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Trump’s Roadrunner Always Escapes
With image generation in Gemini, your imagination is the limit. If what you see doesn’t quite match what you had in mind, try adding more details to the prompt. The more specific you are, the better Gemini can create images that reflect your vision.
Sure, here is a cartoon image of a Coyote with a blond wig plotting to capture a roadrunner in a city:
Prediction is difficult, particularly when the future is involved. This quote is often attributed to Niels Bohr, a Danish physicist, but it has been stated many times over the last few centuries. But there are times when predictions are possible.
The consequences of someone stepping on a rake are very straightforward. The most basic form of human humor, slapstick, is based on watching someone doing something that we know is stupid and becomes funny when they insist on doing it again.
But humor is a very fragile thing. There are brutal consequences even to innocent bystanders, but the line is clear: no one was hurt, and to prove it, it all happens again. Watch a Three Stooges film or a Roadrunner cartoon, or go back to the origins of clowns in popular entertainment in any culture.
Bodies are not carried away at the show’s end, as in popular dramas. Another topic is the sheer brutalism in…
