PeriodicallyPedantic

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[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Dude, idk.

I was just like "you seem to be telling the dude that he isn't using tankie correctly, but that's not how language works"

And then you replied that I'm wrong, and seemed to be making an appeal that the negative connotations had to do with the invalidity of the definition.

Our wires are so crossed at this point that a random car in 1960 Spain just got spontaneously hotwired.

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Yup.

You say that like it's mutually exclusive. Nobody gets to choose how other people use language. Definitions are whatever people agree that they are, even if you're not one of the people who agrees with it.
You can dislike that definition of tankie all you want, the fact that they used it in this way and that you understood it means that it was used correctly.

The evolution of language may hurt people, but denying the reality of evolving language hurts nobody but yourself. The etymology and history is good to know (and the meme relies on it), but the new definition is still a correct alternate definition.

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca -1 points 1 day ago (5 children)

This is the reality of language.
Both definitions are now correct. The change isn't a fight you can win.

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 21 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I think a lot of people here aren't looking at this in the right way:

They don't have to accept accounts for student or let students interact. This can be an alternative system for disseminating announcements with optional mechanisms for feedback. All they need to do is federate and then any of their students subscribe.

I've been wishing that my my governments (at all levels) would do this so I can get notified of things like changes to bus schedules or closures of highways and shit.

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

~~Anyone~~ anything else
TIFTFY

I see you've employed the "I am rubber you are glue" tactic. Great job 👍

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 days ago (2 children)

What an absolutely braindead reply.

Mastodon had a bad experience for that person.
Blue sky didn't.
Their experience wasn't unique.
End of story.

You're doing mental gymnastics to misinterpret their argument. Nobody said they want centralized social media you absolute lemon. They want a user experience that doesn't suck. Right now, blue sky provides that while mastodon doesn't.

"Oh but bsky's federation doesn't solve Mastodon's problem" they don't have to solve Mastodon's problem.

Elitist neckbeards like you are the reason the fediverse isn't fun.

Toxic people can be blocked by your instance, or you can move to an instance that doesn't tolerate that behavior

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 days ago (4 children)

See this is part of the problem.

Dude was like "look at this objectively terrible experience I actually had"
And you are like "yeah well that could happen to bsky in theory too, so they're just as bad!"

I've been a mastodon user for almost 2 years, but I never use it because finding interesting people to subscribe to who are actually active is difficult.
I haven't been using bsky because I've really been hoping mastodon takes off, but whenever I hear about how easy it is to onboard and find interesting content, I think about switching.

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

That doesn't remove the toxic mod.

How many alts and sock puppets do you think the average person should have? This doesn't sound healthy

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

We already have the same problem here. Some of our major communities have belligerent mods on problematic instances.

We're not solving that problem, we're just making it easier to hide from it via defederation.

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca -1 points 5 days ago (2 children)

If federation works the way it's claimed to, then if we migrate even the bad parts of reddit here it should be fine.

Lemmy is turning into an elitist cesspool.

 

Using copilot:

generate and image of Shrek opening a can of beans, but unexpectedly Mac & cheese flies out and lands on the donkey

Unholy union of ai memes

 

Theme

Create a new sport that you think should be added to the next (or some future) Olympic games.

I've heard that the Olympics are currently happening, so I figured why not celebrate this by telling the Olympic committee how dumb they are for passing over your new idea for an Olympic sport!

Rules

  • Follow the community’s rules above all else
  • One comment and image per user
  • Embed image directly in the post (no external link)
  • Workflow/Prompt sharing encouraged (we’re all here for fun and learning)
  • Posts that are tied will both get the points
  • The challenge runs for 7 days from now on
  • Down votes will not be counted

Scores

At the end of the challenge each post will be scored:

Prize Points
Most upvoted +3 points
Second most upvoted +2 point
Third most upvoted +1 point
OP’s favorite +1 point
Most original +1 point
Last two entries (to compensate for less time to vote) +1 point
Prompt and workflow included +1 point

The winner gets to pick next theme! As always, have fun everyone!
Previous entries

 

Theme

Try to recreate a classic exploitable meme using AI!

I'm gonna switch up the scoring a little for this challenge, so be sure to read the score section:

  • Most ambitious: the most complex meme or the meme that I (a layman) feels would be very difficult to describe via prompt.
  • Most recognizable: the meme is the easiest to identify, and is the most accurate to the original
  • Do not include the name of the meme in the prompt: the challenge is to find a novel way to recreate the meme, not just get the model to spit out an image it was trained on. You can use words that are in the name of the meme, but avoid telling the model to just make the meme.

Rules

  • Follow the community’s rules above all else
  • One comment and image per user
  • Embed image directly in the post (no external link)
  • Workflow/Prompt sharing encouraged (we’re all here for fun and learning)
  • Posts that are tied will both get the points
  • The challenge runs for 7 days from now on
  • Down votes will not be counted

Scores

At the end of the challenge each post will be scored:

Prize Points
Most upvoted +3 points
Second most upvoted +2 point
Third most upvoted +1 point
OP’s favorite +1 point
Most ambitious +1 point
Most recognizable meme +1 point
Last two entries (to compensate for less time to vote) +1 point
Prompt and workflow included +1 point
Prompt includes the name of the meme -1 point

The winner gets to pick next theme! As always, have fun everyone! Previous entries

 
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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca to c/imageai@sh.itjust.works
 

I really tried to get it to generate Mac from the film Mac and Me, but it just wouldn't

 

Not to count my chickens before they hatch, but I think I've decided my next contest theme, if I win one in the near future

a large green pear with a large mouth. the mouth is open, showing large blunt teeth, and a tongue. the pear is on a meadow with small hills, on a sunny day. oil painting

 

Theme

Unexpected Astronaut!

What could possibly be unexpected, unusual, or surprising about astronauts or the situations they find themselves in?

Rules

  • Follow the community’s rules above all else
  • One comment and image per user
  • Embed image directly in the post (no external link)
  • Workflow/Prompt sharing encouraged (we’re all here for fun and learning)
  • Posts that are tied will both get the points
  • The challenge runs for 7 days from now on
  • Down votes will not be counted

Scores

At the end of the challenge each post will be scored:

  • Most upvoted: +3 points
  • Second most upvoted: +2 pointS
  • Third most upvoted: +1 point
  • OP’s favorite: +1 point
  • Most original: +1 point
  • Last two entries (to compensate for less time to vote): +1 point
  • Prompt and workflow included: +1 point

The winner gets to pick next theme! Have fun everyone!

 

Theme

Cozy Catastrophy. It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine.

Rules

  • Follow the community’s rules above all else
  • One comment and image per user
  • Embed image directly in the post (no external link)
  • Workflow/Prompt sharing encouraged (we’re all here for fun and learning)
  • Posts that are tied will both get the points
  • The challenge runs for 7 days from now on
  • Down votes will not be counted
  • No memes

Scores

At the end of the challenge each post will be scored:

  • Most upvoted: +3 points
  • Second most upvoted: +2 point
  • Third most upvoted: +1 point
  • OP’s favorite: +1 point
  • Most original: +1 point
  • Last two entries (to compensate for less time to vote): +1 point
  • Prompt and workflow included: +1 point

The winner gets to pick next theme! Have fun everyone!

 

Slowpoke is my favorite ~~jean~~ meme

 

Here is my attempt:

cover art for a young adult urban fantasy romance novel, called “moon slime”

 
 
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