That’s a lot of words to say “absolutely not dysfunctional”

I feel bad for the kids working in these conditions

And then we have beavers which have seemingly mastered the use of gates in order to direct and impede flow

If the media would quit making articles out of X posts and hosting said posts for clickthroughs that’d be great.

They’ll even link to X in articles specifically discussing how bad X or Musk is, like no drop is responsible for the flood

They often don’t allow semicolons but it’s never stopped me from checking

The only people wishing for civil war are too short-sighted to understand how horribly it would go for them. Ports, airports, water treatment plants, data centers, power stations etc etc etc predominantly located in urban areas. Good luck to the AR-15 loving whackjobs when they’re instantly landlocked and deprived of foreign trade and means to communicate. They turn on the TV and the only broadcasts they’d see are “this can end now and it all starts with you”

Trump is gonna ramble on about what a “woman job” means in an attempt at damage control, mid-debate with Kamala, and the collective sound of 100 million Americans sharply inhaling will echo through all the streets when he unintentionally endorses her on national TV

I agree with you in the though that humans have been doing this stuff for the longest. We’re sophisticated algorithms that look at the work of other people, attempt to discern what has merit, and if the stars align we might write the screenplay to the Notebook, publish Twilight, or doodle Deadpool on a napkin.

But the theft in my opinion is that a minority control this nascent tech, based on existing capital, and most of that ‘venture capital bro’ money funding this was made off of platforms that became wildly profitable for them from humans that were doing this. But now this is going to displace them and create no more need for them.

There’ll come a day when Youtube and Tik Tok design their own ‘content creators’ and at that point they’ll start cutting ad revenue to the people that put them in this position in the first place. Betrayal. It’s like Spez calling mods entitled crybabies, once this is in full gear everyone who helped get it rolling will be cast aside like chaff and a couple dozen people will get billions of dollars out of it

Votes are the only thing that’s gonna make him lose, and we’re gonna need enough votes that something like that couldn’t be remotely feasible. I’m hoping no one reads all these articles and thinks there’s no reason for them to vote because it’s already looking like a slam dunk because it’s absolutely not gonna be a slam dunk

They still don’t want an honest 95%+ ethical person in any role because it might conflict with the corporation’s desire to have workers rationalize that the needs of the corporation are more important than ethics, ie not wanting to hire potential whistleblowers.

They want ethical but only to the point that they’re willing to be unethical for the corporation, but not to the point that they’d ever be unethical towards the corporation. Basically sketchy ‘ride or die’ logic

And then the big glass grabs a straw and tries to slurp out more defined benefits from the smaller glasses, but they’ve been dry for a while

… Somebody needs to take this image and make it the background for a JD Vance Linux distro. That shit would be even more of a meme than Hannah Montana

Gross metabolic efficiency is gonna be around ~25% so you’re best off measuring kilojoules of work as an approximation of calorie burn, and then compare that to how many gallons of gas would be consumed when in a car, but you’d still probably wanna drink the gas

Be me

Download Pokemon Go

Start running to work

Gotta catch them all

4 months later run a 50K

“What was your training like?”

“I dunno, run more?”

(true story back in 2022)

I tried last year but a month back I got banned for ‘ban evasion’ after going on a 5000 mile roadtrip for a honeymoon and using the sketchiest of unsecured wifi APs.

This time around I realized I can set the default sort in account settings to the top posts in the past 1 or 6 hours, def give that a shot, neverending stream of new posts, zero reason to wanna doomscroll reddit ever again

It’s not really weird if you look at it like their brains quit developing at 8 years old. Their entire platform is basically ‘vaginas are gross, school is dumb, I want a bigger allowance, and stranger danger’

They probably view Vance less as a threat and more as an awkward and socially oblivious guy

For me it’s not so much that as it is the old layout being easier to work with when mostly browsing text-only subreddits. I think Reddit should be more appreciative of the things that made Reddit this big in the first place, including the design of the site at the time. It’s very much an “if it ain’t broke don’t fix it” scenario

Most of it’s probably landing in a high yield savings account. Some people want money for the sake of wanting more money, other people just wanna pay off their mortgage early, throw everything on autopay, and never stress about that aspect ever again