Post a picture, entertain me!

Hah! Yeah, hilarious! Nuclear destruction is the funniest thing ever!

Serious question - would you like me to remove the image or are you just saying it is not funny and annoys you?

I am happy to remove it if it is offensive to you.

I think it is far too loaded to be in a lighthearted thread like this and should be removed.

As always, your willingness to remove at the slightest pushback is appreciated. Thanks Farley.

Sure did make me laugh though, because it reminds me of my wife's hilariously poor understanding of history which runs something like "cavemen, then Hitler, then here we are today"

Jonman wrote:

Sure did make me laugh though, because it reminds me of my wife's hilariously poor understanding of history which runs something like "cavemen, then Hitler, then here we are today"

Well, she is close. She only skipped the pyramids, right?

Jonman wrote:

Sure did make me laugh though, because it reminds me of my wife's hilariously poor understanding of history which runs something like "cavemen, then Hitler, then here we are today"

Your wife is American, right?

ClockworkHouse wrote:
Jonman wrote:

Sure did make me laugh though, because it reminds me of my wife's hilariously poor understanding of history which runs something like "cavemen, then Hitler, then here we are today"

Your wife is American, right?

I know, it's amazing she got Hitler, right?

farley3k wrote:

Serious question - would you like me to remove the image or are you just saying it is not funny and annoys you?

I am happy to remove it if it is offensive to you.

It was in very bad taste. Do with that as you wish.

Not sure how this one got past the people at Nintendo. From the new Minecraft character pack DLC for Smash Bros on Switch.

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I think the people at nintendo put it in. well actually, maybe they took it out, but then they probably put it back in.

IMAGE(https://i.imgur.com/L58Bfco.jpeg)

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I really thought that was two people in breakfast fajita costumes.

I haven't ate meat in over 30 years. I have given up trying to understand why anyone would take a life for 10 minutes of their own pleasure.

GoldenDog wrote:

I haven't ate meat in over 30 years. I have given up trying to understand why anyone would take a life for 10 minutes of their own pleasure.

If you'll just step into my heavily soundproofed murder basement, I'll can show you in about ten minutes.

GoldenDog wrote:

I haven't ate meat in over 30 years. I have given up trying to understand why anyone would take a life for 10 minutes of their own pleasure.

I can answer that for you - I don't assign moral value to the life of a chicken.

I entirely understand the callousness of that position, and I'm fine with it.

I have a problem with abusive farming practices, but i don't have a fundamental problem with a well cared for life, followed by a painless death and serving to provide nutrition to others. That's not particularly different from the life wild animals live, nor a different end (predation is not usually painless even.) In particular not for species that would literally not exist were it not for their utility as nutrition providers. The taking of life for nutrition is unavoidable for heterotrophs. Plants are alive in the same ways animals are.

Which is only to explain where and why I draw my lines, not do judge you for where you draw yours or try to change that. We each have to make peace with our heterotrophy in our own way.

The problem is im lazy.... and i need a metric frick load of protein to keep me afloat. but yes, i effing hate how brutal we are to animals in industrialized meat industry. honestly, one of the things I dislike most about my behavior.

I'm really looking forward to the impossible burger or other impossible meats though when they taste the same and cost the same.

I have eaten meat over the past 30+ years. I have given up trying to understand why anyone would take a picture of the damn thing for ten seconds of their own pleasure.

Archangel wrote:

I have eaten meat over the past 30+ years. I have given up trying to understand why anyone would take a picture of the damn thing for ten seconds of their own pleasure.

This. The urge to whip out a phone and take a picture of food is astonishing to me. It's the antithesis of being present in the moment (and, incidentally, the reason I rarely take photos while traveling) and especially for food, does anyone really care about what you ate? If someone delays a meal because they need to get a shot of it, then they're no friend of mine. If they start rearranging stuff on the table, they get slapped. If they start rearranging *my* stuff, they end up in the murder basement.

GoldenDog wrote:

I haven't ate meat in over 30 years. I have given up trying to understand why anyone would take a life for 10 minutes of their own pleasure.

I believe that plants are just as complex, fascinating, and worthy of existence as animals. So I can either starve to death or accept the way nature works.

Not that the modern American diet is anything close to a natural diet. I'll freely cop to my failings there.

Coldstream wrote:

This. The urge to whip out a phone and take a picture of food is astonishing to me. It's the antithesis of being present in the moment (and, incidentally, the reason I rarely take photos while traveling) and especially for food, does anyone really care about what you ate? If someone delays a meal because they need to get a shot of it, then they're no friend of mine. If they start rearranging stuff on the table, they get slapped. If they start rearranging *my* stuff, they end up in the murder basement.

I never really understood or appreciated soccer until I had a job that involved video recording soccer games. Something about framing the action in the camera forced me to pay attention to and focus on it in a way that I'd never been able to before. I'm rather grateful for discovering an appreciation of the sport this way, and I would disagree that photography is "the antithesis of being present in the moment."

I also know just enough about fine dining to know that the visual presentation of the food is an important part of the experience. So I can't really begrudge someone from taking a moment to be mindful about their food rather than immediately cramming it unceremoniously into a gaping maw.

Coldstream wrote:

This. The urge to whip out a phone and take a picture of food is astonishing to me. It's the antithesis of being present in the moment (and, incidentally, the reason I rarely take photos while traveling) and especially for food, does anyone really care about what you ate? If someone delays a meal because they need to get a shot of it, then they're no friend of mine. If they start rearranging stuff on the table, they get slapped. If they start rearranging *my* stuff, they end up in the murder basement.

Just earlier this morning, I was hunting for a photo from 6 years ago on my hard drive. As I was scanning through folder upon folder of uncurated photos, I ran across several of food my wife and I had cooked, and they were brilliant reminders of times we'd had together that I'd otherwise entirely forgotten about.

Which to me, is the entire point of taking photographs. I'm not doing it out of artistic creativity, it's a literal aide memoir. I have a bad memory to begin with, and my wife has aphantasia, so literally cannot remember what things look like unless she documents them.

Being present in the moment is good and all, but sometimes you want to be able to be present in that moment later, and that's where the pictures come in.

I take pictures of food in two circumstances:

  • I made it, and I want to show off how good my cooking looks
  • I know someone who would be jealous of what I'm eating and want them to know

If I can hit both of those at the same time? That's the best.

I have never yet taken a picture of food, but I can easily imagine doing it for something that was exceptionally attractive.

But no, I wouldn't rearrange the table, I'd just pop out my phone, snap a pic, and put the phone away again. Any further processing or posting of said picture would happen from my desktop.

My fiancé likes to take pictures of food but mostly stuff she has made. Like this pie she made yesterday:

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Wait a tic, you all eat food?

GoldenDog wrote:

I haven't ate meat in over 30 years. I have given up trying to understand why anyone would take a life for 10 minutes of their own pleasure.

For what it's worth, I feel you on this one (although your 30 years has my 7 years beat, wowsers and kudos). Give it time, things are changing.

Hobear wrote:

Wait a tic, you all eat food?

I'm a breatherian.