Interesting. I had the same advice in mind for you. Amazing how that works.
Buh-bye idiot guy.
ZDL
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Oh, I'm aware that "no assholes" is an impossible dream. But if I start seeing assholes and idiots increasingly attached to specific instances, it's incentive to perhaps just drop that instance. Different instances have different moderation policies and different target communities. For example "hilariouschaos" is an instance for people who've never left that 13-year old sniggering stage where "bewbs" is a word with intrinsic hilarity. So I can axe them comfortably.
Especially if the image is poisoned.
There's a few things here that tell me it's probably not copyright-theft-generated. The big one that's easy to explain is the tail. The tail starts off from behind the mouse, snakes in front of the cloak and background (so far so good), but then, here's the critical thing, passes behind the fern staff and continues on the other side of it, positioned properly and in continuity.
Copyright-theft-generators have tremendous problems with this because, as the chorus goes, they don't understand anything. There is no mental model of "a tail" with them. There is no thought of a tail's properties, so keeping a tail contiguous while passing across barriers is very hard for them.
Kreepy Kaptain Ketamine.
Huh. This is what the consequences of my actions taste like.
That's what Kaptain Ketamine should be saying, but won't.
I must confess to requiring assistance here.
Oh, I'd drop them in a heartbeat if their quality dropped or their pricing increased to stupid levels. I don't do brand loyalty. I do brand identity as shortcut: currently Sinloy is a top-notch coffee provider and it's just easier to keep buying from them as long as they meet my needs.
I'd be down for that. Having pretty between all the goons would be a relief.
… What is that?
Not just this brand but this specific product and indeed this specific roast.
Sinloy was the first company in China to take coffee culture seriously, almost single-handedly creating the entire Yunnan coffee industry. They're primarily known for sourcing the local beans, obviously, but also do some importing of coffees from as far afield as Ethiopia and everywhere in between. Their quality control is very high, their roasters are top-notch, and yet their price remains very reasonable.
I buy 250g of this specific coffee (Yunnan "Red Wine" sun-dried SOE coffee) every two weeks and if I miss a purchase, that's a few days of suffering as I wait for them to roast and ship it. (They small-batch roast to demand.)
Ah. The patsy. Got it.