I know it's really irrational but after watching There Will Be Blood and being sad, I read Upton Sinclair's Oil! which it was based on and I felt a lot better that the "real" dad actually did love his son and in his old age even gave him money for his socialist newspaper even though he didn't get it

M-I-N spells "met"

I don't know about you young whippersnappers but back in my day I would take my bullets to the mall and get them done at Things Remembered

I was trying to think of what would be the fakest message you could forge on a note or bullet to pretend a crime was done by an anti Trump person and maybe something like "I ♥️ Biden" or "Democrats rule"

Maybe they mean like mainstream Asian romance dramas that barely even let people kiss but I wouldn't say those have well-developed characters

Recently I said it's an inexplicable aspect of human nature that when you smell something gross you sniff it again and then tell other people hey smell this it's awful, and they say yeah that's awful and tell other people to smell it, and I don't know why we do this. Anyway hey smell this

I sometimes wonder if stock models know what they're signing up for and if they regret it. Every time I see a billboard with a smiling lady captioned "No more diarrhea at important meetings with [medication]" I wonder how that person feels and vow again to never sign up for anything like that

The weird thing is that it's clearly AI but also that means there must have been enough real people writing like this in the training data for it to do this. Maybe amped up a bit from so many layers. Some of it might come from fiction writing where it's dialogue of an annoying salesman character

I think that if someone corrects your post you should be able to "accept" it like you can accept an answer on Stack Overflow and it will show embedded on your own post so everyone who saw the mistake can see the reply. So people have no excuse like "oh I can't delete, that's hiding from my mistakes"

Oh my bad I guess it can do the same things as human doctors

there must have been some kind of mistake. all my clothes got raptured up to heaven but left me behind. flapped my dingle to a city bus

This is kind of nuts, this guy in my town I guess decided that he's Dexter, looks up the sex offender registry, finds the closest address to him (pretty fancy neighborhood), goes to the house pretending to be selling accounting services, and stabs the guy to death www.ktvu.com/news/fremont...

I think they don't because whenever they imagine autistic people they think of a child that is non verbal and do not think of adults that can speak for themselves. I mean RFK doesn't think they exist at all but lots of other people, it just doesn't occur to them to even think about if they exist

Some people are commenting "oh this is like saying Hitler was nice to dogs" but no! At least dogs are other beings that aren't you! At least that's an attempt to act like you care about something other than yourself

For those who don't know the term, "fandom" stands for "fan domination" and is a type of kink where a "fan submissive" (eg, a Lakers fan) gets off on having a "fan dominant" (say, a Dr. Who fan) belittle the submissive's hobby ("oh sportsball?") while monologuing aggressively about their own

One of the most bonkers things about learning about the Revolutionary War was that people used to actually read 47 page pamphlets with interest and then act on them. The past really is a foreign country

Hell is empty and all the devils are here

A lot of people's biblical eschatology is based on a misreading. The end times will begin with an unexpected RAPTOR where all believers will be eaten by a dinosaur or possibly a predatory bird. I'm not sure how this would incentivize anyone to believe but I guess we just have to trust in God's plan

Negatives: a pretty bad group of people who are close to the bad government will have full power to surveil users data Positives: they'll be pretty bad at it

That's hilarious when I go to the profile of someone who posted something shitty to block them and see "no DMs". No danger, buddy, I don't even want to look at your public messages

Apologies if this doesn't contribute to the discourse but the main thing I remember about this guy is that once a long time ago he posted a bad take and a guy replied "more like Shoddy Hamid" and a guy named Hamid replied "catching strays 😥". Anyway that's my two cents

I think what editorial people in the media need to understand is that it’s a lot more subversive nowadays to say people need to take care of one another than it is to say that everyone should be a dickhead

So Pat McAfee isn't the antivirus guy that went nuts and was raided by the cops in Belize in connection with a homicide and arrested in many other foreign countries and died in 2021. Well I don't see any reason to keep remembering that distinction, I have other things I need those brain cells for

This is worth reading if you like to mock tech bros a lot because I notice most people that do that on here don't actually know or follow any, which is fine, but good mocking depends on good mimicry and people keep using jargon these guys used like 10-20 years ago and not what they say now

I know the headline here is Cambodia coming out of nowhere but also... describing negotiating between two leaders like introducing a second cat into your house

"Margaret S Barnes" here used to be "Carter P Hayes" and posted left leaning misinformation about Costco and abortion pills. This is an engagement farming account that plagiarizes and paraphrases posts from Reddit and here. Really seems like it should have been banned by now bsky.app/profile/joce...

