Thank you for the clarification!
Blazing Saddles will never not be funny.
That didn’t sound right to me, so I just tried it out. Ignoring a poster does not change the post numbering for me.
To wit, just now I temporarily ignored a poster who had posted before @JohnT’s post. His post remained Post #5088 before and afterwards.
The confusion comes because there are two post numbers for every post. There’s the post number that is in the URL that links to the post. And there’s the post number that appears at the bottom of the screen when you’re looking at a post. The former is invariant across users. The latter depends on a user’s ignore list.
For example, the invariant URL number for the post I’m quoting here is 5124 for everyone. But the number I see at the bottom of my screen is 4945 for me only.
No, it’s correct. It might be difficult to replicate but it happens.
Okay, so it’s basically any sort of reply which might be hidden from the current reader (ie. plugins could make some as well, trust level, etc.).
Usually the discrepancy is due to deletions but there are other things that can screw up the numbering. It’s not an absolute in this software.
Best bet is to just link to a post rather than give a number. And I’ve seen it cause confusion in multiple threads in the past as someone directs people to the wrong post by accident.
I think @Gyrate beat you to it.
But I’m very humble about it.
I think the answer may be to ignore the approximate post number at the bottom of the screen.
Because when I click on a post on my iPad I get a popup with a post number that never changes. (It specifically says, “Share Post #5124” which a link below that I can copy.) Neither the post number in the popup, nor the post number in the link change for me if I ignore a user.
There is indeed also a post number at the bottom of the screen (or along the side) like “5124 / 5128” but that has always been pretty approximate and readily changes as I scroll.
'Scuse me while I whip this out!
Back when Trump was on trial for fraud in New York, I got a certain amount of satisfaction observing how scared he was when he practically begged Congress to intervene on his behalf. I can’t help but think Trump sees the walls closing around him once again. He’s campaigned in states where he had a stranglehold just two years ago but to much smaller crowds and he’s being heckled! The MAGA adherents don’t even seem to be laughing as hard at his jokes like they used to. Losing the House will be bad enough for Trump but there’s even a decent possibility the Senate will flip.
I’m not counting my chickens before they’re hatched, I don’t know what the mid-term results will be until we get them in, but Trump is scared and that makes me happy.
Yeah, the hand on the pew-back is Rockwell’s, but in the original the guy had on a long-sleeve jacket. The AI tried to turn the jacket sleeve into a hand-in-back-of-the-real-hand.
AI is dumb.
Whoops! Wrong thread.
Let me know when there’s Weird AI playing the accordion.
I wonder if Weird Al would laugh his ass off at an AI version of himself called Weird AI. (That’s capital A and I, and yes I remember the recent ATMB thread talking about this exact ambiguity.) Anyway, I think it would fit his humor pretty well, as long as it doesn’t cause him any actual financial harm.
I think at the point when AI can realistically reproduce Weird Al, we’re really fucked…
I actually found an article about this.
Weird Al Yankovic is not embracing the supposed technology of the future. In a time when it feels like artificial intelligence is growing rapidly out of control, it’s nice to know there are those who still enjoy the toil of doing human work. And despite the unfortunate fact that Al and AI are almost indistinguishable in a sans serif font, Weird Al wants nothing to do with it.
“I’m not a fan of AI,” said Weird Al. He further explained his distaste for the technology by recalling an opportunity for an ad spot. It seemed simple enough, he said. But no one told him about the company’s true nature until it was almost too late.
That article is so meta.
So the sculptures shipped over to Italy for the Venice Biennale may have to stay there, due to the usual incompetence of this maladministration (ostensibly a gift link):
Urgent Funding Sought to Retrieve U.S. ‘Art Olympics’ Sculptures
Sculptures from the U.S. Pavilion at the Venice Biennale may be stranded in Italy after the team selected by the Trump administration to mount the exhibition said it urgently needed funds to bring the works home.
The Venice Biennale, which has been likened to the Olympics of the art world, typically runs from May to November every other year and features work by hundreds of artists from all over the world. It attracts more than 800,000 attendees — an enormous crowd for art exhibitions.
For nearly a century, America’s participation followed a familiar pattern. A team of prominent museum leaders or curators would propose exhibitions that showcased the nation’s leading artists. Then, an independent panel of experts working for the State Department would choose the best of the bunch to send to Italy as representatives of American cultural excellence.
Like many traditions under this Trump administration, this one was turned on its head. The art world veterans who once proposed the exhibitions were out. Taking their place were the members of a new nonprofit run by [Jenni] Parido. Parido, who had no professional arts experience, was previously the owner of a Tampa, Fla., pet boutique with her husband.
The American Arts Conservancy did not respond to questions about what would happen to the artworks if the commissioner failed to raise funds for deinstallation and shipping.
The conservancy raised only a fraction of what has been previously raised for exhibitions. The budget for the U.S. Pavilion in 2024 was about $5 million while the 2022 exhibition cost nearly $7 million.
They’re short a million bucks. The artist these things belong to must be pissed.
The two statues in Washington DC that Trump had regilded with “gold” leaf are apparently melting, leaving streaks of gold-colored material streaming down the base of the monuments.
The symbolism is just too much.
I didn’t know what they looked like before they were tarted up so I tried looking for photos. AI said this:
“The famous horse sculptures in Washington, D.C.—known as The Arts of War (Valor and Sacrifice) and The Arts of Peace (Aspiration and Literature and Music and Harvest) near the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington Memorial Bridge—looked weathered, dull, and corroded before they were regilded in 2026”
Does anyone else feel like those words are eerily familiar, and not at all objective? Maybe I’m just hypersensitive.
And when I found the “before and after pics” all I could say was " what a shame". I cannot believe anyone other than the tasteless Dotard thinks that’s acceptable. This isn’t Vegas, ferfucksake.