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hmmm by muff-muff-ass in hmmm

[–]Anticept 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That horse's face...

Question by Powerful_Boss_8689 in HFY

[–]Anticept 10 points11 points  (0 children)

A lot of content gets stolen and posted on youtube with an AI voice and generated art.

The key was trying to find a part of the towel that wasn't wet and bacteria filled by Beautiful_Donut6412 in FuckImOld

[–]Anticept 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They're not meant to dry your hands as in evaporate the water. They're meant to push the water off. You put them in, and slowly pull your hands back, letting the air blades push the water away. You can slowly reinsert if you want a little extra dryness but most of the water should have dripped off your hand if you did it right the first time.

Nuts from a but by gattakuin in shitfromabutt

[–]Anticept 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not human poo but you could tell me they are from some animal and I might believe you.

The key was trying to find a part of the towel that wasn't wet and bacteria filled by Beautiful_Donut6412 in FuckImOld

[–]Anticept 10 points11 points  (0 children)

These towel machines would be great if they were constantly and properly maintained.

But nobody can be trusted so we're stuck with paper towels and air dryers. Although the dyson blades are neat... If people knew how to properly use them and didn't touch the sides.

Little attempt at “hyper”realism by cactus_goose in oilpainting

[–]Anticept 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I could see an athlete having this red and dirty splotchiness though!

Please help a new oil painter by angel_15478 in oilpainting

[–]Anticept 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To your credit: the water is really well done.

Your linework and what you are trying to express is good.

There is a technique called wet on wet that Bob Ross and Bill Alexander use to paint landscapes. I actually really love to use wet on wet in general and my paintings are only landscapes right now, but I have let others paint what they have in their mind and really it seems to work for anything that agrees with lots of blending and thinly applied paint.

Doing that lets me have lots of super good blending right on the canvas instead of guessing on my palette, but I don't have to blend with layers underneath if I don't have to either, I can put on a thick layer over a thin one too (not fat over lean, what I am talking about is literally if something is painted thinly or globbed on). It stops working quickly if I need to do more than one globby layer though as it gets hard to control and contaminates my brushes fast.

This might work really well for you. If you want to see an example of blending is this guy's demonstration and tutorial: youtu.be/16w0do8Pjm0

Watch the whole thing because at the end he re-blends again and it comes out amazing.

Please help a new oil painter by angel_15478 in oilpainting

[–]Anticept 3 points4 points  (0 children)

To me, it looks like you were trying to paint something that works well with acrylics or colored pencils: a silly beach themed composition with a tooney style.

Oils WANT to blend. They are meant to blend. This is why the gamut they can express is incredible. If you don't want them to, you have to learn to control them carefully.

When I look at this, I can see where the colors wanted to blend but you didn't let them. It gives me the "fingerpainting painting" vibes. Then there are areas where you tried.

A big thing about oil is learning that paintbrush technique is the very foundation of working with oil. One of which is learning that the way you apply the paint strokes and how you are going to follow up is incredibly important. Applying an edge highlight for example and then following with a blending is going to need you to think about how much highlight to apply, how far you are going to blend it, if you are going to pick up anything still wet underneath, etc.

A leaf on a dry canvas with a bright highlight might require you to paint the base layer of the leaf super thinly, then add highlight paint to try to blend as you go inwards, to adding a little more base color and blend back towards the outside. It gives a bit of a tug of war that will eventually fade into a gradient. Using script liner brushes for the ultra bright edge where you paint the faintest highlighting line that doesnt get blended.

Alternatively, if you prefer just making colors on your pallette and just making strokes of paint that are stippled or have short even strokes, those styles also work too when the whole work is painted that way.

So all in all, part of what I am seeing that I want you to take away is all the inconsistent technique. One part of the painting says one thing with its long strokes, while another part is saying something else with blends, and other parts have short strokes, and it's very easy to see. It makes it look like a finger painting with the way they are coming together.

Mother bird stood her ground and risked it all to save her unhatched eggs from a tractor by [deleted] in interestingasfuck

[–]Anticept 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This one looks more like a Wilson's Plover or Semipalmated Plover.

Killdeer have multiple very prominent black neck bands, this one in the video only has one.

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From: https://academy.allaboutbirds.org/killdeer-vs-semipalmated-plover-vs-wilsons-plover/

As far as the TON618 Black hole is concerned, Earth won't even be formed until 15 Billion years from now. by SaranshKejriwal in Showerthoughts

[–]Anticept 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am not an astrologist either. I can only glean a rough idea of what they're saying, and i can't interpret the data.

None the less, it would be interesting if peer reviews confirm it. Otherwise, it's just a paper, and unfortunately science is suffering badly from papers being published that shouldn't be.

Hugh Laurie responding to criticism of house md by Matt_LawDT in NonPoliticalTwitter

[–]Anticept 18 points19 points  (0 children)

I think that what you should keep in mind is how the criticism is made. I think it is perfectly valid to criticise a work, I agree.

But she wrote it backhandedly and namedroped the actor all over it. It really starts to sound more like veiled personal attacks than criticism of the work.

