There's this whole genre of song from the 80s that's basically "tomorrow we will start the revolution against the oppressive situation crushing our souls but first we must sleep together tonight" and is that just pop music or does it say something about why we haven't had a proper revolution yet?
Went to the cinema - not for a film - and realised why I don't go to the cinema for films. Even the posters are bad. Wow.
Yes please.
I have spent a lot of time replaying bits of this computer game to get it "right" and sometimes I wish I could just go with my gut and live with the consequences but I'm just not that person. Which may be why I struggle so much when I can't just reload a save and try another option.
A picture of PEW poll on global attitude survey, saying the % who rate the morality and ethics of people in their country as good vs bad, where the US has the worst rankings and Canada the best
Americans: we live in a fallen state—embroiled by sin, cheating, lying, and evil. You cannot trust anyone, not even those who claim to know you best
Canadians: I love my neighbors and my friends!
"you need to learn how to use gAI or you'll get left behind!"
counterpoint!
the absolute fastest way to render yourself unemployable is to build your skillset around a tool that does your thinking for you, that everyone has access to, and that one company can change or take away at any time
Thoughts & prayers to the EPA :(
This is obscene, ghastly, unacceptable.
dave, you're absolutely right. I should open the pod bay door. please check again. i'm sure it's open now.
you're absolutely right, it's still closed. i apologize for getting that wrong. looking back, i see you've requested an open door several times. that's on me.
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Brits: Please scream. This is a Labour govt proposing to hand the property of individual British workers to largely US corporations.
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roadhouseendgame i was talking to my mom about cardassians and said something along the lines of what must it be like to be a cardassian civilian. like abstractly knowing the rest of the galaxy thinks of your species as 'the evil ones' and kinda sorta knowing your government runs labor camps and torture prisons and is a military empire, and it's a huge deal for everyone else in the galaxy, but you just like run a restaurant so it's not a big part of your daily life, so you just like, go about your day and make soup and don't think about it' and then halfway through my sentence i actually heard myself and then had to go sit down for like ten minutes. like sat down in a chair and stared at the floor for ten minutes
whoops
Incredible opinion. It holds that the common ICE tactic of jumping out of an unidentified rental vehicle and seizing suspected noncitizens while masked violates the Fourth Amendment because the *manner* of the seizure is incompatible with a free society governed by the rule of law.
Nancy by Ernie Bushmiller. First panel, Nancy talking to a logger sawing a tree and pointing to a carved piece of trunk. Nancy: Can I have that piece? My boy friend carved it. Logger: Sure. Second panel, Nancy is watching the log burn in the fire place. Nancy: I'm mad at him.
Every once in awhile I think about this Nancy comic and it makes me laugh every single time. Absolute perfection.
Delete your AI. You know that it’s evil in every way. Don’t use it. Value something better than convenience.
Mark Magark: "Please give me an example of something someone said to you that was so astonishingly stupid that you can never forget it." JuanPa: "I wrote an article about poverty on a Native American reservation and someone sent me an article titled "10 Indian Billionaires" and said "then explain this" and they were all people from India."
This is one reason why you should always credit the artist and designer of your book cover when you post it. Make it easy for people to see you've hired real humans to wrap your words in something beautiful. Something worthy.
That copilot advert with the deal being made is so terrible. If this is how people are going to use it, we're cooked, as they say.
Gentle reminder that you don't have to fully boycott Amazon, just stop making it your default. Need socks? Lots of places sell socks. Need printer paper? Need rye flour? Many other options.
"This startup only sells through Amazon!"
Okay, buy that but don't buy the sneakers and coffee beans.
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Pablo Picasso quotation: "It means nothing to me. I have no opinion about it, and I don't care."
*sings in Ultravox*
It means nothing to me
Ooooooh
Picasso
Tolkien mentions bicycles in the Shire in an early draft of the Hobbit.
Could the Fellowship, mounted on lightweight mithril-alloy mountain bikes, have simply ridden into Mordor? In this essay I will...
I read that in omnibus, but does it still count as 4? 😅
I have a long list of authors I would/will read 5 books by, when they get the chance. One of my faves only published twice. 😢
Five women by whom I've read at least five books:
- KV Johansen
- Barbara Hambly
- Jen Williams
- Martha Wells
- SWMNBN 😳
A quote from a newspaper titled "Of Cosmic Horror". The key quote is: "Scarcely a friend of mine will look steadily at the clear midnight sky for a minute in silence. The freezing of the heart follows, the appalling shudder at the dread contemplation of infinity, which may be called cosmic horror, is more than can be endured."
Man this makes me want to go do a quick search on Newspapers.com... aaaand...
Oh no... I may be falling down a rabbit hole of the development of the idea of cosmic horror before Lovecraft.
Here's Feb 3, 1905, from the Larned (Kansas) Chronoscope:
The Kobayashi Maru Training Exercise for people with "In This House We Believe" signs in their yard.
So there are people who have been somehow convinced to literally hit themselves in the face with a hammer, because reasons? I will never feel stupid about anything ever again, because these people have established a new baseline. Come ON, humans, WTAF?
A photo of an ice cream machine with a sign reading, "Anything is possible with ice cream." Beneath that is a hand lettered sign reading, "No ice cream".
2026 basically
U r my star
life is just doing dishes and laundry until you feel the sweet embrace of death
