I've never understood people who try to police food. "Pineapple doesn't belong on pizza" is probably the most famous example, but it's very common for people to have their own rules of what's permissible to eat and it's like, what's it to you what I eat? It's not like I'm forcing you to eat it.

They are horrified of setting the precedent of rewarding activists. Does not matter what it is, they simply can’t accept a policy being pushed on them even if it polls at 90%

It's so hard to resist the urge to blurt out "Whoa, check out this cool number! It's..." every time I get a single use login code that contains a neat pattern.

Thing is, AI could have niche uses in terms of specialized tasks done by skilled professionals, but these dipshit tech companies are trying to force it as an "everyone technology", like google search or iphones. "What if you had a robot best friend?" "What if you pretend to be an artist?" Fuck off

For some reason I keep seeing this LLM guy's posts show up in my feed, and I've been tempted to just block him, but it's too funny to read all the replies of everyone telling him he's a dipshit loser while he insists that he isn't.

Every day Mamdani comes out and is like "hey guys, I turned off the orphan-crushing machine. Literally just had to flip a switch. Took less than 5 minutes." After decades of dem leadership pissing and moaning and fundraising about how complex an issue it is and how difficult the process is etc

I dunno how you look at this as anything other than Musk hiding debt inside SpaceX and making the government pay to prop up xAI and Twitter with government space contracts.

Reading the Epstein Files like

This whole heap is gonna go public soon. So he made twitter investors whole with AI venture money and soon he’ll make the AI investors whole with public equity market money, on the back of an enterprise the US government won’t allow to fail.

Do you remember when people were saying "I think my phone is listening to me, i'm getting ads for stuff I spoke about" and people said "They arent listening to you, they're just this good at predicting your interests"? Well, it happens they were doing exactly that. www.cbsnews.com/news/google-...

Me, learning about nominative determinism: "Well that's obviously bullshit." Also me, remembering Andy Dick exists: "Huh, well wait a second now."

I'll never understand why people bought into the idea of cost efficiency as the sole measurement of an ideal government, as opposed to say, its ability to improve the quality of life its citizens.

Reposting this in light of recent events.

If all that happens when the government violates the constitution is that they later say "ah yeah guess we weren't allowed to do that, sorry", why wouldn't they just keep doing it?

One of the worst aspects of reddit is how they shadow-delete replies flagged as "uncivil", so if a nazi posts some bullshit racist propaganda, responding with "you're a fucking dumbass" gets removed, so you have to respond "respectfully" which makes it look like there's a legitimate debate going on.

I can't see the future, but I have a feeling a lot of the most hard-line Democratic party loyalists are going to have a rude awakening when the primary season kicks off in a few months. I don't think they understand how many people who were once reliable cohorts have soured on the party.

None of your favorite games ever became masterpieces because of the critics. They became what you love because of the creators making a daring attempt, often taking risks, often against the grain. You want these moments again, you need to relearn how to uplift.

whoever came up with “create the problem, sell the solution” probably didn’t expect someone would figure out how to sell the problem too

When Russia invaded Ukraine, people were saying Russia was going to find out why Americans don't have health care, but then we weren't able to stop them from invading AND we don't have healthcare? What's up with that?

uppies simulator

Every code review: Coworker: "I spent 5 minutes scanning your code. Here are a bunch of things you need to change based on how I imagine it works." Me: *Spends an hour responding to them to explain how it actually works, and why what they're requesting makes no sense*

The struggle of being a night person but also a breakfast person.

Thinking about the time during the Obama administration my friend's right wing mom was practically crying because "they are taking away our freedoms" because they "passed a law that you aren't allowed to wear hoodies in banks anymore" (They didn't). (She also did not wear hoodies).

It's odd how a guy went to a pizza shop to rescue the children he believed they had kidnapped and were holding in the basement based on flimsy rumors, but when actual children are being kidnapped by ICE it's just being allowed to happen. Where are all these supposed children protectors now?

“…researchers found that a text-to-image generator, when linked up with an image-to-text system and instructed to iterate over and over again, eventually converges on ‘very generic-looking images’ they dubbed ‘visual elevator music.’”

