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Especially if the image is poisoned.

There's a few things here that tell me it's probably not copyright-theft-generated. The big one that's easy to explain is the tail. The tail starts off from behind the mouse, snakes in front of the cloak and background (so far so good), but then, here's the critical thing, passes behind the fern staff and continues on the other side of it, positioned properly and in continuity.

Copyright-theft-generators have tremendous problems with this because, as the chorus goes, they don't understand anything. There is no mental model of "a tail" with them. There is no thought of a tail's properties, so keeping a tail contiguous while passing across barriers is very hard for them.

That final word is a bit scary, mind.

Kreepy Kaptain Ketamine.

Huh. This is what the consequences of my actions taste like.

That's what Kaptain Ketamine should be saying, but won't.

I must confess to requiring assistance here.

Oh, I'd drop them in a heartbeat if their quality dropped or their pricing increased to stupid levels. I don't do brand loyalty. I do brand identity as shortcut: currently Sinloy is a top-notch coffee provider and it's just easier to keep buying from them as long as they meet my needs.

I'd be down for that. Having pretty between all the goons would be a relief.

… What is that?

Not just this brand but this specific product and indeed this specific roast.

Sinloy was the first company in China to take coffee culture seriously, almost single-handedly creating the entire Yunnan coffee industry. They're primarily known for sourcing the local beans, obviously, but also do some importing of coffees from as far afield as Ethiopia and everywhere in between. Their quality control is very high, their roasters are top-notch, and yet their price remains very reasonable.

I buy 250g of this specific coffee (Yunnan "Red Wine" sun-dried SOE coffee) every two weeks and if I miss a purchase, that's a few days of suffering as I wait for them to roast and ship it. (They small-batch roast to demand.)

Can't kick up shit in an old school forum without an account, though. I mean count the guys commenting just in this message. They saw a message that specifically said "no guys commenting" and ... commented. This is because the whole way Lemmy works means everybody can see posts, even if they're not members. They can go to the local or all feed.

In a non-federated forum of the aulde skoole variety they'd have to go hunting for a forum for women, then make an account and pass muster, and only then can they start kicking up a fuss like a toddler. Some will, but I suspect way fewer than the drive-by randos here in Lemmy.

I wish I had a "white list" instead of a "black list" for federation. Right now if I see too many stupid opinions from a single place (lemmy.world I'm looking at you here!) I can block it. But given this intrinsically misogynistic environment on Lemmy it might be nicer to have lists of servers I want to see things from instead of ones I don't want.

'Cause I get this feeling that the former is a smaller list than the latter.

When I see hot takes that range from "WTF!?" to actual batshit insanity, I always look at the source. lemmy.world, shit.just.works, and a few others (including dbzer0) seem to always be the host.

Increasingly I'm wondering if it might not be best to just shove these into the "block site" box. The trigger finger hasn't yet itched enough for it, but it's getting closer.