#I DONT OWN THESE MACHINES

[vriendenboekjes]

dont throw away your food scraps!!!!!! instead put them in your oven or food dehydrator for 48 hours to dry them and then use a food processor to turn it into a powder to flavor your meals!!!!!! also use your juicer to turn those other scraps into a juice!!!! and get your pasta machine into dhfkagkrcnagkfnxatfkk jrtk shfmzyke ducjzyusek

[icewindandboringhorror]

On average, what is the total MONTHLY amount that you spend on dining out*?

*(This doesn't only count going out to restaurants, but also stuff like picking up fast food to bring home, getting a coffee on the way to work, getting a premade sandwich from a grocery store deli during lunch, buying a quick snack from a convenience store or food cart whilst walking somewhere, ordering a pizza or any other food to be delivered to your home, etc.)

*(If you often dine out in groups/as a household: calculate and divide the costs so that you get a Per Person average. This is for YOU individually, NOT the total household/group costs)

(I'm sure polls similar to this have been made before (very common topic), I just haven't personally seen one that I can remember, so, I was curious to do my own! I was discussing this with a group of people today and it was very interesting to see how widely the number varied between individuals. :0c )

(Reblog for bigger sample size if you can, and feel free to explain your answer in tags if there's anything extra to add!)

[inkskinned]

the rise of AI art isn't surprising to us. for our entire lives, the attitude towards our skills has always been - that's not a real thing. it has been consistently, repeatedly devalued.

people treat art - all forms of it - as if it could exist by accident, by rote. they don't understand how much art is in the world. someone designed your home. someone designed the sign inside of your local grocery store. when you quote a character or line from something in media, that's a line a real person wrote.

"i could do that." sure, but you didn't. there's this joke where a plumber comes over to a house and twists a single knob. charges the guy 10k. the guy, furious, asks how the hell the bill is so high. the plumber says - "turning the knob was a dollar. the knowledge is the rest of the money."

the trouble is that nobody believes artists have knowledge. that we actively study. that we work hard, beyond doing our scales and occasionally writing a poem. the trouble is that unless you are already framed in a museum or have a book on a shelf or some kind of product, you aren't really an artist. hell, because of where i post my work, i'll never be considered a poet.

the thing that makes you an artist is choice. the thing that makes all art is choice. AI art is the fetid belief that art is instead an equation. that it must answer a specific question. Even with machine learning, AI cannot make a choice the way we can - because the choices we make have always been personal, complicated. our skills cannot be confined to "prompt and execution." what we are "solving" isn't just a system of numbers - it is how we process our entire existence. it isn't just "2 and 2 is 4", it's staring hard at the numbers and making the four into an alligator. it's rearranging the letters to say ow and it is the ugly drawing we make in the margin.

at some point, you will be able to write something by feeding my work into a machine. it will be perfectly legible and even might sound like me. but a machine doesn't understand why i do these things. it can be taught preferences, habits, statistical probability. it doesn't know why certain vowels sound good to me. it doesn't know the private rules i keep. it doesn't know how to keep evolving.

"but i want something to exist that doesn't exist yet." great. i'm glad you feel creative. go ahead and pay a fucking artist for it.

this is all saying something we all already knew. the sad fucking truth: we have to die to remind you. only when we're gone do we suddenly finally fucking mean something to you. artists are not replicable. we each genuinely have a skill, talent, and process that makes us unique. and there's actual quiet power in everything we do.

[getyinyusedtoit]

"speak normally"

[maskerat]

oh yeah I think I should show my Der Freischütz plush I've made some time ago. his cloak isn't indigo because I didn't have such fabric and I didn't want to buy more when I had so much of purple lmao.

he's like, one of the best plushies I've sewn so far. he's quite dear to me.

[redstonedust]

tbh a fascinating part of mcyt is how you can have characters fully divorced from the person playing them alongside people who are barely rping at all. in the same way that your d&d session might have the most intrictately written out OC alongside one player who is just playing themselves with a sword.

like i cant confidently list many traits of joe hills that arent shared between both their minecraft character and real-world self aside from, like, maybe owning that shirt and being able to use an elytra. but they also exist in the same universe as zombiecleo, a canonically undead zombie person, who exists in the same universe as mythical sausage, a dimension hopping animal whisperer, who exists in the same universe as xornoth, who doesnt have a real world equivilent.

so you kinda have to all or nothing it. because you cant exactly draw a line between the fictional characters and the guys playing minecraft when they're all like one server hop away from sharing lunch lmAO.

[daikonghost143]

Never let me get bored again.

[shadowduel]

We talked about making it I'm sorry that you never made it And it pains me just to hear you have to say it You knew the game and played it It kills to know that you have been defeated I see the wires pulling while you're breathing . . .

[popuplee]

i’m the only girl who could ever love you // and i’m building a pet cemetery inside of your heart

(‼️i am reading homestuck for the first time! spoilers = blocked!!)

[aroaceleovaldez]

so in HoO we get a totally unaddressed thing about the Hephaestus cabin apparently have an underground tunnel system beneath their cabin that they’ve been excavating for almost a century and haven’t found the end to yet. We never hear about this again. But when Jake Mason is explaining it, he jokes to Will Solace that “You Apollo guys can’t have all the fun,” which implies the Apollo cabin also has secrets.

Anyways I think we should just start headcanoning random wild secret areas of each cabin just for fun.

[bytedykes]

[ID: simple sketch of Luo Binghe kneeling by a washing machine, hugging it with a tear in his eye. He's wearing a dark sweater and jeans. /end ID]

bingge reverse transmigration washing machine love-hate relationship. and post

[wildwildwasteland]

can't even articulate a Take about the fallout show because i'm just thinking about Lucy Gets Gambling Addiction, i want that for her, i think she deserves to count cards

[pinchan]

me thinking about yuji and how he's his mother's son

[coolhorse]

[creepycr4wly]

Woahg.....whos this guy

Commission me

[merverelli]

just a couple of dirty bean boys!