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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out.⁩ ⁨⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  No, they’re all super special and have an “instinct” that a robot could never have. Of course the same does not go for artists or anyone who does the actual work for these “titans of industry”.

  *by “instinct” we, of course, mean survivorship bias based on what is essentially gambling, exploitation, and being too big to fail.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Almost 90% Of Americans Are Worried About The Cost Of Groceries⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Folk music is one of the places where the people are. Even the old religious ones are good, like “One Drop Of Water” which does talk about god but mostly makes fun of a selfish, piece of shit rich guy who couldn’t make it into heaven because he worhsipped his money.

  You can of course also find those messages in a lot of the really good rap and hip hop. Tribe Called Quest was talkin’ some real shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to choose their own voters. In many countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  To make aure I understand, you mean that if you reverse the vote of every district the state should see the opposite party winning?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This 81-year-old still works at Home Depot to support herself and her 90-year-old husband⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Remember: Capitalism came about from rich merchants and lords realizing that citizens were starting to get murdery about their tyrranical monarchs so they basically said “hey, what if we make a system based on money that technically everyone has but where the shear amount of wealth we have in comparison means that we’re basically still monarchs without monarchy?”

  Which, to relate to your comment, is to say that the system hasn’t meaningfully changed and we’ve had “capitalism” for a long, long time(and it’s sucked the whole time it was happening!)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TikTok appoints ex-IDF solider as its 'hate speech manager'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Later in the article it says that Tiktok has complied with 94% of the Israeli government takedown requests and it’s also been blocking pro-Palestine content. So it’s not even a slight reach to assume that they’re gunna hire someone with similar views.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jury orders Tesla to pay $329m to plaintiffs in deadly 2019 Autopilot crash⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  They still would, it just wouldn’t have their name on it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Slurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrp⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  But what about yet another bright light in someone’s face? Do you not want another bright light in someone’s face? Everyone loves bright lights in someone’s face!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australian anti-porn group claims responsibility for Steam's new censorship rules in victory against 'porn sick brain rotted pedo gamer fetishists', and things only get weirder from there⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And if you step on the flower you DIE.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They're completely serious⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They don’t have eight arms. If anything, they have eight crazy toes and one foot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“You can't be expected to have a successful AI program when every single article, book or anything else that you've read or studied, you're supposed to pay for” Donald Trump said⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s weird spunding, but they mean copyright fines.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨British Slander. :)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Why is no one getting along? I specifically requested you get along.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" to end in May 2026⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Paramount needs Trump admin approval to merge with Skydance and they already had an issue with Trump being a huge bitch over being shown to be the turd he is on the network. Colbert is an outspoken critic of Trump, so despite the show being the best performing late night show on air they’re gunna axe it try to help the merger go through.

  Free speech is dead and, unsurprisingly, conservatives killed it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deserved? Poll inside⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  She was leaving so that would have been a not great idea. Otherwise yea, full send all the way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deserved? Poll inside⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It wasn’t flirting, but this ADHD positive girl I was crushing on(and was crushing on me) once absentmindedly stuck the tip of her finger in a full glass of water in front of her to ask whose it was and I had to desperately fight falling in love right then and there.

  Now, that was an accident born of silly brain vs purposefully fucking with someone’s food so I understand the difference, but I really like my story so…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man on my word⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Look, as long as I have time to clean up afterwards there’s no shame in her asking for help and then adding on something extra if she’s feeling it. I will always do what I promised to do and anything more is, well, more.

  Besides, showing up without tools and expecting sex is fucking weird and fixing someone’s stuff out of the kindness of your heart is rewarding no matter how the evening turns out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can a Russian pls confirm⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t a single idiom for “mind your own business”? Wild, but ok.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨please don't tell my boss I've been posting memes on the clock⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I had so much extra time at one job back in 2019/2020 that I asked for more work and they wouldn’t give it to me. Coulda done 4-6hr days and been happier but instead I had to sit in my little office watching Youtube and going on Reddit. Thank god they did give me an office because I might have died of boredom otherwise having to put on the facade of being busy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨please don't tell my boss I've been posting memes on the clock⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you can meme AND get your work done I mean who gives a shit what they say.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that fracking is not safe. People living near fracking sites are more likely to develop serious diseases⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So, CO2 production does not immediately mean oil is required for production of something. Literally further down that article is “mitigation” and it points out the chemical process has nothing to do fossil fuels, directly, but with the creation of alite. The other part of it, burning fuel, can be changed for other stuff.

