For a better tomorrow.
For a better tomorrow.
- shapesalad2
- I guess this is fine but only if the drama teacher is allowed to come to school in blackface: https://pbs.twimg.co…_niko
- CBC’s take ?
“ Ontario teacher’s prosthetic bust offers a lesson about body shaming”
Wonder why the article didn’t include a pictureGnash - Meant G&M, oops
https://mobile.twitt…Gnash - “Conflating LGBT identity with inappropriateness or, as in conservative parlance, 'grooming,' is bigoted and cruel, as well as simply a category error,"Gnash
- Would you though?!Ianbolton
- Continuity5
Signs your getting old?
I'm forgetting to zip up my fly waaaaaay more often.
(Weirdly, when I wear button fly jeans, I rarely forget to do them up.)
- Ianbolton5
- https://slowrobotago…Gardener
- :-)PhanLo
- Well, I *WAS* going to try to sleep tonight...Akagiyama
- MrT9
- kingsteven7
Artificial Intelligence
i've had stable diffusion running on my mac in the background for a couple days - generating an image every 45 seconds at 640 x 512 px. i've been occasionally changing the prompt to see what works. copyright arguments aside it's nice to land in a pocket and watch it do it's thing
here's 100 sequential images from a single prompt "lomo ghost in crystal light refraction" from this evening upscaled to 4k
- Yeah how is that not awesomenb
- Better than Netflixnb
- incredible. far more interesting than the usual AI artinteliboy
- How much longer does it take to render if you double the resolution?drgs
- it glitches out on me over 640px, i think the sample image size is 512 x 512 so not sure how i'm even doing thatkingsteven
- see the video i posted in the sidenotes below. A.I. upscales are decent, in combination with out-painting and image-to-image you can get hi reskingsteven
- i noticed over 45 seconds my images were mostly garbled or black (1 in 5 would get to 2 minutes and fail) so i set a time outkingsteven
- i've added another load of 100 images with the same prompt to the gallery, astonishing variation when you keep it vague https://imgur.com/a/…kingsteven
- ...and find something it likes drawingkingsteven
- 512 is standard, you can also choose 3:2 or 2:3 (portrait) but it will cut and paste very crudely elements of the image
ex: https://i.imgur.com/…grafician - Very cool. I'm seeing a lot of '90s shoegaze album covers in amongst the nightmares.MrT
- It's cool and I hate it.garbage
- Dunno which fork you're using but if the AUTOMATIC1111 version runs on mac, there's a highres fix option that allows for coherence at high resolutions now.kalkal
- Two step process, it creates a low res latent noise then uses that to inform the higher res version.kalkal
- scarabin4
Food
Any cast-iron folks here? What do you like to use it for?
I’m coming round to the fact that the reason i use a wok so much is because i like to use high heat for certain things* without worrying about a nonstick coating. I’m thinking i should get in on the cast-iron train for this reason.
*atm it’s roasting garlic cloves from 4-8 heads in a dry hot pan, picking off the blackened skins, pulsing with salt and olive oil, then using the resulting smoky garlicky mess in EVERYTHING
- I use cast for almost everything but tomato based stuff, and soups. For wok I started using carbon steel - still getting the hang of that thoughGnash
- I've got a very well seasoned cast-iron wok (kaddai, I think?) and use it mainly for curries, but also made pasta sauces, deep fried in it. I love it.MrT
- https://imgur.com/a/…
It's never washed with soap, and it never sticks. Can't recommend enough!MrT - A well-seasoned cast iron frying pan is the stuff dreams are made of. They'll last you forever. But — as J Kenji Lopez-Alt suggested on IG recently —Continuity
- before you fork out for a new one, check out flea markets, yard sales, etc. He recently got one in perfect nick for a song.Continuity
- https://www.instagra…Continuity
- cast iron for gluten free pizza doughs in the oven, for basting big pieces of beef, for paellaBuddhaHat
- Go fuck yourself, Continuity.
