I can’t do small talk or general chat, but I can do meta. I can talk about how awkward it is to talk to strangers, for example. That feels like information exchange, as opposed to a complex two-person dance where I don’t have rhythm or sufficiently-malleable limbs, which is what small talk feels like to me. The goal of small talk seems to be the process itself. If we’re instead ‘educating’ each other about something, and that information is the ultimate goal, I’m much more comfortable.

While I don’t think she herself had anything to do with Epstein, the fact that people in her entourage did is its own problem. If I had a member of my team who tried to hook me up with an already-convicted paedophile, I would have to wonder what sort of operation I was running and what sort of people were buzzing around me. I’d have to wonder why they thought I’d be OK with it.

I sure as fuck don’t.

The ‘tedious cunt who’s never real Orwell but will recommend 1984 to people in Facebook comments’ profile pic industry to receive 900% boost.

Is there a sadder, more pathetic, more wretched side-character who lives for the attention of celebrities than Ian Miles Cheong? He lives in Malaysia, but seems singularly devoted to MAGA. A movement that would bury him upside down in a hole if he ever tried to migrate there, legally or not.

I try to imagine what the day to day life of a person like that is. I imagine him living in utter squalor, with a flickering bare lightbulb swinging in the breeze above his head from the drafts spewing in through every crooked window frame of his shack. With his 100 open browser tabs for each of his fake Elon-sucking accounts. Suicidally-depressed except for the 8-second dopamine hit he gets on the occasions when Elon acknowledges his existence. A fungal infection of a human.

Also, lol:

That pizza cutter feels almost racist in this context 😆 If Luigi was named Paddy Murphy, would he have brought a potato masher instead?

Cops have a stressful, often life-threatening job, no doubt. But so do a lot of people. My family has a history of working in psychiatric lock-ups with extremely violent mentally ill and developmentally abnormal patients, most of whom are being held because of murders and rapes they’ve committed (usually of their own families), and who would murder you if they had the chance/inclination to do so, because they simply don’t know any better. The nurses don’t carry firearms, they’re trained with a few restraining grappling technique and a lot of deescalation tactics. They don’t even have tasers. Put an armed cop in that situation and you’d have a ward full of corpses within a few days. Hell, put a regular prison guard in that situation and you’d have a similar outcome. But my family members aren’t MMA experts, and have never been [seriously] injured in their job. They’ve been properly trained, that’s all. Cops are trained like they’re being shipped off to 'Nam in 1969 to fight an unseen, non-uniformed enemy.

Kristi’s braincell: don’t say you were just following orders, don’t say you were just following orders…

“It was Stephen!”

Kristi’s braincell: nice 😎

At least they have an AI-free option, as annoying as it is to have to opt into it.

On a related note, it’s hilarious to me that the Ecosia search engine has AI built in. Like, I don’t think planting any number of trees is going to offset the damage AI has done and will do to the planet.

Shoot back already.

Sometimes you don’t know how good you have it until your “rock bottom” turns out to be an elevator which is now headed down a mineshaft 😭

An ICE pastor is the craziest part of this story… has the cunt ever read his supposedly favourite book?

Always wondered why Bart’s hair is made from his flesh. Same with Maggie and Lisa. I also wonder what a trip to the barber must feel like for them. Imagine getting your fingers shaved off your hands every couple of weeks with no anaesthetic. Is it any wonder the boy’s a menace?

Pretty sure she stole that slogan from Stephen Paddock.

I’d sooner trust the word of Jeffery Epstein’s island gynaecologist.

In any other business, having 6 simultaneous failed projects would be cause for dismissal of the CEO and probably the majority of the management staff. If I owned or had a large amount of shares in a company where this happened, I would not be a happy chappy. But I’m assuming the Ubisoft upper echelons are patting themselves on the back for their business acumen and financial savviness, already penning their bonuses into their calendars.

Meanwhile, regular workers are dropped like pubic lice the minute it’s convenient to do so.

Parasites.

You need to work pretty hard to make FIFA embarrassed about anything.

Whichever one has life-deranging haemorrhoids.

I’m gonna get a stupidly-hot wife despite being a fat layabout piece of shit with a clear neurological condition.

I guess that’s not really physics related, so I’ll also add “gracefully float towards delicious food on a wafting scent trail”. I could toss a burger down a canyon and use the scent trail to lower myself down safely. Like a Portal gun, but for fat layabout pieces of shit with clear neurological conditions 👍

The Hottest of Takes:

If we’re talking artistic credibility (as opposed to job security, plagiarism, and environmental impact), I want anti-AI people to uninstall their desktop graphics applications like Photoshop and GIMP. If you depend on buttons, value inputs and algorithms to get the art you want out of the machine, as opposed to using an easel and scanning your work into the PC without minimal touch-ups after the fact, then you’re no better than the person typing book-length prompts to get what they want. If you animate with key frames instead of hand-drawing every frame, you’re likewise just as credible (or not) as the prompt jockey. Hell, if you at any point use CTRL+Z, CTRL+C, CTRL+X or CTRL+V, you’re as artistically incredible as Paulie Promptnuts.

Just to be clear, I don’t think any of those things. But if you’re dismissing art on the basis that AI was used at some stage in its development, you should be thinking those things.