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"Arts 'N Crass" [S2 Ep01]
Fucking LOVED this episode cuz I 100% expected Daria's mom to side with the principle cuz she's the adult. It was refreshing to see a parent stand up for their kid instead of blindly siding with the fellow authority figure
horseback archery -> several hundred years -> jerking off while driving
watch anthropologists ignore this
Except the horse can just not walk off a cliff or whatever while the car absolutely can. I mean i know horses can but like if they are paying attention they’ll just be like “you’re a stupid and I’m not going there and you can’t actually make me”.
interesting. what other discrepancies have you found between mounted archery and masturbating on the interstate
I love locking my door like…you’re not coming in lmfao
I don't want Hollywood to adapt House of Leaves only cause I know they would use a moody remix of Our House by Madness as the trailer music
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I love the phrase "play with me in this space" it's such a delightful way of engaging with these ideas.
"Play with me in this space" is imo the ideal mindset for approaching a lot of this stuff. Plus it's a good mental exercise to try and put yourself in the shoes of a complete freak.
Play with me in this space
It’s called nature and it’s a lot of fun
Haha wheee yaaaaay!!!
going from the reddit star wars fandom to the tumblr star wars fandom is giving me insane whiplash. the upside is that people aren’t bitching about every single imperfect detail in the entire franchise, but the downside is that i’ve seen more fanart of obi wan and commander cody tenderly knowing each other than i have ever wanted to in my life in the last three hours and it has probably fundamentally altered the way i interact with the entire franchise
after the initial shock of being plunged into the icy cold lake of seeing my childhood action figures caressing each others sweaty chests in a gentle, hidden moment after a battle, i’ve been able to get my wits about me and realize that yeah, i’m kinda with it
When it was first mentioned back in the 80s, I heard about it every other table you waited on at the Olive Garden. These days, I hear a boomer refer to the bush/broccoli thing about once a month at the grocery store.
Reddit is speedrunning enshittification.
Hypothesis: The owners of the company are no longer interested in keeping the business going, and are just trying to maximize financial return by selling off every possible asset.
In Reddit’s case, the upcoming IPO isn’t the beginning of a new chapter in the business. It’s the end of the business.
The most valuable part of Reddit is its fat corpus of content, built by volunteers over many years, suddenly made valuable for training AI. Now, Reddit’s corporate owners want to sell access to that corpus. That is Reddit’s new business. It’s not a long-term business, because the corpus will decay in value over time. But it’s enough for the owners to cash out.
I’m inspired in this thinking by yesterday’s edition of Rusty Foster’s “Today in Tabs.”. I don’t think he’s making this exact point, but he’s putting all the dots down, without necessarily connecting them.
John Gruber at Daring Fireball notes that OpenAI already scooped up Reddit’s corpus of data when the APIs were free. The data has no value anymore.
Reddit already gave all its data to large companies for free. Huffman is trying to charge now for horses that were let out of the barn years ago. And he obviously doesn’t care about Apollo or other third-party Reddit clients, or what these moves do to Reddit’s reputation as a platform vendor. He’s just trapped in a fantasy where investors are going to somehow see Reddit as a player in the current moment of AI hype.
Also, on Ryan Broderick’s Garbage Day: “Platforms Don’t Really Make Sense Anymore”:
We tolerated large platforms, that were never all that good to begin with, because they were convenient and useful and part of a larger interconnected network of tools and apps and systems that made the digital world safer and more dynamic. So you’d think, if they were actively deciding to stop being part of that larger system and no longer interested in making the internet, as a whole, function better, they would, at the very least, try and be more convenient! But instead we’ve ended up in a situation where all the local stores are gone, Main Street is deserted, and the large Walmarts on the edge of town are being set on fire and left to rot.
How wikipedia browsing actually works
This is just what being ADHD is like
I didn't realize just how paranoid your average USAmerican is until I started canvassing neighborhoods. There are so many ring doorbells, so many cameras, so many "no trespassing" signs. I can't help but wonder how many of the people who willingly install spy cameras on their front porches go on about how scary the world of 1984 is, or about how China is a terrible surveillance state. Suburbanites happily created the surveillance state they're so afraid of.
As an american, those things are there because of the crime. Like, for real. Even in upscale neighborhoods having things stolen off your porch (at best) or people trying to break into your home to rob\hurt you is something that just...happens here.
that is so crazy, I didn't know the United States had Crimes in it. they should make those illegal. they should also maybe stop producing true crime content
trying to fact check a very important post about what happens if you drink salt water (seawater) to see if my preconceived notions were simply myth or some shit and the first internet search results are this
- livestrong "it will make your body so clean and pure drink salt water :) your colon will LOVE this"
- drinkhydrant "its literally SOOOOO good for your digestion system <3"
- The National Ocean Service "It can fucking kill you, please don't"
this is a great lesson in why sources are important
I think we should start putting Wellness Industry people into the ocean