starting next month the concept of books will require age verification when you try to open them

there are no known defences against "the cum man"

i have been spending a bunch of time reading at a cafe near the library with good food, excellent espresso, decent music, and the most comfortable leather chairs in the world. i am becoming that sort of person. sorry

very funny for this to come from a country whose somewhat recently deceased Longest-Reigning and Generally Beloved monarch was married to her cousin

Popes pick their pope name and there's not, like, a preapproved list or anything. imagine dedicating your entire life to becoming the pope, keeping your true intentions a secret from everyone just to do the funniest thing of all time

kiri is watching a video about the ojama cards in yugioh and against my will i keep thinking "ojama bin laden"

imagining other mediums having difficulty settings like video games. imagining reading foucalt's pendulum on very easy. imagining downloading a hardcore difficulty mod for animorphs

Recently saw an argument about whether Copernicus naming his debate partner Simplicio in the dialogues was meant to be an insult to the church or the pope or whoever

military history doesn't have enough crack squads of elite homosexuals. honestly i can only think of the one (sacred band of thebes)

The John Wick series is so effective because it fully embodies the three major tenets of dumb guy fantasy: 1. being able to kick anyone’s ass, 2. living by a code of honor, and 3. paying for things with gold coins

I don't like the "hallucination" language that has emerged not because it's humanizing or w/e but because it belies the simple fact that every result an LLM has ever spat out, even when incidentally correct, is fundamentally hypothetical

The discord thing is like, discord isn't selling porn, discord isn't selling alcohol, discord isn't analogous in any way to places that kids shouldn't be! there's no "oh the internet makes it so hard to do this properly" argument bc discord provides a service that never needed to be age-gated

"Don’t talk to me about my own morality" is such a strange to say in response to someone expressing THEIR moral worldview. Like is DeLauro a literal solipsist?

in the dream i'd just been having i was trying to put on scuba gear but i couldn't get the mask on and somehow i knew that this was because my penis was king kong

i'm not sure what he's actually saying but sometimes the pokemon stadium announcer sounds like he's saying "there's only one pokemon left in the world!"

imagine an italian-american catholic encountering american evangelical gnosticism and being all "oh! we got a luciferian polytheist over here!"

mom's side: irish protestants who left during the civil war dad's side: iunno following caribou over the bering strait or some shit

seen a COUPLE of "uhh fort worth is a major suburb of dallas it's not like rural this isn't that surprising" but like, the vast majority of american conservatives are suburban rather than rural, due to the fact that actual rural americans are like 4% of the population nationwide

yknow the average joe shmoe doesn't really need to have good taste or the ability to appreciate the classics, and nobody needs to /prefer/ morrowind to newer games, but for someone who actually worked in any other medium to say shit like this would be incredibly embarrassing

what if we made some dogs adopt some hogs so that we have some dog-socialized hogs and then use the dog-hogs to corner the truffle market

they're puttin chemicals in the amrita that are turnin the friggin yokai gay

Using technology to invent worse education than was previously possible. Sub-'abandoned in a ditch to fend for themselves' level education. An experiment to see how poorly educated a human can be before they spontaneously explode

dudes rock

Do I deny that a plurarity and possibly a majority of victims were Jews? No. Do I deny that the primary ideological target of naziism were Jews? No. But do I insist that Hitler did in fact kill more than 6 million people? Yes, because I'm not a fucking nazi apologist

more information and better information, more education and better education, more exposure to an actual wider variety of worldviews (not just the same far right worldview over and over), all of these things make people more leftist almost without exception and basically without limit

every time i go to the library downtown lately i am reminded of that recent post that was like "morals aside living in a multicultural city is the pinnacle of human experience and if you hate it you're defective and should feel defective"

for as evil and violent as cops are they also like, constantly fall afoul of literal cartoon buffoonery in a way nobody who is not a cop ever does. cops are constantly slipping on banana peels and landing facefirst in piles of dog doodoo. what's up with that

taking stimulants and sedatives together in the new pathologic, not because it's useful to do in-game (it is not) but because i want to subject Danil to the effects of quill

i sincerely believe there's maybe 5 men in all of america who could lose to whoever the republicans run in 2028 and that gavin newsom is one of them

consent manufacturing has gotten *weird*. gloating about oil that in actuality is worthless while preparing to wage a purely ideological war

the beachminton episode of friends at the table is crazy

thing that keeps happening today: someone in will stancil's mentions will say dems should all do something that is obviously illegal. will says "that would be extremely illegal please don't do that". ten other people reply to this saying "oh so now you're accusing kat of doing something illegal???"

i won't deny will is being a bit of a hater here and i certainly won't deny that will is often wrong and usually very annoying but i do think the response to what he's saying here would be very different if it weren't being said by someone we already consider annoying

we basically discovered in the 1890s that the human brain is incredibly good at motion interpolation and letting the brain do frame interpolation is how film worked for like 120 years then some people decided a tiny computer that's ten billion times worse at it should take over

decaf monster energy

Dearest Annabelle I have had a most horrible time at Woolworth's. The locals were rude and brutish and at times I feared I would never leave that wretched place. I venture now to home, and cannot wait to see you and the children once more. Would you like anything from mcdonalds?

there is absolutely no benefit to defending daniel vavra online and CERTAINLY not in people's replies, thus this post being shouted into the void, but as an annoying pedant it does bother me that an international game of telephone seems to occur over every slightly dumb thing he says

a couple years ago my wife's family got me a knee length wool coat, this year my mom splurged on christmas+my birthday and got me a leather messenger bag, these are the two nicest things i own, i leave the house lookin like a fuckin millionaire

when adults use the r word or say "gay" to mean stupid my first impulse, way before getting offended, is to think "why the hell are you talking like a 12 year old. use grown up swears"

sorta have this intuition that LLM's peaked in 2019 and diffusion models peaked in maybe 2021 and also were never ever ever going to be anything other than toys

i used to think "there are ideologies that mainly believe things that i think are evil, but they aren't, like, evil-for-evil's-sake. they won't like ANY evil thing simply by dint of its evilness" but lately it feels like the right has negative-polarised itself into actually being ontologically evil

the thing that gets me most about nag lines and gamedevs fighting an "attention span war" is that making something designed to be half-ignored, intentionally leaving room for tiktok, isn't "fighting"? it's conceding? why are you acting like you have punitive treaties with tiktok bro

i don't have anything i wanna pick up from the library, i haven't finished several of the books i last took out and nothing's due, but i kinda wanna just take the bus downtown and hang out near the library because i like it there

you ever consider that thanks to various great lakes canals half the continental united states is sort of an island chain

profit is a type of taxes that capitalists levy from their workers

people love to suggest progressives are insular and out of touch while in the same breath saying shit that's outright gibberish to 99% of people

"dormant" "secretly" bro what

one thing about american healthcare is i see procedures and tests that total maybe like 10-15 man-hours of work being billed for like $700.000, i see line items like "blood pressure test: $8400" "overnight room fee: $2650" and like. nobody is actually getting paid that much for these things right?