Making the FIFA president say on national television that I’m a good little boy and I’m on Santa’s nice list

To close our affordability series, I wrote about captive pricing. If you're at the ballpark or the movie theater and have no choices for concessions, they've got you. But it's more widespread than that: ambulances, auto sales, airports, anesthesia... it's becoming inescapable.

I forgot it was Bandcamp Friday until I saw my inbox packed with band notifications. Anyway, go buy the best death metal record of the year. If you want physical copies of it and the last record, head over to theprojecthate.net tph666.bandcamp.com/album/undivi...

I like Sleep Token a lot, but they're not beating the metal for babies allegations:

This is the academic version of the Onion story about Marilyn Manson going door-to-door to shock people.

best package warning graphic i've ever seen 🪶

Spotify says I listened to 261 genres and that seems like a made-up number.

Did my last update to the potential albums of the year list. The link jumps to the latest additions: ricketyshack.ca/site/?doc=20...

Amazon is trying to kill the post office, and make no mistake: it will do the same in Canada. Its subcontracted delivery model must be regulated out of existence if we care about not just the postal service, but ensuring delivery workers have good, union jobs they can depend on.

Someone asked an LLM to produce the worst, most unnerving Star Trek poster possible and it over delivered.

I'm glad Fantano reviewed that Agriculture album because it might have got lost in the shuffle of such a booming year for metal. What a demented, clusterfuck of genres. I love it.

We'll see how long this lasts...

hands down my favorite line from a book that provides no value add to the written word besides being, possibly, the most narcissistic memoir ever put to paper.

Yeah hi, I'll have a big mac meal aaaand please have the Grinch jack me off.

Why Do All These Homosexuals Keep Sucking My Cock?

If you're switching off Firefox because of the AI shit, going to "Chromium but it's ran by a crypto compatible org whose CEO is a homophobe" is REALLY not the move, folks.

I feel like @troyponce.bsky.social already knows about this, but just in case...

Looking through job postings and I really want to know how the hell anyone can advertise a school bus driver job as "work from home."

I feel dirty saying this, but we need a wholesale revival of reddit atheism. Just, like, don't talk to me about that stuff.

Ranking star wars movies is complicated because there are certain themes that resonate with-- no I'm kidding, in one of them an ewok hugs Han Solo's leg and says "Ay Chihuahua." So that's number one with a bullet

I HAVE SO MANY QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS

NATO must "considser"?!

Okay, maybe there is one decent one: youtu.be/PGZAhs4itBc

I'm always down for a David J Roth column. It's insane how the US is utterly destroying any value its university system might have. From scrapping vital research to simply ensuring everyone with a degree from a US college must be an imbecile to survive the system.

i’m setting you free. i’m releasing you from the discourse

You’ve heard of elf on a shelf? Must be nice. Some of us didn’t have good childhoods.

Rrrrroll that beautiful shadow boxing footage. youtu.be/wCPpT973kXo

The AI economic bubble diagram but it's podcasters passing the same $5 around.

That's $71 per crime. Honestly, that's incredible value if you're Starbucks.

Pretty cool seeing a guy who squandered his boxing fortune feel the need to pull the rug out from under the current generation of boxers. Tyson should be happy he got to re-brand from an anti-social rapist into whatever the fuck kind of tragic figure he plays nowadays.

I remembered a man. Listen to me remember a man. Listen to Carl and Neal remember their mens as well.

Welcome to Facebook, where a guy in a balaclava will tell you how to pick up women.

I have no idea who this Dogma band is, and considering the only press they get is disputes between management and ex-members, they seem like an industry plant that imploded before achieving literally anything.

the crimes are obviously worse but there's also the constant indignities of all formal levers of government communication being taken over by people with a schoolyard bully's vocabulary and the pugilistic instinct of a drunk at the second bar that's cut them off that night

Today's listening: * Scum - Gospels for the Sick * Death Grips - Year of the Snitch * Limp Bizkit - Significant Other

Summary from the poster: A U.S. court ordered OpenAI to turn over internal communications on why it deleted two massive datasets of pirated books used to train their models.

I feel like the guy who produced Shinedown should sit this one out.

"No one will know an LLM generated this." —the most untalented writer you know

Every year this crosses my timeline and every year I have to add in that everything written is completely true.

What a great headline

At that point in my most recent Fallout: New Vegas playthrough where I keep hitting two obstacles: getting mobbed by cazadores trying to get to quest destinations and random game crashes.

The US government is really good at training mass shooters and, at the very least, being completely aware of them and doing precisely nothing until they strike.

Today's listening: * 40 Below Summer - Untethered * Ho99o9 - Tomorrow We Escape * Scorching Tomb - Ossuary

Computer, show me the last thing I would ever want to hear. [number crunching noises intensify]

WHY IS IT THAT COLOUR?! WHY?!

There's a big controversy in the strongman world right now, after a trans woman won a recent OSG event. I'm basically going to be ignoring everything about that for a month or two, until the dust settles.

I had an Amazon gift card I won at work a few months back. (Ironically, I won it for guessing how bad business was doing.) Serious question: do living humans actually use that website!? It's TERRIBLE!