jonhendry

@froztbyte @angrystego

To be fair they all too often have less agency about getting pregnant than they should, and getting pregnant is something women may fear or dread depending on the circumstances such as “was it rape” “is he abusive” “that’d really fuck up my career that is finally getting going” and “am I in Texas or Florida or Georgia or…”

Also, accidents happen, probably even with birth control defense in depth.

@V0ldek @angrystego

That doesn’t really apply to a guy you only know as Dewar number 27, does it? Raising a child with that person isn’t in the cards except by very unlikely coincidence.

@V0ldek @sue_me_please

IVF isn’t required if fertility concerns or frozen eggs aren’t involved, they can give you the home game.

And it should be no surprise that sperm banks want to be able to compete on the “quality” of their donors.

Just watch out for the bank that is 75% doctor jizz but it’s all from the proprietor.

@gerikson

Now if it was Brian Johnson from AC/DC, I bet it'd be awesome.

@YourNetworkIsHaunted

“Wait… oh my God you weren’t already doing that???”

I'm not at all surprised given it wasn't exactly started in the present form by people with money to hire consultants who would know to do those things.

For the first mumble years there probably wasn't much involvement by kids at all so it would never have occurred to them. Or there were some kids but not the forums or other potential settings for adult misconduct.

@V0ldek

Yeah I'm not dismissing that. It's a big ass shark in a tank.

Or the guy who made a cast of his own head using his own frozen blood, that's kept in a special refrigerated display case.

@corbin

I just mean "weird" in terms of “valued far higher than the average person might expect” but I'm not implying that that value isn't merited. I'm not one to dismiss a Rothko.

@dgerard

I had a bit making an exception for the value of "fine art" because that can get weird, like “unmade bed with a bunch of trash around it” or a signed urinal.

But I seem to have left that part on the cutting room floor.

If a piece of purely prompt-generated AI art hits a price like a shark in formaldehyde I strongly suspect it'll be some kind of inorganic AI industry insider self-dealing to hype up the AI art market, similar to the big Beeple NFT sale.

@Crampon

AI artists are just the new version of "fractal artists" who for the most part just pick a color palette and run a Mandelbrot generator until they find an appealing image.

It's not nothing but it's not going to get you very far.

@YungOnions

What do you mean value?

Emotional value? No. Many parents value their small child's drawings.

Market value? Mostly yes. Especially in commercial art like art commissioned for book covers. Untalented artists aren't going to be very successful.

@SpaceNoodle

It gets led to them. By a human.

@o7___o7

There's a hospital in France where a horse visits the patients. In the hospital. There was a thing in The Guardian about it a few years back.