I do appreciate how magyar really appears to be going scorched earth on Orban’s regime. No mealy mouthed speeches about how he needs to meet orban supporters in the middle. He is ripping it out root and stem. Dem leaders should take note

The construction site across from me are big Courtney Love fans!

I always get so much more tilted when a videogame gives me the "if you are struggling..." death tooltip, no this fiftieth death isn't because I don't know how the game systems work or that the difficulty level can be adjusted, it's because I am a stubborn scrub

If you just made plain soap with some green coloring in it and called it "cilantro scented" you could trick ~15% of the population

A problem I've noticed with the proliferation of interview programming in new media is there is an effective style of interview, especially interviewing experts, where the interviewer takes on the role of the least informed audience member to give the subject the opportunity to explain to that level

Squid dance!! 🦑🦑 #caribbeanreefsquid #reefsquid #cephalopodsofcoralcity #squid #coralcitycamera

moon mission got me feeling some such way

I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses

Shredded* cheese has no place on my plate as a raw ingredient, if you're not going to be at least partially melting it cut or crumbled pieces are always going to be texturally better (and tbh in many cases they're better even if you are melting) *Not grated, that's a different thing

Comparing notoriously harsh Finnish clinics to our American clinics is apples to oranges. Sure, Finnish researchers are probably playing methodological games, but you don't need to know that to see that their data has no bearing on gender affirming care, bc affirming care isn't offered in Finland.

When you spend an evening doing stuff and not looking at internet/news and then you pop on socials and everyone's saying "hey there's awful shit out there tonight it's OK to look away" and you can't decide if you need to find out what that 's about or just be thankful you missed it and go to bed

See you can have horny queer sports stories that aren't yet another closet drama

I also like, don't understand the economy I guess, but why does a 24-hour diner need to produce a steady stream of video content? Who is that for?

No tumblr screenshot ever shared on another service has ever not included at least one level of doesn't-add-anything response more than it needed to

Look we all know "podcast" is a bad name and it's weird that they're named for a device that not everyone was using to listen to them even when they started and almost none are now, but it could be worse, they could have been called some version of "audioblog" 🤮

people will scold you for joking around when things seem really scary and fucked up. brother, those are the times what we invented joking around for

Even removing gender from it I have never been called "bro" by a stranger and not had it come across as hostile and shitty

Mmmm this is that good good shit

I think about some of the "this place looks beautiful and awe inspiring in the photo I took but I cannot get across how many more times that it was in person" moments I've had just hiking or whatever and can only imagine...

One reason I push back a little on the nuclear talking point is that it takes away from the seriousness of a conventional escalation of this type. The gravity of taking out a country's power grid is in itself very serious. It can spiral really far out of control.

Peak guy

The deleterious effects of not having a hobby are becoming a defining point in this cultural moment—and who is poised to help? That’s right: the autistics. Job fair day where we all set up tables explaining our deep dives and give people a hand out, a path back to society.

It's frequently pointed out that NASA activities (and basic/exploratory science in general) have a fantastic return on investment, contributing far more to the economy than they take. But even if they didn't, no one's actually taking from the "cure sick people" pot to put money in the "rockets" pot.

It’s the f-bomb specifically that makes it a cry for attention.

Just realized how easy it is to fit Madeline to a Beastie Boys cadence and I will never be the same In an old house in Paris That was covered in vines Lived twelve little girls In [shouted in unison] TWO STRAIGHT LINES!

Hot gamer take: Achievements should be for doing skillful, improbable, or very stupid things and not for reaching plot milestones or first engaging with core game mechanics, I don't need prizes for just playing through the game I'm doing that anyways

I know this is my unreasonableness, but one of my pet peeves is people trying to humorously insist on internally pluralizing phrases where an internal plural does not make sense. You use that form when the original compound/phrase is noun-adj, you can't just pluralize the adjective on an adj-noun!

Interesting parallel to good TTRPG GMing, you can do all the planning in the world (and usually best to do at least some) but if it isn't landing with the players or if something more interesting comes up in the process of getting there you follow that and act like that was the plan all along...

One of the new media things that misses me the hardest is I guess people like and/or don't mind that shortform video all autorepeats and don't feel the need to stop that shit instantly?

I feel like if that sticker's been on your car long enough to get this bleached out you no longer get the benefit of that excuse

I don't really buy robotaxis ever majorly replacing private cars because if that were true, regular taxis would've already done that a long time ago and the cost of the taxi driver is not why that didn't happen.

I have never watched an old silent film on the internet without having to watch the first few minutes of at least three different uploads to find the one with the best or at least the least objectionable musical accompaniment

Every few years another obscure cute small animal goes meme status and becomes everyone on the internet's favorite, I know this process is largely stochastic but just want to throw out numbats as a candidate for next up, they are pretty dang cute

I've made a pretty concerted effort over recent years to not experience any commercials (mix of rotating premium subs, physical media, and a heavy hand on the skip forward button) and it amazes me that still every year or so everyone's thirsty for a new "[approachable woman's name] from [brand]"

Every few years a videogame will get giant praise for how it covers a heavy topic in a super deep and insightful way and I'll play and keep thinking "huh seems trite and surface-level so far I must have just not gotten to it yet" and then I'll remember game writing is held to the lowest of standards

It's not unheard of for novel compounds to be invented to distinguish a new version of a thing, but has one ever been so short lived as "cameraphone" in that brief moment when that was a distinguishing feature and not just absolute default standard on any mobile phone?

If you run a YouTube channel and put out a joke vid today, go back in a few weeks and edit "[April 1]" or the like in to the title, today's viewers have context to realize what's up but YT's "x months/years ago" relative time stamps means the vid loses that context for future viewers down the line

Tastes like soap.

Gentle reminder on this day: saying things like "we are all immigrants (except natives)" actually erases important amounts of American history. There are a lot of people who are not native whose ancestors never immigrated to the US.

What makes it that extra bit wilder to want Trek to be "just Romulans and the Federation shooting at each other" is no sci fi franchise has ever made spaceships shooting at each other more boring than Trek. Even setting aside the stupidity of wanting "apolitical" sci fi WHY WOULD YOU WANT JUST THAT

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I’m not a mom, but I’ve noticed that “wine mom” and “Patagonia wearing mom” and “moms pushing strollers” are cited as people who aren’t expected to take political action, or even to hold strong opinions. You all had moms, why do you think so little of her? Because she made you eat veggies? Grow up.

I'm starting to think people are sharing things that aren't actually universally agreed on in their fields with that latest quotebait

“Why is bluesky so incredibly dull” because you haven’t carefully curated a feed of the most unhinged people on the internet, like i have

Oh gawd if we're still here as a civilization in 1956, when Robert Munsch's "I Love You Forever" enters public domain, there's definitely going to be a dark horror/thriller "adaptation" about a psycho mom breaking in to her adult's son's house while he sleeps huh

Kids these days get their whole personality from the phone. Back in my day we got it from the tv

Always laugh at marketing that says "better buy this quick because it's going to sell out any minute," if you think about it for a moment you'll realize that's a bald-faced lie, if it really were going to sell out no matter what why waste marketing money/effort on trying to sell me on the urgency

Yessss it's been a while since we've gotten a FH take on a small kids' movie, will Stu end up lying face down on the floor for this one?

Thing that bugs me more than it should: When someone who makes multiple things posts one of those things and the comments are loaded with people trying to make in jokes from one of the other things, like yes I'm here because I like them from the other thing too but I HAVE SOME FUCKING CHILL ABOUT IT