It's been more than thirty years since this exact scenario happened with me when my parents rented Philadelphia and I asked what a homosexual was. My mom explained that some boys like other boys, I said "ok", and went back to playing with my Legos.
No, he's right. It was so much better when the meth was being made down the street from my childhood home. Such fond memories of being unable to walk by that house because of the ammonia fumes. I wistfully remember seeing the home being raided by the cops while I was in my paper route.
Reasons that outsiders love to just assume are religious but are pretty much entirely historical/political.
Do we think they specified in the prompt that the sauce should look like a cumshot or is that just down to the training data?
On the dang Goblin King: Joe Biden
I do hate this, it's true.
A lot of Gen X and millennial guys harbor a secret fear that they permanently unmanned themselves by not going to Iraq or Afghanistan to die for Bush and Cheney.
Having spent some time in the DC area, I think this is compounded by the over representation of former service members in the area. Lots of dweeby elite college boys are completely overawed by vets (and not even necessarily combat vets) in a way that is deeply embarrassing.
Ah, the man who thinks Muslims are the only people to ever do suicide attacks. A true bigot and moron.
I am disappointed to hear this.
Just realized my manager's manager's manager is a polo shirt under another polo shirt guy.
The first and last movies are the high points of the series with a very saggy middle, IMO. But Spectre's the only outright bad one and I actually found myself liking Quantum more than I had remembered this go around.
I like going to my current mechanic because that's what I do every time I take the car in and he's always like "we changed the oil and rotated the tires, everything else is fine", whereas the fancy garage I used to go to were always like "hmm, car's kinda old, should probably replace everything."
It's fun! Star Wars should be fun!
As I get older I'm coming to increasingly radical views like "you have to do things to get good at them" and "you have to think about problems to solve them"
Femininity must be obsessively and literally policed, meanwhile who gives a fuck what the boys are up to? It's probably fine and if it isn't it's because we aren't policing feminity enough.
I actually think it says everything about gender in America that we are simultaneously outlawing being trans to protect women's sports, while also allowing without comment the greediest morons in the world to get every teenage boy in the country addicted to gambling and nicotine.
Yeah, Moore Supremacy, baby!
It's why the primitivist health and fitness shit has always made me so mad. I remember first learning about paleo diets from an NPR story and being furious that the interviewer didn't say "ok, but cave people were missing most of their teeth, had tons of broken bones, and died in their 30s"
I remember not understanding all the "animal spirits" bullshit when I was young and being told about it by people who treated finance with huge reverence, but once I grew up and learned about it myself I realized it just meant "all the guys who trade this stuff are stupid animals".
the fictional representation of the Roman Republic as like, a democracy that was destroyed by corrupt politicians and not like, warlords like maximus (who would save it actually by killing all the politicians) is basically a thinly veiled chud fairy tale about america, even if it wasn't intended
tech CEO in 2026: My computer has anxiety.
venture capitalist in 2026: Here, have 200 billion more dollars.
child in 2006: My NeoPet is angry at me.
mom in 2006: No it isn't sweetie, go to bed.
mom to dad in 2006: We have an idiot boy. Our boy is a little idiot person. It's too late to fix him.
Hey, you know what rules? The Secret of NIMH. Also that last Bond movie was pretty good.
This is why I think the idea of uploading a human consciousness to a computer probably wouldn't work. You would never get anything but a simulacrum of that person. We aren't software running on hardware; we literally are the hardware.
*snatched up by a red tailed hawk as I lecture the other squirrels about vibe foraging and BitNut*
It's all downstream of people who have only ever done Computer their whole lives, sneering at and eschewing the humanities. They don't know anything about the broader human experience such that the moment the computer does something that sort of reminds them of themselves they go "OMG, it's alive!"
Or because it's being used by an anxious person who's convinced themselves they built God.
Setting aside that this is just another example of telling the computer to tell you it's alive; brother, a squirrel can experience anxiety, it is not a marker of intelligence.
First they came for the trans people, and I said nothing because I wasn’t trans. Then they were like actually I’m pretty sure you are trans and I said no I’m not and they went okay well show us your penis then and I said what no get out of my face and they said that one’s a girl get her
We exist in the context of a global market whether people like it or not. Not liking it really does not stop it from affecting you. Pretending it isn't there doesn't help.