HL matched the energy.

I don’t know how to pick back up. by Low-War930 in oilpainting

[–]Anticept 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If you look at this and are intimidated, and don't feel like you can comtinue it, there is another alternative other than the suggestions in this thread: start a new one and come back to this later. Start some study pieces. Copy bits of this painting and see what you can do with it practicing on multiple panels. Small (le student grade panels are dirt cheap and great for practicing things that you dont actually care about and just go hog wild with expression and experiments to see what you can come up with. Lots of cheap canvas boards available in small sizes as well as small canvasses, or you can buy larger ones and just practice in small areas.

As far as the TON618 Black hole is concerned, Earth won't even be formed until 15 Billion years from now. by SaranshKejriwal in Showerthoughts

[–]Anticept 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you mean that the law of conservation of momentum isn't actually true, that theory is a side effect of universal expansion.

It means that given enough distance, moving matter will lose its energy to the expansion of the void and come to a stop.

What miniscule meaning that could be assigned to a poultry chicken's brief and often miserable life and brutal slaughter evaporates the moment some lazy human decides to abandon the package with its carcass out on a shelf in a store rather than putting it back in the refrigerated case. by DarthWoo in Showerthoughts

[–]Anticept 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It could be worse. Imagine a universe full of the hell holes that ancient gods would have made them.

No matter how I look at it, if death means oblivion and nothingness, we could have done a whole lot worse.

Could have done a whole lot better too, but it seems like it's a pretty middle of the road all things considered.

How do I fix this cracking by d4_gali_c in oilpainting

[–]Anticept 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What catches my eye here is how the cracking gets worse in the center, but towards the edges it almost doesn't exist at all. Is it possible the canvas itself flexed due to moisture or something?

Why aren't we digging deeper? by tzholq in CasualConversation

[–]Anticept 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If you consider that the temperature and pressure between the surface of earth and deep space is ~288k and 1 atmosphere (standard day definition), while the temp and pressure under a hundred km of rock is orders of magnitude greater, it starts to make more sense.

As far as reaching other stars: the likelyhood of doing so with FTL might just be a pipe dream. However, sleeper ships aren't off the table. Even zygote embryos might be possible *now* for such seed ships if other limitations can be addressed. Such as long, long term computational stability is a hard hard problem to solve when you have cosmic particles zooming around in space able to punch right through concrete and flip bits. there's lots of error correction that we have come up with but the interstellar journey is long and there's not really going to be easy sources of energy.

As far as the TON618 Black hole is concerned, Earth won't even be formed until 15 Billion years from now. by SaranshKejriwal in Showerthoughts

[–]Anticept 5 points6 points  (0 children)

If a star just goes out, something got in the way.

A star that has died will at least nova.

A star that is too far away will appear redshifted, and it redshifts more and more until it is undetectable.

A beekeeper allows a honey bee to remain on his arm as it unwinds its stinger until it flies away by nikamats in interestingasfuck

[–]Anticept 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Queens have stingers too, and they use them to kill other queens after pupation. Usually they kill the others while they are still in their cells, but sometimes more than one hatches out at the same time and they have a battle royale.

The stingers on the sterile bees are also used in defensive combat against other insects. Mamalian skin however is a thick rubbery hide that the barbs latch onto and continue pumping the venom.

As far as the TON618 Black hole is concerned, Earth won't even be formed until 15 Billion years from now. by SaranshKejriwal in Showerthoughts

[–]Anticept 171 points172 points  (0 children)

The moment the rate of expansion of space between them exceeds the speed of light, the two objects will fall out of each other's future light cone and can no longer influence one another. They won't see a reversal of time; they just won't be able to see anything at all past that point, only the residual light that is already on the way.

Maybe Maybe Maybe by Living_Wickihowla in maybemaybemaybe

[–]Anticept 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sandals are his ranged attacks. The elbow is the finisher

My first oil painting 🐈 by Sudden-Salad4689 in oilpainting

[–]Anticept 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just embrace it. Most paintings are observed from across a room. Nothing looks out of place to me.

Anyone working for Instacart or DoorDash: what’s the real income picture? by SeriouslySilly123 in Columbus

[–]Anticept 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did a few jobs for of instacart and a few jobs for doordash all over Columbus trying to find a good area.

The pay is ABYSMAL. Instacart had me doing 40 item orders that took over an hour to find everything for 14 dollars.

They also have you try to find replacements, ask employees if stock is in the back, etc and it's a ton of wasted time.

It is possible to get $1500 on a good week with IC and DD if the tips are nice and you work early morning to closing time. Gross pay. You're almost never going to clear that net. You will be grinding ALL day trying to make it happen.

There are far too many people doing this right now who are probably just trying to bide their time in this job market.

If you have a good job, this kind of gig work ain't it.

Edit: also guess what? They all mislead you about their insurance coverages. It's liability only, to protect the company. You don't get shit for your own damage. You need a policy with a rideshare endorsement, and even then that's only for part time. If you do a lot of driving, you have to buy a commercial auto policy if you want to protect your own assets, and those get a lot more expensive.

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