this guy has it

It's crazy how gifted kids programs create a social divide so early on. I was in one, and I had another kid say to me "You think you're better than us? You're not." I didn't, but interacting with other kids in the program I realized they absolutely did think they were better than the others.

Obviously there isn't just one reason, but I think one of the big reasons centrists Democrats have been losing lately is their inability to admit to ever making mistakes. Always finding some excuse or someone else to blame has left them unable to honestly assess and effectively respond to problems.

It's so great that they added an emoji with a smug face, so I can identify assholes at a glance without having to read what they wrote.

My Mom when I tell her the animal video she sent me is AI

"Individual, you are charged with capital malcompliance. Anti-citizen status approved."

Progressives have eaten shit in elections a million times but these guys lose one time and immediately take their ball and leave.

I always tip service workers minimum 20%, but obligated tipping is objectively a bullshit system. The only ones benefiting are 1) stingy pieces of shit who don't tip, who tippers are basically subsidizing their cheap meals, and 2) businesses who can display misleadingly low prices on their menus.

this is a great illustration of one of the fundamental insights of democracy — that there is no such thing as "the people" and that majorities are elusive and ever shifting. no election, no decision, is final and treating an election as a final decision is profoundly undemocratic.

He's going to order all flags be changed to be red white and green.

Some people think Tommy Wiseau is an alien, but he's actually a time traveler from the future. His weird speech patterns are the result of speech diverging over time, that's just how English sounds in the future. Wearing multiple belts is also fashionable in the future.

You'd think the execs at Valve would be angry at the AI industry for screwing them over on hardware prices making their latest product unaffordable for most. But it seems like they're not because they're probably making more from stocks bolstered by AI than they are from their actual products?

I've solved the problem of high prices by becoming a Buddhist. I no longer want anything.

Whig history is an incredibly dangerous myth.

Why is CNN presenting Kalshi odds as if they're serious numbers arrived at via sound methodology, and not "this is what gambling addicts think is going to happen"?

One of the reasons generated AI images suck is that coming up with good and original ideas requires intellectual labor. It's not like you just sit down and fully formed ideas pop into your imagination. So of course people who are averse to labor aren't going to have any ideas that are worth a shit.

I have no money, and I must spend.

A trillion dollars and still obviously unhappy. What is even the point?

The people yearn for the matrix battery pods.

You know how Venezuela basically based their entire economy on oil, and then when oil prices tanked the country essentially collapsed? That's pretty much America right now, except AI instead of oil.

Companies upset that fewer people are buying their products after they raise prices should be fighting for lower housing costs, which are absorbing a ton of money that could be going to them instead. Sorry I can't afford your $10 burger or $700 game console. Take it up with my landlord.

You tell em, Elmo!

I'm on a block list that says "can't tell the difference between a technology and a corporation" and it's like , why would you assume that I don't just hate the technology regardless of whether it's a corporate product or not? Some idiot generating bullshit for fun at home is also bad.

This is not the biggest issue with tech, but I hate how everything now only presents you with the options of "yes" and "maybe later". They refuse to let you give an outright "no" to anything.

Remember when crypto chuds were trying to tell us that bitcoin was a magic new form of money that would end poverty somehow?

I honestly believe that if we made shareholders illegal, everything would get better almost overnight.

Something I don't get about using LLMs to summarize text is, if a summary was all you needed, why would anyone write anything other than a summary? Are we to believe that until now like 90% of writing was unnecessary, and nobody ever realized this?

man if Beccera wins it's another four years of your MAGA uncle complaining about California being a communist failed state while the governor hunts homeless people for sport and I for one am sick of that

It's inexcusable, and it's remarkable there's not more pushback. Y'know what ETFs like SPY & VOO do when they add a stock? They rebalance by selling all the other stocks in proportion. They are literally changing the rules to take value from shareholders of every S&P 500 company to give it to Musk.

Graham Platner is a really interesting test for the "Vote Blue No Matter Who" crowd. It's like someone came up with a guy in a lab specifically to test the limits of that argument.

I don't want more stuff that's lower quality. I want fewer things that are higher quality.

No industry of value needs to mislead you or make you feel bad for not adopting their tech. Nobody trustworthy will ever see the need to humiliate or attack somebody for not being excited about a product. These are the actions of a loser. www.wheresyoured.at/the-revenge-of-the-business-idiot/

the "we don't know how AI works" claim is such obvious bullshit. we built it, we keep building it, we could recreate it from scratch if needed, it did not fall to earth from heaven

Rich idiots believe the way AI works is you go "Computer, reveal to me the secrets of the universe! Give me the answers to the unsolved problems that have vexed mankind!" and it will then tell them about ideas never before conceived of. Ideas centuries ahead of current human research and discovery.

Every instrument is drums. Pianos? Drums. Guitar? Drums. Flute? Believe it or not, drums.

Thanos snap but for all trucks that aren't used explicitly for work purposes.

Had a feeling I was going to take a block for this one. Sorry, but you don't get to engage in fascist collaboration and get off the hook that easily.

I keep seeing the trending list say like [Whatever] Scandal, and then I click it and there is literally no scandal. Have to believe this the latest vibe coded horseshit. Is it pulling from clickbait headlines to generate the trending topics or something?

It is weird how the people who are in the safest position to lose money are the ones least willing to lose money.

It seems like all someone would have to do to succeed is recreate Google before it got ruined. You don't even need to invent anything new, it's already been invented! Just rebuild it!

Tech guys brainstorming in 2026: "What if your vacuum cleaner was your friend?"

Maybe I'm naive, but it feels like there was an era where businessmen actually understood and cared about the product they were selling. Wendy's founder Dave Thomas seemed like he genuinely enjoyed burgers and wanted to make a good burger vs to the McDonalds CEO who won't even take a bite of theirs.

Still holds true on bluesky it would seem.

Literally none of that has any effect on my quality of life whatsoever.

“I don't understand what it's supposed to do. Every time I see a video on Instagram that's like, 'Hollywood is cooked,' what follows is, like, the most stupid dog shit I've ever seen in my life…”

Looking for the Slogra to my Gaibon

It's wild that dead internet theory is like, at least 90% accurate.

I am tired of living at the whims of people who do not know anything. I am tired of a world that pretends those same people actually do know things and must be listened to and taken seriously.