You raise an interesting point. I tend to think of campaigns like this as kind of worthless because they don’t feel like they’re going to persuade anyone vs. ads that I would personally consider more persuasive, but you’re not wrong that this sort of thing is getting a million more views on the internet than something that might be more individually persuasive but only reach like 20 people. I guess that’s why they do it.

Speaking as a vegan who has gotten legitimately emotional before because I love lobsters as creatures and they deserve better: who the fuck thought this was a good idea. Who thought this was going to tug at heartstrings instead of loins. Who thought this was going to unlock compassion instead of new fetishes. Who thought people weren’t going to want to fuck the lobster.

PETA’s marketing campaigns fucking baffle me.

Happy birthday! I remember turning 25 and feeling so old. Now I’m in my thirties and it rules. Well, the world sucks, but on a personal level, don’t sweat it. You’ve got plenty to enjoy now and plenty to look forward to.

I can see it now! What a cutie!

No worries! I think you should be able to post the image as a comment on this post.

Photo not showing for me, either.

Also, one would think that, if you expected a superintelligent AI to create innocent sentient beings just to torture them, the moral imperative would be to avoid helping create it.

Wow, this is almost impressively wrong, actually. It got the correct color and location for the Ivory Coast/Côte d’Ivoire, but then pointed the label to… I believe that’s Mozambique? A bit hard to tell quite if it’s in Mozambique or Tanzania, but the image also seems to have listed Mozambique but then pointed to (with a color coding match) somewhere in Ethiopia. Then again, this map seems to have gotten a good chunk of Niger in with Nigeria, so maybe it is actually in Tanzania. Malawi seems to be placed closer to Zimbabwe or Botswana, but that spot is actually color coded to match Cameroon, which appears in the label list but is not highlighted anywhere on this map.

And even if you don’t know anything about African geography, the simple fact that there’s a floating entry at the end of the list with no match, a line pointing from the Ivory Coast with no label, and several color coding/color the country is highlighted in mismatches should have been a glaring red flag that this was slop to anyone paying any attention.

I think, as a dedicated LLM hater, that calling AI a cult is overstating the case. But I will also point to the fact that some of the upper level drivers like Elon Musk are 100% motivated by Roko’s Basilisk, so.

Yeah, DMs on Lemmy are… they’re not really well named. Or private.

Thirded. I have only used my toaster oven/air fryer combo, so I don’t have a pure air fryer to compare it with, but this thing has been with me since before the pandemic and I love it. I use it all the time, whether for air fried stuff (French fries, my beloved), for small scale baking that I don’t want to heat up the whole oven for, or just for actually toasting bread (I don’t even have a toaster.) And it’s all stainless steel wires and pans, so there’s no PFAS. Highly recommend.

I do feel the need to leave a passing PSA that DMs through Lemmy are IIRC basically publicly viewable (again IIRC, they’re basically handled like normal comments, just within a different section), so do not DM any addresses directly. Share username information for a more secure message platform and share any addresses that way.

I’ve got a volunteer strawberry plant exactly like this that just popped up in one of my pots. Really tasty little berries, too; I thought at first I had somehow ended up with an alpine strawberry, but I believe it’s just a wild strawberry (as opposed to flavorless mock strawberries sometimes mistakenly called wild strawberries.) Been bearing fruit continuously for a few months, too. Currently trying to get some seeds to grow hydroponically, because I could go for this year round.

Edit: in researching, it seems like alpine strawberries may just be wild woodland strawberries in a fancier hat, so there may not be an appreciable distinction.

Hobbyless behavior.

It is a bit odd. I think maybe because people aren’t familiar with it, it comes off as a promotion? Maybe try editing something into the post body like “DreamWidth is a LiveJournal-like journaling site which sprung up in the wake of LiveJournal censorship in the late aughts. Its flagship site is still focused on an ad-free and user-focused experience, or host it yourself. Check it out if you miss the golden days of LiveJournal.”

I have never felt older than seeing all the comments here by people who have absolutely no idea what DreamWidth is. Get off my lawn, ya damn whippersnappers!

Huh, then that makes the encounter this person had extra weird. Still, that’s good to know, TY!

I made an attempt and am now seeking recs for FOSS image editing options on de-Googled Android phones because wow this was not great.

I’m not from there, but I looked it up and we do actually know who Count Binface is under the mask; he’s a comedian named Jonathan David Harvey. He seems better than Nigel, anyway.

Oh, that’s really sweet!

(To be clear: I’m not casting shade on furries with my comment, nor implying that there isn’t an overlap between furry subculture and animal rights. I’m just saying that I was expecting the story here to be someone fursuitting on main and was surprised that it wasn’t.)