MacN'Cheezus

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Cake day: November 29th, 2023

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  • “Sir, can I interest you in a late night snack?”

    Made with DALL-E 3.

    Prompt: A photorealistic, anthropomorphic cat vendor at a bustling night market, selling grilled rats on skewers. The cat stands upright, wearing a traditional street vendor apron and a conical hat or headwrap, with expressive eyes and a sly smile. Its food stall is lit by warm lantern light, with smoke rising from a small charcoal grill. Grilled rats on sticks are neatly displayed on a tray. The background shows other night market stalls, colorful hanging lights, and a lively crowd. The atmosphere is moody and cinematic, with deep shadows and vibrant highlights, blending elements of Asian street market culture with whimsical fantasy.

    At first pass, the grilled rats did not look very convincing, so I fixed them using Fooocus’s inpainting feature. This required about a dozen or so attempts, as the engine seems to have difficulty creating convincing grilled rats, so I finally opted for these more shish kabob looking things.


  • MacN'CheezustoGreentext@sh.itjust.worksAnon uses Windows
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    11 hours ago

    I’m on Windows 11 and I don’t recall ever seeing a pop-up like this but it looks like a standard notification from the Microsoft Store App, which means it SHOULD be possible to suppress by turning off notifications for that app (Open Settings, go to System -> Notifications -> Microsoft Store and just set the toggle to “Off”).

    Yes, that turns off ALL Notifications for the Store App, but it doesn’t really have any useful ones anyways so it’s not a big loss.





  • $50 billion is literally more than a quarter of their entire GDP (which means it could be as much as or at least close to their entire tax revenue for the year). Sure, banks routinely lend people up to 5-10 times their annual income, but that’s to buy a house, which is likely to increase in value if maintained properly, and which they get to repossess if they fail to make payments.

    Meanwhile, military equipment to be used in an active war is likely to see at least major wear and tear, and at high risk of getting completely destroyed in the process, and there is no guarantee whatsoever that it’ll help them win the war. And even if they win, they haven’t really won anything because they’re just defending already existing territory, and they’re sacrificing the lives of millions of men in the process, which will then be lacking in their workforce, potentially leading to economic stagnation for decades. And for that reason, I’m out.