jaded commoner

You have more money than God. But you want incentives to do good, moral things?

I see the issue. When we said we would replace human workers with machines you assumed the machines would work. That's on you

Juvenile Heermann's gull (very dark all over) in flight, flying over very very shallow water. Flying to the right maybe two feet off the ground. It's shadow is to the right. Just below the shadow is a reflection on the sheen of water.

Got this really cool, ghostly picture by accident the other day in Dillon Beach, CA. It is a Heermann's gull with both it's shadow and reflection.

#birds

The CEO-to-worker pay ratio at S&P 500 companies last year was 285-to-1. The median employee would have had to start working in the year 1740 to earn what the average CEO received in 2024. Is it any wonder why so many think the system is rigged?

Chinese people submit over 3 million suggestions for government’s 15th Five-year plan : Peoples Dispatch In the process President Xi Jinping instructed the government to “listen to the voices of the people” and “gather the wisdom of the people”

Interesting peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/07/c...

Millionaire trophy hunter killed by ‘Black Death’ buffalo he was trying to take down Other hunters called it an 'unprovoked attack'

FUN FACT: Cape Buffaloes kill more big game hunters than lions, elephants, rhinos, and crocodiles. Well done, Cape Buffaloes!

thetab.com/2025/08/06/m...

utter offense but united staters can get fucked, China upholds its deals whether the head of state is in a good or a bad mood, even if they hate your guts, whereas the united states head of state breaks deals on a whim if they wake up in a bad mood or if they dislike your accent

but are the expert chiefs in the room with epstein?

meme of extremely cute pink icon kirby sitting in a big chair in front of a control panel. he is saying “they lower my wage, i lower the coolant to the nuclear reactor”

Today is my birthday (turning 29), which is the only time all year that I ask for a repost 🌿
I hope you get lost in fantasy worlds as much as I do 🔮

"I need ChatGPT to brainstorm" dear human person the whole point of brainstorming is to find new ways or angles when approaching a problem, the "let's regurgitate the complete stolen corpus of human achievement"-machine doesn't help you brainstorm - it stops you from brainstorming.

unusual whales Subscribe @unusual_whales Bots now account for over half of global internet traffic, per FORTUNE 9:17 AM • 7/31/25 • 365K Views

The Dead Internet Theory is coming close to fruition.

In high school, I was complaining about how long the school day was and my teacher turned to me and said, "the days are long, but the years are short" and I was like "what the fuck are you talking about you lunatic" and then the bell rang and now I'm in my 30s.

Whenever these LLM guys say they think AGI/artificial superintelligence is in the works it's like hearing someone say that their next toaster is going to break the land speed record

I finished reading SPOCK’S WORLD by @diane.dianeduane.com last night with my Star Trek book club and the line that knocked us all flat on our asses was when a smug Vulcan logic bro says “the data speaks for itself,” and Bones replies “NO data speaks for itself. data just lies there. PEOPLE speak.”

this "papers please" cyberpunk dlc has the most annoying drm

Maybe 10 years ago: Technology is great and makes my life easier in many ways
Now (holding a big caveman club): We must destroy machine

he also said that the metaverse nimbfuckery would revolutionize the world, how is that working out

It took me decades of living in polluted cities full of gas guzzling vehicles and of eating industrialized foods to acquire the amount of microplastics, asbestos and lead I have in my blood, no one is taking it away from me nuh-huh !

brace for "DiCaprio" files being redacted and withheld by obscenely wealthy old white men attempting to cover up their crimes in the luxury hotel in israel

.. ♪ .. I was waiting for a chain reaction with the missing link .. ♫ .. waiting for that trickle down forever circling the sink .. ♪ .. I was tired of being tired I could not get no rest .. ♫ .. so I kept sleep walking and talking in my sleep yes I did my best .. ♪ ..

since vasectomies have become so expensive in the united states, citizens have been resorting to this one weird trick that private health insurers don't want you to know about

How did we get an entire corporate and political world full of scumbags and bastards, all we did was incentivize that behavior at every turn

o lula deveria fazer uma contra-oferta nos seguintes termos: se vcs quiserem sentir o gosto do café de novo, é pra inocentar o luigi mangioni

surely a bunch more houses for corporations and private equity funds to acquire and use as speculative assets while no one can afford to rent them at all will fix it, while we're at it let us also build a parking lot

Palantir is now valued at $375 billion.

This places the surveillance company ahead of Home Depot, Bank of America, and Coca-Cola.

Co-founder Peter Thiel bankrolled JD Vance's entry into politics, and under Trump the company has seen a surge in government contracts.

"Muito difícil distribuir essas laranjas no Brasil"

Não é não, me vende a caixa 1L suco aqui baratinho, eu compro um pallet pra guardar

"A laranja brasileira tem características que agradam ao paladar americano"

Agradam o meu também, eu tenho paladar também eu gosto de suco de laranja me vende

bruh.. they don't even care anymore do they, I bet they made their plans already including the lawsuit and the percentage of the profits they'll have to pay Sony

"the lesser evil is still evil and, once in power, no longer lesser"