https://www.instagra…
SO HUNGRY NOWNairn - :DContinuity
- @Buddha ... why only gluten-free pizza doughs? Our dude Brad Leone has a cool recipe for a standard gluten-y pizza dough in cast iron, which I want to try!Continuity
- https://www.youtube.…Continuity
- Had an amazing cast iron pan for a while so well seasoned and beautiful, then my wife threw it out because she’s a germaphobe and didn’t get the no soap part_niko
- ^ That's grounds for divorce right there.Continuity
- Oh man, I have to do a post for this.garbage
- @MrT Nice!!scarabin
- I’ll check the local thrift shops this weekend. I feel like i’ve seen cast iron therescarabin
- https://www.lodgecas…
https://www.lodgecas…imbecile - https://www.lodgecas…
https://www.lodgecas…imbecile - that's all you need (and you don't need the panini press, it just comes in handy) If you'd like a casserole dish, get ceramic coated.imbecile
- I use my cast iron for steak, brownies and chicken leg quarters.Akagiyama
- I use cast iron constantly. Great for cooking pieces of protein quickly with a nice crust. Also great low heat for eggs. Just don’t do sauces.monospaced
- Oh, and a little soap won’t do shit to a quality seasoning. Anyone who says they can’t wash a cast iron is doing something wrong.monospaced
- If you do somehow go full retard and undo seasoning, fix it. It’s stupid simple and fast. But the idea that you can’t wash it is wrong and frankly unsanitary.monospaced
- IF you want to go a level better, just skip to a carbon steel pan. Same idea, but lighter, smoother and cooks as good or better. More non stick because of smootmonospaced
- Gardener4
- Very classy Phil.OBBTKN
- Most punchable face inUKshapesalad
- The coffin dodger to the back right looks like she's about to eat shitsausages
- Surprised there hasn't been an outcry for him to get sacked for disrespecting LizIanbolton
- Who is this fella?garbage
- Lagerfeld still pissed she preferred Amiesuan
- Pretty lame Photoshopmort_
- He is nothing without Gordon the GopherNoggin
- Gardener14
- that queue was something else. we got grief from some loon for looking at it rather than queuing in it.hans_glib
- I bumped into a 'friend' who'd just come up from town gawping at the gawpers who couldn't understand my lack of enthusiasm to go do the same.Nairn
- It was the equivalent of the blitz for 2022.
Strength through UnityPhanLo - Queue-Anontank02
- Wait.. a quarter million people? Holy shit.garbage
- Not sure if it's true, but I read y'day that 4 BILLION people watched the fucking thing. And it was from a sober source, not Mail Daily.Nairn
- @tank02 nice!Krassy
- The Queen = biggest media experience ever. If you never met or spent time with here, even if you did... "The Queen" is simply a media experience.shapesalad
- You read about her in papers, see her image illustrated on stamps and money, hear her voice on radio, see her on telly. It's all media.shapesalad
- You experience her via media. It's entirely a modern media experience. Think about that. Odd isn't it.shapesalad
- 100% my feeling...necromation
- lol tank. I couldn't really care less but it was proper spectacle, and I enjoyed all the big names reduced to observers like the rest of us plebs.MrT
- 4B? No ducking waynb
- Nairn3
UK is Fucked
Gotta say, I liked the bagpipe bit in the funeral y'day. That was actually quite poignant and emotional. Would've been, for whoever it was, wherever.
