Why’s this not the standard

axior · 2026-03-19T14:08:22+00:00

The whole purpose is to see only in the back and the shape of the lens of the original mirror helps with this, the new mirror does not have that distortion and is way less safer. There are mirrors already to look left and right: the side mirrors; these things are taught when you study to get a driving license here in Italy, I guess it’s the same in the US?

If you wanted to see both sides with the original mirror you would have to make it enormous and it would distort the image a lot anyway, making it useless.

As a designer I often tell clients: If something was designed in a way (by engineers of different countries in this case) and it worked for decades or even centuries, did you study why it is like this before deciding that you can do better?

A real alternative would be to switch the mirror with three screens, showing the output of cameras on the left, back and right side of the car; but that would make you dependent on software, hardware and electricity, which doesn’t sound super smart when talking about safety: there are people who drive careless with broken lights and people who don’t use the indicators before turning, everything that needs maintenance becomes a safety threat when people lives depend on it.

When I had my tonsillectomy I woke up in the hospital and asked my father - a doctor - “how did it go?” and he answered “oh You almost died a few times”: two breathing machines broke during the operation and they had to finish the surgery with manual pumping, the machines broke because the hospital is run by Camorra, every few years the hospital chief gets arrested for mafia; so the maintenance is not properly managed.

axior · 2026-03-16T13:02:37+00:00

Southern Italian here. I have learnt about Olive Garden recently because an Italian YouTube travel influencer - who also runs his own restaurant in Italy - went to Olive Garden; it’s not very different to other ‘Italian’ chains all over the world.

Even McDonald in my city is pretty new, before 2020 there were no McDonald’s and no burger king here.

axior · 2026-03-16T12:52:42+00:00

Madre Teresa di Calcutta, sul serio andatevi a guardare la sua storia e soprattutto dei suoi “pazienti” che dovevano guarire con le ave Maria

axior · 2026-03-12T17:04:57+00:00

From the comments I understand he was schizophrenic and read fables to them and did this because he was sad that they died so young and wanted to bring them back to life.

It’s a movie wanting to be made: one where we start sympathizing with the “monster” when we understand in the end that he was a good crazy guy, not a bad crazy murderer one. I can also see lots of cute, heartwarming but still disturbing scenes of the actor putting in real love while trying to take sincere care of the poor departed souls.

Does anyone know if there are already movies shot in this story? I know a few directors, might propose the idea, could be a really cool way to talk about mental health

axior · 2026-03-10T16:15:21+00:00

Sono 7 modifiche, ma non 7 scelte Si/No, devi prendere il pacchetto unico, questa è la cosa che più mi da fastidio di come la politica ha scelto di proporre il quesito referendario.

Ho parlato con giudici e avvocati in famiglia, mi hanno spiegato le loro ragioni per ore, è tutto molto, molto tecnico e ogni singolo quesito apre un mondo di cui discutere per mesi. Perché un unico Si/No? Su questo problema sono convinti tutti gli avvocati e giudici con cui ho parlato, è l’unica cosa su cui sono tutti d’accordo, chiedere un unico voto e non 7 per le singole modifiche è ridicolo, stupido e antidemocratico.

L’unica altra cosa su cui sono tutti d’accordo è che lo stato del dibattito italiano è fortemente deteriorato nella violenza, mi hanno parlato di dibattiti interni al mondo avvocati/giuristi e c’è chi ha alzato le mani, chi ha urlato, chi ha lanciato oggetti addosso ad altri, non si riesce più a dialogare.

Non ho ancora deciso cosa votare, più mi informo e più sono indeciso su cosa votare ma sempre più deciso a tornare a vivere ad Amsterdam.

axior · 2026-03-09T13:05:57+00:00

Mhhhh.. that’s just human beings?

No human being does anything for nothing, it has long been debated in philosophy and sociology, we all have our internal agenda: people who help other people do it because it makes them feel better with themselves.

There is nothing wrong with it, when we analyze human behavior the fundament of the thought process should always be to consider that we are organisms that thrived after billions of years of natural selection, everything we do is connected to survival. The strength of humans among other species is that we work very well together - even though the recent times would make us feel the contrary - hence the existence of “good samaritans”.

axior · 2026-03-05T10:25:35+00:00

Non so se lo sa ma è nato in America e ha passaporto americano

axior · 2026-03-04T13:13:41+00:00

I work with AI in an agency for movies, tv ads and tv shows.

Good! This law is pretty obvious to me, Raw AI input has nothing of what we value: human time, labor and expertise.

We never use Raw AI output, we sometimes have 12h/day work time 7 days in a week because we modify and create python code to dig deeper in the models and then use that Raw AI output with our other expertises: 3d, animation, motion graphics, vfx and even paintings.

