Skullgrid

Skullgrid , 2 hours ago

Imagine being an animal , living and dying just so some asshole can write a meme on your skin

Skullgrid , 1 day ago

sure, as long as his ass is in prison during the appeal process like joe schmoe

Skullgrid , 7 days ago

Yeah, people with a more natural haircut are more ridiculous than dudes with powered wigs and whatever dumb fashion GW and the guys in the 1770s had.

Benjamin Franklin had a skullet/mullet and creampied menopausal women.

Skullgrid , 7 days ago

I'm wondering that too

Skullgrid , 8 days ago

What about when you’re hungover and it’s early in the morning?

Probably Sunn or Sleep

Skullgrid , 8 days ago

My guy is hung

Skullgrid , 11 days ago

"FEVER 102,WHEEZING, IRRITABLE" uses them.

It might probably be "unabe to eat diarrhea" on purpouse

Skullgrid , 12 days ago

The main problem with CC’s is that it’s all hype and confidence based.

oh boy do I have some news for you about the economy

Skullgrid , 12 days ago

everyone uses money, but "faith in the market" leads to people buying and selling or hoarding stocks, which in turn affects actual stock prices, which affects company worth, which leads to people being hired/fired, money invested or divested from companies and industries, leading to more and more effects.

all based off "hype and confidence". Real companies and people are affected by feelings.

Skullgrid , 11 days ago

It's fiat currency, the value of which is determined by faith in the market and stock prices.

You think your money has worth because it's backed by something real? No. It has worth because people think it does.

Edit: if everything about the USA stayed the same, but people stopped believing the USD was worth anything and started using Euros instead, the dolar would be worth nothing. It's all based off feels.

Skullgrid , 13 days ago (edited 12 days ago)

Ask a German or British racist and see what their opinion is then

EDIT : My genuine belief is that there's no "race hierarchy" or anything like that, however...

People in general are treated differently based on race, with white people treated as if they're at the top of a heirarchy. Obviously , it's relative, for instance, a turk in poland and a turk in england are treated as "not white" , a pole in poland is treated as white, when compared to the turk in poland.

Somehow, the pole loses their "whiteness" when they migrate to the UK, and are treated with scorn and anti-immigrant rhetoric.

So, the desire for spaniards, and "paler" LatAm originating people to be treated as white is a fallacy that's trying to get them to be part of a privilaged group that may or may not get them in there, depending on the context they're in. A pale columbian is treated as white in LatAm, because they are whiter than Afro-Latinos. That same person will have a lot harder time being treated as white if they live in a border town in the USA.

Spaniards and other mediterranian europeans have the same thing happening to them. Oh sure, they're "White" in the mediterranian, but not so much if they go to places like germany or the UK.

Skullgrid , 13 days ago

Who are the characters? The bottom one seems familiar

Skullgrid , 14 days ago (edited 14 days ago)

This week, I spent a few hours listening to Dadabot's Pho Queue stream.

I read the little prose they left in the stream description. And I found myself wanting to go back to it several times. Something about the screams of "FA KYUU" sounds morphing into saxophones, being garbled, sometimes screamed, sometimes sung, the transitions that were talked about in the prose felt nice to listen to. sometimes it felt like it was coming up with genuine new ideas, for itself at least, that it didn't generate before.

Then I started thinking of the level of art discourse we have in the modern world, especially visual arts, and ideas from Cage. And the nature of the music industry.

Jackson Pollock and his CIA funded splashes of paint are only worthwhile to people who actually like them. The AI generated saxophone warblings, the screeches that come out of it, the choppy, syncopated drum beats give me feelings. It is art to me.

There is a person behind the scenes, that curated the algorithm to bring out music in a certain way. Pho Queue doesn't sound the same as a "bach faucet" , because of the human creativity and curation that went into the way the music is generated.

Brian Eno and John Cage made music with procedural generation features before the current wave of generative AIs. It's an established perspective to have on music. Some performances use radios being tuned to frequencies just to add a new source of sound.

How is this stuff any different?

On the other side of the coin, does music made by humans inherently mean anything? The crap churned out by pop musicians that are flying around with private jets, composed by commitee with the end goal of generating another product for someone else to buy, is there any expression or emotion in there? What does the zillionth love song made by a billionaire have to offer that hasn't been expressed a zillion times before?

There's some more to be written , like if I make music myself that relies heavily on timbre, or effects that I bought, who's really doing the expression, and how? If the musical theory of what I'm playing is simple, and contributes less to the aesthetic feelings of the music I'm making than my guitar's timbre, the way I set up my effects pedals; is the expression I'm doing actually more in how I turned the knobs on my pedals to get an aesthetic than the actual notes I play? So then am I expressing something, or are the people who designed and manufactured my equipment?

But then we get into this :

I thought using loops was cheating, so I programmed my own using samples. I then thought using samples was cheating, so I recorded real drums. I then thought that programming it was cheating, so I learned to play drums for real. I then thought using bought drums was cheating, so I learned to make my own. I then thought using premade skins was cheating, so I killed a goat and skinned it. I then thought that that was cheating too, so I grew my own goat from a baby goat. I also think that is cheating, but I’m not sure where to go from here. I haven’t made any music lately, what with the goat farming and all.