The GIMP "Open File" dialog has got to be the worst interface I've ever used.

I want to vote for a Democrat who doesn't just oppose Republicans but loathes them. One who hates every fiber of their being in their bones. I don't want any more of this "my honorable colleague" or "my friend across the aisle" bullshit, I want "fuck every every single thing about this guy."

No, this exact scenario wouldn't be playing out under Biden or Harris. But the point is they agree with the Republican premises about immigration, but thought they could do it more humanely. Was the plan "we'll just win every election so Republicans can never abuse the weapon we've helped build"?

What you allow to happen to others will eventually come for you.

they want to see suffering, it's very important to them that they get to witness suffering, all of this is for nothing if they don't get to see misery on the faces of their enemies

They've gotta be so pissed that nobody is scared of them. The whole reason they became nazi thugs is because they thought that, through intimidation and fear, they could get the respect that nobody was giving them - and even that isn't working.

Why is the lesson from The Tortoise And The Hare given as "slow and steady wins the race"? The hare lost because he was arrogant and didn't take it seriously. If he had run like normal he would have easily won. The tortoise's slowness had nothing to do with his victory, it was just coincidental.

Re: Vibe coding - I think people assume AI generates code that is mostly right but has some easily caught & corrected syntax errors. But what happens is more like it describes library usage incorrectly, which causes the prompter to ask for code that is starting from incorrect premises.

If I wanted to destroy an opposing political party, I would infiltrate their strategists to a point where it creates an information bubble, and then feed them bad, self destructive advice.

It really is stunning how much the average person does not care about anything.

Bill Clinton: *Tacks to the right and wins with less than a majority in a low turnout election where the vote was split by a third party candidate 30 some years ago* The Democratic Party: "This is the strategy we are going to run in every election for the rest of time."

It’s kind of funny how hacking was originally this anarchist practice that tech companies and the state successfully absorbed into high paying cyber security jobs that protect the interests of capital.

I'm 100% serious when I say I think my cat might be the softest cat ever, and I'm confident that if anyone were to pet her they would agree.

People who are still supporting blue state secession at this point are so funny. They're taking over Venezuela and openly discussing their plans to take over so many other places, but you think they're just going to let you do your own thing right next to them?

This is maybe a controversial take, but I don't enjoy Lego kits. Coming up with your own designs using Lego bricks is fun, and I get that for some people it can be relaxing, but to me following a kit to the letter just feels like busy work.

Why did GoFundMe take down the one for Luigi but the one for the ICE agent who killed Rene Good is allowed to stay up?

Fascism is here. Whether or not we stand up to and eradicate it is the only question left. NO ONE is coming to save us...not Congress, not the courts, not law enforcement, not the military. IF, and it's a substantial IF, we get out of this, it will be because of us.

The "You have to obey the government otherwise they are allowed to shoot you on sight" people are the same people who acted like they were being marched into internment camps when the CDC said "Please wear a mask while in public" during the pandemic.

People will say "What are the Democrats supposed to do? They're not in power!" And it's not about what they can do now, it's about what they should have done when they did have power.

"Democrats are demonizing ICE!" Makes sense, those are demons.

The Indie Game Awards revoked the GOTY award after learning some genAI assets were used by the winner. Meanwhile, the Nobel Peace Prize winner supports the bombings that just occurred. The Indie Game Awards have higher standards of integrity than the Nobel Prize.

All AI looks bad, but AI generated cat videos are especially repulsive to me. There are so many real cat pics/vids available that are way better and enough that you'll never run out. I'm sorry but a picture of a real cat snoozing is infinitely cuter than an AI cat doing a dance or some dumb bullshit

Jamiroquai foretold that the future was made of virtual insanity and indeed now everyone has been driven mad by AI. Fools that we are, we did not heed his prophecy.

Originally I had Liz Cheney in mind but now it's Marjorie Taylor Greene.

Dracula is killed with a stake to the heart, Wolfman is killed by a silver bullet, Frankenstein is afraid of fire. My guy, all of those things will kill literally anybody, did you even try anything else?