Everyone makes fun of the incel "government redistribution of girlfriends" proposal but the state did in fact force women to marry mediocre men by not letting them have a bank account or own property in their name and they don't have to take us that many steps backwards to get there.

It might even necessitate [dramatic pause] the mildest of tax increases

I have a very simple and straightforward two-step plan to Save The Video Game Industry: Step 1: Globally eliminate the concept of a classed society and redistribute all surplus resources among the populace, permanently enshrining social ownership of the means of production. Step 2: Ridge Racer 8.

The wonderful thing about Tyggers Is Tyggers are burning bright Their tops are made out of rubber In the forest of the night What bouncy, trouncy, flouncy, pouncy, Immortal hand or eye Did frame the most wonderful thing about Tyggers, Their fearful symmetry!

The thing about being an elder millennial is that you, at all times, carry on associating everything you encounter to things you saw on television in the timespan of 1996-2009, which is a very specific frame of reference to be trapped in It's good that gen z will know nothing of this, I maintain

They primarily communicate through the fleshy virtual reality devices depicted in Existenz, which in everyday life is disguised as a meat diet

Since the cats were tiny kittens we’ve made gentle biscuits on them whenever they make biscuits on us and I highly recommend this feedback loop.

We rarely make mention of it, but grade school teachers have found that kids learn angles 360% better if they are curling fans

Geologists recommend eating one to three rocks a day

Ask your doctor if asking your doctor is right for you

Diesel was invented as a way to liberate the people. Its inventor was quite utopian about it

"the left must" if you consider them critical infrastructure, fund them. otherwise, stop mooching and start pulling yourself up by your bootstraps

This is the kind of thing you show a clinical psychiatrist and they, very discreetly, cancel both of your plans for the rest of the day until you Talk It Out whatever you thought you were doing that day, no you don't, you have entered a very different conversation now

i've BEEN saying this

Rush hours so bad that you get there faster by simply outwaiting them than by going out into the fray

It is very funny that most of the commentary on this story is akin to someone venturing out into the wilderness without proper equipment "yah, they went diving without checking their oxygen tanks, anyone could've told them this would happen"

Relationship status: possibly and potentially

I have not, alas, put 500 hours into game of the year 2014-2026, A bird story

a while ago I screenshotted the everything happens so much tweet, and ever since it has hung around in the notifications tab, meaning that any time I open the calendar, it shows up this reminds me that vista had a good idea with their widgets line of thought

youngster: just how old are you anyway? me: I signed up to twitter on a vista machine youngster, mind blown in ways yet unfamiliar, loading wheel spinning: how does that even, wha, you, wha, no way, this doesn't look like anything to me

Roses are red Violets are blue If you wannabe my lover you gotta get through this mansion filled with opaque puzzles solvable through contextual clues helpfully left strewn around the environment, tho at some points you might look at said environment and go, couldn't I just punch through it?

Remember, the people selling LLM AI have do idea how it actually works. Literally. They build it to ingest data and spit out solutions but have no idea how and why it arrives at those solutions, since it's self supervised. They're not selling a product, they're selling a gamble.

Hell, say “We have a job that needs a truck,” and send him off to deliver food to people in hiding. 99% of the dudes I’ve known like that would leap at the chance to Do Useful Thing With Truck.

🌸 #pixelart #commission

A materialism so profound as to found the basis for a new idealism

Did you know that if you rename a file, you can alter its expected behavior? okay, so let's take it from the top computers have different kinds of memory. the one that is relevant here is the permanent memory, often referred to as a "hard drive". information is store in the form of files. a file is

The most radical and revolutionary a person in the US can do is to insist that the Constitution be applied as written

Calling the requirement for a judicial warrant before entering a person’s home one of the Democrats’ “new restrictions on federal immigration agents” crosses the line into outright falsehood. It’s in the Bill of Rights! A rule as old as the republic.

*ambient emotional support*

Everything is quarterly reports for shareholder benefit, fully automated by chatbots. A few named individuals trade stocks back and forth with each other, for a gazillion dollars. None of the companies they ostensibly own employ anyone. The market has finally freed itself from human involvement

It is unclear what a putative terrorist could do that is not already achieved by sitting back and watching things unfold

Did you know that if you rename a file, you can alter its expected behavior? okay, so let's take it from the top computers have different kinds of memory. the one that is relevant here is the permanent memory, often referred to as a "hard drive". information is store in the form of files. a file is

And you get to see Throne of Blood, which is never a bad proposition

Archived for posterity

someone in the montreal subreddit did one of the usual "why don't people go out anymore" and the best, entirely correct response was "my guy, people are broke and shit costs too much"

give 👏 knives 👏 to birds 👏

Seattle friends, let's put the city on the map for something other than cyberpunk and, the other thing

Chat, is this real? (But I'm asking a French cat and it pretends not to understand with Gallic insouciance.)

it's not FOR us

From the Insta account catsbeingweirdlittleguys

The suffragettes torched buildings and engaged in numerous acts of vandalism before winning, tho modern civil disobedience orgs are infinitely more peaceful than the non-sanitized originators of the concept

it has been since probably the early 2010s since i regularly heard people saying 101 level phrases like "the patriarchy hurts men too" and we should bring it back bc american culture has regressed so much since then that it's pretty pathetic tbh

Me at 20: I’ll have it all figured out by the time I’m 40. Me at 40: wtf do you mean they rearranged the grocery store