lmao smash that downvote button then. No need to reply.

The expression, the shading, the composition, the contour, the style…I’ve been using AI image generators since Dall-e 2. The image in the OP is AI generated, 100%.

It’s crucial to make sure that you’re not accidentally denying a kid something they need, simply because they lack the skills to tell you what they need.

“I don’t know, can you go to the bathroom??”

So is crack

Perhaps not in a clothing store but you sure could smoke in supermarkets in the 80s and shopping carts even had ashtrays on them.

Edit: oops I’m being told that there were ashtrays in the fitting rooms and bathrooms in clothing stores too but as a kid my clothes were cash and carry.

I’m talking about indoors. You could walk around smoking cigarettes inside the shopping mall. Nowadays most places in the world ban smoking in indoor public spaces and within whatever distance from building entrances. I don’t think there’s a shipping mall in North America that allows smoking indoors.

Wearing a fursuit, if it was ever sexual, hasn’t been that way in a long, long, long time.

In the 80s, shopping malls had ashtrays at the end of every bench. Every workplace had a cloud of cigarette smoke at every entrance that you had to walk through. It’s much much more socially unacceptable to smoke cigarettes than it used to be.

I don’t know if you realize this, but when people say things like “I don’t talk about politics” that’s just a short form of what they really mean, which is often:

I don’t want to talk about politics here.

I don’t want to talk about politics with you.

I don’t want to talk about politics right now.

I don’t want to talk about politics like that.

Surely you have to have seen the changes over the past 10-15 years in online discourse that has resulted in politics invading every available space. It used to be quite easy to avoid political conversations online. And still, a lot of people don’t come online for that and that’s okay.

They aren’t insane. They’re trying to tell you to calm down. Please take a hint and change the topic when someone says something like that.

Did you come here to insult people and be insulted?

Get off here. It’s documented mental illness at this point. I come from the beforetimes. When I was a teenager, a/s/l was redundant because the BBS was a local call, and if you wanted to see what someone looked like they had to own a scanner, which was rare and expensive. It was liberating to be able to talk to people and make friends without the superficiality of irl interactions.

Modern internet is profit-motivated and monetization is driven by engagement. It takes time and effort to curate your experience to squelch what the platform wants to show you, which is content you’re most likely to engage with at the time you’re most likely to engage with it. You’re not talking to your friends anymore. It’s an isolating experience.

The next time you’re talking to someone or replying to a post, looking for your gotcha mic-drop moment, consider why you came here in the first place. Are you here deliberately, or are you just using the internet service that came with your smartphone? Go out into the world instead. Constant rage is unhealthy. Voting, community moderation, logins, persistent identity, and profiles have made the internet experience way more image-obsessed than the irl experience ever was. Your discourse is being streamlined, not encouraged and diversified.

tl;dr: go find your tribe, your real tribe.

There’s shit on there but just don’t buy it. Temu actually lies about what you’ll get.

I’ve been buying from alibaba and aliexpress for years and I’ve never had anything INAD or otherwise temu style shitty come from there. It’s literally Amazon without the middleman.

No.

Yes but if you’re looking for a total firearms ban, Europe is a bad example. They have a long history of participation in hunting and shooting sports.

Personal firearms ownership is legal in Europe.

And there’s a fair amount of 2a absolutists out there too.

AI have no use case.

And if you’re not a member of one of those specific groups they all look pretty much the same, and express the behavior I described in my comment. They may use their “minority” status as a predicate to making war with each other, but that wasn’t what I was talking about.

It sorts data and identifies patterns and trends. You may be referring only to AI enabled LLMs tasked with giving unique and creative output which isn’t going to give you any valuable results.