People are so used to just trusting what a computer tells them is true. For decades, the output of a computer was mathematically infallible, an absolutely true execution of what you told it to do (just you might have instructed it wrong)
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The thing that makes this extra funny to me is that I think the cat is about to say this is all moving too fastβ¦
15.02.2026 04:39 β π 2497 π 336 π¬ 32 π 5
I came to say exactly the same thing
14.02.2026 19:37 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
I do wonder if either one had Lynch syndrome, the BRCA of colon cancer
13.02.2026 16:45 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Went to urgent care for lowkey infected ear piercing. He gave me an ointment and an oral antibiotic but did not actually look at my ears?!
13.02.2026 15:48 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
It helped, so I'm pretty sure it really was ibuprofen!
13.02.2026 14:15 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
I just took what I'm pretty sure is ibuprofen from a mystery plastic baggie of pills I've had floating around, so that's fun!
12.02.2026 23:27 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0
Donate to Haven Watch MN β Support at the gate, care beyond it, organized by Haven Watch
Haven Watch was created to help individuals released from ICE detentiβ¦ Haven Watch needs your support for Haven Watch MN β Support at the gate, care beyond it
So, the folks detained at Whipple are largely being released. Their phones, wallets, and often their winter clothes are confiscated. They are dumped out the front gate with nothing.
Haven Watch is standing there and welcomes them back.
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12.02.2026 14:50 β π 55 π 44 π¬ 2 π 2
National Primary Day or bust
11.02.2026 23:02 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
A squirrel standing on its hind legs. the body is white, the floofy tail and the face are kind of brown-gray. The paws and (super floofy pointy) ears are red.
look at this Eurasian squirrel
11.02.2026 22:30 β π 19 π 2 π¬ 4 π 0
if you played sonic the hedgehog and put down the controller, sonic would look at you and tap his foot impatiently. this was proof that sega genesis cartridges had souls. the decision was made to make the storage cases a lot larger than the cartridges so they would have room to move around in there
11.02.2026 15:58 β π 7443 π 1446 π¬ 67 π 43
A+, would hang out with at the family reunion picnic
10.02.2026 23:20 β π 7 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
My mom has an "Uncle Toad"
10.02.2026 23:07 β π 15 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
I know that there's a lot going on but is anyone else paying attention to South Korea's upcoming cultural domination victory
10.02.2026 23:06 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
My child with industrial-grade, free-access-to-benzos anxiety got the "everybody feels worried sometimes" talk from her pediatrician
So did the kid with OCD
10.02.2026 13:58 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Drug ads should be illegal again
09.02.2026 22:06 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Finally, someone who gets that the Muppets are a bunch of lowkey raunchy fuckups with big hearts
08.02.2026 15:16 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Unfortunately GenX turned bad. Turns out when you raise a whole cohort of nihilists...
07.02.2026 22:01 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
It could tell me to eg. water my plants every 3 days but not stack up extras if I missed it, and without an overwhelming interface to set that kind of thing up π
07.02.2026 15:18 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Similarly goddamn Microsoft Entourage, the task/calendar application they made for Mac in like 2008, is still the best productivity software I've ever had, RIP
07.02.2026 15:17 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
It really burns me because Google actually DID make great inroads toward this kind of machine learning assistance and then it just... went away
07.02.2026 15:10 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
It could be flagging possible scheduling conflicts for you based on plans you're making in texts and email vs. your calendar! It could be telling you there's an accident on the freeway so you should leave earlier! It could notice you're overdue to make a dentist appointment! But no.
07.02.2026 15:09 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
It's okay to just stop watching it! Life is too short!
07.02.2026 02:32 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
How in the world did I end up getting phishing emails for French NHS?
06.02.2026 16:53 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
"Aw, look at that precious pretty baby!"
06.02.2026 13:25 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
You are definitely selling me on this book
06.02.2026 00:33 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
I for one respect their commitment to more hang time
06.02.2026 00:17 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
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