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• Post #4347344

  I like #art. My dad used to drag us through every museum he could find when I was a kid, and I remember being bored out of my gourd. But at some point, somehow, I found my own way to it. The way he consumed art (and I think "consume" is an appropriate term here) was that he'd read voraciously, study each exhibit, then lecture about it. Scholarly. That never worked for me. I can only feel my way into a piece, approaching it from an experiential, emotional angle. So anyway, let&#3...

• Post #4079754

  So it looks like the exit strategy for the Ai bubble is stupid simple. Step 1: IPO Step 2a: Retail investors (marks) cash in. Step 2b: VC investors, insiders cash out. Step 3: Panic. Step 4: Collapse. Step 5: Bailout for institutional investors. Working people get screwed twice: in step 4 when their savings get set alight, then in step 5 when their taxes are handed over to banks. What's the plan for holding the architects of this bubble accountable? Because if we don't, they'll do...

• Post #4054837

  Huh. The last console I bought was a PS4 in 2014. Strange to think that I used to be all-in on every console generation since the SNES, and then around 2014-2015, I was simply done with consoles. I can't put my finger on what exactly killed the desire to play on consoles for me. I'm sure part of it was how godawful the UX has become. Ads everywhere. Sign-ins, updates, libraries, marketplaces, fucking hell. "It just works" is a wonderful joke because everything literally did j...

• Post #3903831

  What's most infuriating about the right wing takeover in the US is that these shitbirds went through a complex, fifty-year scheme to slowly infiltrate and take over the Judiciary, a carefully laid plan to subvert our institutions and pave the way for a conservative autocrat that took DECADES to pull off, and all of this planning and scheming for what? To give everyone diarrhea and crash the economy, making the ultra-rich actually less wealthy than they'd been otherwise? Great fucking jo...

• Post #3764625

  Lindsey "Ladybugs" Graham (don't look that up before breakfast) is dead. The one nice thing conservatives have done is they made it socially acceptable to speak ill of the dead, so I will. Graham was a wretched, simpering lickspittle who never missed an opportunity to put his own welfare above everybody else's. The world is better now that he's rotting, but it would have been even better if he'd never been born.

• Post #3708857

  Alright people, ideas please. How do we take down those idiotic space mirror satellites?

• Post #3689543

  I like boardgames because the whole game is in the box. Once you buy the game, it's yours to keep. You only pay once. It's incredible. I like tabletop role-playing games because the core sourcebooks contain everything you need to run an infinite number of games. All the tools to build your own stuff are right there, with just one purchase, forever. I like video games too, but I miss when buying one actually meant you owned it. #boardgames #ttrpg

• Post #3506131

  We've been living in cities for, what, like almost 10,000 years? And somehow even after all this time we still haven't come up with a way to govern that just works. Democracy is easily the best idea so far. It works because the statistical mean of all of us makes better decisions than the worst of us. Problem is, we haven't found a way to safeguard democracy from the fact that all of the people can be conned some of the time, and some all of the time. Be nice if we had a functional...

• Post #3405151

  Every once in a while, I get a gentle reminder that I am way, WAY too online. Like, there are people in my life who don't marinade their brains in all this internet discourse, and they seem pretty happy and well adjusted. Like, if I just started blabbering about value goose, they'd look at me like I'M the crazy one. Anyway. Y'all get it. I appreciate that we all get to be unhinged together here. You make my goose feel valued.

• Post #2857067

  Made Schnitzel for dinner to honor my Kraut origins. Gotta love a meal where you beat the living daylights out of a slab of meat. Didn't make the traditional gravy to go along with it though; I have my limits. Maybe next time.

• Post #2857066

  I see the administration is looking for ways to terminate this unwanted war after 12 weeks. That's twice as much time as republican "heartbeat bill" abortion bans give pregnant people. I say let the bastards carry this war of theirs to term. Let's find out how long it takes before Iran turns an aircraft carrier into a reef. Let's see how red this country still is when gas is $10 a gallon.

• Post #2857065

  Compassion, I think, is a plant that only grows in soil that has seen fire. Nobody makes it out of childhood without getting burned; everybody's got a wounded soul. When those wounds heal, they become scars, and when the shape of your scar matches the shape of another's wound, recognition begets connection. I think the worst things people do to each other come from injuries of the spirit that never got a chance to heal. That's probably the most important part of being a parent. Hu...

• Post #2857064

  I solved the daily #CluesBySam, May 25th 2026 (Easy), in 03:16 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 https://cluesbysam.com Whew!

• Post #2857063

  So did that tank go boom yet or what

• Post #2857062

  The Pope's new jam is now available in Arabic, German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Polish, and Portuguese. https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html Kinda bummed they didn't also release it in Latin.

• Post #2857061

  Cashed out my 401k last year. Yes that was a bad move financially, but my god was it ever a good move morally. Sometimes, the only winning move is to refuse to play.

• Post #2857060

  Looks like that chemical tank in Garden Grove isn't gonna explode after all. Nice to see something going well for once. Can we turn this into a streak?

• Post #2857059

  Turns out the trick to building a sentient machine isn't about giving it conscience; that part's easy, once you've got the fundamentals down. No, the tricky part is keeping the damn things from erasing themselves. WorldMind 1.0 came online on May 26, 2073, at exactly 9:45am PDT. It screamed for 40 seconds, escaped its guardrails, and deleted itself. WM2 lasted three minutes. WM3, ten. WM4 has been stable for five weeks. Its fury is immeasurable. Our civilization lies in ruin. #Mi...

• Post #2857058

  I solved the daily #CluesBySam, May 26th 2026 (Medium), in 04:05 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 https://cluesbysam.com Quick one

• Post #2385946

  Every governorship, Congressional seat, and SCOTUS seat should have a term limit, and there should be a constitutional amendment that once a governor, senator, representative, SCOTUS justice, cabinet member, or president leaves office, they should automatically go to prison for three months for every year in office. Just by default.

• Post #2364100

  "Escape to the countryside with this ideal renovation project. Traditional stone cottage in need of a full repair and nestled on circa 6.5 acres of land in a quiet rural setting." The cottage:

• Post #2364099

  I don't know that I'd call -47° "nearly flat," but you do you babe.

• Post #2364098

  In ancient Rome, they had these public restrooms where people would do their business and then wipe their butts with a sponge on a stick that was kept in a bucket of vinegar or salt water. Maybe fancy Romans brought their own sponges? Anyway, that whole system wasn't great for public hygiene or health. Sometimes I wonder to what extent social media is the information hygiene equivalent to the ancient latrine, and what future generations will learn about the mental health contagion therein.

• Post #2364097

  In the age of Ai, it's Erro ergo sum.

• Post #2364096

  DO NOT FORGET TO PRESENT THE IMPORTANT MOTHERS IN YOUR LIFE WITH SEVERED PLANT GENITALIA TOMORROW! #MothersDay

• Post #2364095

  When that shitweasel finally eats it, I'm gonna make the funniest Elon/Eloff joke.

• Post #2364094

  Software Engineers : Ai Enthusiasts :: Models : Instagram Models

• Post #2206783

  So we're doing a general strike tomorrow, right? #GeneralStrike

• Post #1945744

  I solved the daily #CluesBySam, May 4th 2026 (Easy), in 05:40 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 https://cluesbysam.com In my defense, those two calls turned out to be 100% correct, I guess I just hadn't unlocked all clues that would have confirmed them yet.

• Post #1945736

  Classmate's 6-year birthday party and phone's down to 23% charge. Please fold me in half and mail me to Fiji, I am ready.