• meep_launcher@lemm.ee
    9·
    17 hours ago

    Ai is getting so much better, but I can still tell this is AI but now I’m not sure why. Something’s off and I can’t quite put my finger on it.

    • JargonWagon@lemmy.world
      10·
      14 hours ago
      1. Something’s up with the texture on Chad EU’s face. His vest is also weird, can’t see where it splits at the very top, and it has a weird silver stripe in only one small area.
      2. The old lady’s eye on the right is weird, almost like it’s missing and there’s just an empty spot there, but it’s not quite like that either.
      3. There’s a lady in the back holding a kid, and…she has him in a choke?
      4. Same lady, her nose is weird, like the perspective got fucked up there.
      5. The eggs are weird too. There’s two stacks, one is a 28 count, and the other is a 21 count? But it looks like two rows got like blended together in a weird way, like if you look at some of the eggs they look like two blended together, like it started doing another row and then gave up.
      • kraftpudding@lemmy.world
        2·
        16 hours ago

        Also woman with glasses in the background directly right from eu guy is weird. Her glasses are weird, and her face is melting into white guys shirt

        • JargonWagon@lemmy.world
          1·
          14 hours ago

          Yeah, same with the stars on one of the Murica flags on the shirt. This pic looks like it’s trying to deres so that it can obfuscate some of the oddities.

    • Opisek@lemmy.world
      2·
      17 hours ago

      The lighting is off for one. It seems to come from different directions when you look at different areas of the picture.

    • Holyhandgrenade@lemmy.world
      4·
      21 hours ago

      That’s because a) the EU is a coalition of many different countries who all have their own flags, and b) we don’t fetishize our flags nearly as much as Americans. Many countries have laws against putting the flag on merchandise, because it’s seen as disrespectful.

      • MochiGoesMeow@lemmy.zipEnglish
        2·
        21 hours ago

        TIL fetish doesn’t always mean sexual. I dont think as an American ive ever held an American flag or wore one.

        I do remember wearing Puerto Rican flags as a kid at Puerto Rican parades. But not as an adult.

        But yeah, we’re kinda weird with patriotism. Its always made me uncomfortable.

    • Opisek@lemmy.world
      1·
      17 hours ago

      You definitely get people with EU “gear” at large gatherings in the EU like protests and parades.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      21 hours ago

      I mean, setting aside the “We’re from the Government and We’re Here To Help” liberalism that American conservatives reflexively recoil at, I do find it disorienting to pretend a heavily rural American breadbasket would need agriculturally scarce Europe to send food aid.

      This reminds me of the 90s US effort to do welfare politics in West Africa, by dumping millions of tons of excess agriculture into Trans-Atlantic wholesale markets. The flood of “free” food (with tons of political strings attached) shifted the balance of power to the African urban centers, as local agricultural markets collapsed and people flooded to the industrial centers to get food at below the domestic production cost. Political leadership capable of controlling the influx of foodstuffs rapidly consolidated power within major port cities. This gave rise to authoritarian governments, political purges, and ultimately two horrifying Congolese Wars (the second often referred to as The Great War of Africa).

      Obviously, more complicated than this. Along with food “aid” we also delivered a surplus of “military aid” to our regional allies (a list that was constantly shifting between US and African administrations, particularly during the fallout of the failure of the Soviet Union). Then there were a host of local tribal conflicts and score-settling that got ramped up to eleven with the sudden glut of foreign wealth.

      But maybe I’m drawing lines where none exist. Can you really imagine how the US economy might be upset by a sudden shift in who controls the supply of cheap imports? Can you imagine what our country would look like if it was flush with small arms or if we had a bunch of local land barons with short tempers and delusions of grandeur? Can you conceive of an America that had a bunch of poorly defined interior borders that suddenly become flashpoints of political tension?

      I certainly can’t. Bring on the flood of EU eggs!

  • burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world
    52·
    1 day ago

    number one, ew, ai slop, number two, i appreciate concern for americans getting more nutritious sources of protein and fiber but blaming consumers for lacking access to and time for better food is not a great strategy in my opinion

    • Hiro8811@lemmy.world
      1·
      21 hours ago

      Hmm it’s as if the consumers did something to cause political instability.

      How peculiar

    • cley_faye@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 day ago

      Kinda like blaming a President at war for not saying “thank you” to its “benefactor” (despite having done so numerous times), no?

      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        21 hours ago

        Kinda like blaming a President at war for not saying “thank you” to its “benefactor”

        What’s crazy about this line is how frequently Zelenskyy has done the “America A#1, you’re the best!” media tour in the run up to this meeting. How many clammy-handed, rictus grin photo-ops does this guy have to do for you people? How many trips does he need to make to DC to say “Hello from Ukraine, I love you!” to Congress? Dude’s entire career as President has just been going abroad and brown-nosing for NATO support.

        This reminds me of the British journalists who will cut an Arab liberal off in the middle of an “I am here to condemn Hamas and ask for release on behalf of the Palestinian people” automated response to grill them on why they haven’t condemned Hamas. It’s all just bullying at an international scale. I’m amazed Trump didn’t drag Zelenskyy into the restroom and try to give the man a swirly.

    • Im_old@lemmy.world
      7·
      2 days ago

      Probably couldn’t find that many real unarmed Americans waiting properly for a real picture.

      And to preempt the comments: I’ve seen videos of people tearing down the doors for black friday. I’ve seen people going with open carry to buy TP during covid, openly stating “I’ll get my TP one way or another”. No way hungry armed people won’t escalate. Sure this is human nature, but Americans are the ones with more guns than eggs, and very divisive at this point in time

  • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
    1·
    1 day ago

    Just eat something else holy shit.

    I get that the price of eggs is shorthand for the price of all food, which has gone up, but eggs specifically have gotten so expensive that egg substitute is about the same price at this point.

  • My_IFAKs___gone@lemmy.world
    1·
    2 days ago

    They definitely don’t look entitled and angry enough. Some even seem to exhibit hints of appreciation and humility, which would cause a dimensional rift in the real world. I’ve never seen a less accurate depiction of what this event would actually look like.