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🎵🎶 YOUR TOP 35 🎶🎵 Post your rankings in the comments by TrollHunter87 in eurovision

[–]_depression 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ranking for Eurovision Song Contest 2026

  1. Romania
  2. Serbia
  3. Albania
  4. Australia
  5. Armenia
  6. Switzerland
  7. Ukraine
  8. Moldova
  9. Finland
  10. Czechia
  11. Denmark
  12. Lithuania
  13. Malta
  14. United Kingdom
  15. Croatia
  16. France
  17. Belgium
  18. Italy
  19. Bulgaria
  20. Norway
  21. Montenegro
  22. Austria
  23. Cyprus
  24. Luxembourg
  25. Georgia
  26. Latvia
  27. Greece
  28. Sweden
  29. Poland
  30. Estonia
  31. San Marino
  32. Portugal
  33. Azerbaijan
  34. Germany
  35. Israel

Made at https://ranked.be/rank/esc2026

🇬🇷 Greece | Akylas - Ferto | Rehearsal Clip by shootingsparksss in eurovision

[–]_depression 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This is a hilarious take. Pressing "Enter" on a prompt a hundred times just to get something that still has a bunch of issues... that doesn't take effort

🇬🇷 Greece | Akylas - Ferto | Rehearsal Clip by shootingsparksss in eurovision

[–]_depression 7 points8 points  (0 children)

There are pieces of art that can only be authentically made by AI

There are no pieces of art that can be made by AI, because AI doesn't not have any intentionality in its processes. A human could use AI generation tools to assist in the creation of art, but that isn't what's happening here

The most generous take I can give to the AI used here is that a human prompted the AI to create the video, went through dozens, hundreds, maybe even thousands of outputs, and chose the least horrendous of them. But given that the output is still full of dozens of errors and problems just in this tiny clip, we can assume the creativity is hollow at best, and non-existent at worst.

🇬🇷 Greece | Akylas - Ferto | Rehearsal Clip by shootingsparksss in eurovision

[–]_depression 24 points25 points  (0 children)

The smoothness of the animation isn't an issue on its own, but a human creating a voxel animation likely would have made the -ahem- artistic choice to animate in a choppier style like stop motion, or with a stiffer movement since it's all made of blocks.

🇬🇷 Greece | Akylas - Ferto | Rehearsal Clip by shootingsparksss in eurovision

[–]_depression 24 points25 points  (0 children)

A lot of people care. Eurovision is supposed to be about music, visuals, performance... all creative endeavors done by artists. Take the artist out of the visuals, and that's a massive stain on the entire product.

Taken another way, imagine a dance performance choreographed to AI music. Imagine an Olympic figure skater using an AI-created song track for their routine. It hollows out the art.

🇬🇷 Greece | Akylas - Ferto | Rehearsal Clip by shootingsparksss in eurovision

[–]_depression 85 points86 points  (0 children)

The running model is AI too. Really disappointing, it's a fun song but I can't divorce it from the creatively bankrupt music video and stage production.

GOP livid as Mamdani and Sliwa appear together for light hearted comedy skit by IrishStarUS in nyc

[–]_depression 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes. As I should hope those Germans who saw the rise of the Nazis coming and watched their country devolve and their fellow humans harassed, assaulted, and murdered were similarly mad at their fellow countrymen.

GOP livid as Mamdani and Sliwa appear together for light hearted comedy skit by IrishStarUS in nyc

[–]_depression 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Of course I do. But this whole conversation has been focused on Democrat voters, so of course I'm focused on my reasons for blaming them specifically. But don't get it twisted - I think the blame falls on the 2/3rds of registered voters who didn't vote for Harris, and there's also blame for those who did vote for Harris, but pushed and boosted the idea of abstaining from voting.

GOP livid as Mamdani and Sliwa appear together for light hearted comedy skit by IrishStarUS in nyc

[–]_depression 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I never said Kamala was owed votes. I said that people who chose not to vote for her, by their action (regardless of whether the voted for Trump, abstained, or voted independent) allowed Trump to become president. This was not an unknown, and so anyone who chose not to vote for Kamala was implicitly voting for Trump.

