Feels like "mixed reactions" on kicking puppies is some kind of Rubicon

The reason Star Trek is the only popular (mostly) 'utopian' sci fi franchise is that it's the only one where they defeated capitalism

Found a new way to teach people the difference between INT and WIS

Between the textbook dunning kruger cases from the tech world and the sycophant/patronage hires in the current administration, almost every important person in media, industry and politics is wildly incompetent and unprepared, which is sometimes very funny and always very bad

We do not have to defend the second amendment, we do not have to talk about how good these victims were (no matter how true), we do not have to point to DHS rules or training or anything for this all to be wrong and evil and untenable.

Really good subtitle here

Okay so they invented a thing that: A) makes stuff up when it cant figure something out (frequent) B) exclusively flatters the user and encourages whatever the hell they say C) only the worst least self aware people use it? Great

One time at the dentist the dentist was drilling a tooth and like bent over to look in my mouth and accidentally drilled my arm? And he was like "whoops! Ha ha"

So much of modern genre fiction is like "Commander Voltaxxx was as angry as a Bogorian Angerhino. He slammed his fist down angrily and madly growled "I'm so mad!" angrily. The mist oak table shook under his aggressive emotion like a jigglebush in a spell wind."

The Sith of Mythyphus

The entire american economy now is just work around the clock to survive and hope to hit some big payday on various lotteries like sports gambling, political/news gambling (?!), crypto, influencer?, startup scam etc

Wait do you say Detroit or Detroit because I say Detroit and everyone clowns on me for it

It's (not) crazy that The big pole holding up maga circus tent - that white people 'built this country' and deserve their place at the top AND are being treated unfairly AND they can do whatever they want AND everyone else needs to be punished - is also now the explicit foreign policy of the USA

The best part of January is doing all the clerical work ive invented for myself to make me feel like I am both productive and busy

It's a shame people only know the first 30 seconds or whatever from Jackass because Corona by minutemen is a legit amazing and kind of beautiful song!

Okay everybody knows Stranger Things got the name Vecna from D&D But did you know where D&D got the name? It's an anagram of Vance, as in Jack Vance to honor one of the all time great pulp fantasy writers

This is why the extent of dem's political ambitions are getting their besties to win elections by being nice or "deserving" it

Meditations on a Muppet Christmas Carol this year: America became undeniably cooked when greed and selfishness became not only legally justified and encouraged, but morally too

Curiosity is the best, most important human trait-it is what helped us achieve anything and everything. But 10,000 years ago it was pretty dangerous to be curious. It is one of the great tragedies of modernity that we have created a safe and comfortable world to be curious in and so many choose fear

If you were playing a game w 100 people and like 40 of them had zero points and one person had 749 billion points, you would prob change the rules

WHAT ARE WE DOING

Small potatoes compared to other things he has said and done, but it is so shockingly mean and petty and delusional that it illustrates the small, cruel, self-obsessed world they are trying to build

I simply cannot believe we let "I'm mad on Facebook that other coffee flavors and sizes exist" become our national identity but here we are

I think we're actually at the least bad phase of AI right now. Very very soon we are going to tip from "making it work and getting people to use it phase" to "okay time to make money because it cost a trillion dollars" phase and it is going to be all ads and ideological moderation

In the past, our business and entertainment barons had to at least make products consistently that were appealing. But now that we let tech run everything, there is more of a Hansel and gretel approach: They simply have to make it appealing once and then trap you and eat you

Me: so it actually would be gladiatrix and more than one would be gladiatrices Divorce attorney: this isn't helping

Here are some smaller policies I would do: Ban all digital gambling Require any text, image, song, video generated by AI to have watermarks Very strong restrictions on the size, speed, weight of vehicles esp pickup trucks and SUVs Eliminate 90% of plastic from CPG

This is an anti-human way to think. This is beyond untenable and the best case scenario here is running out the clock in a cave sitting on a pile of money as the world burns around you. Apocalyptic avarice and stupidity

Angel: hmm it is all put together but it keeps falling over and barfing Other angel who loves crystals: have you tried putting crystals in its ears

Why do they do this. Why do they need to share the first barest flickers of basic cognition like it's a novel concept. I cannot believe the world is being rebuilt by these people who assume we're even less capable of recognizing things like "learning" "practice" and "eating broccoli" than they are

Look I'm all for luddite takes these days but they make robots human shaped because our world where robots theoretically would work - tools, machines, spaces - is human shaped

You know that scene in the Simpsons where Homer cant remember his witness protection name? That's how dumb studios think you are when they use cgi to replicate dead actors or deage people. They think you literally do not know what a movie is

Grok yesterday

Check this cool guy out though I saw this

The only thing not getting more expensive is YOU and that kinda shatters every baby brain tenet of capitalism

One thing I've been thinking about is all the politicians who dont represent me, the business guys who make all the worst decisions for me as a consumer, the 'artists' who make things that do not appeal to me-they all underestimate me, my abilities, my compassion, my intelligence, my everything

The people who think AI can replace YOU think that because AI could very easily replace them (posting on LinkedIn and pointing at big numbers on a chart). They can't imagine a job harder than theirs, which mostly consists of thinking and talking generally about Business

Yesterday we were looking up trivia quizzes to pass the time on a long drive and one of the questions on one of the quizzes was "who stole christmas?" lol

Do you think i have to read this before playing 3

Is it spiders

Hey man just letting you know that thing you just said is a thing dumb people say, just a heads up

How a writer sees the world

I made this but pretend it's like 5 years ago

An underrated Halloween candy is those little boxes of nerds. There's a lot of nerds in there!

Say what you want about pitchfork but when they're right they're right

Just thought of a really good couples costume idea Taylor swift and Travis kelce

Another small way everything is getting crappier: incessant spam calls. Some days I get more than 20. I imagine the government was either bribed to ease regulations here, the government sold data to these callers, or just general incompetence in regulation. It sucks!