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  • arsCynic@piefed.socialtoScience Memes@mander.xyzI respect the environment.
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    4 months ago

    “His name is already on the image where he signed it.”

    1. With every “Save Image As” → “Share” cycle the picture quality tends to degrade. Sooner or later the signature becomes illegible or simply cropped out. Just look at the image quality difference now, after only being one day old!
    2. Moreover, few people click a link to the source to check out the artist. But, even fewer read the signature, search for the name, and start browsing from there. Let alone the hassle of reverse image searching.






  • arsCynic@piefed.socialtoMemes@lemmy.mlVenn diagram of cops and bastards
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    4 months ago

    “‘F the Police’ but who’s stopping you from killing me?” ―Harder Than You Think - Public Enemy

    I do believe about 20% of police officers have good intentions and significantly more signed up with that attitude, not knowing that they protect the wealthy elite and crooked politicians more than they uphold democratic values and ethical standards in society.

    Unfortunately, probably more of them consider such a career because of the authority it gives them. Therefore I prefer to say that “many cops are bastards”; granted, it doesn’t have an equally nice ring to it.








  • The solution? Create womens leagues where they can compete against other women in the game and see more success.

    Sorry, in terms of solving the root cause of the problem this suggestion doesn’t make sense to me.
    The solution is to decrease people from making judgements based on in most cases* meaningless differences like gender or skin colour, e.g., to not think “You got beat up by a girl? How pathetic!” anymore. Basically prevent any prejudiced, juvenile, or toxic male thought patterns which scares people from ever trying something. I hate that running competition results are still segregated by gender. I don’t give a rats ass what the gender or country of origin of the person was who beat me, I simply care about the thrill of competing and the festive yet athletic mindset that comes with it.

    An analogy, I think it was a stupid decision to make emoji distinctions by skin colour. Why? It exactly undermines the entire purpose of having done so for inclusivity by putting even more emphasis on differences in skin colour. Yellow was perfect because nobody is yellow so it simultaneously represents everyone an no one, except for sick people who are jaundiced.


    * Exceptions: pregnancy, sickle cell disease, et cetera.


  • What do you mean “skill against skill”?

    Like your boxing example.
    On lichess.org new accounts gets the average Elo rating from where they can work their way up or down. In sports one can simply go to a club and start off with the beginners or where they or a coach think they could manage and work their way up.

    Another way of interpreting your comment is dismissing differences and simply making people all compete against each other. This would obviously exclude all women from most sports so you’d have to be a pretty committed misogynist to think that was preferable to gendered sports.

    This wouldn’t be misogynist but bullying because heavyweight men/women would beat up featherweight men/women too.




  • I wish I could ride my bike like a Scythed Chariot and destroy all these death machines that have the gall to ride on the bike path.

    I mean fuck! I hate cars and pretentious drivers so goddamn much. The only thing they have to do to accelerate is push a pedal once with less effort than moving a feather of a newborn chick, yet they for some reason consistently claim the right of way, or get it by law even. Topsy-turvy society.

    “I reduced the insolent crowd of carriages which cumber our streets, for this luxury of speed destroys its own aim; a pedestrian makes more headway than a hundred conveyances jammed end to end along the twists and turns of the Sacred Way.” ―Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar (1903–1987)


    Scythed Chariot - Wikipedia illustration