The talk about AI is stupid. It's a tool.

The talk about the IMPLICATIONS of AI, and who uses it to automate what, at the cost of who, is the actual argument to be had.

If some metal band that can barely scrape together enough money to tour uses AI to generate an album cover, it shouldn't be taken as a horrifying act of taking money out of an artist's mouth. If BMG fires everyone they have on the art dept to only use AI art, that's something to be concerned about.

Skullgrid , 16 days ago

Yeah, who else would want free big boobs bimbo surgery, a busty intellectual?

Skullgrid , 16 days ago

Ok, but all you did was make more people pay attention to the trending panel which made people look at the slur.

Skullgrid , 16 days ago

which skin are you using? post a screenshot , alongside your current playlist so we can be entertained

Skullgrid , 17 days ago

here's the actual link :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Day

Skullgrid , 19 days ago

Great, now fix it without having over half the country go into poverty, you privileged piece of shit boludo.

Skullgrid , 19 days ago

bueno, la gente de argentina, mas que nunca estan en una situacion de sufrimiento. Necesitan ayuda para las cosas mas basica, y la unica meta de Milei es para sacar lo que necesitan.

VOS creo no estas sufriendo de nada, asi que callate la puta boca o sobrevivete como estan sobreviviendo los de mas.

Skullgrid , 24 days ago (edited 23 days ago)

Luke Correia put it best

Skullgrid , 23 days ago

having lived in cities with amazing metro, ok metro, no metro and towns with shitty train access and great train access...

this is 150% true. Having an underground station near your house makes the entire city 30 min away, using buses or horribly interconnected trains makes things 1 to 2 hours away.

Even living outside the city, having a direct rail to the nearest metropolitan center take an hour increased quality of life for me by a fuckload.

Skullgrid , 24 days ago

Did he say it as a compliment, admittance or insult?

Skullgrid , 26 days ago

these would pair well with

Slow-Cooked Russet Potatoes That Fall Right Off The Bone

Skullgrid , 26 days ago

bro about to be visited by his friends

Skullgrid , 27 days ago

Dating... dating never changes

Skullgrid , 27 days ago

"your voucher has been redeemed! here's the purchases :

Factorio

Dwarf Fortress

Rimworld"

Skullgrid , 26 days ago

There are war criminals on both sides. Some I assume are good people.

Skullgrid , 29 days ago

no. you have to watch me push around my post orgasm creation and pay for her public schooling.

Skullgrid , 29 days ago

I like the way one way to interpret my comment is as coming from a gay person who's mad about paying taxes for straight people's kids' schooling.

I'm cis-het and I actually have a daughter XD and I'm pretending that expecing that from society is showing off my hetrosexuality

Skullgrid , 30 days ago

mySourceOfSuffering.irl

Skullgrid , 1 month ago

mf never seen a cervix, smh

Skullgrid , 30 days ago

Bruh not beating the virgin allegations

Skullgrid , 1 month ago

right also applies to comics.... when written by grant morrison.

Skullgrid , 1 month ago

god I miss going for a pub lunch on fridays

Skullgrid , 1 month ago

Hello Mr. Gein? Mr. Gein? Let me outta here Mr. Gein...

Skullgrid , 1 month ago

if first time dad, just focus on caring for the mother for the first few months, newborns only have a few needs, and not much else, they can't even see properly.

Load it up from the top with milk, clean it from the bottom with clean nappies, done.

Keep it warm.

Skullgrid , 1 month ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ja1AOyXr9Z4

Skullgrid , 1 month ago

You don't understand, technology bad.

So what if people with no talent or money for commissions can get some joy seeing their imaginations rendered by a computer? You have to pay some artist or just have the ideas in your imagination.

Skullgrid , 1 month ago

Still one of the most metal lyrics ever.

"I shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die"

How much more detached and psychotic can you get? Even with goregrind, the motive is clear, albeit deranged. This is just, fuck it, I just want this person dead just to see them die.

Skullgrid , 1 month ago

no, it can be for other reasons, for example, self defence, a disagreement, to gain territory, for profit, expression of rage, etc etc. NB :these reasons might not be right or wrong, but they are motivations outside of seeing someone die.

The idea is that in "I shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die” there is no other motivation. The only motive is to see the guy die, in a singularly morbid motivation.

Skullgrid , 1 month ago

Aptal hıyar

Skullgrid , 1 month ago

you know what, correct. Fuck them people, I'm not even rougetrick.

Skullgrid , 1 month ago

we need more context

Skullgrid , 1 month ago

I thought something controversial or important was happening in the family chat while op was ignoring important events and instead eating samples at Costco

Skullgrid , 1 month ago

This reminds me of a joke that the Rioplatense spanish version of tarot cards would probably have "El Boludo" for the fool , which is basically "The dumbass"

Skullgrid , 1 month ago

at least stick to the solar system