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i know a handful of you guys have asked if i’ll be selling prints, so i finally made an inprnt! here are some of the available prints i have listed!
Shop gallery quality art prints by emmett.
So Netflix is releasing this animated movie but here’s the thing - all backgrounds are done in AI. No actual BG artists were hired or credited for this work.
And here’s the kicker - I gave them too much credit. I realized that not even the AI users are credited apparently.
Check this out:
“+Human”. No names, no nothing.
I know it’s tempting, but please don’t hate-watch this thing. Numbers equal profit even if the people watching are just doing it to mock. Don’t give Netflix and other studios even more incentive to fire more animators and replace them with machines trained on their work and skill. Hilariously, the excuse used is ‘there aren’t enough artists’. That’s not true - there are more than enough artists, but the real issue is that no one wants to pay a living wage. Here’s a short video about the reality of animation in Japan.
The biggest winners in this equation at the end of the day are the AI infrastructure owners - owners of Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, etc. Do not feed this machine, it creates more monopolization of entire industries, raises a powerful few and dehumanizes the rest.
You're thinking of a nephew job. A job that doesn't actually need to be done, like mowing your lawn when you're totally fine mowing it yourself... or is actually part of another job, like bagging groceries when that's actually part of the cashier's job, for which they are fairly compensated. It's not really a necessary service. But you have your nephew (who lives in a financially stable home) come in and do it sometimes.
Nephew jobs are great bc they get pocket money and experience, and you get the chance to teach and reward. But they aren't real jobs. On the days he isn't there, everything runs smoothly. If he messes up, it's fine. If he has to quit for a while bc he has a really hard class, he can totally do that with no issues for anyone involved, and come back once he takes his finals. He's not going hungry and you're not in a bind. Nobody is actually depending on anybody.
If your employee depends on the income, regardless of age (some of y'all have never met a teen working to pay bills and it shows), or you depend on their work to make things run smoothly, it's not a nephew job. It's a job. You don't get to skate by on "it's not real work" while expecting and needing real work.
And I love that everybody still thinks minimum wage is for fast food. Friends and neighbors, minimum wage jobs are everywhere. There's a good chance you're being helped by a minimum wage (or just above, at a non-livable wage still tethered to the minimum) worker when you talk to anyone but a manager in a store or restaurant, call in to a customer service line, go through a teller line at a bank, get loan paperwork processed, have your pictures taken at a small studio, have a drug test sample delivered to a lab, order pretty much anything, schedule appointments, have any interaction at a hotel, get a phone call from a business, pay a bill, buy custom merchandise, get your phone looked at, ad nauseum.
Even if you truly think that fast food restaurants should only be open for 4 hrs in the evening on weekdays, and weekends, and run entirely by minors... and you don't, let's be real, you want an adult to cook your food safely and run your card properly and handle issues, stop lying... Do you really want that to also be the case when you need to call in to get your cable fixed? Do you want to give your payment information and SSN to 16-yr-olds? Do you want someone who can't buy cigarettes yet handling your medical data for about the price of a pack per hour? Bc that's what minimum wage really is.
If a job is necessary and in demand, you have to pay for it. My grandfathers each supported a family of 6 on "unskilled" labor, back when the minimum was coupled to productivity and inflation. That's what the intent was when minimum wage was implemented. Every honest job had to give you enough buying power to provide for your family. Now we provide far more value in a shorter period of time, and have less and less buying power.
If it's more important for you to rationalize your own suffering by treating other ppl like shit, than to acknowledge the dysfunction and try to make it so your kids and peers don't suffer, you are the one with the problem. They don't need a different job. You need therapy.
"You stupid asses. You can't start at the top."
This is the response someone gave to a person suggesting that maybe, just maybe, people who work should make enough to not also require welfare.
"You can't start at the top."
As if only the CEO deserves to be able to eat.
There shouldn't even be a "top." There shouldn't be CEO jobs that allow someone to soak up other worker's money while they play golf. The CEO shouldn't earn a single penny more per hour than the cashier. In most (almost all) cases the CEO doesn't even do anything necessary at all.
