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Hey.
So, as I have discussed it with some of you here, our almonds have been activated, but even weaponised autism bodies need the fuel.
All jokes aside, inflation is crazy everywhere. Just ordering some stuff was viable some time ago, but it's getting less so. Plus, tasty food is good for your general well-being and making it so is not only a skill all adults should have in my opinion (you are strong, independent adults, learn life skills that make you depend less on everyone else), but it can also be fun.
As much as I would love to feed you all, that's obviously impossible. The next best thing is, I curate a little collection of recipes and break it down so you can make it with relatively simple ingredients that don't depend on specific brands and using from scratch stuff as much as it is viable. Making your own pasta and churning your own butter would be fun, but I work a full time jerb that's not ASMR whisper cooking on Tiktok in a peasant dress.
It's going to be a combination of food from all different kinds. Some Hungarian (none of the war crimes Americans call goulasch), some Asian, some inauthentic shit that will get you cancelled, some mains, pasta, soups, desserts.
So gather around, my friends and eat like kings.
1st Place: u/arglide
2nd Place TIE: u/Norenia and u/Eltrion
This was a very difficult contest to judge because all the submissions had good things going for them in different areas. Norenia and Eltrion's pieces had strong kinetic posing, and arglide's piece used the chocobo and the blocking to set up a starting beat to an action scene. In my opinion everybody had an argument, but a winner must be called, so I went with the piece that was most intriguing to me. Congrats everyone!
Welcome to AikiA I, an art contest on KiA2 using only AI images! AI capabilities have made it possible to translate ideas into art simply by directing a model. Contrary to complaints about AI slop, I think this could substantially widen the band of human creativity, as many more visions can be realized in much less time. This contest is an attempt to help make that happen.
- Prompt
This contest's prompt is an action scene with Tifa Lockhart. Any version (FF7 original, Advent Children, etc) and any art style (anime, realism, Ghibli, Disney, etc) works. *Any other character or setting can be included. Don't think you're limited to motion shots either. Poses that would happen on key beats are also part of the prompt, like this or this. (I don't think these are amazing shots by themselves, but you get the point.)
Comment below with your suggestions for future prompts!
- Rules
- Upload and link images using catbox.moe in the comments on this post
- *Limit 1 entry per person, but you can replace your entry until submissions close if you want to revise.
- 1300 pixels is the max of the longest side of the image. This is easy to game (i.e. generating HD and resizing), so it's on the honor system.
- All secondary techniques are allowed, such as LoRAs, inpainting, refinement passes, etc, EXCEPT ControlNet or reference images. This is so people won't just draw the art and color it with an AI, and also to encourage freshness. Also on the honor system.
- No overt erotic imagery, such as cameltoe etc. I reserve the right to use the Miller test.
- Submitters should provide their model, prompts, LoRAs, and other parameters upon request.
- Judging criteria
The judgment criteria is based on two factors: fidelity (technical quality of art) and expression (the depth, originality, and effectiveness of sentiment expressed).
I'll be the judge for this contest. Everyone's biased, including me, but let me know if you see a problem. I reserve the right to change anything if needed.
- Scheduling
Submissions will be open today and Friday or until u/DomitiusofMassilia stickies this thread, whichever comes last. So if Dom doesn't sticky until Sunday, submissions will be open until then.
- Winning
Contest winners *and their winning submissions will be recorded on future AikiA threads as a hall of fame. (Sorry, no prizes right now, not sure if Scored supports flairs etc. If we do get prizes up and running, they'll be retroactively given to winners)
That should be everything. Good luck everyone, hope you have fun!
- Future contests
Comment with ideas for the next prompts!
Again, not my words
THE DYING TIME BEGINS ANEW Get used to hearing: “We could have saved lives but chose not to.”
Radio Free Mars | Thaddeus Howze
Let me begin by saying this: I mourn the lives lost in last night’s tornado. Every one of them mattered. Every one of them might have been saved.
And now let me say what others won’t: these deaths were preventable. They are not merely the result of extreme weather — they are the consequence of deliberate political choices.
