Maybe don’t make a habit out of this, Mr T-Rex.

Oh hey, no prob!

Yeah, the… fragmented-by-design nature of lemmy can be a bit confusing… I don’t even know how many different mobile client apps there are at this point, and many instances have differing layouts for the web browser version.

How callous of you!

As far as I know that’s correct, nobody knows who Bansky actually is.

… Is what I was going to say.

What astoundingly serendipitous timing.

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/global-art-banksy/

TL:DR

First posted on the 13th, picked up by other media roughly 6 hours ago, Reuters released a special investigative report, and they believe Bansky is:

Yep, yep yep yep, fully agree and am also a fan of the concept behind Kinstugi.

Though I think that kintsugi more specifically refers to … well, a literal artform/method of repair of things like glasses, cups, vases, etc…

Yeah, the general idea of … just repairing things that break, instead of replacing them wholly… making do with what you have and what you know…

We all need to shift toward that.

Reduce, reuse, recycle, repair.

We are living in a cyberpunk dystopia and if we ever want it to inch toward a solarpunk alternative, we will need to do with what exists, produce less literal mountains and islands of garbage.

… Beyond that, you could say that a kind of custom repair like this is literally building character.

Hah!

I had not thought of that, but that is another ‘solution’ to the ‘problem’.

Potentially just placid water could work as well.

… Didn’t even occur to me, not a ‘foot guy’, but uh, yeah, you’re not wrong.

Roughly that pose, camera a bit to the left of where it is here.

You’ll be able to see everything mentioned, I guess excepting literally the butthole, but, you’ll be able to see a good deal of butt cheeks.

You could also reorient this same rough pose but her left knee, right foot and left hand are on the ground, right hand is on a table or chair or something, and the camera/pov is perhaps a bit unrealistically into the ground, or, as if she’s on a see-through surface.

Basically, being climbed over.

EDIT

And here’s the source/credit:

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/290763719692532504/

I like it better than the original, unironically.

Replace the other one too!

I am beyond sick to death of ‘everything is either landlord white, or stainless steel and black’.

Happy to help! =D

Oh I totally understand, I am just trying to explain my… ahem, proclivities, lol.

Maybe at this point you could call it ‘NonCredibleDefense-sexual’ or something, lol.

Throw back to Banksy setting a trap in 2006, and springing it 12 years later:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/watch-14-million-bansky-painting-shred-itself-soon-it-sold-180970486/

“We’ve been Banksy-ed,” Alex Branczik, Sotheby’s head of European Contemporary art said in a press conference after the incident. “I’ll be quite honest, we have not experienced this situation in the past, where a painting is spontaneously shredded upon achieving a record for the artist.”

Now that… that’s fuckin’ art right there.

I love the rest of the article entirely missing the point of Banksy doing that being a surprise.

There, you idiots, frame that image.

… really, the Ad break?

… really?

… I heard this image, and it was Hell March.

Fair enough lol, guns are one of my… autistic hobbies…

It just seemed wrong, pulled up wiki pages, that’s just what I noticed in 5 or 10 minutes.

It /kind of/ looks like a modernization basically overhaul that was done to the 74, seemingly as a pilot program… roughly around the same time the AK-100 series was being developed… bit its still kinda wrong, in various spots.

I imagine most people consider this cursed because of the ‘mayonnaise’.

I consider this cursed because this is ostensibly an AK 74, but it has an AR15 style buffer tube / buttstock.

… and a Pic rail on top of the gas blowback tube / gas block near the front post sight.

If its supposed to be an AK-12, sight should be on that part of the tube, and not the barrel.

… and the grip is wrong.

… and the rear sight is in the wrong spot, if its supposed to be a 74.

… and the magazine is wrong, if its supposed to be a 12.

… and the fire mode selector is also just wrong.

Its a franken-AK, or maybe an extremely ‘bubba’d’ AK.

Fucking jumpscared, goddamnit.

Oh my god this is so not what you want to do.

I mean, do those headcount numbers count contractors?

V dashes? A dashes? Etc?

The majority of MSFT’s workforce has been temp contractors for a very long time, and they do everything they can to have as few actual employees as possible.

If your source is saying the average tenure is 5.3 years, no, no it is not counting contractors.

Beyond that, unless you have an actual source for the culture shift beyond ‘you think so’, I’m going with no, everything I’ve described has gotten worse.

That’s why I’ve, for years, been able to predict moves that MSFT would likely make, that people at the time think are ludicrous or incredibly pessimistic, worst case scenarios… and then they happen.

As an example, I was saying MSFT probably just set Xbox with impossibly unrealistic profit targets for the Xbox/Gaming division, to more or less intentionally downsize it and then basically kill it off, over time, while acting like that’s not what they were doing… I said that a good deal of time before the news broke, that is exactly what happened.

They are a gormless faceless machine that is unimaginably high on their own supply.

Given the amount of outright caste based racism I saw amongst Indian actual employees vs Indian contractors when I was there, where HR told.me that actually ‘that’s just their culture’ and that I was being racist for pointing out abusive managers literally screaming at their lower caste underlings, whom they had by their H1-B balls…

…yeah, I’m willing to bet it is now even worse.

I’ve also worked at other large corps, a place or two in fairly high responsibilty positions.

I’ve met a fair deal of the Seattle/Bellevue/Redmond upper management of various texh and other firms, and the thing they all have in common is an unimaginably inflated ego, elitist attitude, that propogates downward via basically an essentially religious level of respect for people in higher positions… its just expected to be shown by anyone under them.

They really are like the corpos from Cyberpunk 77, they just don’t have the nakedly open bloodlust most of those corpos do.

Starfield is the Song that Never Ends from Barney.

Monotonous, boring, annoying, loops back into itself, overstays its welcome, may potentially drive you insane with too much consistent exposure.