I cannot express how much I hate the triangles. I shouldn’t because they’re about the only genuine thing about it but they’re also a symptom of the larger issue and I just can’t even with all this.

Yes it is AI. Parallel lines are not an indication for non-AI. Just look at the teeth that were added in by hand because they couldn’t get the AI to do it. Fingers are still wonky. There were probably meant to be 5 blue data streams, one from each of the 5 people down to the 5 companies instead of two and two partial streams (?) but again, they couldn’t get the AI to do that. But this is close enough to what they actually wanted so they said it’s fine, thereby letting the AI compromise their message. Brilliant.

You say it’s “very accurate” - no it’s not. You think it’s accurate because, as a member of modern global culture, you recognise the concepts it threw together so you’re able to extrapolate what it is TRYING to say. The concept is valid but it’s so poorly executed that at any closer look it falls apart. Which is always the case with AI: it’s close enough to what it wants to be, close enough to express existing concepts so that everybody gets the gist of it if they squint (or scroll just slightly too fast). Don’t let them get away with it, it’s the death of critical thinking and creativity.

What is happening here? Google and Apple go hungry? Amazon is dead? What’s with the glowy person in the background? This is confuddling because as usual whoever told an AI to generate this either didn’t check the result or said ‘eh good enough’ and I don’t know which is worse.

This is not how you effectively convey your message.

Edit: wait, I take it all back, the most important part is that the bunker exit is clearly marked, this is art and good.

Edit2: also, that guy on the left seems to have figured out how to protect his stream of blue mouth light. Would he be available for a tutorial?

Again with the overpromising.

When your god is omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent, and also can easily be manipulated by puny human technology into doing your bidding.

I do wear glasses and I came here to post exactly your first sentence. There probably is a difference, sure, but I personally can’t see it unless I put both files next to each other and really try to see it.

I’ve been digitising our movie collection so I played around with resolutions to minimise the storage space needed - I did settle on doing everything in 1080p but mostly because it feels weird to use a resolution the internet tells me is bad and I’m vulnerable to peer pressure (voice in the back of my head “oooh but what if anyone ever looks at those files?? What’ll they think???” type nonsense).

I also had a few files that came in much higher resolution that I re-encoded to fractions of their file sizes and honestly same effect.

Might’ve evolved like that eventually if we hadn’t stopped writing and type-setting by hand instead of using magical misspelling detection machines with strict spelling rules.

Midweek is superior anyway.

I thought we’d settled on Epstein Ballroom.

This is such good imagery for the state of… everything.

That sounds absolutely plausible and is thus now incorporated as Truth into my memory of the goings-on.

Porn on tumblr was an early victim of credit card companies not wanting to be associated with that filthy filth, like what happened recently with videogames. Iirc, they pressured app stores to take the tumblr app down.

Who’d’ve thunk that not only doing everything your userbase does not want but also actively bullying a large portion of that userbase into leaving wouldn’t create revenue? No, being quirky on main and self-deprecating every once in a while won’t change that.

Edit: this sounds like “bullying people into leaving” and “what the userbase does not want” are two different things. That’s not what I meant. I’m overthinking this. I strongly deny any accusation of ever having pissed on a poor.

Your suggestions already require a level of planning I’m incapable of on most days. My situation is difficult (and I have only myself to blame) but thank you for trying to help.

Hilariously I stopped reading like 5 lines above that and misunderstood everything, goddammit. Thank you.

I do (possibly foolishly) have a lot of faith in EU regulation in general so now I’m very cautiously optimistic I won’t have to starve. I’ll have to find out more about these limits on supplements and where they come from and who set them based on what and if they even apply to Huel.

Alternative is to eat junk that takes two steps at most to make or not eat at all most days.

I’ve been trying to find EU regulation and it seems like EU limits are WAY above what CR set. So now I’m confused.

Edit: or maybe not? I’m unclear on what I’m seeing.

Someone please tell me this is a US thing and the product is better regulated in the EU. I need this shit to not starve because I am incapable of planning and making regular meals that don’t consist of noodles with ketchup or cheese on bread because my brain is useless (probably even more useless now after I’ve eaten all that lead yay).

Edit4: 0.02 mg? 3 mg? I hate numbers. Don’t listen to me, I know nothing.

Edit3: so as far as I can tell for now (and I’m not good with numbers), it’s 0.02 mcg of lead per kg for food in powder form in the EU. Which does mean that 6.3 mcg per 90 g serving of Huel exceeds that by far.

So why can they sell this in the EU? I am distressed.

Edit: wait. What? Am I seeing this correctly that EU laws set the upper limit at 25 20 mcg per kg of body weight per week? Because that is WAY more than the upper limit set by CR. (Or is it?)

Edit2: I am now very unsure about all these numbers and I can’t find any clear information. Goddammit.

One serving of Huel’s Black Edition powder contained 6.3 micrograms of lead, or about 1,290 percent of CR’s daily lead limit.

_**FUCK.**_

One serving of Huel’s Black Edition plant-based protein powder contained 9.2 micrograms of cadmium, more than double the level that public health authorities and CR’s experts say may be harmful to have daily, which is 4.1 micrograms.

**_FUCK._**

I know so very little about all this, I can only take people’s word for anything. ¯⁠\⁠(⁠°⁠_⁠o⁠)⁠/⁠¯

The German version of that very article says it’s not possible. Now what? w⁠(⁠°⁠ｏ⁠°⁠)⁠w