I remember when AM radio hosts were bothered by how much Obama was making off merchandising those posters and how unbecoming it was for someone trying to be president.

Weird how those same people said nothing when Trump started merchandizing everything from hats to wear when welcoming back dead soldiers, gold shoes, Bibles, NFT cards and a ballroom.

Did Cristiano Ronaldo make a video showing everyone how to play guitar? Because Gordon Ramsay made one of him making fried rice.

Gordon Ramsay doesn’t know how to cook fried rice.

I have the elbow mac in my pantry but back pain limited how long I was going to be standing at the stove.

Put down the Faygo and reconsider your life choices.

This is just a dusting on top because they wanted boring and I didn’t. So I distributed into the bowls and sprinkled the curry powder on top of mine. I prefer the sharper taste of raw curry powder to balance the creamy mac.

There are all kinds of options. Like you could skip the butter and milk and use coconut milk with the curry mixed in.

I love adding some real cheese to the mix. And sour cream instead of milk. But for that it’s best to use full strength elbow mac instead of the weak boxed stuff.

Wife specifically requested the green beans be separate from the mac. I wanted to join them but it was a no-go.

I haven’t had hotdogs in my mac since I was a child and the memory of boiled hotdog slices in it makes me sad. Maybe I could try and change it up. Cut the hotdogs into slices but cook them in the air fryer for that perfect crispy skin that air friers do on even the cheapest dogs. Then mix them in.

This has gotten stupid. I agree with you overall. I’m against AI slop and the problems that come with it. But this is a direct response to an AI generated thing in the political news. The desired goal isn’t possible without it looking like the original it is a parody of. I didn’t make it. I found it, or more accurately, a friend sent it to me. It existed regardless of my actions.

I shared it because it would make any Trump defender instantly see why the original was a problem because of its subject matter even if they thought it was fine before.

I’m not going to argue any pro AI in gender stance. But I will point out a bad or lazy argument and your 2 million gallons a day thing was so disproportionate to the scale of this one piece that it deserved to be pinged out.

Hate AI, I’m probably with you on 99.99% of your stance. But don’t argue with me using bad arguments. Don’t blame me for it existing. Don’t assume I think I’m a hero (that argument doesn’t even make sense). This whole conversation is like the Narcissism of Small Differences brought to life and it’s dull.

One image is less environmentally and socially impactful to energy and water resources than shipping seven tubes of paint and a canvas halfway around the world and you know it. To argue otherwise is disingenuous.

End this because it’s wasting both our time. Go argue with someone who actually wants AI and uses it. Go find the person that put the prompt in to create this one. Go plant a tree. But find something productive to do because I already agree with you too much for you to make any progress with.

I will boil cubed potatoes, deep fry them until crispy, dust with some taco seasoning, use that as the taco filling with whatever else you want.

Your “gesture” was to use the entire water consumption for a whole day at a data center for one picture. I learned it from watching you.

Seven tubes of paint shipped across the world.

But you know that it did not take 2 million gallons to make this. So the daily total is irrelevant.

When was the last time you saw a successful parody that did not mimic the style of the original thing being parodied? When you create a meme do you hand cut your letters like back in the '60s or do you use a computer a typeset library? How would you go about the process of making it in the same style as the thing that it is a parody of without using AI and would that be more or less resource intensive? Do you know how many gallons of water it takes to make and clean some paint brushes? What the carbon footprint of seven tubes of paint is?

Yes. I make large batches of dough and I have about two weeks to figure out how I will use it.

People go through Lemmy for memes that they can share other places.

It’s not necessary to convince them. It’s enough to shake them. Trump posted his vision of himself as Jesus. Sub out the main character and some people will realize the thing they are defending is extremely problematic. The character substitution is their enemy.

It’s not just annoying Trumpsters. This is a rephrasing of something they supported which was AI generated. Could I paint this manually? Probably. It would take me a week. Probably but by then we’re going to be worrying about nuclear hamsters or something.

This is a variation of the thing they’re supporting which was generated by ai and shared by the president. Any variation in artistic style is going to ruin the illusion and the message.

By pointing out that they can easily see the problem when it’s a person they hate in the role of a religious icon.

It was gone long before that

The issue here is that the thing this is a response to is AI. Try to create a different version and the trumpsters won’t get it

Cake or death.