These are the wages of austerity, ignorance, and ideological sabotage. They are the first major fatalities caused by a weakened U.S. National Weather Service (NWS) and a gutted National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) — casualties of the so-called “government reduction program” pushed by Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and the billionaire sycophants of deregulation.
Programs like DO(d)GE (the Department of Government Efficiency) don’t exist to improve public infrastructure. They exist to dismantle it.
These deaths are not accidents of nature. They are policy outcomes.
The same people who dismiss climate science and slash scientific budgets now preside over a system that can no longer protect its people. Tornadoes don’t wait for press conferences. Storms don’t care about polls. But they respond to physics, to data, and to warning systems that once worked — until they were stripped for parts.
We are entering an era where unpredictable devastation will be met with predictable silence. Where disasters will be followed by “thoughts and prayers,” but not by reform or funding. Where warnings come too late — if at all.
Let history record this moment.
Let it say: this was the storm that proved neglect can kill just as surely as wind. And let it also say: we were warned.
Brace yourselves: Summer will be a killing season. Extreme heat will affect hundreds of millions simultaneously.
Weather patterns will bring unprecedented rainfall and storm surges that overwhelm drainage systems and breach every failing levee and sewage pipe.
Windstorms, dust storms, haboobs, and tornadoes will sweep across entire regions, leaving wreckage and death in their wake.
From the over-warm Atlantic and Gulf Coasts, hurricanes of immense size and ferocity will rise — storms made monstrous by a superheated climate. They will carve deadly paths through coastal communities, and without early warnings, many will not escape.
We once had those warnings — timely, precise, and life-saving — issued by a well-funded, fully staffed National Weather Service.
Not anymore.
And when the storm passes, you may look for help — but FEMA will not be there in force. Fragmented and underfunded, the Federal Emergency Management Agency has been hollowed out by the same policies that gutted science.
Every state will be left to fend for itself, with disaster response determined by political will and available funds. In many red states, that funding is nonexistent, and so is the will to prepare.
Policy will decide who lives. Policy will decide who dies. And most disturbingly: policy will decide who gets your home when you're gone.
If you think you’ll be made whole again, study your state’s insurance laws. Many of them will not work in your or your family’s favor when disaster strikes.
This isn’t just climate change. This is climate betrayal.
Welcome to "disaster capitalism" with you as the star. If you survive, the battle will have only just begun.
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Remember, this guy is making money by declaring the world is on fire and will be destroyed by his enemies. This is all just theatrics.
Remember 20 years ago when liberals were still pretending like they supported race blindness and told us off for being racist. Now they are openly anti White but they used to at least pretend that they were just being race blind before. But even last time they were only ever lecturing White people to be race blind and they never ever told black people that they should be race blind even when black people were racist back than too.
White people assumed back then that being anti racist and race blind meant being against racism against Whites as well but this has NEVER been the case. The anti racist have NEVER lectured black people for being racist against Whites . People think that ignoring anti White racism is a new thing but it isn't.
In the communist world view, White people are not allowed to be racist because White people are the oppressors while black people can be racist because they are the oppressed.
I have another question for you all. I am 35. Still wear the same pants I wore back near the end of high school. Still look the same as I did a decade prior. Got a couple grey hairs in my chest fur… And that is it. Everyone told me I would be in pain in my thirties and wouldn’t want to do anything, but I have just much energy as I did when I was a kid. I don’t look or feel any different from when I was in my late twenties.
I go out with several buddies, some with kids, some without. Same deal. They haven't slowed down at all. We have discussed this a few times bar hopping. Brought it up to some old men in their fifties who... Honestly, I wouldn't have guessed they were in their fifties. Forties tops. Blew my mind, the way they drink and party.
My question is… Why is this an American myth? Feminists being resentful of men aging gracefully? The r select being angry at the k select? Endomorphs raging at ectomoporhs and mesomorphs walking through less affected by time? Everyone throughout my life has told me when you hit your thirties you will be in pain after waking up sleeping on the wrong side of the bed. You can't drink as much. Your dick won't be hard. Where does this shit come from?
