Apathy Tree

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Those are aweosome!

I can relate to having a deadline for a project, i made this for a friend’s birthday, they loved it but it was rough to get on time for someone who had never done a large canvas before!

Love it! Thats great! Minis are so fun to paint! I wish i could afford so many of them! Or a 3-d printer!

I have a dragon I’ve been sitting on for a decade. I think its technically an ice dragon, i started painting it like a nature dragon, but never did much with it cuz it never felt right.

Maybe i’ll do it. Maybe I’ll paint the epic love scene on my table I’ve been toying with… life is short and why not?

Got any more work you wanna inspire me with? 🥹😜

Rave on your rave!

Oh man i love painting minis! That’s one of the few things I have finished!

These are the first three I ever did!

Show me yours

That man makes me want to paint even though I have no skill.

I don’t want to do landscapes, but I do want to paint things. Things I have no business painting, because… my family got the good skills, I just sort of do my best…

But who cares? Machines have takes over our creativity so where I used to fear being imperfect, now I don’t. Id love to credit Bob Ross with that confidence, but it’s how broken society is now, instead.

On the plus side. I have some great mixed media ideas I will probably actually do now that quality doesn’t matter!

I have a necronomicon :) My friend got it for me as a housewarming gift many many years ago.

Mine is a lot thicker than that one, though? I’d love to see one of these in person to compare them.

That’s fair, could be.

I know he doesn’t have toes, but it could still be where the association with body parts came from.

I heard similar from various sources growing up, but replace the slur with “ghetto”.

Same message, same racism, except with an extra layer of classism. Thankfully, those people are all dead now. :)

Want another fun fact?

Of course you do!

Brazil nut allergens are sexually transmittable! Only known food allergens that are!

How about another?

Technically they aren’t even nuts, but seeds!

Uhhhh

Ok, I feel so weird asking this but…

Is this mascot why brazil nuts have a very racist nickname? I’ve only heard about their nickname from other people who got it from boomer and silent generation, so the timeline matches…

Even a bolo tie, man this ad has everything!

None of it fits well, but it has it!

Only one eye is bad.

I could get away with a monocle, only my left eye has a prescription. But I tried wearing the one my grandmother used, and I genuinely don’t know how you’d get it to stay in place. So uncomfortable.

Have to assume it was used more like a magnifying glass on a cord, but I’ve only ever seen people with them on like the ad above.

We have cameras now that automatically detect this and send out tickets

Do they matter to cops? If they get paid, they get paid by tax money, no?

I guess the camera bit is good for proof at least, I assume there’s a backup of the images or whatever.

But does that make you a roving part of the survailance system, too?

I watched that movie when I was a kid and genuinely liked it. (I do still have really broad taste, the question can be answered for me with “most media, apparently”)

It has a special place in my heart as one of a few dozen vhs we had that I could watch with no restrictions. (One of the banned movies was A clear and Present Danger, and I still don’t know why because I can’t stay awake through it because its boring. Another was Pulp Fiction. Maybe the first was a ruse!)

Is it a good movie? Idk. But smeat is still funny to me in ways that probably would have hit the same if I’d watched it today for the first time, so…

Welp.

I watched several videos in addition to those and feel both better and not, I do understand the simplified analogies in the linked stuff, and they are helpful, as were some of the related content.

I kinda sorta understand the technical stuff, sort of. I’m not in a tech field or anything…

I’m going to keep it there regardless of the negative hype because you never know when I’ll need others to do the same. Im not doing anything wrong so it’s whatever.

I’m up to 10 :)

Thanks for this!

Well I spent the time between when I posted and when you replied looking into various things related to tor, legality, and snowflake more specifically, as well as a bit after your reply since you gave me a couple extra things to look into… (like if there’s a risk of running alongside self-host software like Plex and jellyfin, I didn’t find anything about it so I sort of assume it’s fine…?)…

I didn’t see anything overly bad other than if you yourself use tor, maybe, so took the plunge and… have had a whole two connections already, so yay, I’m a snowflake!

I feel slightly better about myself, like when I started using BOINC crowdsource computing for research in the early noughties. :)

I’m willing to do this but frankly tor intimidates me big time. I don’t know anything about it other than……. Yep that’s it.

I read through the mastodon post, and the project page, and cumulatively I didn’t get any answers that, like, make me feel better.

I assume this is a dark web node sort of thing? Is it safe for me to run the browser extension (idk shit about docker and don’t really want to learn rn), like I’m not putting a target on myself or anything? If yes to question 1, but no to question 2, what does put a target?