Ah, fuck. Pot of Greed.

Damn, I guess it ever did.

I wish my knee-jerk dismissal of anything remotely anti-AI didn't get in my way so often.

You're right. I forgot completely what I learned in sex-ed:

A dildo, fresh from the factory line, is like a big, beautiful Kielbasa.

But what happens when multiple people get their lips around this mammoth hot dog? That's right, it becomes chewed, shriveled, broken, and ugly. Like a meat raisin. Or a slim jim. Or one part of a twizzler.

A dildo with just two partners has already lost about 25% of its girth. Is that right, boys? Shouldn't you be purchasing your best?

#dildo_monogamy

and not realize that "weird" is actually the root of their objection.

Dude, sooo often. It's so common. I'm crying internally.

You can... boil it in front of them.

I'm a busy man with a busy schedule, so I had chatgpt summarize all that for me:

The comment argues that the value of art lies in the artist's choice to elevate an ordinary object, criticizing modern conceptual art for being vulgar and unoriginal, while also questioning the value placed on handcrafted items over machine-produced ones.

Uh, my guy, people love handcrafted things. You ever seen E t s y?

If they didn't care enough to do it authentically, why should I give a shit about their actor-accent auto tune.

Hand-made slop will always be worth more than whatever comes out of google's big pachinko machine. Art is communication. AI can't communicate.

or I shall be referencing urinals on pedestals.

Why, because it's vulgar? Prefer your pristine statues of roman soldiers, do you?

If the app was elevated as a point of protest, then people only knew about it because it went viral recently.

Lemmy was also briefly elevated during the Reddit exodus.

I think if they only advertised the post-tax number, there wouldn't really be a problem. Like, "hey, the jackpot is some amount, and after tax you could win 400 million"—that would be fine. As it is, they're kinda just building resentment for taxes in general by making your final winnings seem so disappointing, even though it's still 400 million.

Jesus. That was an uncomfortable read. I hope somebody gave anon a hug.

Oh, you poor soul.

Here's the wikipedia, if you wanna read.

And here's a video about the history of slavery and its after-effects that is kind of relevant.

The tl;dr is that there were laws, like vagrancy (i.e. not having a job), that were vague and applied to "everybody" but realistically only applied to black people through legal jiu jitsu and selective blindness on the part of police. Sundown towns are known as such for that behavior. They were (are) very unwelcoming if you're not white.