The work had drawn criticism from some Catholics, who said it was blasphemous.
I won't deny it's kind of an odd idea for a sculpture and clearly designed to create controversy, but claiming that it's blasphemous just confirms the fact that they don't know the definition of the word. It just depicts a defining moment in Christian history, whether you like the aesthetics or not... The Catholic church has definitely celebrated weirder things.
Except male bees have no stingers, and almost all bees are female... So I guess that would leave us fellas as being the birds?
Birds are cool I guess
For example: Star Wars OT has been released so many times with different cuts that there are fan edits that pull scenes from all of them and discard the trash ones to make a superior movie.
These are now recommended by fans as canon for new viewers, instead of any particular Lucas release.
but I couldn't think of a better image to use
kind of sums up the problem our society is struggling with. Chad is perfect here. Why should you try to think of a better image to use?
We need to rationalize that humans like this sort of thing, and also that they shouldn't demand it of others.
Is it laughable to demand game characters always be hot? Yes
Do people appreciate fan service characters? Also yes
Humans have been sexualizing everything forever, it's in our nature. But we need to stop being so damn creepy about it.
I feel the OOP debate got a bit out of hand. I hate OOP as well, as a paradigm.
But I love objects. An object is just a struct that can perform operations on itself. It's super useful. So many problems lend themselves to the use of objects.
I've been writing a mix of C and C++ for so long I don't even know where the line is supposed to be. It's "C with objects". I probably use only 1% of the functionality of C++, but that 1% is a huge upgrade from bare C IMO.
Most claim they can code, but if they were coders they would be coding
I dislike techbros as much as you, but this isn't really a valid statement.
I can code, but I can't sell a crypto scam to millions of rubes.
If I could, why would I waste my time writing code?
Many techbros are likely "good enough" coders who have better marketing skills and used their tech knowledge to leverage into business instead.
Look at the way ads used to look "back in the day", with details about the product, its features, and reasons you would actually want to buy it. New tractor model, this many HP, pulls 4 bottom plow, burns this much diesel per hour, buy now and grow more corn.
However it turned out that it worked better just to try to trick people into buying a product that they didn't need, and that's how we got the ads we have today.
Ballsy? He's an outright copyright troll and anyone celebrating him here in the comments should read the article...
He wrote a knockoff book and then tried to claim Tolkien's characters as his own and sue his estate? Does nobody remember the days of BS software patent trolls trying to claim they invented "the app" or "method for clicking on things with the mouse cursor?" Do we remember how mad we were at those shysters?
This guy deserves whatever he gets.
People are genuinely unimpressed with the high prices and low range numbers on what are supposed to be the next generation of vehicles. Volume and tech advancement were supposed to make them cheap and practical, but all that's gone up is the price.
Especially with talk of banning the sale of gas vehicles in the fairly near future, they are going to have to do a lot better than this or a lot of people are just going to end up without any vehicle at all.
Myself living in a rural, cold climate, 200km from any major center, nobody has made any practical vehicle for me yet. I even already own an EV, but it's really just a powerful golf cart. Once it gets much below freezing, I'm lucky to make it to a neighbour's place and back.
Yes, everyone wants to be somewhere other than prison or dead in a ditch
Last year my daughter told me her grade 4 teacher had told the class "Well nobody really knows how magnets work" to which my science-obsessed daughter replied "You mean you don't really know how magnets work!"
I confirmed to her that yes, our understanding of magnetism is about as complete as it can get. Of all the mysteries the universe has to offer, magnetism is not one of them.
Don't forget classics like Fuck_this_shit1! Fuck_this_shit2!