zifnab25

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[–] zifnab25@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Certainly possible that elements were AI generated. However, this image feels like it had someone putting polish on it. The symmetry - both in the setting and in the focal point of the image - plus the sharper color contrast particularly between the red of Mt. Doom and the blue of the mountains and the way that you get a real sense of light coming directly from the volcano and radiating out into the rest of the image. Someone definitely had their hands on this in a material way, even if it was just moving clip-art onto a canvas and tweaking the colors a bit.

[–] zifnab25@hexbear.net 28 points 2 years ago

I've been told that a snitch in time saves nine, and I just kinda believe anything that rhymes so...

[–] zifnab25@hexbear.net 17 points 2 years ago

That was the bit, yes. Someone would post something very obviously racist (FBI crime stats dog whistles / GPA jerk off / whatever). He'd hop in, agree, and follow up with "And Han Chinese are better on that stat than white people so..." and then end with a reason to exclude all white people from Ivy League Universities or exclusively hiring CEOs from China or whatever.

[–] zifnab25@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago (3 children)
[–] zifnab25@hexbear.net 29 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

to tell the truth I'm a neo-nazi

One of the funnier accounts I used to follow on /r/Libertarian was a guy who insisted he was a Han Supremacist, he agreed with everything the white nationalists said about Americans, and he just thought Han Chinese were better so it double-plus applied to them.

[–] zifnab25@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago

TIL, the Third Way is just a lane on the Autobahn.

[–] zifnab25@hexbear.net 24 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Living through it definitely burned a few holes in my brain.

[–] zifnab25@hexbear.net 27 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (6 children)

"I drive a Tesla but I'm not a freak, I'm just exploiting the tax rebate lol" ideology isn't what you believe, its what you do

You shouldn't buy the overpriced, defect ridden car from the company run by the mobbed up business psycho plutocrat of the 21st century, Tesla.

You should buy the overpriced, defect ridden car from the company run by the mobbed up business psycho plutocrat of the 20th century, Ford.

The entire idea of 'tax rebates for electric vehicles' is probably one of Biden's main accomplishments lol

He's just recycling the same schtick that gave us Bush's roads full of Hummers in the early 2000s. The Cybertruck is the Zoomer's version of the H2 / Suburban / 4Runner.

[–] zifnab25@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

Weird how the size of your nose changes with your facial expression.

[–] zifnab25@hexbear.net 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Here's $5 for your movie budget. Don't spend it all on the poster.

[–] zifnab25@hexbear.net 23 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Bank buys a house and lists it at 10% markup, never sells it. Bank buys another house and lists it at 10% markup, never sells it. Bank buys another house and lists it at 13% markup, never sells it. Bank then records an 11% increase in its balance sheet value at the end of the year and uses the money to borrow from the Fed at 5% while buying municipal bonds at 8%. The municipalities tax the real estate to pay for the bonds, thereby enshrining the price of housing in the public record and creating a collective financial incentive to never let these houses get sold for less than their inflated price.

If we ever see a serious downturn in the real estate market (like in '08 or '16) we just flood the market with cheap money again. Lather, rinse, repeat. If you end up with a few ~~ghost~~ investment cities dotting the country, where vacant buildings are piling up at prices nobody can afford... oh well. Maybe the throngs of homeless people should have just worked harder in order to afford them.

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