How Did This Happen???
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“My man sense is tingling!” cries Man-Man as he smells grilled meats nearby.
Introducing new superhero MAN-MAN about a man bitten by a radioactive man who gains the proportionate strength and agility of a man.
today at the World Metaphors Classic the leader of the USA didn't bother to find out the details of the situation his team was in and blindly assumed they would win a matchup they ended up losing, jeopardizing their long-term standing for no good reason
I am fine losing to Japan. But Italy? ITALY?!
Good point
The US losing to Italy at our own national pastime is far too on the nose, thank you.
There are a surprisingly large amount of adults out there that are educated but also have the imaginative capacity of a ham sandwich.
in england they spell it lmaou
It’s not surprising that the people most ready to embrace AI writing are the exact sort of people who already degraded the written word beyond redemption with soulless jargon.
AI writing is bad but in fairness it’s still better than 99% of genuinely written LinkedIn posts.
The troubles
Currently in rural South Carolina and have seen vanishingly little Trump iconography compared to the last time I was here. Seems like people aren’t as keen to advertise their fervor anymore.
Weak men pretending to be strong men are what actually create hard times.
This is excellent! I’ve always thought this and the Old Forest are also there to underline Gildor’s point about the Shire not belonging to the Hobbits—that Middle-earth’s deep history, both natural and human—are all around its borders.
The Great Tolkien Reread takes a swerve into shlock horror today with "Fog on the Barrow-Downs", a chapter that wouldn't feel out of place in a pulp magazine, but which is also a major turning point for Frodo in his relationship to danger. wrongquestions.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-...
The Oval Office shoe thing is a perfect example of this.
Yeeeeeeep. The Terminator and Matrix franchises, it turns out, were way too optimistic.
If AI does lead to human extinction it won’t be bc it becomes Skynet and attacks us, but bc we gave ChatGPT control of the nukes and it hallucinates a threat based on crappy input. We wouldn’t even get replaced by cool robots.
Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now
Me: I DEMAND GRAMMARLY STOP USING AN AI VERSION OF ME AS AN EXPERT.
Grammarly: We don’t even know who you are.
Me, crying: I DEMAND GRAMMARLY START USING AN AI VERSION OF MY AS AN EXPERT. PLEASE. SHOULD I UPLOAD MY CV.
Man that Grammarly Expert Review thing is real awful huh *desperately tries to see if I’m important enough of a writer for Grammarly to copy*
Agreed!
Just out @propublica.org: How did the Pentagon make the horrible mistake that left more than 150 school children dead? Perhaps because it cancelled an effort to limit such harm in favor of Hegseth’s lust for “lethality.”
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And there’s a lot of retrograde art I love (tips hat in general direction of Mishima) but you gotta be clear-eyed about it.
What I dislike most is that it doesn’t even recognize its ideology. It’s quite retrograde yet believes itself progressive.
I could write a dissertation TBH
The Kingkiller Chronicles.
Voluntarily giving yourself a mental tapeworm.