The machines don’t like them crushed.

(sentences from 2346 CE)

They don’t live in a place with bottle deposit, so they’re taking out their understandable frustration over this on the poor bottle.

Oh dear. This is uexpected, here of all places :D thank you for reading, this means a lot ヾ⁠(⁠･⁠ω⁠･⁠*⁠)⁠ﾉ

Okay but that’s because you haven’t experienced it. It’s not something you consciously control, it’s an automatic process that your brain triggers for you in that particular situation. You currently lack the chemicals to feel that way because there’s no kid to feel that way about for you. Which is fine. Just accept that it’s outside of your frame of reference.

I can’t imagine not wanting to draw all day. How does that work? Why wouldn’t you want to do nothing but draw? So weird how people choose to do other things instead.

I am uncertain why nobody has said this but here goes.

The brain is very good at recognising babies and making you like them, especially if it considers them yours. An important part of pregnancy and giving birth is that the mother’s brain produces hormones that make her attached to the kid. That’s to make sure she doesn’t just abandon the little shit the second it starts being annoying. This also includes the father, if he’s involved with the process, albeit probably to a slightly lesser degree because it’s by proxy. To them, that kid isn’t “new” but, as it were, has been around for several months already.

That’s why you’re coming across as absurdly weird saying that parents can’t have formed an emotional attachment with their newborn.

Edit: I said “she” for mothers and “he” for fathers but any pronouns apply of course.

Are we having the same conversation?

That’s a different question.

If it turned out that Newton had a thing for kids, would you advocate for throwing out his laws?

Mate, I’m saying this in the nicest way I can: You need to rephrase this because no pun did what?

Because that’s not how drawing works.

edit: Thinking about it, it might be good to expand on that a bit. Unfortunately I can’t. It really is “it doesn’t work like that” and I am unable to explain how it does work. I draw, I don’t write, sorry.

I would sell all my data to someone for inventing a way to get rid of cables. Yes I fucking love (the concept of) Bluetooth.

If people actually saw complete images in their minds, they’d be far easier to recreate and I think everyone would be more artistically inclined.

People can’t even draw stuff that is sitting in front of them, in real life, unless they’ve practiced. There’s a lot more involved in drawing than just knowing what something looks like.

Vegetables.

But why would that be necessary as an explanation? We also invented all our shit, why wouldn’t they have done the same? I get that it’s a fun concept but as far as I can see nothing in the story even remotely suggests it.

It’s probably not perfect, but this is what we have right now. I only nightshade my stuff because I don’t think anyone will want to imitate my style anyway (I’m years and years away from that kind of recognition) and I think it’s more important to go on the offensive. Ideally, imho everybody should always at least nightshade every image file they upload, drawing, painting, photograph, not just “art” but anything visual.

I’d imagine auto generating images that look meaningful but aren’t is a lot more involved than generating text. For images we have Glaze and Nightshade which you can apply to your own pictures to protect (Glaze) and/or poison (Nightshade) them.

What made me think that is the exclamation mark at the end of your sentence. “Hey, this is important, oh no, watch out!”

This is a tranquillizer that is used to calm down schizophrenic people in crisis!

You say that like it’s a bad thing that its original use is something else.

“Your sleep is perfectly normal”. Oh goody.

Ah, there it is.