southsamurai @ southsamurai @sh.itjust.works

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Collage is a recognized form of art. And that's what you're describing.

There's lines where you might run into issues, particularly if you're using significant portions of single images, or the overall image hews to close to one.

But, from an artistic standpoint, it's your own work. You're creating something out of pieces, materials. That those materials existed as complete works of art before being separated isn't important for that, imo. It's artistically no different than using shells or pine needles or rocks to create a new image.

Not that you wouldn't run into people saying otherwise. Hell, you could be Matisse and you'd have someone saying "that ain't art, my kid could do that".

Back in my college days, I took a few art classes. One of the projects was based roughly on what you're asking about. We used multiple references, cut up, to form a single reference. As a lesson, the goal was to break loose from rigid thinking, and learn to be transformative in creative ways. As art, a thing made by a human to communicate something to other humans in some way, it doesn't matter what your materials are, it matters that you make the attempt.

Now, for your basic idea of designing a fursona, it's brilliant. Simple, easy enough, but still conveying your goal. You might see debate over whether that's art, or just design (they can be the same thing, but don't have to be), but it's a great way to get what you wanted. Would a different head pasted on only your body be transformative enough to be interesting? Nah, not to anyone else, but it's still a cool idea for building a fursona.

It has. And iirc, someone found evidence it wasn't the actual person at all, which makes this post incredibly unlikely to be real

You've already gotten the answers, but I'll try to consolidate amd summarize just because.

It can happen, and it has happened. But it is going to vary by location and specific circumstances as to whether or not it will happen. That's because even in places where there's laws that directly apply, you still have to prosecute the case (since you're asking about charges), and if there's not enough evidence to make prosecution probably successful, charges may not be placed by the "state".

It's a difficult thing you prosecute.

Everything is a balancing act. Privacy, anonymity, and security aren't the same things. They're sometimes, and in some aspects always, difficult to achieve without compromising one of the other two.

When you add in the goal of quick, easy setup to make the service useful in the first place. Doesn't matter how good the service is at the trinity if nobody is willing to use it. Signal just errs on security first, privacy second, anonymity third.

Only when you stick your tongue in their mouth.

Which is fun, don't get me wrong, but sometimes things are busy and you don't have time.

Solid 8

Wanna come over for ancient guy autumn? It features similar sweaters, coffee or tea with perhaps a splash of something entertaining and watching the squirrels bury things as the leaves rustle

Look, apparently the deletion of my comment didn't federate quick with enough. I saw your other comments and realized I have no interest in engaging with you, and the comment you just made is why.

So, pretend I'm saying whatever it takes to end the conversation here, because I tried to undo starting it.

You know, it's really shitty to ask questions here, get the answer, then delete it.

If you want a private, personal answer, hire somebody. Deleting things after using the community like that is not cool at all

Most people that work with blood collect it and use it quickly. That's more difficult to do with menstruum. But, if you're willing to work at a slow enough pace, it's doable. I'm too lazy to go searching for it, but you wouldn't be the first person to do it

The issue with menstruum is that it isn't just blood. So you may need to use a mesh strainer if there's solids involved. You can't really paint or use it as ink with solids.

Once you've got enough to fill a brush, if you'll be painting, you just go to it. Blood as paint is very thin. Don't expect much coverage. Think really thin water color, and you'll approach the useful techniques. The pigment in blood that shows on paper is the red blood cells mostly, with plasma being what allows it to stick to the paper (and canvas is not great unless you have massive volumes to work with). If this was a long term project instead of making use of a limited supply, I'd say to dry it out, then grind it into a pigment to mix up as tempera tbh.

Anything you would mix in to the fresh supply is going to thin it out more; to the point that it won't show well at all. Luckily, it isn't going to smell once dry. You can then use your favorite spray fixative and call it done. It'll last as well as any other reactive pigment.

Is it possible to just not spread this? It isn't necessary, or useful. To the contrary, idiots take it as fact. The more it's spread, the harder it is to counter. Or, damn, at least put the anti-pasta first, so that people run across the better info ahead of the bullshit

I'm not on my blahaj account, but I can copy/paste there if you'd prefer. Just seemed pointless when I use the same user name to switch over.

But I'm mainly giving some background to the whole matter, rather than primarily "voting" about defederation.

It's interesting that nutomic wants to get all het up after asking for donations to lemmy development.

That's largely why they've been so active in comments lately. They can't seem to keep from expecting people to pay them as individuals the develop lemmy, while also not being willing to at least be clear about where they stand.

And that's what the donation requests are about. They're not bringing in enough to develop full time. And that's an important thing, having full time developers on a project like this. What they don't seem to get is that they're not just asking us to pay for full time developers, they're asking us to pay them. They aren't figureheads or managers, so it isn't some kind of collective where you can point to other members of the dev team and say "well, maybe those two are unpleasant, but at least the rest aren't bigoted"

Which, afaik, dessalines has never publicly been bigoted. He can be a smug asshole sometimes, but so can I, so there's only so much complaining I can do there. But nutomic is a different issue, and this screen shot perfectly encapsulates how.

