@sickburnbro@Wiz Now it's mostly store brand with nowhere near the variety it had. It used to feel like Easter whenever I went there, now it feels like I'm poor.
@sickburnbro@Wiz It used to be a closeout store where you could buy discontinued products from brand names for cheap, e.g. half price Tide, but then it shifted away from that and there were no more bargains to be had.
@DEERBLOOD@Kerosene@Shadowman311@yockeypuck The master's pupil presented him with bamboo prints of an imperial decree, one beneficial to the master's beliefs, and he immediately declared "Mmmm, yes, very real!"
It was at that moment that his pupil achieved enlightenment that a junzi (君子) does not waste a second glance to ascertain authenticity or provenance of bamboo prints that agree with his position, for this is the way of heaven.
@Humpleupagus@ForbiddenDreamer@skylar@Dudebro@0@MisterLister You married a Mexican that's Whiter than you. You haven't done yard work in decades. She does it which means she's brown. A brown woman is whiter than you. You are a nigger. Q.E.D.
@sickburnbro@ceo_of_monoeye_dating@BronzeAgeHogCranker Yes, and in this case if every tech company is using the same algorithm or even worse the same open source image compression library to produce jpgs then you'll see the same type of artifacts in real and AI generated images.
@ceo_of_monoeye_dating@BronzeAgeHogCranker@sickburnbro What you view as extreme retardation is industry standard practice. These algorithms are a flaw of the digital medium, even analog cameras are not immune and have their own artifacts.