Sculptor Cesar Orrico captures the intricate beauty and strength of the human body so uniquely. The artist freezes a moment of time, depicting movement and dynamic expressions: The energy is highlighted, especially in the sculpture’s hand gestures, have a close look!
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On the porch twig - Mona Huss Walin
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color lithograph , 59 x 45 cm.
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70×145mm, Eraser prints, yasuko aoyama 2021.2.
Just weave happy colors~
Bernini, Blessed Ludovica Albertoni (in Altieri Chapel in San Francesco a Ripa Church), 1671-74
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i've been looking at, like, pro-ecosystem gardening, right? like how to make your yard into a good habitat for living creatures
And like. I'm being 100% serious here. A RIDICULOUS amount of the "landscaping" and gardening advice out there is straight up financially motivated smear campaigns for the most random, innocuous things in nature
Welcome to the saddest and most hilarious part of the internet: ANTI-STUMP PROPAGANDA
When you google "tree stump" this stuff is what pops up. Dozens of blog posts from tree removal service companies explaining why you have to get a tree stump in your yard removed NOW.
And the contents are the most desperate, hilarious bullshit the internet has shown me in at least a month
Tree stumps aren't just UGLY...
they have THINGS that LIVE in them.
The more comfortable you get with a tree stump...the more likely it is that you won't act...
until it's too late.
If you try to remove a tree stump by yourself...it could quickly become a dangerous situation.
Because tree stumps...aren't just the innocent stumps of trees. They're a malicious enemy, lying in wait, ready to lower the property value of your home.
And not only that...they're DANGEROUS.
If you trip over a tree stump, you could end up losing everything from all the medical bills you have to pay from your tree-stump-related injuries.
And that's not all.
If someone is INJURED by that tree stump on your property...you will be held responsible. CHILDREN could be SERIOUSLY INJURED.
Think of the children!
Your NEIGHBORS might SUE YOU when their CHILD trips over your tree stump and is SERIOUSLY HURT!!!!!!!!!!
Not only that, tree stumps are ROTTING and MOLDY, like MOLDY ROTTING VEGETABLES. Isn't that DISGUSTING?
Tree stumps SPREAD DECAY to the rest of your yard because they're ROTTING and PUTRID.
A tree stump...is a festering wound
It spreads INFECTION AND DECAY to your entire yard as its DECAPITATED CORPSE decomposes
If you don't act now to get rid of that tree stump...
it will RUIN your HOME
and KILL YOUR ENTIRE FAMILY
But seriously, sources like this (that literally only exist to convince people to part with their money—like all of these are literally just ads) are a plague on people's knowledge and understanding of nature
Homeowners have been taught to fear and hate every single natural process that exists so they will buy products and services that prevent the ecosystem from functioning at every level. Claims like "rotting wood is filthy and infectious and spreads disease, like a corpse, because it's rotting" are not just hilariously dramatic, they're misinformation
Do you want MUSHROOMS to grow on that rotting stump? Some mushrooms are TOXIC and will KILL your CHILDREN. Do you want INSECTS??? Insects are BAD.
Buy Product so you can exterminate insects from your yard. Buy Product so you can get rid of plants that aren't grass, which are ugly and undesirable. Buy Product to get rid of anything that could provide habitat for a living thing, because Living Things are DIRTY and DANGEROUS.
Buy Product to try to provide life support for your invasive flowers that are baking to death in the middle of a lifeless lawn, since you killed every other piece of the ecosystem a plant would belong to
The handful of animals that aren't totally demonized—birds, butterflies, and bees—are good and nice and desirable because you can Buy Product to make them come to your yard so they can look pretty for you.
Everyone wants pretty birds but ew, insects are bad and malicious and evil. Everyone wants butterflies, but gross, I have to dump pesticides on my lawn because I saw a thing move that wasn't Pretty and Appealing. Do you. Do you even hear yourself