Donations would go into both of their pockets for their work, and they do deserve to be paid for that. Even jerks get to make a living. But we all get the choice as to whether or not we're a customer or not. Me? My double digit yearly open source budget is going to people that at least have the sense to have never shot their mouths off with bigoted bullshit. Lemmy is an amazing thing, and the world needs it. I just can't directly support a bigot. I can't, and won't do it.

I wouldn't hire on someone to fix my roof if they had a damn maga hat on, why would I give money to someone that is not only just as much of a bigot, but is also hyper authoritarian? I know hiring someone vs contributing to a project isn't a 1:1 equivalency, but the principle is.

Donations to then also fund .ml. And if anyone wants to donate like that, it's none of my business. It's just important that it be known that you can't donate granularly. You donate, .ml gets some operating costs covered, dessalines gets a chunk, and nutomic gets a chunk.

And that's where this comes from. The discussion in the screen shot is fallout from that. Nutomic still holds the same views they always have, but wants people to ignore that when donating. Which is fine!

As far as defederation goes, all I can say is that, while I have had unpleasant runins with both of them, I've never been permanently banned from .ml, or any of its communities. Individual communities there can, and do, enforce anti-bigotry rules with no interference from admins. But, there are no specific instance rules regarding transphobia in particular.

Again, this is pretty much just added background for anyone that hasn't the time to go digging for the context of the screen shots.

Yeah, they've run into the same issue comics can have.

Once you have the first crossover, there's an idea that you have to keep doing them.

And you don't. More importantly, the broader the crossover gets, the less stamina anyone is going to have for following the damn story arc across a dozen titles.

Add in the fact that you're bouncing between movies and tv shows, as well as more characters than anyone can track, and you get trouble. Stack the difficulty in knowing what order to watch things in, and more people drop off, if they didn't just because they're now expected to pay for a steaming service.

Then, when some of the movies end up weak as hell, you shed more fans.

And, unlike comics, you aren't getting an installment every month. Some parts of the stories have years between them. You can't maintain serialized interest at that time range. Long gaps between seasons kills shows.

If I was a rich man, I'd hire someone to carry that thing around in their pocket and stay by my side at all times, waiting for when someone asks "anyone have a knife"

I'm trying to wrap my head around the taste and texture of this. I may end up trying it. I've done so with culinary monstrosities before, including cola pickled eggs, and marmite on bananas.

But I can't see the taste being bad at all. Egg whites are as neutral a flavor as it gets. All you're really going to taste is the pb&j. So it's little different film spooning both up and eating it.

But the texture, that's where I'm having difficulty. See, I've had some pb&j oddities before. Notably fried in a donut hole, on a dog milkbone, encased in chocolate, and between two pieces of bologna. That's just a partial list. So when I say I'm not certain whether or not the texture would be a bad thing, that's saying something.

I think it would be neutral in enjoyment. Nothing bad, but nothing worth repeating either. But it could be that the oiliness of the pb might make the egg slide around in an outputting way. And it could be akin to rum soaked raisins in peanut butter balls, which is amazing as long as you let the raisins dry well after having the rum plump them up. It's basically a pb fudge with those chewy little bursts of spiced rum flavor and the sweet fruitiness of the raisins.

And that texture is delightful, to me.

So I'm up in the air on this one

Fuck, that's so dark Stephen Hawking tried to write an equation for it.

Ngl, I've always had a suspicion that part of the reason the extra blades happened was the satire.

Once the idea was introduced, half the marketing was done, and the association with laughter isn't a bad thing. You let the joke fade, and the idea lingers. You see the product launch, and even if you recall exactly how absurd it was when you saw it on snl or whatever, it's still a positive memory. The satire commercial acted as a real commercial before the product existed.

Obviously, there's an upper limit to it, and I think they've hit it as no six blade heads have come out that I know of. But, being real, after 5 blades, all the satires jumped to unrealistic numbers and more extreme silliness. It was like the various comedy writers figured out that the various razor companies would be glad to slap one more on there, and sell it as an entirely new thing that needed a new handle as well. So they said (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻ and went hard.

There used to be a video of the satire commercials followed by the eventual real ones. I couldn't find it on YouTube, but I may just suck at searching there, or it could have gotten pulled. I dunno, but I remember the real commercials being way closer to the satire ones than I had thought when it happened.

Eh, anonymity is great for some things, less so in others.

But burner emails are pretty much as anonymous as it gets on the fediverse. If you pick a random user name and cycle to a new account fairly often, you're anonymous to other users. A VPN mostly anonymizes you from the instances.

Being real though, that's kinda dickish to the instances because you're wasting the tiny bit of resources used to create accounts. If you do it often enough to really anonymize, it adds up.

Really specific here, but font control.

Us folks with dyslexia in its various expressions have trouble with command line. If you can't read a specific command, good luck ever getting comfortable with it. You can't error check yourself, so until you build up memory, you're kinda screwed if you can't use the fonts that are available.