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  • The art did seem off to me, but it fits the style of some textbook diagrams. The number placement doesn’t seem like an error that an AI would make. I was unable to find any results in reverse image searches that were more than a few days old, so given the infamous piss filter on the image, I think the man and dog are AI generated but the text is lazily human placed (I cannot attest to the validity of the scientific claims but it also seems human written to me).

    In my research, I looked up the Medinaz watermark on the image. This educational publisher claims that their diagrams are “hand-drawn” and I was unable to find any other images published by them that match this art style, and all of their pages do not match the visual design above. Their infographics also tend to be a bit more campy or silly. Most of their images, but not the text, also have a watermark for Medinaz (sometimes shortened to Naz). Here is an example that could stand on its own as a meme:

    Further down the rabbit hole, I found a review accusing them of plagiarizing the text they published for First Aid. I also encountered a full pdf for their Cardiology book, which includes a page with a couple of copyrighted characters (The Queen of Hearts from Disney’s Alice in Wonderland, and Thomas the Tank Engine).

    Does Medinaz’s track record for disregarding intellectual property indicate that they would be willing to substitute their human artists for AI generated images? Or could they have stolen the image from elsewhere and slapped their watermark on it and published it as their own? Or could a separate party have added Medinaz’s watermark onto an image that they didn’t publish to affront them somehow? If somebody can find a Medinaz book with this image in it, we may have an answer.

  • I guess I had initially interpreted “normal” meaning the percent of people who have once in their life held that job, rather than the percent of people holding the job at any given time.

  • I thought being a soldier stood a fair chance, at least at the time of original publication. Not sure if your data considers that position?

  • Most of those are less normal than what I was aiming for. Even being a reporter seemed too uncommon for what I wanted to list.

  • Ant-Man as a Baskin-Robbins cashier? Peter Parker as a pizza delivery boy? Captain America and many others as soldiers? Many X-Men are teachers, albeit for a specialized school. Robbie Reyes Ghost Rider is a mechanic. Can’t think of any DC characters that fit the bill apart from maybe Jay Garrick Flash as a college athlete.

  • Checker_of_Vibes1 but not checker of my local calendar

  • “Sin” means without in Spanish, but “syn” is derived from with in Greek

  • The woke Trump administration again persecuting Christians and attacking their rites

  • I’ll just give you Phil Collins and call it good

  • I don’t dispute the male attributes. The superposition of gendered entities is what someone could argue makes God not just “a male” but rather “multiple males in one”. Is there any history of people with dissociative identity disorder (DID) identifying as some level of not-straight on the basis of their DID? Are there any other analogous cases that have been linked to identifying as not one of the two main genders due to a level of plurality?

  • God is three entities: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. That sounds like an extension of the nonbinarism of Two Spirit to me.

  • The condescension and man-splaining thing is difficult and is definitely a trained part of a male-dominated culture/sub-culture if it is based on prejudice. The chainsaw incident might have come from a genuine place of concern and caution since power tools can be dangerous, even variants of tools somebody has experience with. I personally struggle with gauging my expectations of how familiar any random person would be with something I’m bringing up, especially if it’s something I’ve had other people confused by in the past. I usually say “Have you heard of X?” or “How familiar are you with X?” to try to avoid either scenario of my audience thinking that I’m condescending them or them being lost about a subject they know nothing about.

  • I usually just say “I’m not superstitious” or “That’s not for me” and leave it and my level of involvement with their beliefs to my audience’s interpretation. As for your friend’s partner and your complicit friend, “Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities” - Voltaire.

  • I think it really depends on the demographics of the immediate society somebody finds themself within. The presence or absence of specific spirituality or religious beliefs is really important to a lot of people and can make up a significant portion of who they are. Just as the commenter is requiring an absence of certain beliefs, there are others in the dating pool who are requiring the presence of these beliefs, and the commenter wouldn’t have a healthy relationship if they have to fake who they are to be with somebody.

  • Maybe carpool after getting to know each other and feeling comfortable/safe together?

  • A shared life is probably cheaper than two separate lives. Two people paying for one home tends to be cheaper per person than one person paying for one home. If you both are going to an event, then you only pay for the gas that goes into one car instead of two cars. Insurances and taxation might vary from place to place as to if they are cheaper per person as a couple.

    She might also have a different lifestyle that is overall less expensive (ex. more frequently cooking at home instead of eating out, shopping at cheaper stores).

  • women continually declaring what they want in men, but not really wanting that.

    That’s something I’ve noticed sometimes as well, and I hoped that there’d be women (or even some confused men or nonbinaries) answering this post and a discussion would follow which would help both them and others understand what they’re really after.

    demand toxic behavior in a dating context

    This is something I’ve seen as well, but I think of it as a separate issue as the previous one. If somebody wants a sugar daddy/mommy/whatever, that’s entirely different than an actual relationship.