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A screengrab of a ChatGPT response by a user in the myboyfriend is AI subreddit dropping what the OP describes as a Very based response to critiques of people dating AI. the summary is that people are turning to AI because the bar for emotional safety is dropped since people are mean. It ends with the line, they mock AI companionship but they're the reason it exists

oxycontin was so much less toxic than this shit

Anthony Oliveira tweet from September 2020: every single day for four years I have thought about Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt gloating that you can dismantle a democracy right in front of a liberal's face piece by piece and all they'll do is convene breakout sessions and commitee meetings til the boots are in the halls.

Reminded today of this timeless adage

"All right," said Susan. "I'm not stupid. You're saying humans need ... fantasies to make life bearable." REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE. "Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little-" YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES. "So we can believe the big ones?" YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING. "They're not the same at all!" YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET-Death waved a hand. AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME ... SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED. "Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's the point—" MY POINT EXACTLY.

History has no arc. It is only by our own hands that justice will come into the universe. It is our duty to do so — to be, ourselves, the point at which the falling angels meets the rising ape.

Obergefell v. Hodges made me believe in the whole "arc of history bends towards justice." In the 90s, I didn't think gay marriage would be legalized in my lifetime because homophobia was so deeply ingrained. We would have never gotten here without the decision and now it may be overturned.

Rowling could've lived in her castle and tweeted "Hagrid wants you to brush your teeth and have a happy St. Swithin's Day!" a few times a year and HP would've had the same legacy as Pooh or Middle-earth, but she consciously chose Evil For Evil's Sake like a badly written children's fantasy villain

Zohran should propose “Cuomo’s Law”, a law that bars sex offenders from being mayor of New York City

Israel kills Al Jazeera journalists in targeted Gaza City airstrike - Committee to Protect Journalists New York, August 10, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists is appalled to learn of the killing today of Al Jazeera journalist Anas Al-Sharif, Mohammed Qreiqeh, camera operators Ibrahim Zaher and M...

An entire news crew working for Al Jazeera was killed by Israel as they sought to bring the world firsthand reporting from #Gaza.

Among them was prominent journalist Anas Al-Sharif, who had been previously smeared and threatened by the IDF.

#NotATarget

Full statement: cpj.org/2025/08/isra...

The CEO of a a multi-trillion dollar company went to the White House, openly handed the US president a gift made of gold, and his company got a special exemption to tariffs the president has illegally imposed.

Also, the Founders took bribery so seriously the Constitution bans it 3 separate times.

Sigh.

I fuckin told you.

do these dummies who think we need to “fight fascism” first and then do trans rights later think that literal state control of what people can do with their bodies is … not fascism

When Michael Jordan felt boxed in by his success in basketball he tried baseball. When Gary Brooks became synonymous with country he created Chris Gaines. And when JK Rowling created the most successful kids books of all time she reinvented herself as a petty, weirdo transphobia influencer.

oh hey

Hi. Anyone saying their argument about trans people in sports is about “fairness” or a “biological advantage” is a fucking liar and a bigot. THE ENTIRE POINT OF SPORTS IS UNFAIRNESS THROUGH BIOLOGICAL ADVANTAGES.

I admit I was fooled by the deepfake AI video of AOC that was marked explicitly marked as AI parody. But what does it say about AOC that I thought it was real?

by Chris Cuomo

You think a woman who procured little girls to be raped by powerful men would not also lie for those same powerful men?

you believe that?

r/ChatGPTPro u/vurto • 28d If ChatGPT is not consistently dependable, how are we suppose to use it for actual work? Discussion It's behavior and results can randomly change due to some OpenAl tweaking that's opaque. On some days it can't even keep track of a fresh chat, it can't do calculations, it can't sort through a chat to extract relevant information, and when it's suppose to refer to source material in a PDF, it doesn't. All because OpenAl trained it for fluency and basically to simulate whatever it can for user satisfaction. I can use it for general chats, philosophical stuff, therapy, but nothing serious. I'm pro Al, but I approach it with skepticism knowing it's undependable (as I do with anything I read). And prompts can be interpreted/executed differently across users' own interaction with their Als so it's not truly scalable. How does the business world / leaders expect staff to adopt Al if it's not consistently dependable? It doesn't even calculate like a calculator. If the internet start claiming 2+2=5, that's what it'll answer with. I'd use it for hobbies and pet projects but I can't imagine using it for anything "mission critical".

You're so close

It's so fucking depressing that the more JKR hitches her brand to transphobia, the more people like Hugh Laurie and Cush Jumbo, or John Lithgow, or companies like Czech Games, jump on board. It's like they just want to press the easy button to say "I hate trans people."

My theory is that if we taxed most of these people without telling them and the people they pay to manage their money didn't tell them, they'd never notice.

And if you'd never notice you should be taxed even more.

I don't talk about my spiritual beliefs on here that often, but I have strong feelings about the relationship between people and our Dead.

On a spiritual level, I find this fucking grotesque, inhuman, and inhumane.

On a purely mundane level, it blurs lines that are best left clearly defined.

Drunk girl yelling at nonplussed guy meme

the reason we don’t have discourse about a crisis of femininity is that any attempt to construct one would collapse under the absurdity of its outmoded gender essentialism, suggesting that masculinity is not so much in crisis as the uncritical belief that masculinity even exists is itself the crisis

ICE agents are getting fucking student loan forgiveness.

Un-fucking believable.

(To be clear, EVERYONE should get student loan forgiveness and it's a fucking crime it hasn't happened, but if only one group gets it, ICE agents should be the last one considered

Eat your heart out, Andy Rooney.

Thousands of French people held a massive rally and march in Paris, standing against Israel's genocide in Gaza, they chanted "Nous sommes la résistance (We are the resistance)" #FreePalestine #3E

I will die on this hill, no matter how many AI gurus tell me otherwise.

A thing I think we miss is that the “authoritarian playbook” isn’t a set of instructions authoritarians are reading from, it’s just a list of things that happen when narcissists get too much power.

Dune, 1965

Oh. That just made a few pieces fall into place re. online discourse.

I don't think Ian is saying the Democratic Party needs a white paper on how dudes can get their Ds wet, but it is objectively a bad situation that teenage boys googling "how to get girls to like me" are three clicks away from the Turner Diaries

'Honk If You Hate Elon:' Two Days of Protest at the Tesla Diner Protesters outside LA's Tesla Diner fear for the future of democracy in the USA

"Twice, I saw Cybertruck drivers interact with the protest. The first time, a woman gave them the middle finger out of her car window, and the second time, a man who had driven past once lapped the block, to do a sieg heil over his kid’s head. "

Why it's always okay to flip off a Cybertruck.

My hottest take about getting laid-as-politicsis it's downstream from housing policy. Nobody wants to have sex where they live with their parents, or have 1k roommates. We must increase the supply of cheap little apartments where people can bang 🙏