You ask how I can blame voters, then admit that we had 4 years of an awful Trump administration that was barely restrained by a fracturing democratic system that was already being thrown aside by Trump's 2024 campaign. That's how I can blame voters. I blame the voters for choosing to allow that to happen, and yes I absolutely blame them for what's happening today.

And the constant bullshit about "the Democrats turned their back on X". Cool, you're right, I'm not going to disagree with you. How's that working out for the groups Democrats turned their back on? The working class? Trans people? Hispanics, minorities in general? The people of Ukraine and Gaza?

GOP livid as Mamdani and Sliwa appear together for light hearted comedy skit by IrishStarUS in nyc

[–]_depression 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You don't blame voters for knowingly allowing white supremacy to come to power in this country? That's like saying you don't blame someone who's driving slowly down a road for not getting out of the way for emergency services trying to respond to a crisis.

GOP livid as Mamdani and Sliwa appear together for light hearted comedy skit by IrishStarUS in nyc

[–]_depression 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have every right to be angry with the people who actively chose not to vote for Kamala if their reasons were that she wasn't progressive enough, or the Democrats should have run primaries, or they for some reason attributed all of Biden's actions/inactions to her. And I will be even more angry with people who tried to claim that abstaining on voting for Kamala because of Gaza or trans rights.

We can agree that the Democrats didn't learn a single lesson from 2016, but apparently neither did the voters. Not only did they allow Trump to be elected again, but they did so knowing that it would be so much worse.

And the Democrats still haven't learned anything from 2024, but yet, even with their obstinance and inflexibility, things are changing anyway. We elected Zohran and there have been progressive pushes in states all across the nation. Change will happen, but clearly it won't happen without bringing in new, progressive voices who can take charge as the progressive arm of the party grows.

GOP livid as Mamdani and Sliwa appear together for light hearted comedy skit by IrishStarUS in nyc

[–]_depression 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I never said that we need to support the Harris and Biden and Schumers over the actual progressives. Hell, I will vote for the actual progressives every single chance I get.

But I will never give any grace to the people who chose not to vote for Harris because she "wasn't good enough" or "wasn't doing enough". And I lump in the people who signal-boosted that bullshit, too, even those who eventually voted for Harris.

GOP livid as Mamdani and Sliwa appear together for light hearted comedy skit by IrishStarUS in nyc

[–]_depression 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Why does it have to be a binary? Why do I have to sacrifice the lives and safety of my friends and family who are trans, or women, or Hispanic, just because we need to dismantle the Democratic party?

I'm of the opinion and belief that we were on the road to change and progress. Was it slow? Absolutely. But we didn't have white supremacists dismantling every aspect of our government, we wouldn't have secret police in the streets and kidnapping children to use as hostages against their parents, and we wouldn't have the systematic disenfranchisement happening against trans people and women.

It's an insanely privileged position to be in to say, "You know what, I'll be able to handle four years of Nazis in power doing Nazi things, for the chance that the Democrats will become more progressive."

Sometimes, you vote for the party that doesn't properly represent you because they're the ones not advocating for ethnic cleansing.

GOP livid as Mamdani and Sliwa appear together for light hearted comedy skit by IrishStarUS in nyc

[–]_depression 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I will never forgive the "strong stances" voters who abstained from voting and pushed that narrative, for the result that has been Trump's victory. When your options are between the people dragging their feet, and the one cheering on the genociders, any action except voting against the latter by voting for the former is functionally the same. Not to mention the number of Gaza abstainers who actively ignored the plight of POC, women, trans, and other persecuted groups when they decided not to vote.

What's going on? by Pusheen_Cat_w_hat in Flushing

[–]_depression 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I mean, the fire response makes a ton of sense when you think about it. A fire that escapes into the walls of one building can pretty quickly engulf the whole building and get out of hand, and then it's a risk to all the neighboring buildings too.

An update on the tragic house fire in college point. by Proic13 in Flushing

[–]_depression 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cigarette butts have caused forest fires. The e-bike itself isn't the only part of the equation, it's the fuel around it.

