Getting real tired of taking up the slack for y’all
According to this short Slashdot post, the world may have reached peak booze. Total consumption is down 16% since 2016.
Several reasons cited: health consciousness, event drinking rather than a daily tipple, marijuana substitutes. Y’all slackers need to step up.
Image courtesy MidJourney (hey, I had to pay for that one; of course I’m going to use it).
The prompt was “create a photorealistic image of several different kinds of alcoholic beverage on an attractive wood table.”
Better in color, but still glitchy. The two bottles are tiny. Why is there a seam running through the whisky? What is with the ice cubes playing Tetris in the glass on the far right. And it couldn’t decide between condensation or bubbles in the champagne flute.
One of the things I’ve learned is, take the first image that comes close and change what you need with Photoshop. If you try to get AI to fix its own mistakes, the pictures get weirder and weirder.
Posted: April 22nd, 2025 under personal.
Comments: 5
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Comment from Uncle Al
Time: April 22, 2025, 7:50 pm
I proudly stand in mustelid solidarity¹ and declare I have a drink every evening so I’m NOT one of the slackers!
About that whisky seam: it looks like the AI started the image with one of those square glasses in mind and then forgot to add more corners. What is the attention span of an AI? It’s got to be measured in nanoseconds, right? In any case, they seem to get easily distracted if left alone for very long, like the time it takes a photon to travel an Angstrom².
1. Maybe that should be ‘liquidarity’ in this circumstance.
2. Approx. 3.34×10¯¹⁹ seconds (0.334 attoseconds).
Comment from Tonyc
Time: April 22, 2025, 9:57 pm
I see Jesus in that glass on the right. Maybe I need to start drinking?
Comment from Gordon R. Durand
Time: April 22, 2025, 10:15 pm
Happy hour is an institution at our house.
Comment from Armybrat
Time: April 22, 2025, 10:50 pm
As we retired folk here in south Florida like to say “you can’t drink all day if you don’t start in the morning.”
Comment from Durnedyankee
Time: April 23, 2025, 1:36 am
Why is there a seam/crease in your scotch?
Clearly, you don’t drink your scotch neat.
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