That’s a very oddly shaped dildo?

Why does he look like Jeffrey Epstein?

Race Bannon in retirement.

I lot of these people just want a menu board. One of the things about being a designer is you have to have some taste and understanding of the field. This is just business owners who are trying to check a box and don’t actually care. This is compounded by the fact that few small restaurant owners come at it from the ‘restauranteur’ side of the spectrum and usually come from the food side. This means design of anything is pretty far down the list.

It’s like if you toss all ingredients into a big pot and cook them until they’re indistinguishable. That’s why people call it AI slop. It basically works on the same principle.

serious answer: they don’t know how to prompt. not that knowing how to prompt makes it look better, but it can at least make it look different. like how google used to give you more specific results if you formulated the query in a certain way.

It’s inherently uncreative and it’s even more likely to produce same-y material when you 1. Don’t give it a specific art direction and 2. Use the same generic models everybody else is using (a result of Googling, “AI art generator”.)

They put zero effort into it. Given instructions AI could make posters in different styles. But that would mean you know how to describe the exact style you want. You need to have some knowledge about design, for example by being a designer.

Same thing. The group of designers who founded the art style in the 80s called themselves Memphis, then the Corporate Art inspired by it in the last ten years or so was called Corporate Memphis. Alegria is the specific name for the art style that Facebook commissioned and used in 2017.

I always read it as Algeria, and I’m wondering why they make such shitty arr

Guess what https://imagineers.studio/memphismaker

One of my favorite copypastas:

Trains are really unpredictable. Even in the middle of a forest two rails can appear out of nowhere, and a 1.5-mile fully loaded coal drag, heading east out of the low-sulfur mines of the PRB, will be right on your ass the next moment.

I was doing laundry in my basement, and I tripped over a metal bar that wasn’t there the moment before. I looked down: “Rail? WTF?” and then I saw concrete sleepers underneath and heard the rumbling.

Deafening railroad horn. I dumped my wife’s pants, unfolded, and dove behind the water heater. It was a double-stacked Z train, headed east towards the fast single track of the BNSF Emporia Sub (Flint Hills). Majestic as hell: 75 mph, 6 units, distributed power: 4 ES44DC’s pulling, and 2 Dash-9’s pushing, all in run 8. Whole house smelled like diesel for a couple of hours!

Fact is, there is no way to discern which path a train will take, so you really have to be watchful. If only there were some way of knowing the routes trains travel; maybe some sort of marks on the ground, like twin iron bars running along the paths trains take. You could look for trains when you encounter the iron bars on the ground, and avoid these sorts of collisions. But such a measure would be extremely expensive. And how would one enforce a rule keeping the trains on those paths?

A big hole in homeland security is railway engineer screening and hijacking prevention. There is nothing to stop a rogue engineer, or an ISIS terrorist, from driving a train into the Pentagon, the White House or the Statue of Liberty, and our government has done fuck-all to prevent it.