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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

I mean they're both cute, buttt

[–] [email protected] 12 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (3 children)

It’s going to be fun for future generations see this and notice who won the presidency twice…and who are the influencers.

I think the current generation are going to be hated way more than boomers when it comes to who fucked the world up the worst. There are so many receipts.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

It's kinda early to make that call for the younger generations, don't you think? Imagine if the legacy of Boomers was tied to what they did in their youth. We'd know them as little more than peace-talking hippies (on one end), to consumerist yuppies (on the other end.) In the decades since their 20s, Boomers have solidified a very different self image. Now, nearing the end of their influence (at least, I fucking hope so), their legacy is basically sealed.

In turn, the current generation of youngin's still has many, many years to make a name for themselves. We have to wait and see until the kids even younger than them grow up, because as the people who will be around longer than the rest of us, they will be the ones choosing what the rest of our legacies are.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

Nah they're fucked, enjoy the collapse losers

[–] [email protected] 6 points 18 hours ago

"This is how the world ends: Not with a bang, but with frivelously cast ironic votes because lols."

[–] [email protected] 3 points 16 hours ago

Excuse you, our Lord and Savior won the election three times, all fair and square! One of them was shamelessly stolen despite all the evidence to the contrary. /s

[–] [email protected] 7 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Both were recognized. Everyone loves an underdog

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 day ago

Obviously the one on the left is a froggo, the one on the right is a frog and should have been banned from the contest.

[–] [email protected] 64 points 1 day ago (2 children)

In the third grade, I won the science fair.

The competition was pretty strong. There was a kid who built a contraption to simulate a mini-tornado. Granted, it was probably his dad who built the thing, but still. There was another kid that built and programmed a robotics project. Again, probably his parents did a lot of the work, but the guy was super smart so I'm sure he did some of that work. One girl came up with an experiment to use fungus to grow plastics or something like that, I don't remember. It's been decades.

Me? The afternoon before the fair I had literally nothing. I grew up poor, we had a lot of junk laying around the house because my parents would go to the county dump site, dig through the trash, and bring home anything they thought was valuable or fixable. I managed to hobble together one of the light sensors from a broken night light to the electronics from a toy radio so that it only played when the lights were off. I stuffed that into a cardboard "robot". And the people judging the science fair loved it.

So fuck you Stephanie Petty, Chris McDonald, and Dequan Shaw and your rich ass parents and your entitled ass selves. I won bitches.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I have a similar story from 2001, 8th grade science fair.

One of the kids had a seismograph (parents) one had some bacteria thing (probably also parents, that kid was as dumb as the contents of his petri dishes) they all looked super professional and stuff and were obviously shit from books or the internet.

I fucked around for weeks in class doing basically nothing and the night before threw together a hand written display with some info I looked up, painted a balloon and pvc pipe with paint, and stuck it on. The “project” was about the impact of static on heavy machinery and the idea of applying an insulating coating to reduce static buildup and transference on machine parts, displayed via balloon, pipe, and latex paint. Totally original idea (to me, anyway) and research and they thought it was great even tho it looked like complete shit.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 18 hours ago

Similar story here. I once had an assignment which was a part of an art contest with the theme "how to make the world a better place."

I simply took a photo of a tree and gave it the description of "I would make the world a better place by planting more native plants."

I got an award for it and didn't think of it beyond that. Several years later I dated a friend from then, and it turns out I got first place in the entire school. She got second and put in effort with a drawing.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

All you needed was a sealed Chewie action figure

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Just be careful it doesn't get bent

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

I bent my wookie!

[–] [email protected] 108 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Thought I was having one of those Bearenstein Bears moments but there is another dog version of this

[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Here is more context for the picture:

[–] [email protected] 10 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I unironically love this and can't stop laughing. It's like the "technically correct" of dog drawings.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 hours ago

It also captures the raw dumbass energy of that dog perfectly, you know that good boy has no conception of a screen door and has barreled through at least one. I want to pet him.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 22 hours ago

Amazing, I’ve seen the original screenshot so many times but never this context

[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago

lol thanks for the original original

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

This one of my favorite memes of all time

I always get a good laugh at it so thank you for posting

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Just saying it the correct natural way, not sure what you mean

[–] [email protected] 88 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Maybe unpopular opinion but the winner is objectively better art than second place. Left makes me feel whimsy and mild joy, and right just makes me think “frog.”

[–] [email protected] 5 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Yep. Some people think skill is art. They don't understand art. Skill is great, but art is something that makes you think or feel. The amount of skill involved doesn't matter, except as something you think or feel, which can also mean less skill is as valuable as more skill.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago

I'd argue art is a communication medium. You can communicate minimally, or you can communicate with vast detail, both require skill.

Art museums are full of work that says nothing, but passed a few gatekeepers with clout keys or shock value.

Skilled rendering with nothing to say is as unimpressive as deep ideas communicated by random spatter. The viewer isn't getting anything from it, no matter how trendy their turtleneck is.

I take a bit of issue with this idea that "the amount of skill involved doesn't matter", because that's the exact logic used to say artists shouldn't be able to afford a living, or could be replaced by algorithms.

(And yet we easily spot and mock visually exciting Ai renderings for how soulless and empty they are.)

Yes, we've seen impressive high-skill ultra-real pencil renderings that, in the end could sadly be replaced by a photograph, because there was no interpretation involved.

And we've seen awards presented for sticking bananas on walls as a "critique of modern society."

Art is a skill. It's a hard skill, because it's not a solitary pursuit solely anchored in visual perfection. If nobody can understand or appreciate your point, it falls apart.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

Na, both are important in Art. I find it totally valid to equal skill with Art and also understand if you disagree on that, but saying that equaling them means you don't "understand" Art is pretty harsh. After all, making you think or feel something is a skill in itself. A super detailed and close to reality picture of a frog makes me think quite a lot about the amount of time and work involved, lets me marvel at the Details and, well, skill of the artist.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago

I meant technical skill, like how well you can create a particular thing with a brush (or whetever tool), but yes the ability to know what creates feeling is also a skill. Technical skill can be impressive on its own, and can help someone who has artistic talent, but I wouldn't call it artistic in and of itself.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 day ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (4 children)

Very clearly a toad. Points deducted.

Edit: so apparently all toads are frogs, but not only that, this is a tomato frog and not a toad at all. My whole life is a lie and shit like this is why I have trust issues.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

I'll just put this here.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 23 hours ago

Hell yeah! Fuck paraphyletic groups!

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

Froggy McFrogface

[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 day ago (3 children)

A day early. It’s not yet Wednesday, my dudes.

EDIT: Is now Wednesday.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

AAAAHHHHHHH

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 day ago

This is what the AI are trained on

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Well, second place is a frog, first place is a froggo, they understood the game.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

2nd is clearly labeled as the funkiest of frogs, which should qualify it as a froggo

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

And teachers encourage this having students vote on the winner even when objective criteria is available

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

What is the objective criteria?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

More than ten strokes

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Is it not possible that drawing #1 evokes the most joy? What are the voting criteria?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 14 hours ago

“Do you like this picture of a frog”

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Edge culture is so annoying

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

One has heart the other just has skill, talent and technique.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

and practice and color and detail and gradients and effort and lighting and a hashtag and...

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