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is to do a comparison between them and come to the conclusion that the two things are very different.

Mate, they did that. That's exactly what they did, and they told us how.

repeat all steps until you have the number of items desired

Holllld the fuck. My self checkout has a loose limit of 25 items, who the hell is getting 20 items from a vending machine?

I don't have to wait behind old people who take a fucking eternity to find their wallet.

She's still there, she's just stuck at one of the six kiosks while Americans finally figured out how to queue in one line.

Ah, but you're forgetting the emotional labor of forcing your lips to say "hi" while awkwardly shifting your eyes away from the cashier because after 20 years of life in your lonely, desolate suburban wasteland with nothing to do, nowhere to go, and no people to see, you've grown unimaginably socially anxious and you've completely forgotten how to talk to anyone.

Frankly, I think you're just a luddite, or something. You.. hate.. barcode scanners, just admit it.

Okay, I asked somebody else, maybe you can help.

Consent to what? What is he supposed to be consenting to? That she thinks thoughts in her head? M&M's are not actually magic, he does not have to be any happier if he doesn't want to.

Like, let's look at another act of subtle coercion: the advertising industry. An ad agency's entire job is to either directly or indirectly prime and condition you into believing certain things about whatever it is they're selling.

Maybe they want you to believe it's a good product. Maybe they want you to believe that Apple is "clean" and "cool" and "for creatives." Maybe they want you to believe that protesters are crazed lunatics throwing firebombs and flipping cars all the time.

And, while this is deliberate manipulation, I've never heard anybody talk about how they didn't consent to it. If a salesman is trying to coerce you into something, your consent is the contract you sign.

And likewise, I don't see how this guy isn't consenting to M&M's making him happier when they either did or did not do that in the first place.

Yeah, I've seen a lot of people react like the treats are indignifying, as if positive and negative reinforcement only happen in a lab or something.

There is if you know where to look, but yeah, I feel you. I want to wear long flowy coats and such, but they're all cut at the goddamn hip.

and I've finally figured out style

Heeelllll yeah \m/

We don't know. Through grand powers of deduction, I assume she was in the room when it happened.

I feel like this was ultimately the point of the love yourself movement. I don't know how you could convince yourself to love yourself without conditioning yourself to do it, too.

I mean it could be that he's happy you're paying, or happy you want to be out longer.

Oh, have you seen video of their lunch or something? You should post it, we can figure this out right now.

I’m 100% positive that this comment will get downvoted heavily

Don't worry, buddy, I'll get you started. 🫡

Okay, I accept this answer

so why the pretence that this particular shape, the "R. Mutt" signature, has significance?

Because reinterpretation is not an art historian's job.

The original reaction is lost to time, dude. A modern audience is, broadly, already aware of the transgressive urinal, and so already more accepting of it. There is no recreating the piece. There is only recreating what it was.

If you think that's BS

I don't, other than it seems to be something you've written specifically to tick the boxes you think I'm looking for.

Would it baffle you to know I might consider this "critique" to be art where the image itself is not? I leave that as an exercise to the reader.

But anyway. Yet again, your contempt for the modern art world really betrays your jealousy of it. Do I just take your word for it that these critics have nothing to say?

If you think that the writings of these critics are smug, self-important hogwash, then why are you using their tools, the tools of the enemy, to justify to me why I should care about this talking cup?

Again, to the crowd: this is why what barsoap is saying is bullshit. It's just a chess move to them. They don't actually believe any of this. Their sole motivation is salvaging gen AI's reputation.

buy a random [urinal] off the shelf, then proclaim it to be original.

This is profoundly offensive to art history, actually. A museum?

People go to great lengths to preserve CRT setups for old video games, but you're like "nah, a TV is as good as any other."

Dude, your contempt for art is insane. I'm telling you, you're jealous that I respect the profane and "meaningless" urinal and not your AI toys.

Were they chuckling because the talking glass confuses and upsets the rule-of-three comedy technique being used?

I guess I'm talking to the crowd here because this is important: The reason this is notable evidence of AI and not human choice is because it is incoherent.

People know what a knock-knock joke is, and it wouldn't work so well to say "knock-crack" for a chuckle but still expect me to ask "who's there?" after. In comedy, and in visual art, the talking glass is an example of poor grammar.

A person, a human artist, could say knock-crack to me. Maybe they just have poor grammar generally. Maybe they did intentionally choose or ask for a giant talking cup for no reason, even though it harms the other joke they're obviously interested in telling. But I flatly don't believe this. It is far easier to believe this is random noise from the machine we already know generates random noise.

barsoap is reaching for the stars here to justify something they know is bullshit.

ICE agents under the republican-elected Donald Trump's republican administration arrested the wrong brown person, and after realizing this, said "take him anyway."

This is it, possiblylinux. That's the SS. We have the gestapo. There is no more "fiscal conservative." There is no more "classical libertarian." We are nazis now.

You can either be a classical american war hero and strongly oppose this, or you can be a nazi. Those are your options. I'm not saying this euphemistically. I'm not saying it as a metaphor. I'm not exaggerating for dramatic effect.

If you do not live in the US currently, and you do not want to be relocated to Guantanamo Bay or El Salvador, then you should not come here.

This Excel joke is pulling on 100 years of surrealist cultural history? That's incredible.

As a connoisseur, maybe you can explain why the oversized glass is talking about itself to me.

Why should anyone be interested in a urinal on a pedestal?

It is incredible how jealous AI-hornies are of the toilet.

This might seem like an odd thing to say, but it seems too well-made for stick figure art. It's too perfect, but for seemingly no reason. It's got no verve, no life to it, but its lines are so perfect that it's weird it doesn't have those things, you know? Someone with this degree of skill wouldn't make something this boring to look at unless it was part of the joke, but I don't think it is?

It's very strange.

The only person I can imagine drawing this manually is, like, an office worker who has this idea for a joke but who also doesn't really know what memes are on the Internet—like when someone misuses the success baby or something.