To be fair, Python is just glue for code written in lower level languages when it comes to AI

The Vitamin String Quartet does a lot of instrumental covers of heavy music.

You can also try searching streaming services for phrases like “<band> and chill” or “lofi <band>”

Not sure about the general trend, this was a related picture that was an edit of the comic from the post, but depicting child abuse as the punchline.

For any argument of this nature, you can usually counter it with “ok, you first”, like when policymakers talk about drug testing welfare recipients or the like. Let’s see people like Trump or Musk livestream themselves 24/7 before pushing this on people with less social power.

At any rate, to answer the question, all of the Sovereign Citizen stuff posted over in !insanepeoplefacebook@lemmy.world has been super fascinating. Somehow, the government is all-powerful and hostile, but also if you say a few magic incantations they’ll throw up their hands let you do whatever you want.

Removed your comment because the picture is very NSFW and needs a spoiler tag

Removed your comment because the picture is very NSFW and pushes the line on “too far”. At the very least, you’d need a spoiler tag with a warning about it

I remember seeing your comment about this storyline being considered “too bourgeois", but it really comes across as skewering wealth and private property. Wonder if some people just missed the message.

The ladies love the man with the bigger equation. Mashup of nerd and jock culture

Since the transcriber just wrote “(Math equations on chalkboards)”, I figured I’d try transcribing with unicode. This was the best I was able to do. Not quite as good as LaTeX

Left chalkboard

√613 x/y²
x̅-̅9̅5̅
⦵ 4172
π = √674J
(3x⊖²)
⁄
x² − y⁴²

Right chalkboard

x-y
⁄
√x²
61.7

Is it OK in this community to link to very relevant short stories already written? I don’t have anything to contribute myself, but the prompt is very close to https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/Anansi’s_Goatman_Story

Thanks, appreciate hearing it!

Minor nit, but it might be good to have a link to https://www.comaps.app/ in the community sidebar here. I wasn’t sure if I remembered the URL and looked there for a link to click because I’m lazy and didn’t see it. Couple of questions too if that’s OK:

• Is this Lemmy community going away if/when a new name is chosen?
• Looks like the app isn’t available for download yet, even as an APK? The download links at https://www.comaps.app/download/ are invalid.

We know from Scorpions that Love is Blind

Seems like they’re not blind though, just don’t have great eyes:

Even with all those eyes, scorpions can’t see very well! Yet the sensitivity of their eyes is among the highest in all arthropods and dependent on the kinds of habitats in which they live. In general terms, however, their eyes mostly tell movement and light from dark.

Interestingly, they might use their bodies as eyes:

Scorpions don’t need to use their eyes to get a full picture of their surroundings: their body seems to function as a basic eye under ultraviolet light.

To test the idea that the waxy cuticle covering a scorpion’s body can detect light, Doug Gaffin of the University of Oklahoma in Norman exposed 40 of the arachnids to visible or UV light. He studied their behaviour both with and without “eye-blocks” – pieces of foil placed over their eyes to act like opaque glasses.

Wearing their shades, the scorpions did not move around much when illuminated by green light. But under UV light they scuttled around freely with or without the glasses, suggesting they did not rely on their eyes to see. The larva of the fruit fly is thought to be the only other creature whose body can detect light.

Carl Kloock at California State University in Bakersfield says the idea complements his own work. He found that the ability of scorpions’ cuticles to fluoresce in UV light affects their behaviour at night, since moonlight contains a modest amount of UV.

It might also be a reference to Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy, but that only has one dancer. My guess is generic “Bees are known to dance” + “What if the beekeepers danced?”, or maybe a little bit of all of the above.

Your second link says “They are still sold, and the model has gone surprisingly unchanged for the past 40 years.”, but the link is dead 😄

Searching online shows a few books with that title but none of the toys, so probably not?

I think the name of the community is actually a good indicator here. It’s for comics that are funny because of removing them from their original context. The most common humor is “teehee” humor coming from interpreting innocent panels in a dirty context, like this:

Other humor comes from silly situations that are absurd without context like this:

Panels that are funny in the original material can be good for this community, if removing the context provides different humor. This is supposed to be funny in the original because a bear shouldn’t accept being spanked by a man, but removing the context allows it to be interpreted as sexual spanking, which is probably not what the original comic intended (there’s undoubtedly a lot of writers/artists sneakily inserting their fetishes into their work, but it’s more about how the general audience would’ve interpreted it).

Sorry, didn’t mean to discourage you! Most of that comment is just because I like tracking down the source of the panels posted here so that I can read them myself (and transcribe them so they show up in future internet searches, to make it easier for other people tracking down the panels)

The bit about it possibly falling under R3 is because I consider it good modding to be verbose about this sort of thing so nobody’s surprised. It’s kind of annoying when you post something and it just gets removed with a terse “R3” or the like. I’m also trying to make sure to mod according to the original purpose when @FlyingSquid@lemmy.world set up this community since I’m just a helper mod, so consider this modding “just doing my best” 🙂

From Superman (1939) #19, page 35

Transcript:

Narration: Later… Clark enters the Planet building, accompanied by his canine friend…

Clark Kent: I wonder why they put up signs like that? Dogs can’t read!

Sign: No Dogs Allowed

TBH I think this is a joke in the original and would fall under R3 but it’s ambiguous so I’ll leave it up. I haven’t really been moderating this community much but I plan to do a bit more, since that seems to be a point of confusion.

I was wondering if plants can get high on other plants, and chatgpt (so take it with a grain of salt) claims that it might be possible:

Mimosa pudica, which folds when touched, responds to stimuli like anesthetics. It’s been shown to be affected by things like ether or chloroform. Some researchers see this as a sign plants may “experience” drug-like states—strictly as a physiological response.

Very related XKCD: