I don’t understand. This is specifically an AI community, yet people are downvoting this post for some reason. Why?
I could understand if this AI art was posted to just about any other /c, for example “funny animal pics,” or such, but this is a place created specifically for this sort of thing, no?
Not to mention, I do find the image hilarious. XD
Ah, thanks. However, seen from different angles, the statues still appear unusually squat to me, as if the figures were little more than 5’ tall.
Checking with Google’s AI, I’m surprised to learn (tentatively) that the average Ancient Egyptian male was in fact about 5’6," which creates a little bit of a mystery, here. What’s more, Rameses II himself evidently stood about 5’11" in his prime(!)
But we are animals who can recognize and control whatever urges we have.
–> insert bark-like, high-pitched PeeWee Herman laugh! <–
Anyway, I think I lean in your general direction on this, but I’m open to the idea that it might help someone, somewhere. At least, I don’t think I’ve ever heard of this type of /c before.
The Abu Simbel statues seem to be biggest in the world, about 2x the height of the one in the WP link.
As for the ones in the OP pic, assuming it’s not stretched horizontally, they certainly have the most unusual proportions I’ve ever seen in Egyptian statuary. That is-- squat, unusually thick front-to-back, and with disproportionally large heads. Interesting!
I have no idea what you’re talking about, but I can understand Spanish & French if that helps you out.
Sounds like the name of a researcher with a French last name, who, likely being a scientist, would have conducted their research under routinely strict (i.e. not liberal) controls.
If you grew up in the States, you would have learned who Franklin was somewhere in the 5th to 8th grade public schooling range, so I guess neither of those things happened in your case?
So damn emblematic of the way we carelessly use tech on a major scale, as well as relentlessly re-order the environment to our taste.
So… TTB? (typical tankie behavior)
And yeah, I know who they are. Nutomic actually helped with a Lemmy issue, once. FWIW.
Do you have a particular bone to pick with them, PJ? I mean other than their general poly-ticks?
(love your contributions, btw; thanks for all you do!)
I agree with the people urging you to do your best to take care of your sublemmy once you create it. On top of that, I also feel that most types of communities need you and/or others to be motivated promoters and content creators, even if you’re just pulling ‘best of’ content from elsewhere.
So-- IMO it’s generally best to think of it as a volunteer job. And from what I’ve seen, most community founders don’t necessarily realise that, and aren’t actually up to the task, hence the # of abandoned subs across the FV (fediverse).
IME one thing that really helps with growing subscribers is that due to the current size of the FV, almost any small community posting content on a regular basis is going to be seen by a fairly large proportion of the FV via the “ALL” feed. Whereas for example, that’s almost impossible on Reddit. It really helps!
Oh! Vous êtes en fait l’auteur, n’est-ce pas?
Do you mind if I add a link in our “WEBCOMIX!” post? (2nd from top)
https://piefed.social/c/eurographicnovels
Oh wow, thanks for sharing the link! Lots of good stuff there. :D
Everyone in the building happened to flush their toilets at the same time.
Fun factoid: there’s an urban legend about so many people flushing their toilets during halftime of the NFL Super Bowl, that it actually broke municipal water mains.
And of course, most of the right-wing voters probably don’t know and/or care to understand that FOX was founded as a propaganda outlet in the first place.
Well, there’s a nice example of a brick wall. Alrighty, then.
Aha, could be.
More specifically he reminds me of… I think either a French General, politician, or artist.
As someone who grew up in Philly, I’m slightly bemused as to why as a group we don’t seem to have ever tried adding scrambled egg in our cheesesteaks. Or scrapple, for that matter.
My point is that context is everything. For example, if you already know that most of your audience is already highly skeptical of right-wing views and talking points, then: 1) it might just behoove the program to feature the more extremist interviewees, and 2) it might actually be a waste of time, energy and resources to rebut what the audience likely already considers obvious rubbish. That’s over-generalising of course, but still…
Also, NPR doesn’t necessarily represent the totality of pure, journalistic purpose, and they’re not there to live up to any specific outside standards. It’s fine for you to critique them, but to my mind, if they’re accomplishing their mission then that’s the most important thing.
I recently subbed to CasualEurope, myself. Some others I’ve been enjoying, lately: (sorry, my link formatting sucks)
Unfortunately, when Lemm.ee went down early, I failed to preserve my 2-year list of subscriptions from that acct. So I’ve got a boatload of work to do trying to repopulate that list. :S