This gives me a neat idea: every president should be required to plant a tree of one's choosing, one per presidential term. No assistance, no motorized equipment, just a shovel and a sapling, on live television. We could call the resulting urban forest the “Executive Branches”.

“Yo dawg, I heard you like coffee, so I put a coffee on your coffee so you can caffeinate while you caffeinate!”

This is like 69% of the reason I play slot machines. (The other 31% is for the “free” drinks I get while gambling in casinos.)

Honestly I'd try it.

Pineapple. Multiple of my family members were/are allergic to it, so I didn't grow up eating a lot of it. Now it's one of those flavors that's *really* noticeable to me, to the point that it overwhelms all the other flavors in food and ruins it for me.

Whenever I see a user onboarding flow which either 1. prohibits passwords over a certain length; or 2. prohibits passwords containing specific characters I automatically assume that system is storing passwords in plaintext.

“Draw me like one of your French does.”

If you're so terrified of this thing approaching you that you feel the need to shoot it to death, maybe you have no business being issued a badge and gun?

Based student.

This really doesn't get enough attention in the whole “should society restrict children's access to the Internet?” conversation. For a lot of kids, having access to the World Wide Web is the only way they're able to learn that what's happening to them even constitutes abuse in the first place.

Introduce yourself with four video games.

Damn, the local birthday party balloon animal guy's gonna have to step up his game.

WE'RE SO BACK!!!

So now I *have* done some napkin math on this, and my hunch was correct: every American eating one less cheeseburger a year would reduce water consumption by at minimum 680 billion liters, entirely offsetting American datacenters' total annual water consumption of 621 billion liters.

To put this into perspective: a trillionaire has as much money as a million millionaires.

I know MMA fights can get intense but there's no need to lose your head over it.

Figures that the domain name for my web presence, email, and Bluesky handle is the one domain name of mine that ain't configured to auto-renew lmao Fixed it, thankfully, but now I gotta wear the “⚠️ invalid handle” badge of shame until Bluesky picks up on the relevant DNS record existing again.

Why'd they have to make Andrew Tate look like Scatman John lmao

“i use em dashes — just to feel something.” Same, Claude — same.

Men would rather hoard multiple-decade-old computers for spare parts than go to therapy. (It's me. I'm men.)

Figures that this is how I find out there's an Among Us TV show.

G.K. Chesterton is spinning fast enough in his grave that if we hooked his corpse up to a dynamo we could power the entire Eastern Seaboard.

Me: Can we get UNO? Mom: We have UNO at home. UNO at home:

Wonderful article; I wish more people writing about AI employed this sort of nuance instead of treating it as either a panacea or an ontological evil.

I think the low-hanging fruit solution here is to present the video's transcript alongside the video itself. That'd be the perfect place for footnotes/citations. Maybe even inline comments. Weird that no popular video sharing platforms seem to support this (yet?).

I have once again been temporarily banned from Reddit (this time for 7 days). The reason? I commented the Navy Seal copypasta, and whatever LLM Reddit has offloaded its moderation decisions onto believed that to somehow be a sincere threat lmao

Happy pride! Here is why cosmology is gay 🏳️‍🌈 1/6 ⚛️🧪

It's wild how many people assume photovoltaic panels just… completely shut off or something if they get even slightly less light than some arbitrary threshold.

A cheese factory on the Moon, completely self-sustaining: everything from the grass to feed the cows/goats to make the milk to curdle into cheese would all happen Moonside. Production and expansion will continue until the entire lunar surface is covered by a mile-thick layer of quesolith.

Hell yeah, where can I sign up as a “startup”? Trying to build a time machine out of an automobile and this seems like a *way* safer way to get the plutonium I need than trying to con some Libyan freedom fighters out of theirs.

Imagine being a snake finally getting it on with some snake cutie only to get cockblocked by RFK Jr.

Well now I know what I'm doing this week.

time for one of my favorite wikipedia jokes en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

The duality of man

Me and the boys catching the new Star Wars movie.

I'm pretty sure Noah, who predated Jesus' crucifixion by thousands of years, wouldn't have thought to put a cross on his boat. That is, unless he planned on doing some crucifying during the Flood; maybe that's what really happened to the unicorns?

The radiation from the nearby toxic waste dump has caused members of this household to emit a faint glow and grow additional limbs.

leftists: payment processors are cracking down so hard on queer and explicit content! this censorship is evil! also leftists: blockchains? clearly a scam. transactions that can't be censored? the only good use for that is crime

I would be way too tempted to boop Denise Richards on the head with that broom lmao

Back then those poor actors had to just imagine CG bugs with nothing but enormous practical sets, true scale spaceship mockups, real crowd scenes and life-sized puppet limbs of bugs to guide them.

There's stuff I've said enough times over and over again that I figure it's time to steal the “thread full of canned replies” idea I've seen some folks around here using.

Was brushing up on Chilean history (namely: Allende's presidency, and Pinochet's coup) on a whim and learned about Project Cybersyn a.k.a. Synco. Crazy to think that Chile was on the path toward fully-automated luxury gay space communism, only for Pinochet's US-backed coup to kill it in the crib.

"A universal basic income would also put a small dent in the deficit created by the mountain of uncompensated labor done mostly by women — mostly by moms. This Mother’s Day, my wish for all mothers is a universal basic income."

This kid's improv skills are top-notch. Little dude's going places. Music education (and art in general, but as a musician I'm gonna be biased lol) is at least as essential for children as reading and math, and in fact helps with both (plus myriad other skills). The more of it, the better.

Bethesda's open world games *are* good, actually! And Starfield was/is their best yet.

Hard times are created by weak men in boardrooms who choose profit over the people who generate it.