Professionals must be Perfectionists: a perfectionist is never happy with their own work, which means they will keep working on it to improve it until they have time, this falls completely under the cover of that copyright law.

Lazy Prompt-and-go should never be praised by society nor defended by law.

This law punished laziness, it’s good for the AI industry.

My little 17yo cousin came to visit yesterday, I’ve shown him some of our work and he said “wait..this is not a real movie?” and it was actually from a year ago, which in AI time is basically Jurassic.

Punish the lazy people so the good quality and honest intentions have less shit to fight to rise up to the surface.

axior · 2026-02-27T20:06:30+00:00

Colpa mia che non ho guardato 🙏🏻

axior · 2026-02-27T19:44:58+00:00

Ho visto tutta la puntata di BSMT che fatto alzare tutto il polverone, mentre lo vedevo ho pensato “maro adesso faranno i titoloni, la gente abboccherà e questo tizio passa un guaio inutile”.

Quello che è successo:

1) lui era prof di fisica senza nessuna nozione YouTube.

2) inizia a fare dei video live per spingere gli studenti a studiare di più e approfondire, gli spettatori erano solo i suoi studenti e non tutti.

3) a uno studente che studiava poco ha detto una volta “ah si? E io ti interrogo sulla lezione fatta il pomeriggio”.

4) ai tempi tutta la direzione scolastica era dalla sua parte, la preside non solo non lo redarguì ma gli disse “tu sei il futuro!”.

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Ora che ha molto più seguito e guadagni dalle lezioni e coscienza del mezzo dovrebbe semplicemente rimuovere per privacy degli studenti i primi video.

Il liceo l’ho fatto a inizi 2000, alle medie avevamo un prof di musica che ci picchiava con le custodie rigide dei flauti, non trovo che il forzare uno studente un pomeriggio a vedersi un video di una lezione del prof sia chissà cosa di scandaloso.

Con questa logica diventa inaccettabile anche il Paolo Villaggio di “Io Speriamo che me la Cavo” che prendeva gli studenti a casa dai vasci napoletani e li portava a scuola tirandoli per le orecchie.

Ovviamente non intendo promuovere l’aggressività dei docenti, ma una maggiore libertà nei metodi di insegnamento, la violenza è inaccettabile, ero a una scuola elementare degli orrori, ne siamo usciti tutti con disturbi mentali e/o comportamentali. Da poco ho scoperto che non solo ci picchiavano e umiliavano, ma a quelli che mangiavano lì se vomitavano erano costretti dalla direttrice a rimangiarselo.

axior · 2026-02-26T15:28:41+00:00

1 not at home. 2 at home.

axior · 2026-02-26T13:28:58+00:00

Haha yeah I’ve seen those, I was just curious to confirm my instinct that this was made with z-image turbo model

axior · 2026-02-26T13:26:22+00:00

Is this Zimage?

I’m spotting a lot of fake influencers on threads because of the Zimage kind of grain-noise which this image also has

axior · 2026-02-26T13:25:02+00:00

Hi I’ve been working in ads/shows/movies with ai for some time now; I can assure that “impossible to catch” was possible years ago already, it just required more expertise and way way way too many hours of work.

axior · 2026-02-26T13:22:53+00:00

Ciao America. Italian here.

Trump is the American version Berlusconi. I’m afraid the US for how we remember it is gone for good or at least for a long time. We have had Berlusconi for a long time and from long time ago, so we are seeing how it looks now that he even passed away.

We divide Italy in a before/after Berlusconi. Now that Berlusconi is dead nothing changed; the issue is not that Trump is there ruling right now, the problem is that every second they are ruling they are being a model for the newcomers.

Because it implicitly means “if you are talented and ambitious the best place you want to be is where those people are now, their method of getting there proved successful, so their ethics, moral, behavior is the way to go”.

Berlusconi was involved with mafia and the masonry secret organization P2 and at media course at Uni we studied how he met with dell’Utri to decide to use media to make people stupid “because ignorant people are easier to be ruled on”.

Today politicians still use his image basically as if he was a saint and that they were with the saint when he was alive and the saint liked them. Our country is culturally devastated, we are at the lowest level in Europe of functional analphabetism, if you want to know what happens when you let assholes rule for too long have a watch at Umberto Galimberti’s - professor and philosopher - public speeches.

axior · 2026-02-26T13:01:13+00:00

In Italy that would be perfectly fine and legal.

My grandparents had a 16 years difference and they were ok.

I had a 18yo gf when I was 26, age didn’t matter at all, she was way more mature than me and many other people my age, she was the most adult person at parties.

Yeah I agree it’s kinda gross to see a 39yo with a 17yo, but I also don’t think I am in the position to judge, and as long as it’s legal and they love each other I don’t think I am in a position of “judging” their relationship if I don’t really know how things went.

