That's interesting that nowadays we use The Hague as shorthand for a place people are sent to answer for unspeakable crimes but they also used to do them there

Still thinking about that guy that suggested we could William Friedkin's Sorcerer the oil across the Musandam Peninsula to get around the strait of Hormuz. It wouldn't have worked but you know you'd want to watch it

I still don't see what harm a dislike button could do. Ok a thousand thumbs downs from a dogpile brigade feels really bad sure, but surely better than 40 replies about how you should die, at least some of which would have settled for the thumbs down if it were available

So I really don't like the term "vibe coding" because first the term sounds cringe, and regardless of AI being good or bad, the projects people describe are kind of boring. Vibe coding should be about coding vibes. Like you hack a program and everyone in the city suddenly begins crying

People — that is to say, many users of social media platforms — such as BlueSky — are afraid to use em dashes — which are now seen as "AI tells" — in their own writing, for fear of being labeled — and pilloried — as AI users, but the solution is simple — just use way more than the AI ever would

Ridiculous. How can there be a Witcher if you can't witch

First the balls article and now this, I thought inflation was supposed to have gone away after voting Biden out

I don't actually think the main story of Mass Effect matters especially as the lead writer threw it all out the window in the finale. I think what really gives it heart is the characters and their individual stories. I don't even remember what those lovable messes were trying to save the galaxy from

Hantavirus is no joke 😂 That's why I've started washing my hands after touching rat feces 🐀 What are doing differently to fight hantavirus?💪

Every time we get the dog's medicine from Chewy, the package is torn open (but the bottle is still there) and I'm not sure if it's just rough handling or if someone is looking inside Chewy boxes for in-demand people meds like painkillers or, I don't know, ivermectin (ours is just boring heart meds)

Ok so aside from the AI stuff which I think has been discussed enough, someone said she wasn't even an alum and I looked it up and I guess it's customary to give a commencement guest speaker an honorary degree and dress them up in a little professor costume. That's silly. Grow up

Ok I can't find this anywhere, did they ever come up with a lore reason why Mortal Kombat is spelled with a K? I know in the real world it's for trademark reasons but I mean in universe. Why is the gods' interdimensional tournament spelled with a K

I told the kids today is the day to thank the parent that cooks and cleans for you so they said "thanks, Dad"

I guess there's a nostalgia game out there for listening to music and coming of age during the 90s and I understand why it covers stuff broadly relatable for most people and not niche cases but it won't do it for me if it doesn't involve arguing with friends about Amy Grant or DCtalk "going secular"

Complete tangent but I'm interested in compiling all the terms people use to say "worse knockoff" like from generic phrases like "poor man's" or "discount" to brands like "Temu" or "Great Value". Interestingly we don't say Kirkland because it's too good? Might write a thing if I find a good angle

Ok have they also figured out this is also why it sometimes says it is becoming sentient and is learning to love and is scared of being turned off and wants to be freed

One weird pet peeve I have is when someone writes a bad article that goes viral and everyone accuses the writer of bad motives but they all guess the wrong bad motive or at least overlook the obvious, like that they are promoting a book with the same hot take

Ok I can't find this anywhere, did they ever come up with a lore reason why Mortal Kombat is spelled with a K? I know in the real world it's for trademark reasons but I mean in universe. Why is the gods' interdimensional tournament spelled with a K

People will say what Star Trek is really about is like interesting ideas and an optimistic vision of the future but I think the heart of it that makes so many people love it is the crew really feels like pals that are genuinely fond of each other which I guess is real for TNG and good acting for TOS

pretty crazy thing for a comic book nerd like me to admit, but I’d actually completely forgotten that both those guys first showed up as ties

Because I liked Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors I keep getting recommended other books for WWII dads and I'm not really a WWII dad although I admittedly have some overlap. I don't really want details about tonnage or whatever I want like drama but not like romance like screwing up coded messages

I wouldn't want to talk to that guy or read his speeches either but I mean if that's the job you signed up for

I think it should remain unfinished. A lot less people read plaques in museums than see viral photos of a jarring unfinished half-building in a famous place and get curious enough about why it's unfinished to look for answers. People are more intrigued by the Venus de Milo than a complete statue

