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submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by fossilesque@mander.xyz to c/science_memes@mander.xyz
 
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[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 145 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Fuck Fuck Fuck Fuck Fuck Fuck Fuck Fuck Fuck Fuck Fuck Fuck Fuck Fuck Fuck Fuck Fuck Fuck Fuck Fuck Fuck Fuck Fuck Fuck Fuck Fuck Fuck Fuck

Also, fuck censorship.

(This would've been a great post if it was not pandering to children by poorly censoring the basic English word Fuck)

Ps fuck.

[–] donuts@lemmy.world 101 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It's not pandering to children. It's pandering to "ad-friendly" platforms that otherwise overly or covertly suppress the content

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 40 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The only acceptable way to repost that image would be to use Photoshop to undo the bullshit censorship

[–] rudyharrelson@lemmy.radio 92 points 1 week ago (5 children)

You don't have to thank me.

Edited in GIMP.

[–] IndiBrony@lemmy.world 67 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I was talking about doing this the other day. I've started doing it like this because it's more obvious it's been uncensored:

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago
[–] donuts@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Nice! Now let's get OP to edit the post and the balance is restored.

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[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Beautiful. Hero!

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 3 points 1 week ago

Ty for the effort! Fixed.

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[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I cannot stand that "Unalive" bullshit.
Thanks for nothing Tiktok.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 week ago

i like how yahtzee used "[youtube]" cut over in a deadpan voice when he was still with the escapist, make it obvious that you're having to censor yourself and call out the platform for forcing it.

[–] Pirky@lemmy.world 65 points 1 week ago (3 children)
[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I have definitely seen naked women that closely resemble that figuring, so I don't think it is that exaggerated anymore.

[–] Holyhandgrenade@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Yeah but try getting that fat during the stone age

[–] psud@aussie.zone 2 points 1 week ago

In the stone age and during an ice age

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[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 1 week ago

Besides "AI and facetuned images" from OP, another supernormal stimulus that comes to mind is fat anime tiddies.

[–] ch00f@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

See also: Skittles

[–] irish_link@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago (2 children)

How freaking big are Jewel Beetles if they are trying to mate a beer bottle!?!?

All jokes aside they are not small but they aren’t the size of a beer bottle either.

[–] ch00f@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I mean there’s an entire category of animated porn involving impossibly large women.

[–] dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 6 points 1 week ago

All I wanna do
Is see you turn into
A giant woman

[–] Anivia@feddit.org 4 points 1 week ago

Emphasis on "trying"

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 25 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I find slight imperfections to be beautiful.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 week ago

Same, though i don't even consider them imperfections since that implies it's in any way negative.

It's more like how a perfectly uniform naan bread is just boring and kind of unappealing, you want the bubbles and charring for flavour and visual appeal.

I'm 6' tall btw. *continues reading my body by ratajkowski*

[–] Hammocks4All@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Apparently they would get so dazzled by the bumpy brown beer bottles that they would incessantly try to mate with the bottles, even if ants started picking them apart.

Futurama warned us

[–] obinice@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago

Oh my GOSH you did not just say FUCK, on MY internet?

Straight to hell!

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This sub has quality posts! That is all.

[–] Hammocks4All@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago

This one and shitposts are my favs hehe

[–] BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I see pictures of people on tinder that are so smooth and unreal it's fucking creepy. Like to a point where the nose disappears and the eyes are in front of the hair, because they are not real. And i know this is often a social media thing and a body dysmorphophobia problem, but i also wonder who looks at these pictures and goes: ahh yes, the perfect women

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

i feel this about most famous women who are said to be soooo attractive, like yeah sure angelina jolie isn't ugly but come on how is she more attractive than a normal person? Same goes for bodybuilder guys, it's so patently fake and harmful to their bodies!

at least the male hollywood standard can be somewhat sensible, george clooney looks like a real human person even if he's the equivalent of a freshly groomed schnauzer.

but really, the most attractive people i've seen are just normal people on the street, and that's without counting the fact that you can actually feasibly get into a relationship with them and they might actually be pleasant to be around.

[–] ftbd@feddit.org 1 points 6 days ago

I can see that bodybuilders are not attractive to most people, but how are their bodies 'fake'? Getting to look like that is hard work, and not just a matter of money, makeup and plastic surgery.

[–] Clbull@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Either it's women using filters to touch up their images, or it's AI slop being pushed to artificially inflate app userbases and make it look like there are actually women on the platform....

[–] SanndyTheManndy@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I love being a Jewel Beetle. Have you seen them? They're dazzling.

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Please don't attempt to fuck a jewel beetle

[–] SanndyTheManndy@lemmy.world 33 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Did you not read the post? I am not fucking Jewel Beetles. I am fucking beer bottles. Get your facts right.

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[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 week ago

That's an interesting metaphor

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Do people go on about women being ugly? Like all women?

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah it’s an incel thing

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh, so it's more of a sour grapes situation.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sour grapes plus that thing where people who don’t eat fruit for a long time but eat artificial fruit flavoring think real fruit tastes gross. Reality with all its imperfections and subtlety is unappetizing to them, they only desire the artificial which is familiar to them.

[–] Leg@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don't like this flavor of dystopia.

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[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

it's baffling because personally i could rant about how pretty most women are for hours on end, and if desired i can extend that to a lot of guys as well and i'm not even that into dudes.

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[–] Alph4d0g@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 week ago

Jewel beetles have beer goggles?

[–] Mango@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

What looks good is what looks good. Don't feel bad if you can't compare with a beer bottle.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 4 points 1 week ago

I'd believe it, ostriches are furries

[–] Damaskox@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I guess those insects look for "true love" out of the beer bottles...dunno can we say that the males are looking for the same thing out of AI.

[–] Arigion@feddit.org 3 points 1 week ago

I first thought they now think that people drinking beer from a bottle look like mateing jewel beetles.

[–] thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

it would be more like if someone intentionally painted that bottle to attract them then iterated that design using an the money in the world to perfect it. it's almost Eldritch horror shit if it wasn't just another person trying to make money.

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