Mediocritastic

I agree. I was trying to be polite about it but I’m a bit confused why, with all the great real photos from the protests today, someone bothered creating an AI one

Where is the first picture with all the semi-identical signs from? Do you know who took/posted it?

Somewhere in some third rate circus Slacks Curry is a weary member of an underwhelming trapeze act. Parents everywhere look on with a sense of relief that nothing he’s attempting is exciting enough for their children to attempt to imitate at home

Political Independents: Who They Are, What They Think Most independents are not all that “independent” politically. And the small share of Americans who are truly independent stand out for their low level of interest in politics.

Independent are not mostly left of democrats. On average, they are somewhere in the middle of the two parties. I still think the dems should work more on reengaging their own base and the left instead of centerists, but that specific assertion seems to be unsubstantiated.

A magazine list showing #37, Zohran Mamdani, age 11, asked for Books, FIFA 2003 and SimCity 3000 video games.

we’re about to find out if loving SimCity makes you a better mayor

Mamdani was asked in 2002 by NY Mag what he wanted for Christmas and said SimCity 3000

A dating service that matches you up with someone who drives the same speed as you on the highway

well, the two scoops really only applies to those raised in captivity. most folks don’t know that you’re looking at four, maybe even five, scoops if you can find a box of raisin bran in the wild

Cosmo should have done an article on this instead of wasting all our time on outfits you can transition from daytime to nighttime

I went through a move where I really aggressively purged a bunch of “oh I don’t really use this printer/crock pot/camping gear enough to justify moving with it” and 5 years later I’ve bought back worse and more expensive versions of almost everything I donated/sold. I side-eye this stuff so much now

Would love to know what these people’s sleeping situation is. Just lie on the floor contemplating their choices? Maybe grandpa’s urn makes a decent pillow?

The richer you get the more tired you should have to be, like by the time you’re a billionaire you should be lounging on a luxurious settee for 23 hours a day, way too sleepy to consider destabilizing a government or whatever. That feels fair.

Have you been to Paris?

I’d encourage you to really ask yourself why she would want to interact with you further after this exchange, John.

Convinced that this ER waiting room has The Equalizer playing on the TV just to remind us how much worse our injuries could be. Like yeah, that sucks that you sliced your hand open playing soccer, at least no one murdered YOU with a drill

Went to a shitty Midwestern university and there was a run down Thai restaurant near campus that sold a cashew curry unlike anything I have had elsewhere. I’ve ordered cashew stir frys, curries, etc at probably 30-40 different Thai restaurants since then and no one has gotten close

Honestly who wouldn’t love indifferent teenagers performing middling quality operations on you at low cost? No need to have people go to med school as long as you give them a diagram-heavy checklist for how to operate an electrocautery probe

The last time a cop was in my house it was laundry day and they took evidence pictures of the massive pile of laundry in my living room and I have never been so humiliated in my life. Really would have preferred just being dead to having that exchange

I read that as wanting to make sure that the evangelical base doesn’t get too hung up on the distinction between Catholicism and Protestantism and decide he’s not allowed to be a member of the Christianity club anymore. But I’m way too lapsed of a Catholic to really have my finger on the pulse there

For $19,000/month I will climb into a big box with flashing lights and OPENAI written on it in marker, say a bunch of plausible sounding words about ribonucleic acid and let large companies pocket the savings.

You’re a bad person 👎

Hell yeah, I knew some day my investing plan of leaving all my savings in a bank account earning $2.13 a year in interest would pay off.

(This is a joke, I mean it’s true but I’m not happy about any part of the above sentence)

I grabbed a curry after mine and got to listen in as a group of liberals and a group of leftists agreed to split an 8 top because it was crowded and then had a coherent and civil debate about next steps and the state of democracy. Don’t tell me that isn’t classically valuable third space shit

I went to one in a town of <10000 today and I’d estimate there were at least 1000 people there (I swear this is a conservative estimate). The crowd looked ok from a photo. But in the context of a rural dot too small for its own Walmart…insane stuff

I once got too high and tried to figure out how they coordinated building the Notre Dame cathedral without modern tech and what the management/communication looked like. I made myself cry trying to figure out logistics. I feel uncool saying this but email and modern tech obviously improve efficiency

It’s such a double standard. I got lasik 4 years ago. An elective medical procedure with real risk. I booked it without an optometrist referral at a random office with decent Google reviews and had the surgery a few weeks after my one initial consult. Where’s the campaign to reign in Big EyeSurgery?

If any one of the original 3 colors had been different I might have survived. White cabinet and trim with red walls? Fine. Black walls and trim with white cabinets? If I really really have to. All 3 together? A unique and inhuman horror

At one point I had to interface with fiserv for work and truly, based on that experience alone, their CEO should be put in jail. Makes sense that he’d be an evil little prick more generally, given that he’s lording over software that bad

These documentaries about the fall of the Roman Empire have become a lot more “lol so true” lately

YouTube video by WHAT THE GAMES? WHAT THE CAR? Steam Launch Trailer

It became clear to me after playing this game that most forms of transit could only be improved by the addition of legs

COLUMBO: Just one more thing, Cap’n. By all accounts you run a tight ship here. So how is it an “Oops” like “All Berries” manages not only to slip by quality control, but also to ship by the truckload all over the country? That just don’t seem like an accident.