i would recommend that everyone read Mark Twain’s War Prayer (here reprinted, ironically, by the US Marine Corps University). it was prescient and remains prescient
Mark Twain didn't stipulate the number of stars, it can used for a contemporary flag.
His exact words were:
And as for a flag for the Philippine Province, it is easily managed. We can have a special one—our States do it: we can have just our usual flag, with the white stripes painted black and the stars replaced by the skull and cross-bones.”
A skull and crossbones wouldsend a clear message about the consequences of imperialism. twain had a knack for dark humor, so it wouldn’t be out of character for him to use such imagery
I literally just used the magic wand tool on something from Google images. Wasn't being too careful with it, didn't really see a point. Anyone that wants to use it for anything will probably create a better version.
But it's not AI so it passes the bar for being acceptable
AI also uses considerably more potable water to create a worse product anyway so it's not like your precious plagiarism machine wins this moral victory anyway
The AI steals artwork without transparency as to where it is stealing from and profits from people using its company’s proprietary stealing technology.
It refutes the intellectual property rights of others yet asserts the existence of those rights for itself.
Although generating the image and making the image in this case appear similar at face value there are substantive differences.
No, but I do think that it's a bubble destined to burst, I also think that the data centers using up massive ammounts of water and electricity are unsustainable.
AI has some important uses, and some good general uses. But the vast majority of it is over leveraged capitalists stuck in a bubble pushing out dogshit that’s killing the planet and making people dumber
Yes it is. A better comparison would be "if you were alive in the 1800's you'd love steam engines". Eugenics and race science aren't disruptive technologies with benefits and downsides, they're just bad science and racism.
My question is, is it really necessary to identify him as, "Mark Twain (American writer)"? I mean, isn't he up there with Shakespeare, Picasso, and Mozart where we can just say the name and people will be expected to know?
For what I can remember never heard of him on my school days in Brazil, nor in theater, literature, or art classes I took in elementary and middle school. As for the other three, I heard about them in some way almost every year.
This has always been a nation at war. Whether with other nations or themselves, this nation has no idea of what true peace time prosperity looks like if it slapped them in the face. The sooner the global terrorist administration gets held accountable for their actions, the less damage they will be allowed to incur.
As much as I like this skit, it should be mentioned that many Allied units (or divisions or brigades or whatever the technically correct term is) had a skull, or skull and crossbones, in their insignia. Usually as a "memento mori" or otherwise "we're ready to die" kind of symbolism. And even the SS skull and crossbones is older than the Nazi party, even older than Germany as a unified country.
I don't know, this was originally created in response to American actions in the Philippines, which ranged from 'horribly brutal' to 'practically genocidal'. Like, the US nowadays is deeply imperialist and all too happy to use force in the name of retaining power and control over its vassals, but that is something which you can really say just as well about the post-Spanish-American War US.
Purely vexicologically speaking, I think the black and red stripes should be swapped, so you don't have this awkward place where one of the black stripes touches the black canton.
I'm gonna print this and put it on my car, and say it stands for law officer oppression... so when the cops pull me over they think I'm with them and let me go.
B-but you don't get it, this time is different! The most recent intervention is always different until 20 years pass and I pretend as if I was always against it.
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u/HebrewHamm3r Jan 03 '26
Unfortunately, this goes hard and would not be a good vehicle for criticism