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- Comment on Cool shirt? 1 day ago:
The implicit desperation makes it cringe.
Possible alternative: Goth girls love me. Because I’m vulnerable and a little scared of them.
- Comment on The Think Tank Behind Project 2025 Just Published Trump's Iran War Plan 1 week ago:
I recommend reading The Dictator’s Handbook by Bueno de Mesquita and Smith. As CGP Grey says, no man rules alone. Even Trump has to answer to key supporters in his coalition or face an ousting.
- Comment on xkcd #3089: Modern 3 weeks ago:
I like how contemporary is more modern than modern.
- Comment on You raise the market value of pistachios when you peel them 3 weeks ago:
Your logic is isn’t cracked, but unfortunately it does nut work that way to in practice. I blame shell corporations.
- Comment on I love that maga will get the day they voted for and deserve. I hate that they dragged all the rest of us in with them. 3 weeks ago:
Sweet! I can’t wait to watch them have a total change of mind and heart as they realize their mistake.
- Comment on China has introduced a drone that flies like a bird. The new invention could turn the drone industry upside down 4 weeks ago:
So many ballistic trajectories, so much falling lead.
- Comment on China has introduced a drone that flies like a bird. The new invention could turn the drone industry upside down 4 weeks ago:
It’s called Neuralink.
- Comment on I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down. I just didn’t expect them to be such losers 5 weeks ago:
Living your life to impress other men by hating women is one of the most embarrassing things I can imagine. Looking up to any of these men for how to live your life is even sadder.
I’ve worked hard to keep these kinds of men out of my personal life, to keep them away from me, out of my goddamn sight. Now they are in my face daily, not only influencing the world for the worse but making me nauseous at how uncool and pathetic they are, on top of their other sins. It’s too much, I can’t take it, there needs to be a change.
It’s time for us to start getting revenge on the nerds.
Sounds to me like they crave attention more than anything, poor insecure past-neglected angsty man-agers they are. Depopulating their various platforms and reducing their viewership would be nice. Sucks that anyone at all would feel inclined to lend them their ears and eyes when there are far better alternatives out there.
- Comment on Why is nobody mad about TGI Fridays taking the lords name in vain? 5 weeks ago:
Oooo, good find! Busted.
- Comment on Why is nobody mad about TGI Fridays taking the lords name in vain? 5 weeks ago:
Which Greg?
- Comment on Rewarding kids for pulling their teeth out may not be one of our better ideas 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Why is nobody mad about TGI Fridays taking the lords name in vain? 5 weeks ago:
Do they actually say what “TGI” stands for? Is there some legal document that says its full name is “Thank God It’s Friday’s”? Maybe it actually stands for “The Grumpy Intestine Friday’s”.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
The hypocrisy is unreal. I have been successfully holding onto my final shred of hope in the goodness of humankind, but this tips the scale. I give up. Now I only have despair in the badness of humunkind. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to drown my sorrow by bingeing on Napster, Scour, BitTorrent, newsgroups, and Gnutella.
- Comment on The pipeline 1 month ago:
COUGH-Applebee’s-COUGH
- Comment on ChatGPT spends 'tens of millions of dollars' on people saying 'please' and 'thank you', but Sam Altman says it's worth it 1 month ago:
Now that right there is some Buddahriffic wisdom. As someone who has destroyed a keyboard in frustrated anguish, I can say the satisfaction was dismally ephemeral and every time I found a loose key for months afterward, I felt ashamed of my impulsive and violent behavior.
Although, in the exact moment in which the keyboard exploded into shrapnel, the satisfaction was intense, although I think the novelty of the situation and the personal distraction it caused were the real source of the delight. When I turned back to my sorely inadequate and poorly behaved workstation, the feelings of frustration quickly flooded back, only worse now that I needed to find a new keyboard…and waste time cleaning up the old one.
- Comment on Tesla Slumps Below 50% Share of California's Electric Car Market 1 month ago:
That’s pretty wild and really cool to ponder. Battery placement and balancing its weight safely seems like a steep hurdle for bolt-on EV conversions.
