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[–] 136 points 1 year ago* (10 children)

This still is killing me. Why is this so funny? All the others look like good images of the characters!

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  • [–] 70 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    This is just how people with Scottish blood look when you take photos of them, my source is my family photo album.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Frazzled and caught slightly unprepared?

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    Either that or somehow merging with the local environment, which is what I do. I can be the focus of the foreground taking up 50 percent of the picture and still be missed. It's great security cameras just don't recognize me and when I worked at Amazon during covid it took them a bit to get me on the infracamera because I was apparently the same temp as the air.

    Edit:Covid not civic

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    It must be really cool having natural camouflage. I'm jealous haha.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Camouflage implies that I blend in through matching the environment when in practice I'm basically just not particularly noticable unless I want to be. Though I don't know what's going on with cameras and my body heat, my best guess is that I somehow run counter to the training data for recognition since motion based ones track me fine and that my body naturally trends towards matching the current temperature for thermoregulation reasons.

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  • [–] 58 points 1 year ago (19 children)

    Alice is only a princess in Kingdom Hearts lore.

    Merida is technically Pixar. She's like a step-Princess.

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  • [–] 34 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    Which reminds me, where's Leia?

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  • [–] 33 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    no, the Alien. disney owns 20th century fox, so they own the Alien franchise. there's an Alien Queen, so the one in the first film is a disney princess.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    By the time that Brave was made, Pixar was a wholly owned subsidiary of Disney. That's a distinction without a difference.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Alice is only a princess in Kingdom Hearts lore.

    Meanwhile Ariel just chills in her world in KH1. Really wonder why they made that choice.

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  • [–] 45 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The Alien Xenomorphs can live for millennia, and they’ve been technically eligible as Disney princesses since March 2019.

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  • [–] 195 points 1 year ago (19 children)

    A perfect example of why median exists

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  • [+] -16 points 1 year ago (16 children)

    Nah, it's the perfect example of why the median is a pathetic excuse of a statistical tool that is only used by those that wish to opress minorities

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    the median person uses 0mg of meth a day, the mean person uses about 1.7mg per day.

    medians supress minorities

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  • [–] 34 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    The median is a statistical fact that can be used by humans in both good and bad ways. Lots of data can be made to look lots of different ways in the hands of different people.

    That's why teaching critical thinking (not just the skills but the importance and value) is paramount. People need to understand what they're looking at. Because sometimes you want the mean, other times you want the median, and if you can't even understand when you might want one or the other or both for different reasons then you can be led around by the nose with either.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I just assume all humans are being manipulative and
    never trust whatever it is they are saying
    can't get fooled if you assume everyone and everything is crooked
    and statistically, you'll be mostly right.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Ehhhhhhhh that's generally untrue honestly.

    Many people have the capacity. And there are enough shitty people that they will take advantage if given the opportunity.

    But most people are just trying to live their lives as best they can, and much of their selfishness can be unlearned, or isn't really selfishness anyway, just survival instinct and misinformation

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    :-D that's actually funny. Keep it up, ignore the people that don't understand satire and downvote.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    How can everyone miss the shitpost in the shitposting community. Seeing all the downvotes is so funny

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    That's because there's always someone bringing politics into casual conversations and it's tiresome. Yes the world is fucked, most of us here are well aware. Let us enjoy some escapism every now and then, maybe.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Let us enjoy some escapism every now and then, maybe.

    I'd like only escapism please,
    even escapism is political of course,
    because everything is political anyway,
    but as long as you don't look up it's fine !

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  • [–] 36 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    I'm surprised that the Frozen sisters are 21 and 24. I thought they were closer in age, and younger.

    Edit: They are actually 18 and 21 in Frozen. The second movie is 3 years later.

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    I'm not sure Alice would even qualify as a Disney Princess, unless there's some lineage I'm unaware of. She's already one of the few without some sort of romantic subplot.

    Mulan... Aristocracy with a royal award maybe, but not really royalty either.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Disney Princess is a product line that has very little to do with simply being a princess in a Disney movie. Anna and Elsa are not Disney Princesses because they sell well enough on their own.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Funny enough that frozen is always shown in school, but they never finished it. They always play like about 45 minutes of class time duing holidays where there is no classwork to do. Already finished school by now and I'mma just google the plot lol

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    [–] 70 points 1 year ago (17 children)

    Wasnt Snow White in a magical sleep for like a hundred or so years?