Then, very quickly spoilt - utterly - by the borderline Munsters/Addams Family-like organ that came on immediately after; All grim, out of key and cacophonic. lol
- My wife said she got emotional at that bit too. She said that must have come from spending too many years in Scotland. (Originally from South London)PhanLo
- lol, yepfadein11
- Bag pipes, fascinating instrument, you've got to constantly maintain the pressure in the bag.shapesalad
- lol at the organ I mean, I watched with my elderly mum and we both did that glance at each other when it kicked in.fadein11
- Organs are amazing to hear in person, pretty much the sole reason I started going back to church. That and the granny made biccy wiccies afterwards.shapesalad
- Organs can of course be great, it may have been nerves but it was out of key early on and v.noticeable after the lovely bagpipes*fadein11
- *first time I have ever said lovely bagpipesfadein11
- Strange that bagpipes were used to induce fear before a massacre, they sound like a sheep being strangled.PhanLo
- Who dieddrgs
- Years ago, at a friend's funeral, a traditional song, sung in chorus by all of us who were there... More... Violins!! I still shiver :'(OBBTKN
- Oh, to have been a fly on the wall in the PhanLo household y'day!Nairn
- I think i would like bagpipes more if they wrote more than one songscarabin
- ^ lol. I don't mind the 'pipes but I wonder if it's a bit of Hollywood conditioning too, like Kurt Russell's funeral in Backdraft. Always gets ya.MrT
- They sound like a dial-up modem having trouble connectingscarabin
- Yes. The lone piper. That bit nearly got me too. I think I have a live for bagpipes in my blood. My great grandfather was a piper in WWII...microkorg
- ...first out of the trenches before the advancing troops walking across a battlefield towards the enemy playing pipes. Balls!microkorg
- nb4
- if I was at the funeral I would have sat up beside the coffin, the best seats, tremendous seats._niko
- looks like a fucking waxworkBluejam
- Animatronic?Ramanisky2
- Taxidermists Hate Him!utopian
- Looks a bit like a puppet that's been left in a cupboard for decades and is starting to break downPhanLo
- Ya is he a wax sculpture or a ventriloquist dummynb
- dummy is rightYakuZoku
- Trump says White House doctor ‘loved’ looking at his ‘strong’ bodyneverscared
- Are sure that this wasn't created with DALL·E or MidJourney?utopian
- Tom Cruise is definitely under that face maskIanbolton
- drgs4
- What's the job with $400k income and 90 iq?akiersky
- I want to knowdrgs
- Hockey player?lajj
- where is designer?shapesalad
- Designer is orthogonally opposite from $400k and 90 IQ guydrgs
- Whois that at $500K/121IQ? Let's get him!grafician
- 45th president_niko
- that person clearly knows something we don't!grafician
- Where are you graf?monospaced
- off the chartsgrafician
- to the left or to the right?drgs
- Ramanisky23
Trailer Of The Day
But will this be good .. hmm .. I don’t know.
- Shit, I hope this is good. I've been looking forward to this for a while. The trailer looks amazing!elahon
- Hope so.Ramanisky2
- I was always too scared to watch this as a kidinteliboy
- I hope so too. I really hope it's R-rated and practically squelchy like the original. And Clive Barker producing bodes well!MrT
- Rated R for Strong bloody horror violence and gore, language throughout, some sexual content, and brief graphic nudity. YES!!elahon
- Happy days!MrT
- Gonna make that boxscarabin
- Scarabin, do you know how to do the brass work? I have lots of mahogany, i can do the square part.lemmy_k
- PonyBoy0
- A bit gimmicky at this point, isn't?Continuity
- dunno... haven't ever touched one or even set eyes on one in person...PonyBoy
- my wife seems to think the Flip would fit better in her back pocket at work — I fear the wear and tear of 'her' would kill the phone in a month :/PonyBoy
- C Y B E R C R I N G Egrafician
- Fuckit, tryit. I've seen these used in public, and whilst there is a slightly visiible seam, it wouldnt' affect most typical usage. Watching TV? Perhaps.Nairn
- *fold, not seam.Nairn
- What's it like after one or two years daily use/ wear and tear? Is it like a paper map after many uses, all falling apart at the fold?shapesalad
- The advertising is cringe but it feels good in person. Smooth action, unobtrusive seamscarabin
- I hate Samsung, but I'd love the form factor on the "Flip" version. Every fucking phone is over 6" except the iPhone SE.section_014
- Looks fragileYakuZoku
- Drop a regular phone you know what may or may not happen, drop this, oh myYakuZoku
- Flip if I had to pick oneYakuZoku
- Gardener6
- UK is Litpalimpsest
- https://www.youtube.…Bluejam
- it was mono trying to scare people away because churches are nothing but bitch whore cunt bungalows.face_melter
- ^ Omg, I actually spilled my coffee. LolGnash
- LOLpalimpsest
- I want to shake the hand of the writer/editor that got away with "woooooo" in a subhead for GUK. Brilliant.garbage
