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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

....am I missing something? These are stone. They're carved. How did they know these were real styles used with people, and not fantastical for the statues?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Wouldn't fit with the artistical trends of the times... It's not a bad hypothesis, but if that was a trend the hair is not the only feature that could be imagined.

Now I can't stop picturing archeologists unearthing an anime bust.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Future archeologists digging up statues of 2B -

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

"Historical hairdressing tutorials based on archaeological research and primary sources."

https://www.youtube.com/@jntvstp

Janet Stephens; that's her. i knew i kept that yt subscription for a reason

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I guess there had to be a way to have fake-ass hair extensions before plastic was invented.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I read that as "Ass-hair extensions"

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Thanks to that XKCD I have been doing this for years.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Admit it: You didn't even have to follow the link did you?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

100% correct. I did not.

I have gotten some weird looks because of it.

I asked my brother once "what is an ass-kite" after he said "wow that is a big-ass kite"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Dammit.

This is what made me finally get a stable diffusion account.

The results were dissapointing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I mean how bad could it be

[–] [email protected] 86 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Imagine asking a subject matter expert. What a concept!

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 month ago (4 children)

And then discounting their opinion.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

That's how you get the bonus points as an uptight academic!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

Yup, that's the imaginary part of the story.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 month ago (2 children)

As an IT guy, a chef, and a jack of all trades and master of few, that happens far more often than I would care to admit. I have literally had people tell me, "Well, yes you know more about [blank} than anyone I've ever met, but your analysis doesn't {make line go up] so it must be wrong, because [line must always go up.}

Fucking Jack Welsh. I wish I could build a time machine and shoot that shortsighted asshole between the eyes just before he laid off his first GM employee in the name of imaginary profit.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

I'm an Analyst. The amount of times I've had to tell people how their business works based on the data they had me analyse and prove their own preconceptions wrong...

"I was under the impression it should work that way"
Great! I'll whip up a report showing just how often it doesn't.
"Those are edge cases"
They make up about 35%
"Can we filter them from the final report?"
Then your figures will be way off and I get to justify the error when inevitably someone spots it and will blame the data for it. Fix the issue in the source, if you don't want it screwing up your numbers.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

...then retired and receive the biggest severance package in history up to that point (417 million in 2001).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Let's be real, probably her opinion.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

That happens to men who are considered experts in their field as frequently, statistically probably more frequently. Men get asked more frequently, and are absolutely ignored by everyone that asks them constantly. I'm a jack of all trades, a master of few, and a doctor of some, and 95% of the time that I am asked for my analysis in business or politics I present a masters level thesis, and get paid a ridiculous amount of money to do so. So far, because my analysis has consistently claimed for 334/336 contracts that their proposed ideas would cost them money, they decided to pay my fee and ignore my thoroughly sourced analysis.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I'm sure your conclusions were ignored. But not because of your gender, it's because they didn't like what you had to say. Buddy, I've seen it with my own eyes and heard it with my own ears. As "one of the boys" men feel comfortable telling me things like "I'll never let a girl fly on my endorsement" ( this person being a flight instructor). And "Is there a different mechanic I can talk to?" Before she even gave him a diagnosis. Or flat out ignoring a really good suggestion in a meeting at a brand new school I worked at. Only to have a male colleague suggest the same thing an hour later to praise and action. Shit's fucked.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

Sure, ignore men too. But sexism is real, a woman's advice is more likely to be ignored or yeah, not asked for at all.

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