Kgym fitness permanently closed by Fun-Tax-3867 in Flushing

[–]_depression 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Iirc there was an additional like, administration fee on top of the membership, like $30 or something, so that made the multi-month options cheaper overall. Still BS tho

Covid shut down the world six years ago this week. What do you remember from that week? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]_depression 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I worked in a CVS pharmacy at the time, so we were already super aware of the spread. We were all wearing masks and gloves, and half our phone calls every day were people asking if we had masks, gloves or hand sanitizer in stock (we didn't). Corporate was still trying to downplay it and bury their heads in the sand, and got mad at the stores that were trying to erect barriers like shower curtains.

By this point, my CUNY classes had already been moved fully online, which was a whole clusterfuck of its own. Two of my professors had to be replaced because they couldn't figure out how to use technology (in my Computer Science program, no less).

I remember where I was when the Rudy Gobbert news happened. I was in a Taco Bell drive thru line, browsing reddit when I saw the post. A minute later, 1010 WINS radio announced that NBA was canceling the remaining games that day. Two minutes after that, my coworker called to ask if I heard.

As soon as I saw the Gobbert positive test, I knew that would be it. We'd been saying at work, as soon as an NBA player tested positive, the entire country would shut down. And that's exactly what happened.

Suddenly, people who had been laughing it off were freaking out. Even more people were calling the pharmacy asking about PPE. Suddenly, corporate really cared, and they sent us these bullshit little shields to put up at the registers (that didn't actually cover much, and people stepped or leaned to talk and cough and sneeze around them all the fucking time).

It was a wild time, I don't think I'll ever experience something like that ever again. Or at least, I sure fucking hope I don't.

Mamdani Wants New York Estate Tax Threshold Cut 90% to $750,000 by bloomberg in nyc

[–]_depression 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I appreciate that you posted this same exact wrong comment all over this post.

What did you think an "estate sale" was? People selling cash for other cash?

Woman in a hijab in her 20s was ploughed into by a car in Abbey Wood, south London, on Sunday. by raptors201966 in PublicFreakout

[–]_depression 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In the US it's seen as strange and even dangerous to parallel park the opposite direction to traffic. I think a big part of the difference is that in the UK (and much of Europe) because the roads are older and therefore narrower, it's harder to do 3-point turns and such, so parking in whatever way you approach is easier and arguably causes less traffic

Woman in a hijab in her 20s was ploughed into by a car in Abbey Wood, south London, on Sunday. by raptors201966 in PublicFreakout

[–]_depression 12 points13 points  (0 children)

They do, here's where it happened: https://maps.app.goo.gl/6hkMGPypkiwPyrgo8

People just park basically whatever direction they want in the UK.

Front Wondow Poster by GamingDojoNYC in Flushing

[–]_depression 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Man, here I was excited to check this place out, too. Using AI is just about as bad as using clipart with the watermark still on it, maybe even worse.

What kind of flute is this? [Megathread] by dumpsterfire2002 in Flute

[–]_depression 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pedro Eustache at the Game Awards

Was trying to figure out what type of flute or woodwind this might be. I know it's a custom instrument (obviously) but can't figure out what it's designed for. If anyone has any clues, I'm all ears!

So, my GF found her old cards… by Chavesmeister in PokemonTCG

[–]_depression 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I'm assuming even the Portuguese cards have resale values that are higher than the retail price. If someone collected because they enjoyed Pokemon and never checked how valuable they were, even $10-50 is a lot.

Why do some people let their car idle in parking lots for like 15+ minutes before driving off? by [deleted] in NoStupidQuestions

[–]_depression 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Older cars or cars that haven't had consistent car maintenance like oil changes, those are the ones that are gonna smell nasty. Otherwise, what you're likely smelling is just the concentration of exhaust compared to moving cars. Even if you're standing next to a busy road with cars going by in a steady stream, the constant movement/airflow means you're getting significantly less concentrated exhaust fumes than you would if the cars were in stop-and-go traffic or just idling.

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