever again.
Second, Miku isn't stealing the voices of other people.
That's the issue with AI voices. They're stealing real people's voices. Miku is her own funky little hologram with a funky little hologram voice.
Big difference.
So, what happens when you search for "Honduran white bat" on Adobe Stock? Do you get accurate pictures of the species, or AI attempts at it?
Oh, AI...
Posted by beckyhop
Me seeing a blog I follow and normally agree with engaging with the damn “proship/antiship” discourse long after I’ve decided I’m too tired for this shit and just want people to tag their gross shit so the rest of us can blacklist it and get on with our day
Not Safe For Work
Remember, NSFW is not an abbreviation for nude that somehow has more syllables. It's shorthand for "If my boss happened to look over my shoulder when this was on my screen, would there be consequences?"
This is subjective, and depends on the boss and the job, of course. But many, many images that contain zero nudity are still very much NSFW (and sometimes, images with nudity aren't!) Consider this.
I think some people don't even know what it stands for anymore; it used to be a tag for just violent imagery too
Posted by beckyhop
Are the kids these days still making “DNI if you like [insert some popular media here]” lists instead of just learning to filter/mute/blacklist tags or terms?
has anyone done this yet idk?
Yeah, that's what happened in Sweden
Now there's a giant gap in trained specialists with nobody to replace soon-to-be retirees which leads to outsourcing of a lot of jobs, ESPECIALLY blue collar ones
Because why bother getting an education, doing an apprenticeship and working hard manual labor all your life when you can just go flip burgers right out of high school and live comfortably?
hey you dumb little bitch, i'll bet you thought no one would fact check this, didn't you?
anyways, the number of people working as employees of restaraunts has been holding steady since 2016:
[x]
and to be clear, that's not number per capita, that's the raw number. and given that the swedish population has been growing precipitously since 2016, [x] this means the number of food industry workers per capita has been going down since 2016. where exactly is this massive rush toward the restaraunt industry you claim is occurring?
but hey, let's be charitable here, maybe the shift you describe had already occurred long before the chart begins- well, then in that case, we should still see a larger percentage of the population working in the food industry than, say, the usa, where "burger flippers" are paid poverty wages?
well that should be easy enough to figure out, we've got 101,986 restaurant industry workers in sweden, against a 10,415,811 population, for 0.979% of the population working in restaurants. now compare that to 12.1 million restaraunt workers in the usa, [x] against a population of 331.9 million, giving us..... 3.645% of the population. over 3 times higher. whoops.
not to mention your claims of workers rushing toward fast food is incongruous both with the booming tech sector in sweden, [x] while your claim that younger people in sweden aren't bothering to get college degrees or other forms of tertiary education being contradicted by the reality that 46% of swedes between 25 and 34 have completed teriary education, in contrast to 32% between 45-54, or 30% between the ages of 55-64. for the record, 46% of 25-34 year olds have completed teriatry education in the usa, 43% for 45-54 year olds, and 41% for 55-64 year olds. an increase, but not as large as sweden's. so, again, more empirical proof that you're a liar.
but what really gets to me isn't that you lie, flagrantly, and expect no one to check or notice. flagrant liars are a dime a dozen. it's the reason that you choose to lie. all this dishonesty, just so you can tell everybody about how people just out of high school, who don't have the money or free time to invest in college or trade school, don't deserve to "live comfortably". not that they don't deserve to live extravagantly, not that they don't deserve to live extravagantly, no, that they don't deserve to live comfortably, that average regular working class people deserve to live in discomfort, that single moms just out of high school- and their children- deserve to live uncomfortable, unhappy lives.
i can't even fathom the kind of utter rot of the soul must have taken root within you for you to say that the people who cook the food you eat, build the houses you live in, weave the clothes you wear, etc, don't deserve to feel comfort in their lives. i'll be praying for you.
I'm praying against them. I hope a god fucks them up
I think it’s kinda a shame how far zombies got from their source material
Don’t get me wrong, I like the way that they evolve over time reflects the fears of the people in that time period, but I still wish there was more of a connection to its source
So (this is just a really quick recap but I encourage everyone to go read up on more of it), zombies originated from Haiti (specifically Haitian slaves), and they weren’t violent, they were corpses reanimated against their will to continue being slaves, and the fear surrounding them was about becoming one, having your restful sleep stolen from you, and not being able to have that peace in death because of some jackass with magic
And yeah nowadays there’s a fear in being bitten, but idk, it’s less about the fear of becoming part of the horde and more about the fear of being torn apart by the horde, it’s not like how werewolves agonize over being werewolves, and I think it should be more like werewolves
Like even when a person has been bitten and is slowly becoming a zombie, it’s not really framed from their perspective of the fear of losing themselves and not being able to rest in peace, it’s always framed from the perspective of their loved one coming to terms that they may have to kill them to protect themselves
“Oh hell is full so that’s why the dead roam the earth” those are good people!!! who had their eternal rest robbed from them!!!!
I just. I just wish that killing a zombie was more about having mercy on them
hi there! so i'm a die hard fan of horror media with a special interest (and some academic background!) in zombie media. i hope it's okay if i take this on a bit, because this whole post is inaccurate and most additions are so wrong that i'm not sure how many people offering opinions are actually familiar with zombie media.
this is going to be LONG so bear with me.
Vodou is a religion, not folklore.
To this day the most hauntingly fucked up time someone on tumblr came at me had to be whoever the hell it was who posted a story claiming they knew a "teenage girl" who got bit by a recluse spider and then didn't go to the doctor because she read my posts in defense of spiders. I don't remember who it was but I remember their post vividly something like seven years later because it wasn't like, a troll account, it was someone's very normal person account with a partner on here trying to back them up. Someone used their real main internet presence for that.
Man, you guys can respect animals AND go get medical help when they bite you. And that’s of course providing their story was true in the first place.
