Chris Rywalt

I got a Japanese toilet and bidet seat and while I am indeed very happy with them in a lot of ways I have to say, I thought the engineering would be a lot better than it is. I have to assume they're not sending us the GOOD toilets.

Toad: Can you tell me about these people on boats in the Caribbean you've been murdering? Orange Meanie: They were trafficking narcotics and associated with illicit narcoterrorist networks.

Toad: Can you please explain when trafficking narcotics became a capital offense? Orange Meanie: Hey, did you sign our loyalty pledge? Can someone take this guy away?

Orange Meanie: Whew, that's better.

New WTFA: Controlling the narrative
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I'm thinking get Metallica on the soundtrack with "Inflatable Heroes"

I'm sad to report that I've deleted my car radio presets to @q1043.bsky.social and deleted the @iheartradio.bsky.social app from my phone after hearing Kristi Noem's hateful anti-"illegal" immigrant propaganda. I've been a listener since they changed to classic rock a thousand years ago.

The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe The Apple Calculator leaked 32GB of RAM.

"We're writing software that requires more electricity than we can generate."

And most of that is bots talking to bots.

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You know what's stupid? Voting Republican.

I'm going to be a Peter Davison guy my whole life but I did really enjoy Colin Baker's run as well. I'm still a little angry about how he was treated. Everything I've heard about Colin says he's really great.

At the rate she's failing upward, I expect Bari Weiss to be President some day.

I'm so happy for you! You deserve this win.

I like Colin Baker but I've never heard of him being anyone's favorite. Excellent!

At the rate she's failing upward, I expect Bari Weiss to be President some day.

She *speaks* really well, like in a physical way. Lovely precise diction, very few "ums", quite perfect. *What* she says is stupid or bad or both, but she says it really nicely.

Hey, New Yorker editors! Isn't it time we stopped listening to Steven Pinker and any noises his useless face makes?

Sure, there are some people who just like to pay less. Maybe they haven't looked ahead enough to see that ultimately it's worse for them. But there are also a lot of people who could pay more but then they'd have to cut back somewhere else, and cheaper clothes are the compromise.

Bit of trivia for you: War crimes don't cancel out war crimes.

A squid-headed being in a bathrobe holding a mug reading "YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE MAD TO WORK HERE" with the caption THE AWAKENING OF THE OLD ONES

I think the framing that Americans "don't want to pay so much" puts too much blame on the individual. Plenty of people *can't afford* to pay so much. This is a race to the bottom.

It's disheartening after all these years to learn that "Never again" is much narrower in scope that I thought.

It's doesn't feel good to have Gaza genocide apologists say either that everything you've heard about Gaza is false OR that Israel has very good reasons for killing children its leaders refer to as animals.

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Okay, I'm not sure what's happening here because we all seem to operating on different levels of sarcasm. So let me state where I stand on this:

Israel's actions in Gaza constitute genocide. The fact that they're possibly backing off now doesn't change that.

No, it does not.

Let's communicate by reposts since you have comments turned off.

I'm not the one saying it's the weirdest genocide ever since the genocidaires are making somewhat nice.

Can we pretend it wasn't a genocide because the genocidaires backed off a bit due to international pressure? Like, does not *completing* the genocide vacate the charge?

"..., or that you do know the difference, and you prefer evil enough to commit mass murder for it, or at least let others commit it on your behalf and to your benefit."

"To be a Republican in 2025 represents a clear public confession that you either don't know the difference between good and evil and you're so morally empty that you can't be bothered to begin to try...

PS: I find people like to argue that all artists copy, and this is true. Especially artists working on deadline for money, but all artists start out copying to learn. The earliest drawings I remember making were traced from Disney books. But artists are supposed to MOVE ON from that. AI never will.

Unfortunately I suspect most of those people aren't sincere and are only in AI art for a quick buck. They'll move on when there's a new trend with a field of fresh marks. 6/6

The other set of people who want AI art are the people who believe "creating" AI slop makes them "creators". These people are sadly delusional. The only hope for them is that they find they enjoy creating things and move on to working with real tools. 5/6

And Wingdings doesn't use the equivalent electrical power of all of Bolivia to do it, either. 4/6