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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by fossilesque@mander.xyz to c/science_memes@mander.xyz
 
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[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 142 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Fuck Fuck Fuck Fuck Fuck Fuck Fuck Fuck Fuck Fuck Fuck Fuck Fuck Fuck Fuck Fuck Fuck Fuck Fuck Fuck Fuck Fuck Fuck Fuck Fuck Fuck Fuck Fuck

Also, fuck censorship.

(This would've been a great post if it was not pandering to children by poorly censoring the basic English word Fuck)

Ps fuck.

[–] donuts@lemmy.world 96 points 9 months ago (2 children)

It's not pandering to children. It's pandering to "ad-friendly" platforms that otherwise overly or covertly suppress the content

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 37 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The only acceptable way to repost that image would be to use Photoshop to undo the bullshit censorship

[–] rudyharrelson@lemmy.radio 88 points 9 months ago (5 children)

You don't have to thank me.

Edited in GIMP.

[–] IndiBrony@lemmy.world 62 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I was talking about doing this the other day. I've started doing it like this because it's more obvious it's been uncensored:

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 14 points 9 months ago
[–] donuts@lemmy.world 16 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Nice! Now let's get OP to edit the post and the balance is restored.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

Beautiful. Hero!

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 3 points 9 months ago

Ty for the effort! Fixed.

[–] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 9 months ago

You forgot to add soms jPeG so that edit is still visisble

[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I cannot stand that "Unalive" bullshit.
Thanks for nothing Tiktok.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 9 months ago

i like how yahtzee used "[youtube]" cut over in a deadpan voice when he was still with the escapist, make it obvious that you're having to censor yourself and call out the platform for forcing it.

[–] Pirky@lemmy.world 60 points 9 months ago (2 children)
[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 9 months ago

Besides "AI and facetuned images" from OP, another supernormal stimulus that comes to mind is fat anime tiddies.

[–] ch00f@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

See also: Skittles

[–] irish_link@lemmy.world 27 points 9 months ago (2 children)

How freaking big are Jewel Beetles if they are trying to mate a beer bottle!?!?

All jokes aside they are not small but they aren’t the size of a beer bottle either.

[–] ch00f@lemmy.world 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I mean there’s an entire category of animated porn involving impossibly large women.

[–] dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 6 points 9 months ago

All I wanna do
Is see you turn into
A giant woman

[–] Anivia@feddit.org 4 points 9 months ago

Emphasis on "trying"

[–] obinice@lemmy.world 17 points 9 months ago

Oh my GOSH you did not just say FUCK, on MY internet?

Straight to hell!

[–] SanndyTheManndy@lemmy.world 15 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I love being a Jewel Beetle. Have you seen them? They're dazzling.

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Please don't attempt to fuck a jewel beetle

[–] SanndyTheManndy@lemmy.world 32 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Did you not read the post? I am not fucking Jewel Beetles. I am fucking beer bottles. Get your facts right.

[–] dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 0 points 9 months ago

Hmmmmm, drag isn't sure. They kinda look like beer bottles ngl

[–] BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee 14 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I see pictures of people on tinder that are so smooth and unreal it's fucking creepy. Like to a point where the nose disappears and the eyes are in front of the hair, because they are not real. And i know this is often a social media thing and a body dysmorphophobia problem, but i also wonder who looks at these pictures and goes: ahh yes, the perfect women

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

i feel this about most famous women who are said to be soooo attractive, like yeah sure angelina jolie isn't ugly but come on how is she more attractive than a normal person? Same goes for bodybuilder guys, it's so patently fake and harmful to their bodies!

at least the male hollywood standard can be somewhat sensible, george clooney looks like a real human person even if he's the equivalent of a freshly groomed schnauzer.

but really, the most attractive people i've seen are just normal people on the street, and that's without counting the fact that you can actually feasibly get into a relationship with them and they might actually be pleasant to be around.

[–] ftbd@feddit.org 1 points 8 months ago

I can see that bodybuilders are not attractive to most people, but how are their bodies 'fake'? Getting to look like that is hard work, and not just a matter of money, makeup and plastic surgery.

[–] Clbull@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Either it's women using filters to touch up their images, or it's AI slop being pushed to artificially inflate app userbases and make it look like there are actually women on the platform....

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 14 points 9 months ago

This sub has quality posts! That is all.

[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 9 points 9 months ago

That's an interesting metaphor

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Do people go on about women being ugly? Like all women?

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah it’s an incel thing

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Oh, so it's more of a sour grapes situation.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Sour grapes plus that thing where people who don’t eat fruit for a long time but eat artificial fruit flavoring think real fruit tastes gross. Reality with all its imperfections and subtlety is unappetizing to them, they only desire the artificial which is familiar to them.

[–] Leg@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I don't like this flavor of dystopia.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Yeah. I think that’s one of the points of the anti porn people that I don’t necessarily disagree with the point they’re making I just think they’re overly focused on the thing they see as sinful and ignoring that a) there’s porn where the bodies look real, b) porn isn’t the only culprit here, movies, tv, social media, advertisements, etc all depict similarly unrealistic depictions of bodies and it’s in that landscape where a vast majority of entertainment contains such unrealistic depictions that this is able to happen, and c) that’s still not a sufficient argument to ban a form of expression, if it was there’d be a lot more in need of banning see point b

I think point b is really the crux here. It doesn’t matter whether your unrealistic depiction of sexual partners is movie stars, porn stars, anime, or what sitcoms depict the average family as; if you aren’t engaging in real life with real people you’re going to get unrealistic expectations.

And I don’t really have a solution that doesn’t involve pressuring people to touch grass. Like that’s clearly what they need, but especially for incels they’re going to be rejected by communities when they try because they’re behaving terribly and sometimes hurting people in the process.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

it's baffling because personally i could rant about how pretty most women are for hours on end, and if desired i can extend that to a lot of guys as well and i'm not even that into dudes.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Yeah, me too. I can appreciate aesthetics. I'm I cishet guy but I can admit that Jude Law or Daniel Craig are very, very pretty. I may not be attracted to them, but I'm not blind.

[–] Mango@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

What looks good is what looks good. Don't feel bad if you can't compare with a beer bottle.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 4 points 9 months ago

I'd believe it, ostriches are furries

[–] Alph4d0g@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 9 months ago

Jewel beetles have beer goggles?

[–] Arigion@feddit.org 3 points 9 months ago

I first thought they now think that people drinking beer from a bottle look like mateing jewel beetles.

[–] Damaskox@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I guess those insects look for "true love" out of the beer bottles...dunno can we say that the males are looking for the same thing out of AI.

[–] thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

it would be more like if someone intentionally painted that bottle to attract them then iterated that design using an the money in the world to perfect it. it's almost Eldritch horror shit if it wasn't just another person trying to make money.