I wonder if the Buldak mascot is meant to be a bait and switch, or their way of saying, “sorry about your butthole, here’s a cute li’l guy.”

Indeed, the shitting is entertainment (assuming you’re not the subject)

Yea

edit: for bonus points, change 1 letter and combine 2 bands: REM Speedwagon

They said “ruin”, not make it 10x better

tl;dr -
From my experience talking and traveling with others, there isn’t a hard-and-fast set of rules to being vegan. I guess you could call it a spectrum.

For instance, some vegans will swear that any leather product whatsoever is bad; others would argue that leather products made decades ago are fine because they’ve already been made and you’re simply doing the reuse/recycle thing and not letting it go to waste.

Another example is honey: there are ethical ways to extract honey from hives that helps the hive in some ways, and not-so-good ways that end up killing large swathes of bees. As a result, some vegans swear any honey is bad, but others will disagree and be OK with it under strict circumstances.

From my perspective, it’s all about who you support with your wallet, which extends now beyond just animals but to nature as a whole, in terms of what the companies we buy from do with their profits. Even reaching to topics like gen AI and how the capitalists are extracting resources for their models. There are ways to train models that don’t steal other peoples’ work, etc. I’m against the big players shoving down our throats, but I’m not opposed to training a model on public domain works, or even a pool of my own work, and then utilizing local generation as a form of automation based on how I like to do things.

I also take a pretty staunch health stance against eating animal proteins just because of factory farming, but if I were to be a refugee living in the woods I wouldn’t be against hunting and killing a small and rapidly reproducing animal like a rabbit to survive (so long as I’m doing everything from the kill to field dressing, etc.). I will avoid it as long as I have other methods to get the nutrition my body needs, though.

1. Arnold is mostly vegan since 2017, and was even part of a documentary on the misconceptions of plant protein
2. Just look at Patrick Baboumian, who is also a vegan (appeared in the same documentary)

And honestly, I’m just tired of animal suffering, man.

This and also factory farming being on a similar level of resource usage to cryptocurrencies (not sure how it stacks up to gen AI data centers)

OK, let me tell you about my many layers…

They seen humans shoving cucumbers in places and wanted to give it a shot

My dumbass would make it parenthetical. “My name is Bruce, the nat-han is silent.”

Some might say Autism, others will claim ADHD.

For me, though, they just slide in easier…

Awesome, 'preciate you. Lately the comments sections in shitposts have been fairly informative and helpful, and I’m glad I’m here for it!

Then I’m gonna invent “unleavened cucumber” and use Lavash instead

I’ve never seen the bread thing before, I wonder how it changes the pickle taste. Might have to give it a shot, fr!

I think at this point, any low-effort food meme goes. After all, what we eat always turns to shit…

At this point, it’s not habitual, it’s an addiction

One may even call it The String Cheese Incident

Grape. Damn. Popsicle.

You have to really look into this one. Now that I’ve slept and looked at it more, there are a lot of other things I can see that solidify this as gen AI. It took me a bit to get there, though, and I only had a vague thought that it even was at first.

Now couple this with Flock’s rushed out nightmare and the idea of arresting people for pre-crimes Minority Report-style and the dystopian future is now the present.

But yeah, I think we’re getting past the point where I can tell.

I think people like you and I will still have that sense going off, but it’s going to be harder to put into words why we feel that way, and will start to leak into our ideas on real photos. Regular folks already voted how they voted (and I’m not just talking about the USA), they will not ever take the time to analyze a photo like this, just like they never take the time to corroborate what the talking heads say with real data.

My slop-sense was going off like crazy too, but I couldn’t put my finger on it. There’s something really confusing to my brain about the wheels/tires on the van, the backends of the cars on the right, and the light sources, but the vanishing point seems mostly ok?

For that matter, the text also feels weird, but I chocked that up to photoshop since AI usually can’t do text that well.

Thanks, dodged a bullet on that one