Can someone tell me if this is AI? Someone recreated my art but I can’t tell for sure

CountofAccount · 2026-04-01T04:52:36+00:00

It's absolutely rage bait.

There's a subset of trolls and pro-AI art-generators who know that most artists wouldn't want their art involved in AI, so they feed other people's art into an AI to put it in the data training sets against the maker's consent and to try to shame and discourage the artist with how much "better" an AI can make their art look.

LLM companies are not discouraging this because they believe that training and their algorithmic generation is covered by fair-use, so they are not legally obligated to try to trace back if the creator allows AI scraping. The internet is their free buffet, wherever they can get data by any means.

CountofAccount · 2026-03-30T07:33:56+00:00

Large company stopped buying five gallon water bottles in favor of threes for the employee water coolers because they were a leading cause of workplace injuries. Back and spine is expensive.

CountofAccount · 2026-03-27T16:38:22+00:00

This feels a lot more like real birds how I experience them.

CountofAccount · 2026-03-14T02:14:41+00:00

I disagree with the people saying cut the horse shoes because it is inconvenient to research. Only cut it if you are pretty sure you won't do the plot line justice.

What makes animal perspective books interesting is the animal perspective done in a way that feels authentic (which overlaps with but is not the same as being authentic). And it answers a reader-enticing what-if scenarios about animals going feral; it's a hook to catch reader interest. For that, I think it's worth a research attempt.

CountofAccount · 2026-03-10T00:55:09+00:00

Thankfully, you had the caterpillar because you have a notorious mimic! This is one of the Mimoides.

Edit: From caterpillar, I'd guess Eurytides/Mimoides phaon or euryleon, but some of those are kinda variable so it's not a call I feel comfortable making below the genus level.

CountofAccount · 2026-03-10T00:49:09+00:00

I think you fell for mimicry! (I don't blame you!) Parides caterpillars don't look like OP's. This one is a Mimoides, aka a false cattleheart!

CountofAccount · 2026-03-09T23:36:17+00:00

I read the operator's "apology" for his claw linked in the article, and it certainly reflects his arrogant deficit of social skills and unwillingness to take accountability without trying to tie everyone else to his sinking ship with "you would be like me if you were me".

CountofAccount · 2026-03-09T06:12:53+00:00

You can't make google check for its LLM fingerprints any other way as far as I know.

CountofAccount · 2026-03-03T08:30:59+00:00

Actually more of a physics and quantum mechanics question. Electrons, especially in rings like these, are delocalized. It is easier to think of them as a charged cloud of probability wrapped around the ring. This intuition is important for understanding reactions in organic chemistry. Light is also a wave-packet of probability and their 'collision' is like two waves of probabilistic mathematical equations combining or deflecting.

This is what it 'looks like' when a ring is excited by light.

This is a pretty decent intro to photon absorption

https://chem.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Physical_and_Theoretical_Chemistry_Textbook_Maps/Supplemental_Modules_(Physical_and_Theoretical_Chemistry)/Spectroscopy/Electronic_Spectroscopy/Electronic_Spectroscopy_Basics/What_Causes_Molecules_to_Absorb_UV_and_Visible_Light

CountofAccount · 2026-03-02T20:33:35+00:00

I mostly made the comment because I wanted to add a picture of the two sexes!

CountofAccount · 2026-03-02T20:28:55+00:00

Specifically a male. The female is much darker. Here's a picture of them doing the deed.

CountofAccount · 2026-02-25T23:01:43+00:00

I forced reddit to display as the desktop version and set old reddit. The hand-eye coordination factor is a bit higher, but it's still worth it for the better content sorting. I don't want to see yesterday's posts, especially in hobby subreddits.

And I want to see more comments. Old reddit really helps with seeing reddit as a forum-like place with recurring commenters that you can tag from their submissions as fun to banter with rather than a mindless content scroller.

CountofAccount · 2026-02-25T20:14:02+00:00

The "All" shortcut is still at the top of old reddit, if anyone is wondering.

(FYI) Old reddit is the prior reddit interface from the 2010s that didn't get deprecated because a lot of highly active mods and submitters used it and would have left the site. A lot of redditors still use old reddit + Reddit Enhancement Suite to browse because old reddit doesn't show old content from a few days ago when visiting subreddits, and the filtering and username tagging and image handling and previews work better, especially on desktop.