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  • [–] 71 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    I mean, yes, but she's only physically and mentally 14.

    If you put a child in cryostasis until she's technically 18 you would still be a pedo if you did anything to her.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Oof, yeah, that's definitely something that will need to be looked at when cryotech starts being a thing.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Now I wonder, there are most certainly no such protections in place if an underage person goes into coma for long enough that their physical body is aged 18+. Wouldn't your mind have experienced only very little development through that time, though?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    The same laws that protect drunk, unconscious, disabled, senile, or otherwise incapacitated people would still apply. Here, the 18-year-old with a child's mind would be deemed incompetent, and assigned a guardian.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    There's got to be something more concrete than that, should the guardian be the problem...

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Laws are for generalities. Courts are for specificities. The situation you describe is resolved in the courts, not by legislation.

    If the guardian is the problem, the courts assign a new guardian. That guardian can be another relative, or it could be a department of the state.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    That embryo frozen for 24 years or whatever that was successfully implanted and carried to term didn't emerge from the womb 6'1" with an MBA.

    Would you have looked at an embryo frozen for 18 years and said "uh-hhuhuh, she's totally legal"?

    Same logic applies.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I don't think having sex with frozen embryo goop should be a crime though.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    If that embyo goop isn't your property, it should be.

    And if you've broken into the fertility clinic, that's definitely a crime.

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  • [–] 31 points 1 year ago (13 children)

    Is Alice 10 in Disney? In Lewis Carroll's original work she is 8.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    They aged her up so it would be less creepy

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    What is creepy about it? The entire story is really about Alice discovering rules and how she likes them so much. That is very much the world of an 8 year old. Not to mention all of the fanciful characters and tropes that were dreamed up.

    There are many academic critiques and studies of the work. It is also central to Open AI's QKV layers model alignment training. The story is the primary catalyst for creative randomness in terms of internal model thinking in both LLMs and embedding models used in image diffusion. For instance, all of the mechanisms that Alice used to become bigger and smaller are present in diffusion AI models with the caveat that no real person place or thing is present in the prompt. One does not need to bring up the detailed context of the story if one prompts the element with good specificity. A far easier method to play with is to prompt the queen of hearts or Alice as a character in an image using just a foundational base model. It should be quite clear how these images are a bit different in many ways. Those differences are not random and they are persistent across all models. Literary nonsense is the actual randomness that shows up in background objects and clothing in images. Prompting against the abstraction of genre is far more effective than attempting to describe your own details in the prompt with specificity.

    In literature in general, Carroll's work is the holotype for a genre. Analysing the work speaks to the human experience on many levels. The work has long been appreciated by all ages. So I am a bit baffled about what you find creepy about age in any context such as this. Like what kind of assumptions do you possibly feel grounded in here?

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    I don't understand what you wrote. Please explain like I've not take a literature class since high school. (I read, but mostly for fun or computer tech information, which is also for fun.)

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    its pro AI jibberish, probably written with AI tools

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    What I got out of it (including the clarification) was "AI ties to Alice in some way also Alice in Wonderland is deeper than you think" and the ties to AI were where I felt it was either nonsense or not written for the audience.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I have actually read Alice in Wonderland and it has themes but its not more deep then pure fantasy story telling for a child. The story was generated by the author on a camping trip with his good friend. His friend had a young daughter and he made up a story for her... and he decied it was good enough for everyone to enjoy.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago*

    It also twinged my implausibilty meter when they said there were several easy to find podcasts and blog posts on the depths of AiW, but didn't link to any....

    Edit: the first, long comment made me think it was some autist's [not derogatory] special interest and that they were too deep to explain it well. The second comment made me think that was not the case.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    There is more to the story of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland than just a children's story. There are several podcasts and blog posts on this that are easy to find. The book is public domain and on Gutenberg.org. There are also several audio book reads of the original text on YT. It is considered the holotype or foremost representative book in the literary nonsense genre, (the book ends with all of wonderland being a dream).

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