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[-] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 60 points 3 weeks ago

You are essentially a blob of fat, salt, and nerve endings piloting a bone mech with meat armour.

[-] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 49 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah it sounds cool but I use the mech to update spreadsheets

[-] exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 3 weeks ago

My body is a machine for turning the flashes of tiny little lights precisely arranged on a slab of glass into little taps of my thumbs on precise positions on that glass slab.

[-] rmuk@feddit.uk 8 points 3 weeks ago

Same as it ever was.

Source: xkcd

[-] OpenStars@piefed.social 12 points 3 weeks ago

The meat is not just armor though - a skeleton alone has no capability to move itself, the meat provides the translation between thought and action, while the skeleton is merely a framework upon which the meat rests.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Yes, but all of these are bound by fundamental physical laws. Cause and effect. You are a deterministic machine.

You are a meat mech that operates on congruent biological principles. Therefore, everything you do is de facto "logical".

[-] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

My pseudo random number generator is shit.

47

Super predictable.

I will need to raise a security ticket.

[-] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 weeks ago

Reality is not concerned with "logic"

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

I've yet to see evidence to this effect

[-] witchybitchy@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

difference between reality and fiction is that fiction has to be believable

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

The difference between "believable" and "logical" is as wide as a cardboard box with a cat in it.

[-] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 weeks ago

Have you seen a platypus?

[-] RandomVideos@programming.dev 1 points 3 weeks ago

But its so complex, it managed to reach the biggest thing on the night sky and to disappear all other points

[-] Deceptichum@quokk.au 30 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)
[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Beat me to it. Thanks for posting it!

[-] Paradachshund@lemmy.today 25 points 3 weeks ago

What the hell was the original context for this painting? 😆

[-] mhague@lemmy.world 18 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

It's an illuminated manuscript depicting Saint Denis and Saint Piatus, said to have been decapitated for their beliefs.

Statue of St Denis

Edit: comes from this book: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livre_d%27images_de_madame_Marie

[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 weeks ago

No evil like christian holyness or something.

[-] Theatomictruth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Maybe they’re martyrs? Sometimes they’re depicted as walking around with their fatal injuries.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/58/Altartafel_Kapelle_Spannweid_Z%C3%BCrich_Stadtheilige.jpg

[-] wabafee@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

They are actually comparing their new hairdo.

[-] Mothra@mander.xyz 10 points 3 weeks ago

My thoughts exactly. All I can think of is that religious devotion requires giving away your brain??? It really is a bizarre illustration

[-] JadenSmith@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 weeks ago

I have a theory that initially a lot of these works were made for a laugh, like an old timey joke picture, and over time people kept adding meaning to them.
Like someone makes a rude and crude painting of a giant cock with eyes, makes people laugh, and a few thousand years later some bloke in a trilby goes "hmm, yes, it seems these people worshipped a penis god at this point in time. Also it clearly reads a prophecy, 'deez nuts'. Fascinating."

[-] Paradachshund@lemmy.today 5 points 3 weeks ago

"Deez", likely a derivative of Latin "Deus". They were clearly a god fearing people!

[-] TimewornTraveler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 weeks ago

that's Byzantine artwork for ya! here's a post from an art history community that discusses the painting. quite interesting! https://www.reddit.com/r/ArtHistory/comments/e1h0sy/jesus_and_felix_regula_exuperantius_1506/

[-] Paradachshund@lemmy.today 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Wow what a way to depict them! Also, "cephalophoric" sounds like the saints are part octopus 😅

The cephalophoric saints Felix, Regula and Exuperantius (patron saints of Zurich), holding their attributes, their severed heads, before Christ, 1506, Zürcher Veilchenmeister. (Schweizerisches Nationalmuseum, Zürich)

The idea behind such a depiction is that those saints were killed when their heads were cut off. So it was decided that they would be honoured to be traditionally presented like that in painting. There are no less than 134 such saints.

[-] TabbsTheBat@pawb.social 5 points 3 weeks ago

Mm electrified head jello :3

[-] Ileftreddit@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

“We’ve probed several of them, they’re meat all the way through”

[-] GoodTransKitty@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 weeks ago

It’s not meat, it’s pudding.

[-] DominatorX1@thelemmy.club 2 points 3 weeks ago

Consider where that theory came from.

[-] jaybone@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 weeks ago

Don’t these guys have potato with electricity inside?

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