Mission Statement: to do very little, for very few, for not very long. Disappointing the easily pleased since 1819. Not as good as it used to be from Day One. History is Bunk - PT Barnum. Artificially Intelligent before it was fashionable. Fat camp for the mind! Nothing lasts, but nothing is lost. The Shock of the Old! Often bettered, never imitated.
US mercs gearing up before deploying to Occupied Palestine?
ReplyDeleteHow are they going to open carry a tray?
ReplyDeleteBump stock yo mama! Yee haw, with a Rebel Yell of course!
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DeleteAn army travels on its stomach, and these fine members of Gravy Team 6 (or is it Y'all Qaeda?) look to have a loooooong deployment.
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More good ol' American crypto-fascist cosplay . . . we're doomed. --Muzak McMusics
ReplyDeleteSad, sad, sad!!
ReplyDeleteThe only country in the world, outside of a war zone, where no-one bats an eyelid!
That picture only confirms the view that the USA is totally F####d 10 ways of sideways!
Fatso#1, riding point; tactical shades, survivalist beard, correct position of wrist/trigger finger. He tells his goddam wife what to do or he's gonna know the reason why.
ReplyDeleteFatso#2, taking up the rear (and that's a helluva job); Old Guy eyeglasses, cleanshaven, uncertain trigger hand, Target jeans. His wife tells him what do, and right now his wife is Fatso#1.
Well....in fairness, it's an AI-generated image. But I'll grant ya it's not necessarily a false image....
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How can you tell? Serious question, because I can normally spot AI. I can see none of the usual tell-tale signs.
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... but (and it's a fucking big one) if you scroll down to the AI images posted as examples of AI they all look like AI, immediately, no question. Not like this image, which has all the color values and textures of Real Photos. You have to get into detail like - no gun straps (which seems compelling to me, but what do I know), and Fatso#2 isn't holding the grip, apparently. I'd add the cup on the counter - the only example of a clear graphic, which AI still sucks at.
As soon as I saw it, the soft light bothered me, so I started looking and these things grabbed my attention (I look for the easy stuff since the two guys have too many details that'd be hard to parse out): the bite out of the white tennis shoe in the lower left; the fuzzy line in the tile even lower to the left; the bank of appliances behind the guys (and the menu) that look more like stuff that'd be behind the counter, not perpendicular to it; the not-quite-successful attempt at a Coke logo on the cup on the counter; the fuzziness of the menu and its writing (and some of the burgers cut off in the image, when a real menu would show the whole burger). But the soft light was what made me suspicious off the bat, along with the perfection of the image (perfect, as in, 'OF COURSE an image of 'Merica would have morbidly obese white folks in a fast-food joint with guns!' [Alternatives: dishevelled in front of a trailer with beer cans strewn about; overweight in a too-small shirt in front of the TV, snacks in hand/mouth]). Like I said, it may be fake, but unfortunately it represents a reality.
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Thanks, C. This blink will be up a little longer because of your expert comments.
DeleteThey came to complain that the ice-cream machine isn't working . . . . AGAIN!
ReplyDeleteThat pic encompasses why we gtfo of the US. I saw waaayy too many scenes like this and it just got worse by the day. Went to Guernica, Spain earlier this week, and visited the Peace Museum which chillingly details what happened to that town in the midst of the Spanish Civil War and pre - WW2 (short version - Franco cut a deal with the Nazis that enabled them to use the town and its populace for bombing raid practice). I can def foresee a Guernica in the US in the not too distant future depending on the outcome of the Nov elections.
ReplyDeleteJeezus!!!!
ReplyDeleteFarq, sadly your caption is misleading. I live in the US. I can only wish that if I blink, scenes like this would just disappear.
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Coming back from Whitemanistan?
ReplyDeleteSanta Claus gone rogue. Gawd bless Americay Guvnah!!!
ReplyDeleteWell that's one way to ensure you get decent service from the staff (AI or not).
ReplyDeleteThe next post will be AI-centric. We're all doomed!
ReplyDeleteFake or not, I'm totally gay for these hot beefcakes! I like how "Fatso#2" has a backup assault rifle just in case his first one with an extended mag runs out of ammo. He clearly did time as an assistant cub scout leader. As C said, just because it's not real doesn't mean it's false -- this is one of our Americas.
ReplyDeleteIt might be considered as a satiric artistic illustration. like a contemporary George Grosz.
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