The one thing I'm excited about is that knowing how cheap these people are, any of these that go up will probably be even lower quality than the Confederate statues that went up during the civil rights movement (hollow, paper thin, badly rendered faces)

The most vital key to detecting sarcasm isn't in some magical ability to "read tone" it's in how stupid you think the speaker is likely to be based on what you know of them. Online it's usually a stranger so people who constantly misread believe there's 90+% odds any given person is dumber than them

Just thinking about someone asking Siri to play The Last of Us and getting this instead

This explains so much

At a park at a birthday party and some guys trying to set up a piñata threw a rope over a branch with a water bottle tied to the end for weight and the kids started screaming "they're hanging a water bottle!"

I hope that due to a typo they instead appoint Hal Lindsey, the evangelical figure who was best known for predicting specific dates the world would end and extending them every time the world didn't end, who I guess died last year

I went to Europe in 2001 and my friend had our whole group on this strict schedule and one day I refused to wake up at 6 to go see Monet's house and one other friend rebelled with me and we woke up late and wandered around and saw Notre Dame before it burned which the other group never got to. Ha

I looked up his clip even though I knew I wouldn't recognize him because unfortunately due to the groundbreaking realistic cutscenes it took half an hour to load on our computer if it loaded at all so we just stopped playing it. Interestingly this game was my introduction to Malcolm McDowell

people keep reposting this but cmon it’s made up. the stock hasn’t “collapsed” (it’s barely down) and there are precisely no numbers on how many subscription cancellations there have been

My admittedly very outsider impression was that Disney adults were generally woke albeit in a somewhat cringe way. Like being very gung ho about corporate pride initiatives and such

I'm taking a principled stand of refusing to post on any of the video platforms until I lose at least 20 pounds

This is kind of confusing but basically: 1) parents post school pics of their daughters on Instagram 2) this gets cross posted unknowingly to their Threads account 3) Instagram shows these pictures to a 37 year old guy using Insta saying "check out Threads" www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Yeah if you've never been in a company meeting where everybody tries to guess why sales are dropping you would be flabbergasted by the bizarre ideas they come up with

I'm kind of morbidly curious what the tests are because these types of guys love those dumbass "3 simple questions will tell you if someone is a NEXT LEVEL SUPERSTAR or a LOSER CORPORATE DRONE" hacks and they're like "what's the first word they say when you insult then out of nowhere"

I keep thinking Odin's ravens are named Huggin and Muggin which I think is very natural once you've been set up with "Huggin" or well a spelling very close to it. I guess I probably won't get in too much trouble over it unless I have to talk to Odin someday

Just got a great set of emails from the FBI.

All these unexpected people coming out of nowhere to defend Jimmy Kimmel are mostly probably because of some cynical calculation and maybe just a temporary ploy or something but I like imagining he just had a bunch of secret rabid fans everywhere

Aw. I think it makes it 100x better when a melodramatic love song is about old people

It sucks misinformation isn't really a straightforward lie/debunk deal anymore, it's like frogurt, like some account said Senate democrats voted unanimously to honor Charlie Kirk and then it turned out it was 2 republicans in an empty room, but then it turned out 100 house democrats did vote for it

It's always kind of a bummer when you see some laughable garbage like this and then you look at the site name and you're like oh they used to employ full time writers, I knew someone that wrote there, once upon a time. I guess this site got Valnet-ed like so many others

I have to assume that AI model sycophancy comes in large part from RHLF or whatever when you have human trainers scoring output and they score "yes of course you're so right sir, I failed you" over "oh. I'll fix that" and what kind of psychos are they finding to do this

It's annoying when people talk about "every accusation a confession" like it's some weird psychological quirk and not like it's perfectly logical to accuse people of doing what you want to do to them so you can tell yourself you're doing justified retaliation and not initiating aggression

Yeah man that's exactly what this country needs, progressives setting up sarcastic tables outside evangelical churches to start fights

Can't you just change the wording of the honor to "all lives matter"? I thought that was considered acceptable and inoffensive and that it's crazy for anyone to think it's a sneaky attack on anyone else's message