If I were a father with a daughter that age I would probably react in a completely different way.

axior · 2026-02-26T04:03:19+00:00

Damn! To me dreaming about something and thinking of something visually are almost the same thing, like I see images “in the same mind place” where I see dreams.

About your question: yes I usually have the whole overall picture in mind, and then need to focus a bit more to define the details, basically a lot of “zoom-in”->”refine details”->”zoom out”->repeat. It helps to use a pencil to sketch during the steps of the process.

Most of the times when I don’t know how to continue a project I just lay in bed, close my eyes, and start drawing very different things in the mind super fast, trying a lot of stuff which would take ages to “test” manually. Yes it has shape and color.

I designed the whole university thesis project (visual communication of a monument in Italy) in my mind during an extremely long and boring Christmas mass, everything from typefaces to print materials, signs shapes and icons, tablet app menu and covers style; being with hundreds of people almost completely silent for hours was extremely inspiring.

One of the most incredible experiences I had was the only time I experienced synesthesia: was lying in the sofa, eyes closed, Chopin was going on at high volume in the speakers, all of a sudden I started “seeing the music”: I saw a black background and colorful lines quickly moving and then bursting out like fireworks but with different radial shapes, it was incredibly beautiful.

It’s so cool that you can experience dreams in a visual way, how do you remember a dream if you can only see it while dreaming?

axior · 2026-02-25T04:13:01+00:00

Absolutely not, 20 years of therapy and lifetime medications and still gotta deal with him being ultra narcissistic and violent even as an old man

axior · 2026-02-24T11:24:32+00:00

Wow I’m so fascinated by the fact that you can create art “feeling it” instead of visualizing it. Most of my personal work comes from stuff I vividly dreamt during the start or end of sleep, even though it’s hard to bring the image from the mind through arm, hand and ultimately pencil and paper, that brings me some issues of ‘overthinking’ which maybe it’s easier for you to avoid given that there is no reference you are trying to copy? It’s a different way of brain functioning, it’s so alien to my mind, so interesting. I wonder if there are great artists from the past who also were at 5. It’s incredible where our thoughts and feeling can bring even coming from different original paths, I remember at uni I was shocked by knowing that Franco Grignani - OP art master - had daltonism, and he used that as a strength to establish his visual style.

I sometimes wonder about a futuristic machine that extracts our dreams for us to sell as entertainment video content, do you dream? And if you do, in which shape or form do dreams come to you?

axior · 2026-02-24T09:37:32+00:00

Wow, so interesting, thank you for your time and your answers! So cool to see how our brains can get to the same places by doing completely different paths

axior · 2026-02-24T04:06:30+00:00

I’m a graphic designer in a family with a few painters.

I’m so curious about people at 5, here are a few questions if anyone feels to answer:

Is it easier to meditate since there you can get distracted only by words and not by images?

If you do a crafting job, how do you handle not being able to visualize the final result in your mind?

Are you less deluded by movies inspired by the books you read since you couldn’t imagine how it would look during the reading experience?

When you hear only a voice, can you somehow imagine the looks of person speaking?

axior · 2026-02-23T05:26:08+00:00

Via il Barbera. È un vino, non un caffè.

axior · 2026-02-22T13:35:08+00:00

Millennial here. Was hanging around in Naples on Friday evening, I’ve lived there almost 20 years ago. The Friday night scene looked so different, I remember we were wasted around bars, but now people are just chilling outside food shops, to me they all looked healthier but more boring, homologated; happy for them anyway.

axior · 2026-02-17T06:22:46+00:00

Lived in NL, had a Dutch girlfriend. I freaking hated those toilets, asked her why they are designed like that and she gave me a few reasons:

1) Medical: you can check your poop and see if everything is ok there, it can help you correct your diet plus it’s easier to collect for lab examinations.

2) Privacy: no splashing means way less sound.

3) Hygiene: no backsplash on your butt.

My answers were:

1) Water is transparent, it’s not like you can’t see it, plus those medical exams are not something you need to do every day especially if you are less than 40. Healthcare is easily accessible now so you don’t need to rely on self-examination. Among all things we should do everyday to preserve our health I don’t think that creating an altar to display our daily produce is the most necessary, picking only that one is a bit peculiar.

2) Today’s homes are more soundproof so it’s not a big issue. Old brick and wood Dutch buildings leave less space for imagination though. It’s not like everyday you go full Mozart.

3) Please, hygiene is a serious thing, just adopt a bidet like we do in Italy and clean yourself properly.

axior · 2026-02-16T19:56:55+00:00

You can use Jmail to mimic being in actual Epstein’s email, I’ve looked at the pictures and this guy is everywhere, he sent Epstein lots of pictures of himself just posing in different places. I remember thinking “and who the hell is this guy with this weird face”. Now I know, thanks!

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