Car Size xkcd.com/3167/

This is a trend that is killing me. Be specific about what you used it for, or I assume it's the whole thing. Some companies are claiming things that are not and the disclosure is thorough enough it's clear. (Miku's voice is marked in some titles for instance.) If you spout the vision line? Evil.

and this is to say nothing of how concepts like "crime" and "sin" actually boil down to "disobedience to the rightful authority," and as long as the authority in question (god, the state, police, judge, priest, father etc) determines no disobedience has occurred, then no crime has occurred.

Happy partially muscled skeleton screaming before vanishing day to all those who celebrate.

They don't leave because it's where there is the most money to be had from the collective value generated by human beings, and despite what they insist, they don't generate wealth; they collect it.

And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.

If you wouldn’t want a random stranger in the street chatting intimately with your child, don’t give your child an AI toy

Thatcher's government did this with Section 28, banned the "promotion of homosexuality" as a danger to children, while actively protecting Jimmy Savile and who knows how many other pedophiles. It's the same damn playbook.

Give a man a fish and someone with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about people getting free handouts. Teach a man to fish? Yeah, that person with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about that too.

this is also how serial killers get away with it btw. they're mostly really stupid. but the cops are heinously bigoted and even more stupid, so

getting a text in the middle of the night and it's just my loathsome vizier saying "Your enemies lie in wait, my lord!!" what am I supposed to do with that. its four in the morning

"What if one of YOUR favorite politicians/celebrities/etc is on the list?" Did you all not notice how quickly we dropped Neil Gaiman when we found out about the things he did? Do you know how beloved that guy used to be and how loathed he is now? I think that right there should answer your question.

Never forget the same people defending pedophilia have spent years trying to convince the public that drag queens and trans people are a threat to children. It’s all smoke and mirrors to allow the real predators to roam free.

Having a mental illness is so funny because you'll explain your thought process to someone and they'll be like, "Well that doesn't make sense," and you're like, "Right, yes, you've grasped the basic concept of mental illness."

Big and Little Spoons xkcd.com/3166/

I'm Thomas Chatterton Williams, and as the reality of our entire political and cultural elite's deep enmeshment with pedophilia and sex trafficking goes from obvious to undeniable, I will be writing about how it's bad to have principles.

After No Man's Sky's release was an "it's so over" moment, then successive updates built a mountain of "we're so back", it'll be quite something to behold when a single emoji leads to the most cataclysmic "it's so over" turn of all time.

Really difficult to overstate the fury one should feel that the GOP and institutions like the New York Times went all in on transphobia as some mortal threat to women and girls while covering up something like this.

It’s wild how TV told us that conspiracies were shadowy and hyper-competent and in reality the only conspiracy was that the NYT editorial board really wanted Trump to be president so they just… ignored all the e-mails the notorious sex trafficker kept sending them about his pedophile friend.

The Evansville Press, April 10,1916

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

another manifestation of this is when you criticize the right and somebody tsk tsks "they say the same thing about the left," like, yeah, somebody is lying, are you interested in who? because the answer is easily discoverable

please do this! lots of people have muted terms related to epstein and / or sexual assault, but your screenshots will still show up on their feeds, unless you add alt text that contains those muted terms.

every few years it's revealed that the NYT was sitting on information about some horrific thing that public knowledge of would have changed the country's course and for some reason a ton of people still give them money. you can play those games on other sites

The only way a person becomes a billionaire is by becoming a meat avatar for an amoral corporate intelligence. It is impossible for a billionaire to be a good person, or even think and behave like a *normal* person. Proximity to billionaires causes real psychological damage.

Thinking about how when a neo-nazi hacked Colombia and released Zohran Mamdani's application the NYT covered it as a major scandal sourced from "Colombia" and yet they were seemingly regularly receiving offers of incriminating evidence on Trump and refusing to publish it.

Peter Thiel is in the Epstein emails, enjoying himself. Peter Thiel is an overt, convinced, outspoken Nazi. Peter Thiel's company is being paid by the UK government to crawl all over YOUR personal data. Oswald Mosley's grandson runs his UK operation. You can't make it up.

I sure hope it permanently takes down anyone who is implicated or ran cover for someone who is, and the sooner the better. When you clean out the stables you get clean stables.

If you use the word "junior" to describe a game dev position seeking someone with *at the minimum* a full, credited AAA role performing that position already, I'm simply going to assume you're trying to pay them less. AAA games take an average of 3.5 years to make. Nobody's a junior at 4 years in.

Watching Frankenstein on Netflix, and screaming “the books would have all looked new“ at every library scene.

Yes, it's often important to consider context with quotes, but the context changes nothing here. People aren't sharing it in misleading contexts, people are sharing it simply because the dumbass said "no one knows what magnets are". Twice.

The one thing I've learned from the 21st century is that it very rarely comes down to incompetence OR malice. It is almost always both.

Valve again proving something I’ve observed lately: companies giving you stuff -and even the bare minimum- that you actually want, and not random new features for investors, makes people get excited for new tech. Who would have thought

The UK govt: "Hmm, we might have to ban VPNs & a whole range of otehr basic privacy safeguards, to Protect The Children, y'know." Also the UK govt: "It's perfectly fine to let Nazi billionaire & friend of Epstein Peter Thiel trawl through the entire corpus of NHS personal data on your children."

Still, fruitlessly, holding out for a second season of Guillermo Del Toro's Cabinet Of Curiosities. There are so many stories that would make an incredible episode of an anthology horror series.

The creator calling churches and asking for help for her starving baby to test them is doing god’s work (pun intended lol), and it reveals what a lot of us already knew. The backlash from the churches who failed the test (many mega churches) has also been very telling.

we gotta get like three VPNs deep with signal chats set to a disappearing turnaround of minutes to be able to use adult words instead of "unalive" or "grape" meanwhile our political elite are apparently just emailing each other plaintext "up for sex crimes tonight ?"

When a crime becomes big enough, it indicts the entire structure of society and the institutions that allowed it, not just the guy who did it. At a certain level of atrocity it becomes impossible to pretend it was just one person, and not an entire system crafted to encourage and protect them.

It pains me that there is an entire generation of people who have now grown up trained to view manipulative, engagement-farming gambling games as the norm for video games. There are countless people who have formative, nostalgic memories of opening loot boxes and the excitement of gacha ten-pulls

My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far

Story time! I’ve been reading this one for like 30m and am not finished but it’s great so far.

Buzz Lightyear: Bring back humans? But how, Woody? They all went extinct in the war Woody: As they gave us life with form and imagination, we shall return their gift (starts sculpting clay into the shape of a baby)

a few months ago I said "having generative AI handle absolutely anything with regards to healthcare is a nightmare and should be banned" and a bunch of people made fun of me and called me stupid. anyways,

Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.

This is a must-watch for sound designers.

A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.

Truly amazing that any time the democrats have to bite the bullet and do something that ruins countless lives, there's always *just* enough votes to get it done, but if there is a vote on something that would actually improve people's lives, they are always one vote short. Crazy how that happens.

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