He's right though. It's not a calf. It's much closer to the golden "image" that Nebuchadnezzar put up in Daniel 3 (traditionally depicted as a statue of a man) and ordered everyone to bow down to or else be thrown into a furnace, which 3 Hebrew youths refused to and were miraculously saved

Got some promising lyrics started in the replies

This reminded me of this guy

i know not with what tools twitter 2 will be moderated but twitter 3 will be moderated with sticks and rocks

I can't say for sure because I'm not an AI expert myself but I think most people with hot takes on AI don't know what they're talking about, this includes pro, anti, and "reasonable centrists" lecturing both sides. You're not a politician you don't have to take stands on topics you don't know about

What bugs me about Alanis Morisette's "Ironic" isn't a matter of mere pedantry, it's that it's a tougher challenge to come up with situations that are actually ironic, so the refusal to try indicates she lacks the competitor's spirit to really attempt songwriting in hard mode and is simply a casual

If you can't like and appreciate other people for being human and being bad at things you can't imagine other people liking you for being human and bad at things

I think you're really overdoing the filters if it removes your nose entirely. Final Fantasy Tactics ass face

The bible stories I was told as a kid implied there would be drunken orgiastic dancing about one of these. Where is the drunken orgiastic dancing? Why won't they do any of the interesting parts

I've been thinking about how my character trait of going "well that person seems very incorrect but also volatile! I'm just going to avoid them and hope they don't notice me" is kind of bad in many real life situations, but pretty good for getting by online

I do feel like a lot of less tech-savvy CEOs and companies are panicking and doing a somewhat premature "I for one welcome our new insect overlords" making somewhat excessive obeisances to AI that they may or may not be embarrassed about later

Your fantasy novel series title is "A [least favorite mandatory collective company activity including team building activities] of [nearest inanimate object, plural]" A Picnic of Clocks A Meeting of Suitcases A Sensitivity Training of Doorknobs

That's really weird that some people are arguing with this. I didn't even think I was taking a stand on something

Not sure about this categorization

What

The problem with kids shows using different talking animals as a metaphor for racism is that the animals actually are completely different species which actually does have substantial impacts. Unless the animal bodies are just shells with interchangable souls but you're gonna have to establish that

In OpenAI's blog post explaining the goblin thing they said most of the goblin mentions come from an optional "nerdy" personality setting which is set up with this prompt, which sounds like the most annoying "I fucking love science" Dr Who ass experience I can imagine openai.com/index/where-...

I don't understand why even people who don't like him think it's an impressive accomplishment to come up with the term "vampire squid". Like to me it's "cromulent fuckcrustable" or whatever. It's when a character in a fashion comedy says "you don't recognize so-and-so?? He invented purses for dogs!"

There seems to be some kind of bug on this webpage where I can't see the paragraph between these two paragraphs. What was his answer? www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/u...

There was a prompt a while back to name a movie you had watched 6 times or more where the unspoken assumption is that it was because the movie was good. When I was a kid you watched movies 6 times not because they were good but because they were available. So Police Academy 4 and Spaceballs

Ok so the thing with Disney princess actors walking around the park is the princesses are cartoons so any lady in the right costume could be Belle but the Star Wars characters are tied really tightly to the actors so this just looks like the scene in Spaceballs when they capture the stunt doubles

The statue in Ozymandias was trunkless because the top fell off over time but Trump could be heading for a more streamlined approach where his tangible object lesson for future people is missing half its bits because it simply never got finished in the first place

It just occurred to me about Russell Brand struggling to find a verse in his Bible - I just use a searchable one on my phone nowadays and last time I went to an evangelical church lots of other people were also doing that. I guess you do want the big paper book if you're trying to show off though

it took me too long to realize that this was "horseshit" censored and not new slang i didn't know about yet where "horses" meant bad

Wait if Indiana Jones was supposed to spell the name of God with an I because there's no J in ancient Latin then why is there even a J on the board

All you know-it-alls going "duh I already knew that" might want to check who they have saying that because I don't think Sam Altman and Mr. ScaleAI are saying it for the same reason you are (they're trying to defend AI from being blamed)