Sam Altman does not, in fact, believe or do this. But he thinks *you* might, because this is how he performs "normal guy". Once you notice that every rich, powerful asshole affects sitcom dad when called upon to relate to the little people, you can't drop noticing it

So, in conclusion: these state actors, using the weapons and training of the state, to act on the intelligence of the state, and murder the perceived enemies of the state; they've actually got nothing to do with the state https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqlkz7vwr4eo

It's so confusing and strange and inexplicable that Britain would choose to release the results of their investigations into an Army agent in the IRA and a UVF gang that committed over one hundred murders composed almost entirely of police and army. Why would anyone want those tied together?

Finally got these sandwiches running on Windows 11

Review: “American Canto,” Olivia Nuzzi’s much-anticipated attempt to write her way out of a reputational pit, is what most debut books are: highly uneven and largely forgettable.

My Onion country music favourite remains "Merle, Haggard". The fucking economy of it

Canonically, Werner Herzog is the prequel to Mega drive sleeper hit Herzog Zwei

I doubt @profanity.accountant has many surprises for me

Ok, N=1 and all that. Your mileage may vary. I still have a Facebook account. I just useit to look at marketplace because I'm just that kind of person. A while ago, I got a post from the nearest DUP MP up there. It was something offensively stupid, so I clicked on it to read in full.

Eschewing Bullshit Friday "deals" to go buy a drum stool from a wee family owned music shop that's been there for a million years. Got a cup of tea, a long chat about the relative merits of new and old country music, a tenner knocked off because "sure didn't I know your granda" and a better stool

I kinda got out of the habit of playing video games and listening to my own music instead of the soundtrack a few years back, but last night I found myself playing Cultic whilst listening to Chat Pile and just someone make this happen because it was perfection

I hope everyone remembers all those stories about the Kims in North Korea and the crazed propaganda. The American remake should be fucking gas craic.

Whoops!

I never suffer the Mandela effect, because my education and upbringing helped me internalise the idea that I'm probably wrong because I'm stupid

Every few weeks I wake up with Bonnie Raitt's "Something To Talk About" stuck in my head. I end up whistling or humming or singing it for most of the day. Despite the title, no one has ever said a fucking word about it

Think about that poor l'il brainworm. Little guy just wanted a snack and he ended up crewing the fucking Event Horizon.

Wake up, @jkass99.bsky.social a new dumbest invasion of Haiti just dropped

Great news for the Catholics of Northern Ireland. For the next fortnight of "debate" about RE in schools, the DUP and TUV will be counting you guys as Christians again. I'm sure you're delighted

The interaction of WH40K rules and real life physics means that really fast Ork ships get faster as they fly away from you, but become stealth as they fly towards you. This is why da orks is da best

What if we do the Priest Chat bit from Father Ted, but get current Linehan to write it?

Further to last: I've reached the point where I'm more or less a full on member of the Adeptus Mechanicus from WH40K, and can no longer tell if I'm fixing things via practical knowledge and tool use, or if it's the ritualised oaths and dire threats of violence to the machine spirit doing the trick

Fun times in the Muncher household as one child breaks the key off in the front door, and I can't get any tools from the garage to extract it because Santa lives there now. Anyway. You can get a broken key out of a door with a guitar string, a needle and an unknown number of muttering "cunt"

I can't be alone in noticing that this is *exactly* like how pretty much every media outlet in the UK had something of some stripe on Jimmy Savile they were just holding on to for seemingly no reason. And then you start to wonder what else is known about...

This is from 2019. 2019. NPR was telling us that multiple mainstream media organizations (e.g., The New York Times, Vanity Fair) were holding on to information about Jeffrey Epstein in 2019. www.npr.org/2019/08/22/7...

Carefully studying Ben Affleck at the end of Mallrats

That tweet belongs in the Hall Of Oates

Firm that comprises a frankly terrifying proportion of The Economy is found to be fundamentally dishonest in its dealings. You'd imagine that would move the needle, but it seems it's essentially too big for accountability

I wonder how far Nickelodeon were into production before someone realised "Gabby's Cathouse" simply had to be changed

I love HV even though it's a constant reminder that my grasp of arts, humanities and theory is *real* fucking shaky, so having a good solid three weeks of commute to listen to them break down a series I almost entirely hate frankly rocks.

"Feels badly" in this general context is an error from someone who means to say they "feel bad", not that their ability to feel is somehow bad. In this specific context, though, it's probably accidentally telling the truth

There's a certain type of person convinced that if "shit went down" they'd somehow become John McClane, and if nothing else not being armed protects them from themselves. (And protects every minority they consider to have looked at them funny)

For some reason, my children (but not me) have met every living Irish president, so as of this morning Catherine Connolly is definitely the most efficient at that aspect of her role.

Amongst all the information it may contain, Grokipedia will never have an article entitled "What would happen if Andy Schlafly had the money to be as big a whiny piss baby as possible?", yet it will perfectly illustrate and define the concept

That whole "You are the table" thing also implies this person has listened to and enjoyed Lulu by Metallica and Lou Reed. That's certainly at least red bunting

I know stupidity is a perfectly reasonable and complete explanation for why Maria Steen fucked up her presidential bid, but I can't help but think deliberately undercooking it and then claiming some form of nebulous "moral victory" to cry about in a supine press probably gives her as much influence

If you're wondering how surprised I am at the Soldier F verdict. Yesterday and today, the details of the suspects for the murder of my grandparents have been released, mostly gleaned from internal British military intelligence.

Stop scolling and post two characters that bring you happiness.

As fucked up as this is, it kinda makes me wish Nixon had had Twitter

I know that "They should remake bad movies, not good ones" is kind of a pointless position, not it occurred to me that someone should have tried to get Rob Zombie to remake Friday The 13th instead of Halloween.

Yer da watches Fake Taxi for the storyline

No Irish Republican, living or dead, peaceful or militant, has ever in their wildest dreams imagined a Republican movement so powerful, insidious and blessed with foresight as the one that lives in Ruth Dudley Edwards' capacious noggin.

Twenty years ago I encountered a young fella on a bus singing N.E.R.D.'s "She Wants To Move" in the thickest West Belfast accent and it has become definitive to me. The lyric "Hey Mister, Your Girl, She Loves It" simply cannot exist without it

Google, Apple and Microsoft eyeballing each other for the prime mover advantage in admitting it's all shite before the decision gets made for them

Mildly freaked out that I arrived at this exact parallel about three days ago. And reached the conclusion that Carrie was definitely more in the right

I know this gets tied to bluesky a lot, but it's always been a thing. I remember a guy on the BBC "Have Your Say" forums demanding the bookmakers Paddy Power changed their name as it was a clear statement of Irish Supremacism, and insulting to British victims of the IRA.

I found all of C&C on Steam last week for seven quid, and this is merely the capstone on some of the campest FMV cut scenes ever made. It's fucking glorious from front to back This is what they took from us. We must Retvrn

Yudkowsky demonstrates his thesis very capably, albeit accidentally. You definitely don't need a big hape of GPU's buzzing in the corner of your shed. He can pump out complete bullshit knocked off from better original works to excite (other) fucking morons whilst powered by tea and toast

I'm sure the makers of Tylenol are just fucking gutted that their cheap, generically available drug that people could assist for themselves is getting denigrated and stigmatised, because after all they one make that one cheap, generic drug that patients can administer for themselves.

Big tech rediscovers remote working

Turns out for maybe eighteen months, one of the waiters here had been offering dessert menus with the words "Would you like a happy ending?", completely oblivious to any other meaning. I'm fucking dying here