EnsignRedshirt [he/him]

If there were a Chinese version of the Epstein files being released right now, they would be executing child predators in public squares and bragging about it. They’d probably give the whole thing one of those metaphorical shorthand names that translates to something like ‘tree trimming’.

Going back to 1932 to door-knock for Hindenburg.

I heard the distillery was founded a few years ago in a disadvantaged community by a Pell Grant recipient.

True roguelike fans know that there are no roguelike games.

I have no problem believing that Patreon would be digging through the couch cushions like this, given what I know about their financial state. CTH is in the top 5 Patreon accounts in terms of earnings, and has been for a decade, so it’s not like they wouldn’t be on Patreon’s radar. The podcast is making more money than it ever has, so I assume it’s not because the hosts are going broke and need to pump the numbers.

If they’re being too cool about letting people sidestep Patreon then Patreon may be pressuring them to make an effort to keep paywalled content paywalled. I have no idea how Patreon works as a creator nor what steps Patreon could take, but I do know that they’re a for-profit digital platform and that digital platforms are assholes who will play hardball. I’m going to give Chris Wade the benefit of the doubt here, given that they’ve spent a decade not caring whether anyone is paying them.

It would be a funny way of bringing back the podcast subreddit. I don’t ever want to go back to reddit, but I wouldn’t mind seeing what happens from the outside. I hope the mods hand the sub over and then maybe we could see some John Brown memes make a comeback.

Trump is fully aware of how awards work and knows that being handed a gold coin doesn’t amount to being awarded a Nobel Prize. He’ll accept it to heighten the humiliation of this obvious bootlicker, then he’ll ignore her and move on. Classic Trump, we love to see it.

I was going to say beans but bears is better.

I’m not American so I was on the sidelines, but I think there was merit in supporting the Bernie campaign in 2020, even if Bernie himself has been a disappointment since. The campaign was extremely successful in spite of the active pushback from the status quo political establishment. The Democrats had to sacrifice a lot of their credibility to stop Bernie from getting a shot at the general election, and ultimately the result was Biden shitting the bed in as many ways as you can shit a bed.

I would argue that the Bernie 2020 campaign hastened the decline of the Democratic Party, and for the right reasons. It showed that people will come out to support good things, and the Biden train wreck showed that those same people will stay home if you don’t do those things.

What would have been sad is to see him win and have to watch him send a trillion dollars to Ukraine and Israel while still not being able to get universal healthcare off the ground. That would have qualified for the for sure.

“We didn’t overhire during the pandemic. These jobs are being replaced by this magic technology that just happened to appear as interest rates were going up for the first time in 20 years.”

“Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest!”

This guy would shit his pants if he found out about FM radio.

By “generally legitimate” I just mean that they’re awarded to scientists for real things, as opposed to, like, giving the medical prize to RFK Jr. It’s still a shit institution.

Most things are named after pieces of shit. Being a piece of shit is the number one way to get something named after you. That’s not to say the Nobels aren’t a sham, but conceptually there are more offensive things than a prize that’s supposed to go to someone who contributes to humanity. Impressive that the system so effectively coopted them to do more shitty things. Important lesson there.

The science ones are generally legitimate. The literature and peace prizes have been wholly co-opted by western interests. The economics prize isn’t even a real Nobel, it’s just a prize sponsored by the Swedish central bank and administered by the Nobel Institute, and it’s a pure PR tool for legitimizing neoliberalism.

It’s like someone is constantly playing mean little pranks on you except that person is also you. “I’m going to make a medical appointment for future me and not tell him. They’re going to call him and he’s going to be so confused, lmao.”

Thanks for the reminder, I’ve been meaning to go to the pharmacy to refill my prescription for days. I just ran out this morning but still forgot until this moment. Best of luck, may we both end the day having completed literally one small task.

Reddit banned all the subreddits I actually enjoyed so I stopped participating altogether. It’s helpful to recognize that reddit’s structure leads to total stagnation in the content. I haven’t been active for years, but I still end up on a reddit thread from time to time to get answers to questions that Google should be answering (that’s another topic altogether) and I see the same stake jokes being made, the same arguments being had, the same mediocre insights from the same dull people, and it makes me so glad that I left. I don’t begrudge younger people going through the process of figuring out how to engage with the world, but I also don’t want to participate.

I’m not even sure it’s really parasocial. There’s nothing to have a relationship with. This seems like something else, although I don’t know what you’d call it. It’s more akin to getting addicted to a video game.

But simply not liking a privacy conscious experience or utilization of AI at all? I’m not getting it?

I have heard zero people object to this extremely narrow definition of AI. This is an extremely fragile straw man that has no relationship with reality.

Don’t get me wrong, I am absolutely anti “AI baked into my operating system and cell phone so that it can monitor me and sell me crap”

Well I’ve got bad news for you, that’s the only thing that the AI industry gives a shit about. That and pretending that they can replace human labor to justify wage depression and layoffs.

Also, you didn’t mention the excessive environmental impacts, or the fact that the industry is hemorrhaging money with no clear path to viability.

If you can’t think of at least a few reasons to be speculative about the current state of the AI industry then I’d go take a closer look at what’s actually going on.

I’ll be sincere here, the issue that this is clearly a forum for ADHD memes. People are here to have a chuckle and commiserate about shared experiences. Everyone here is aware that these aren’t good or useful behaviors.

It’s not about normalizing these behaviors, it’s about contextualizing them. If someone has been struggling with these things their whole life, there’s a good chance they’ve been told over and over again that they should try harder to not do these things, but without any compassion or accommodation or treatment. They’ve heard “oh, you should be able to control those things” from people who don’t have trouble with these things, and your comment is basically indistinguishable from that sentiment.

People know these are unhealthy behaviors, they know there are ways to work on them, and they are probably already doing that work. It’s unhelpful and tedious to point out that these are bad and you can work on them.