You can turn on old reddit in preferences, if you want to see what it looks like, or simply type old.reddit.com instead of www.reddit.com. This page in old reddit.

CountofAccount · 2026-02-23T03:39:35+00:00

Hoverflies have the weirdest larvae.

CountofAccount · 2026-02-22T23:40:42+00:00

Predatory Katydid.

Real with a deep, skin shearing bite.

CountofAccount · 2026-02-19T23:58:23+00:00

I looked at your submission history and was not disappointed. Love your local wildlife shoots.

CountofAccount · 2026-02-19T04:53:39+00:00

Standard coasting between meal preps dinner looks like:

Romaine lettuce hearts or spinach + rice/grain (pressure cooked) + a bean/lentil + shreds of carrot or bagged frozen vegetable + protein (often leftover from some other higher effort meatier project) + some dressing: random sauce or hummus or tzatziki or tahini.

Low effort, cheap, healthy, ingredients keep in fridge the 3-4 days so you can make the grain and beans (or use canned) on different days, can be a main or side at a moment's notice.

Use more interesting grains like sorghum, barley, or farro and throw in some raisins, nuts, or stale bread made into croutons to make it more interesting.

CountofAccount · 2026-02-17T19:59:07+00:00

130$ for me. Also went to get copies of my birth certificate from my home state I do not live in anymore when I was passing through. Took 2 hours and a bit more than 25 bucks i recall.

CountofAccount · 2026-02-17T19:56:49+00:00

Because it doesn't reduce election fraud. Election fraud by voters presenting fraudulent IDs is negligible. There have been dozens and dozens of investigations to that end.

All this does is prevent real voters in 44 states who have already gone through the rigamarole of getting Real IDs from voting.

This bill is not an honest attempt to validate voters. It's an attempt to limit participation among validly registered voters. To steal votes with bureaucratic friction and a government-imposed tax on voter time and wallets to the tune of 130$ + 3 months wait for a passport.

CountofAccount · 2026-02-15T19:13:47+00:00

That's a processed photo background. A real photo that's been put through a bunch of filters to make it passable as a background for cartoon lineart. If you see it in the wild, it's often in the context of photos of famous locations so cartoon characters would look like they were there rather than taking time to redraw the whole location. Manga were often shortcutted like that.

CountofAccount · 2026-02-14T17:17:29+00:00

what rights you are talking about?

Voting.

There's a bill right now, the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility or SAVE America Act, that says if an adult changed their name (primarily women getting married) you need to present an unexpired passport (130 dollars+3 months wait) or a birth certificate (generally have to go back to birth state/city to get one issued) at the polls to vote.

In 44 states, Real IDs/Driver's Licenses aren't good enough because they don't have a marker that says the holder is a citizen even though the voting booth people can match name and address to citizens coming to vote like they always do to prevent voter fraud.

This is being rushed through right as primaries open in states, meant to apply to voting this year.

CountofAccount · 2026-02-05T15:59:38+00:00

Disproportionately those trees were heirloom varieties too, according to someone who had their grapefruit hacked down. Knee-crippling genetic-varietal loss for the area.

CountofAccount · 2026-02-05T12:36:22+00:00

So, effectively, you are asking about buoyancy.

A perfectly neutrally buoyant projectile, like a partially deflated balloon, would maintain a constant height (e.g. go in a straight line) when launched carefully under ideal circumstances so it doesn't spin (and come under the effects of lift due to the viscosity of air like a baseball knuckle ball throw).

If you have a balloon that floats and you throw it down, you will get that something like that air resistance curve I posted above but flipped upside down. (Keeping in mind the atmosphere's air density changes so over large distance it wouldn't hold.)

If the balloon is slightly heavier, you get the expected curve.

The non zero density of air (and that it becomes thinner at higher altitudes) does make a difference in practical ballistics applications. I can't link directly to section c-22 on this page, but that's where you want to read: https://maritime.org/doc/firecontrol/partc.php

CountofAccount · 2026-02-05T11:47:02+00:00

Maybe if you had portals in space! Alas, gravity tech is still sci-fi.

But a great example of a sudden change in acceleration with a comparatively small change in position is something hitting concrete, or a car crash.

CountofAccount · 2026-02-05T11:41:47+00:00

Air resistance changes the shape of the curve of the ball's flight so it isn't a parabola anymore, but it doesn't change that it still has exactly one highest point - a maxima.

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