- Comment on Tesla Slumps Below 50% Share of California's Electric Car Market 1 month ago:
I like the way you think. When Tesla tanks and gets sold off for pennies, could you please start a Tesla Conversion business? I’d like to have a useful EV pickup that can carry a slide-in truck camper. I don’t need any of that self-driving shit or connections to the Cloud or giant touch screens. Just pedals, gauges, levers, buttons, and a steering wheel.
- Comment on Tesla Slumps Below 50% Share of California's Electric Car Market 1 month ago:
I have duly upvoted your obvious sarcasm.
- Comment on How Elon Musk's favorite news influencer is capitalizing on his clout 1 month ago:
That’s the thing I can’t fully understand. What sticky secret sauce does Twitter have that keeps people on it? I never saw its appeal and never created an account. I tried Bluesky and was underwhelmed. Instagram had some stickiness, but then it got stale after the initial novelty wore off. Maybe my brain just isn’t wired for those types of social media.
- Comment on ChatGPT spends 'tens of millions of dollars' on people saying 'please' and 'thank you', but Sam Altman says it's worth it 1 month ago:
Perhaps you should feel concern for that person, because they’re resorting to violence to cope with their feelings of frustration. We’ve all done it and in my own experience, I don’t think I’ve ever come back to my senses feeling satisfaction that I had lost control. I usually feel some shame for the destruction I caused.
- Comment on ChatGPT spends 'tens of millions of dollars' on people saying 'please' and 'thank you', but Sam Altman says it's worth it 1 month ago:
Hey, whatever heuristic works for helping people show and feel respect for their environment and the things in it is good in my book. If you’re capable of respecting others in your space without needing to be polite to your inanimate tools, then good on you. Not everyone is like that and if it helps someone feel peace with their surroundings to imagine everything around them has some kind of soul or feelings worthy of consideration, then I’ll take that, too.
Of course, there are limits to everything and if a tool irreparably breaks, hopefully someone is able to discard it accordingly. Pathological hoarding of useless objects is a thing, too, after all.
- Comment on Assuming a button that makes you smarter, the only smart move is to press it. 1 month ago:
In what activities do you personally engage to cultivate your intellect?
- Comment on Assuming a button that makes you smarter, the only smart move is to press it. 1 month ago:
I was of the understanding reading books had fallen out of favor and reality shows, endless scrolling, 24/7 news, and podcasts were the new and supposedly best way to expose oneself to entertainment disguised as information.
What’s your preferred method of acquiring knowledge and exercising your intelligence to hit the proverbial ‘ensmartment button’?
- Comment on Assuming a button that makes you smarter, the only smart move is to press it. 1 month ago:
Sounds like you better get busy on building that ensmartering button then, because exposure to knowledge through books and other educational media is the only way I know of to become smarter. I suppose healthy living facilitates the process greatly, as well.
- Comment on Assuming a button that makes you smarter, the only smart move is to press it. 1 month ago:
Yeah, I mean, c’mon books. Why you gotta be so wordy?
- Comment on Full Circle 1 month ago:
I want to leave to ensure the safety of those closest to me.
But I also want to stay and fight like hell.
Unfortunately, even if the immediate fascism were beaten back, I have very little faith in anything but capitochristofascism’s resolve to continue to be absolutely shitty, and general American ignoarrogance to reign supreme, for the rest of my life.
- Comment on Webb telescope documents alien planet's death plunge into a star 1 month ago:
I prefer to see things go by the way of The Last Question
- Comment on Assuming a button that makes you smarter, the only smart move is to press it. 1 month ago:
Steal what people have to lose and they’ll start acting like they’ve nothing left to lose…
The sheer unfairness of it stings and festers, I agree and feel the same as you. There’s some solace in knowing there was never really anything I could have done differently, except perhaps lived a little more decadently, although I’m not sure that would have made me much happier at the time and probably would have made me even more poorly prepared, mentally, for the austerity to come.
My parents were strategic geniuses for having this book in the house when I was a kid. I believe it helped my slow lifetime acceptance of the ‘life is no fair’ fact. Image
- Comment on Assuming a button that makes you smarter, the only smart move is to press it. 1 month ago:
It’ll be interesting to see if it stands up to the test of time. For better or worse, I replaced my VTI index ETF with VTV to avoid the highest p/e offending tickers.
- Comment on Assuming a button that makes you smarter, the only smart move is to press it. 1 month ago:
Replace button with book and press with read and yup.