  Plastic requires oil because it is made of the stuff. Powering a car does not because it doesn’t actually matter where the power comes from. These are important differences. You can make concrete without fossil fuels.

  You’re right, we can’t bridge this gap because you are so beyond stupid that your own source even tells you that you’re wrong. It’d be funny if it was fiction but somehow you’re a real person and that just makes it terrifying.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that fracking is not safe. People living near fracking sites are more likely to develop serious diseases⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m mostly commenting on the fact that people are so concerned with the cost of nuclear plants yet they seem to not care about the cost of the damage that rampant fossil fuel production comes with. This has been the shitty argument for long before renewables became viable and nuclear would have been a much better stepping stone. There are also always going to be places where renewable energy won’t work or be enough.

  It’s never going to be a single solution problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that fracking is not safe. People living near fracking sites are more likely to develop serious diseases⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You understand that without those wind and water mills that oil couldn’t have become a thing, right? Like I said, oil was a great way to bridge the gap because it is relatively easy to use but it shouldn’t be our end-goal. Having oil for producing things made of it is certainly important but we’d have a lot more to go around for those purposes if we stopped using it for inefficient things like so many personal vehicles, wasteful plastic packaging, and a myriad other things that we just don’t need it for. It’s done its time, it’s time we scaled back and moved on.

  We didn’t give up water or wind mills, either. Canada has so many hydro-electric dams that we literally call home electricity “hydro” and wind farms are only getting bigger and better.

  We don’t need oil to make concrete. It’s portland cement(limestone powder), water, and variously sized aggregates and it’s been around for a loooooong time in one form or another. The machinery used to create it does not need to run on fossil fuels. You may be thinking of asphalt, but even then maybe if we didn’t unnecessarily obliterate our roads with constant heavy vehicle traffic we’d be able to keep them for longer and not need to constantly pour resources into barely keeping them alive or refreshing them far too often.

  For someone with such a raging erection for oil you’d think you’d be more concerned about reducing our dependency on it so that we don’t waste this precious, finite resource.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Interesting⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It was always happening in the States, just less so or people didn’t care whether or not the history of slaves or whatever was real or not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that fracking is not safe. People living near fracking sites are more likely to develop serious diseases⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yea, better burn the world down instead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that fracking is not safe. People living near fracking sites are more likely to develop serious diseases⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The ancient romans also didn’t have solar panels, and actually hydro and wind were totally used in these little things called watermills and windmills. I wouldn’t be surprised if they figured out geothermal heating, too. The difference is that you can simply light oil on fire and that’s easy when you otherwise have a lower level of technology and aren’t ready for better, more advanced ways of generating power.

  You’re none too bright, huh?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that fracking is not safe. People living near fracking sites are more likely to develop serious diseases⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Europe isn’t making enemies with Russia, bud. Russia literally attacked them, it’s not “making enemies” to engage in self-defense and to not fund the people attacking you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disturbed⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you have any idea what the song is about? It’s supposed to be broody, it’s depressing as hell. Even Paul Simon said he liked the Disturbed version.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disturbed⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And their version of “Sound of Silence” is the good one, too. Goddamnit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Finally paid off my Costco hotdog 🙏⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have this shirt in white and I love it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What Every Adult Thinks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I have zero desire to be a kid again. What I want is finacial stability and trust in people in leadership positions to not be huge pieces of shit who make houseflies look like members of MENSA.

  The desire to be a kid, I think, is far more rooted in wishing for blissful ignorance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨no way right⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The issue I’m having is that yours is a country which sees the far right as something that will always exist with such power. I know the mechanics of it all, what I’m routinely shocked by is the back that the bar is on the floor and the country as a whole just cannot seem to get over it. The Democrats should not be the best you really have to offer, they should be your right-wing party and they should struggle but instead the USA handed a dictator the popular vote and a third of the place didn’t even participate either way.

  It isn’t the existence of good people, it’s the complete domination by evil, or even just apathetic, people. I’m genuinely sorry that you’re suffering but, especially as a Canadian, it does not change my opinion about the landfill inferno that is the USA.