I'm starting to get the impression tech companies are trying to induce need for AI by making their standard offerings worse. Shop with Alexa, use AI to find a car. Wait, why is it harder than it should be to find what I want to begin with? Why did you need a neural net to help me find cereal?

Worth noting that this is actually a meta-question-- it's not "what policy do you think is good?" It's "what policy do you think other, imaginary people would think is good?" This encourages the "Everyone Think Like a Pundit Rather Than as a Citizen" disease that plagues political commentary.

In hindsight it's so funny how much time the show takes out of the episode to tell you exactly who the billionaire with the black hat with black lettering concerned with fertility rates and is called "the richest man on the planet" before Homelander spaces him. It wasn't a generic evil rich guy.

Whatever your thoughts about The Boys' finale, it made Elon Musk mad, which the show's creator and cast think is hilarious.

"Sure, not every person and not every trip. Maybe not even as a complete replacement for cars. But as a standard household tool? Absolutely!" Bikes (electric or non) can replace (dare I say it) transit trips. Especially in dense cities depending on where you're going. electrek.co/2026/05/18/w...

Really hate how the blue one made me read it in his voice.

Boy when AI starts taking over jobs you can't also do while drunk we'll have something to worry about.

Oh my god he admit it!!

Often overlooked in the "fertility crisis" hullabaloo is that men's online media is basically a conspiracy to make them unfuckable.

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Managed to avoid much of The Boys just because it's hard for me to enjoy stuff that feels like it really revels in all the badness going on. I know it's satire and dark comedy and maybe I'm too precious about it but it's hard to laugh at this shit while it's happening. Skipped to the last episode...

ddg is slightly better but it took me remembering that this was on defector to find it. "cocktails should be a little bit nasty" didn't pull it up. dont tell me about kagi defector.com/all-cocktail...

tapping the sign

Exactly. If we're arguing over specific provisions in a contract we've already lost. Every single contract they've signed is invalid and null.

Why don't they make a pizza roll crust pizza where the crust has cheese and pepperoni instead of just cheese?

A real thought I just had was "I wonder if the restaurant Dixie Bones had bad politics, I don't want to find a new bbq place.". Yeah man, I don't think you need to do a journalistic exposé, just make your own ribs.

This is the greatest single act of corruption in the United States ever? Worth mentioning in news reports. Calling it "unusual" is .. not sufficient. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/u...

variety.com/2026/film/fe... “…I believe that those who are drawing up the so-called blacklists will actually be exposed, and they will be the ones suffering the so-called consequences, at least on a public and social level. And this is a major change.”

the party so dedicated to fighting racism and fascism that they always yell at the handful of their members who actually try

my firm take is that any man loudly worried about fertility rates is a fucking creep

I don't have a lot of regrets but one of them has to be not being savvy enough to just record myself reacting to just any old thing that crosses my reels. What a lucrative job that must be.

saw this on an ACT UP poster from 1988 at the Poster House museum today. the more things change :)

This piece is outstanding, and I don’t want to help boost the views of the clip in the thumbnail, but you really won’t believe how bad that guy is at biting a cheeseburger.

I'm going to try to think of this the next time I have social anxiety. I know this is probably a joke but people really just be saying shit.

Well, that took less than 24 hours, lads. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

one point i wanna highlight from this, cuz i haven't forgotten things from previous dem campaigns. in 2016, hillary had "expand medicare so people at 50 could buy in". 2020, biden had "expand medicare so people at *60* can buy in". 2024? medicare expansion as a policy is *gone*. dems got *worse*.

tastybrew1776 lmaooooooo

If you put your hand close enough to someone working behind a counter so that they can bite you, you deserve to get bit.

There's something about the way this movie is shot and written that is incredibly satisfying. On paper it has everything I don't like, horror, downer ending, jumpscares, dream sequence fake outs... but it all works. It's shot in a way that tells you exactly what's going on even though it's insane.

sorry to add to the discourse but I think the "everyone should have stayed on twitter" mindset is at least partially based on the misapprehension that 1) arguing on the internet is praxis and 2) leftists are obligated to spend their time doing this

Quoting Nick Fuentes like he’s a moral authority, thank you CNN

Whenever I walk past a sewer grate I hold my phone and think “it will cause a pretty big problem for me but I bet for a second it would feel very satisfying”

interesting rationale from a prospective juror in the Elon Musk Twitter stock manipulation case

In response to the year of negative reporting on Flock and its harms, the vendor has started hosting webinars on how police chiefs should engage city government at budget hearings. What you’re seeing is a corporate-backed propaganda campaign in real time.

Can we please not do this pointless dialogue every few months? It is just fundamentally wrong and misunderstands the nature of social networks, let alone how people use them. And yet it tends to suck up a ton of wasted energy. [Turning comments off on this because no time for this again]

I bought trash bags online from Costco and they just... slapped a shipping label on the box and sent it out. I mean i sort of admire the dedication to cutting down on packaging but that was a bold move.

Here's Obama bragging about how "the difference" between him/Biden and Trump "is that we didn't put our names" on stimulus checks. Eight days after he posted this, the Democrats lost another presidential election to Trump.

It is ridiculous to pretend X moved to the right because people left and not because it got bought by a neo-nazi who deliberately runs it with the overt goal of promoting his views and suppressing those he dislikes.

Read as: "The Economy has been bad for everyone but now it can't even be hidden by the Chartfuckers like Will Stancil."

That's cute but if the point of the Met Gala is a fundraising exercise then we should just seize the literal equivalent of a spider broach from all these millionaires and billionaires if they're not being used and fund the arts.

fascinated by this collision between half-cooked automation and america's longstanding obsession with performative efficiency artifice

The Trump White House freaked out so much at the political disaster they created for themselves with Minnesota and other viral images of their roving, trigger happy crackdowns that they were forced to make their secret police force more secretive, but they’re still committing lawless abuses and…

“.. Inflation is now eating up all wage gains for the first time in about three years. This is painful for Americans and a true financial squeeze.” CPI Inflation in past year: 3.8% Wage gains: in past year: 3.6%” @byheatherlong.bsky.social

What’s fun about both Fetterman and Bill Maher is that they vacillate between two modes: one of them is finding war and death and mockery and humiliation hilarious and the other mode is them going “why are you so cruel to me? Why can you not find decency in your heart towards me?”

3 actual quotes from this piece: “Can I afford the tax? Yes. Is it going to deter me? No. But I think it’s shameful. I provide a lot of money to people who are blue-collar workers who work for me, servers in restaurants." giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

'People object to my censure of Juni due to their bias in favour of her identity, not because my censure was moronic and indefensible. A year on and my smug strawmanning continues.' That lying fucking cunt.

This is the University of Central Florida. So many people really have no idea how much kids hate this shit.

I'm going to have nightmares about Queen Mary's propeller.