1: yo have you seen the new social discourse 2: is it a make society better discourse or a people being prejudiced discourse 1: i'm not sure, check it out it's a people being prejudiced discourse

as a person who "gambled" (played poker) professionally for a while, my elite advice on gambling is that you shouldn't do it. spend your time and energy on something else.

People will say anything on here. “We used to be a proper country,” no we didn’t. That’s not true.

wonder if anyone has ever thought of analyzing a work like frankenstein. like, it might be about more than the monster frankenstein coming to life. what if it is about something hugely relevant to our lives, like llm's or grubhub.

it must be frustrating for all the people who worked doggedly to warn us all of the dangers of quicksand as children when we shrug it off like it isn't actually a big deal as adults. of course it feels like that. they were successful.

i don't understand this part of the market crash. are you meant to buy assets and hold them or like, stockpile food, or just hang out. do i need to find a new job cause streaming platforms are all going to shut down when it hits. what's good.

is there a term for the inefficiency where chips and dip are purchased separately and in uneven quantities, but both have expiration dates?

mood

pretty sure i learned about felching when al franken used the early social internet to spread that he thought we should call the mixture ingested "santorum" after rick of that name.

noteworthy how rarely opportunity cost is recognized by smart people when talking about america. f.x. if the us had not claimed hegemony over much of the world post-ww2 someone else likely would have, and we don't actually know if that would be better or worse.

it is actually kind of weird to me how inconsequential llms have been on my life so far. the biggest thing is that social media is worse than before. and at some point in the next year or so i assume the entire world's economy will crash.

a repeating puzzle in my life is trying to express that i don't think we should act on prejudice or cruelty to people who believe that their actions are the only away to avoid prejudice and cruelty and that people who don't agree with them deserve to be treated with prejudice and cruelty.

informing people about broad cultural trends i have grown to understand through my research (reading and reacting to posts on an algorithm which only shows me things which make me mad).

the "reacting to my first time [doing one of the most common things ever]" videos on youtube are so great. such an algorithmic paradox. like no, person with a phd in music, i do not actually believe this is the first time you've heard weezer in your life.

i play minecraft once a year maybe and i swear the stuff i have to do to open the game is different every time. this time i went curseforge -> select modpack -> launch -> microsoft page opened -> login via microsoft -> error 400(?) -> try again -> request code to email -> game launched.

mtg is actually historically good at dealing with problematic tents around lots of people.

people keep talking about wanting ai to do dishes but like, no we don't. the reason ai is being introduced via online media is that it has no physical consequence when it fucks it up. if ai were good at the things it did we'd mostly be fine with it doing whatever.

not attributing this right now, but what do you think the chance is that the speaker is a white guy? "we haven't said out loud why racism is bad in a while. or maybe we haven't said it at all correctly. racism is bad because it is easy"

As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.

unfortunately shit like this does not blow up the NYTs somehow.

"ephebophascist"

this is very funny, right

it is kind of funny that the american argument for fahrenheit being sensible is that it maps to base 10 well.

it is very funny to me that my highest comment interaction video in quite a long time is a video of me doing an exam something like a month ago, which a bunch of people i've never spoken to before are convinced they need to backseat me for in the youtube comments of the recently published vod.

my ai understanding is: - llm prediction is a cool tech that has been studied for 60+ years - we've reached a point where putting $bn's into it crosses a relevant inflection point - a large amount of [capitalism] is happening around this. (theft, exaggeration, bubbles) i think that's about it?

one nice thing about social media showing me only immediate threats to the entire world is i don't have to worry about league of legends spoilers anymore

the thing that gets me about climate change is that we don't actually know what happens if the world gets warmer. a lot of our convos are like "we need to limit to <3 degrees celcius warming by 2050" or something like that. some dude made that shit up. we don't know that. it's an informed guess.

y'all should check out forge adventure if you're into shandalar and modern magic. it's shandalar but w/ 95%+ of all magic cards ever made. spent the better part of two days playing it, but have reached a complexity burnout point where every card doing three paragraphs of stuff is boring, not fun.

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i find the reasons people are pissed off at trump are weird fairly regularly, but him investing money into upgrading government infrastructure is like, maybe the weirdest one to me so far. we should have a place for fancy dinners at the white house. this is not a winning battleground.

my understanding of that call is that usually players throw the ball at the baserunner's head to make them get out of the way of it and naylor turned around so it'd hit his back instead of his forehead and because of that he is out

can't believe riot was able to get linkin park to release heavy is the crown again to be the league worlds song two years in a row

"average person earns more from the stock market" factoid actualy just statistic error. average person earns 0 from the stock market. barron georg, who lives in a tower and earns over $100 million per day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

i can get 10 frozen pizzas delivered to my door for the same price as one meal at a restaurant lol wtf is the world i live in.

my opinion on peace in the middle east is that there isn't peace in the middle east.

FINDS THEM AND KILLS THEM "Finds Them and Kills Them (Osh-Tisch) looked like a man, but wore women's clothing and had the heart of a woman.... she was brave and good." ― Pretty Shield Her strength as a warrior is what earned her the name Osh-Tisch, which translates to “finds them and kills them."

presumably the party in power usually cares about a gvmt shutdown enough to negotiate because a gvmt shutdown prevents them from implementing their agenda, which seems less relevant if they are implementing their agenda almost entirely outside of the channels of legal government action

jorge polanco is my new best friend, friend power rankings will update at the usual time but just expect yourself to be one lower to make space for him basically

i am sort of into this but think we should go significantly further and just call americans "americans". like, the americans in america who oppose fascism don't care that much about fascism elsewhere in the world, they just like america. they're american.

went into the long walk at the bottom of the 8th, came out and discovered i had actually been watching the less anxious piece of media

when i moved to the US i was fairly passionate about gun control for ~10 years, but eventually lost interest because everyone kept telling me you couldn't change the constitution. it turns out none of those people actually care about the constitution, they just want kids to get shot or something.

i just opened an nfl VOD and clicked through every ~5 minutes to try to get to the start of the game. the first time i saw the field was at 12:13 in the 2nd quarter, every other time i clicked it was an infographic, the commentators, or a commercial.

poker is so wild. this site's charts say big blind's play with 93s against raise, 3b, cold 4b, cold 5b, cold 6b all-in, is to call half the time. and the game is weird enough that i'm not immediately 100% sure it's wrong.

this administration blows goats but sometimes it'll invent something truly hilarious

“A second inflatable frog has now been spotted wiggling through Portland.”

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

Normally people don’t stress much about the odds of giving up six runs in a single inning, but I’m a Mariners fan and that’s its own kind of generational trauma.

Had some requests to upload the @jorbs.bsky.social guest spot from the charity drive Two drafts, and the second one is a real work of art 😀 A must watch for sure youtu.be/dXiYrrMc2Ls

completely insane to me that the turning point rally involved erika kirk forgiving the shooter, and that received general praise. there are actually differences between good and bad things, and you should actually condemn and seek punishment for people who murder your loved ones.