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I'm old enough to remember a year or two ago when both "we're not killing journalists that's illegal!" and "We're not bombing *hospitals* for god's sake" were major talking points. Violations of these things now no longer seem to even register.

Christ.

it's so deranged how rich business owners have demanded for decades that they be called "job creators" despite the fact that every single person i know has experienced a rich guy buying out an existing business and firing everyone and usually completely bankrupting it before cashing out and leaving

Cops get half a city's entire budget and and they rob, via asset forfeiture, literally more than burglars do.

Similar to how employers steal more money in wages than all robbery and burglary combined, except you're also forced to pay them 168+ hours overtime a week

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Famous for putting the quality of their output above all other concerns

All of the penicillin in use worldwide comes from a strain of mold that was growing on a cantaloupe bought at a grocery store in Peoria, Illinois in 1942.

#KAITO in some of my wardrobe staple outfits

I just got my energy bill for the month and its 25% higher than it was this time last year, despite me using the same amount of power. I wonder what the heck could be causing it to OOOOOF COURSE IT IS

Realtors Are Using AI Images of Homes They're Selling. Comparing Them to the Real Thing Will Make You Mad as Hell Realtors are starting to use AI-generated images of houses that don't exist to sell expensive properties, inciting anger.

The primary use case is fraud.

So it goes

Sometimes

caves of qud

I realize broad science-literacy problems cannot generally be solved just by shoving more facts at people but I really wish more people understood that the entire purpose and mechanism of a vaccine is to educate your OWN immune system, making it about the most "natural" medical intervention possible

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This page has a big button for you to email 20+ customer service departments at once with an (editable, if you like) prewritten letter. You can even do it from your phone! There's zero reason to not be participating in the pushback on this.

Vaguely removed from the context in question, but I do think it matters explaining why this justification processors use of "risk of chargebacks" is complete and utter bullshit. In my 2 years on gumroad, I had ONE chargeback. Almost 1000 sales, and one single chargeback of 3 dollars.

shadow says trans people are cool

Current Star Trek is so disheartening as a version of it that's essentially Hornblower/Aubrey-Maturin in space would be a refreshing return to roots, a proper nautical sci-fi - but none of the people who write the show are especially interested in nautical fiction, they only watch Star Trek

Guy Gives Himself 19th Century Psychiatric Illness After Consulting With ChatGPT "For 3 months, he had replaced sodium chloride with sodium bromide obtained from the internet after consultation with ChatGPT."

After asking ChatGPT what to eat instead of salt, a man slowly poisoned himself over course of 3 months and gave himself a psychiatric illness that was common in the 19th century, according to a new medical case study:

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Admittedly, Nightreign does manage to show up in the size chart even with Armored Core models though.

Tangential, but this post is making me appreciate the new Superman all the more, because it does get it

The bit in the insurance office feels like the writers coming THIS CLOSE to getting it thematically.
And then the sequel happened, where the writers willfully not getting it becomes the center of the plot.

Do we even care what Peter Jackson is up to nowadays? Has he even done anything after finishing the hobbit trilogy?

Been building a theory around this: Hard work hasn’t paid for decades, but as everything becomes more extractive, as people *feel* bone-deep that their labor is not rewarded and that they pay too much for not enough, the only approach that feels survivable is grift.

did you know that Ready Player One (the novel, admittedly the least attractive 80's nostalgia focused work in history), in all its 80's pop culture fart-huffing and constant, constant references, never brings up Michael Jackson once

Just said to myself "I bet they're just asking Copilot what to do at this point" so I decided to check

"Flim Flam Flanagan, reputed seller of the Cure-All for All confirms that his new concoction will firm the vitals, strengthen one's vigor, remove warts and grow hair," reports breathless business journolist for Paper of Record.

It's a red text post that says: (transgender woman being denied at basketball tryouts, but it's the same town where Air Bud took place) come on coach you know me, playing nationals is my dream! (coach) sorry kid, "biological advantages" and all that. maybe if you were a dog things could be different, but.. (trans woman, cautiously getting down on all fours and looking up) okay okay so wait. uhhhm, like,.. woof? (coach, visibly excited) SOMEBODY GET THIS BITCH A JERSEY NOW!!

blowing past expectations by miraculously remembering to post here a third time in one week

A Chrome browser error page displays the familiar “Aw, Snap!” message, indicating that something went wrong while loading a webpage. A pixelated frowning file icon with Xs for eyes appears at the top left. Below, the error code reads “Out of Memory,” suggesting the browser ran out of system resources. The page includes a “Reload” button in blue on the bottom right

behold the "HTML bomb"

It's a counterattack for AI companies that persistently scrape and rescrape your web site, even when you tell them not to

when a scraper grabs it, it becomes a 10-gig HTML page and 💣 goes the scraper

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haha this rules.

folks don't know that AIs scraping websites accounts for like half of all internet bandwidth usage right now. Sites get scraped- ie, all the contents downloaded- over and over again, destroying/wasting their bandwidth, often maxing it out. It's like being continually DDOS'd