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it's like, fine, that ubuntu is the "default" linux distribution but i hate when some random linux-related website uses that damn font

*neil young voice* i wanna live with a hyacinth girl

well one of the reasons they all converge like that is because their creators are making products that need to compete with each other lol

i think an interesting cultural experiment would be if we started enforcing traffic law

Mac from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia saying Oh My God! That's Disgusting. Where?

rebecca sugar in the news which means i am reminded of the porn she used to draw. picture unrelated

the thing about talking to cis women as a trans woman is that even if you THINK you're talking about a "weird" trans thing (HRT? shaving or laser? upset with the form and function of your genitals?) every cis woman knows or knows someone who knows a cis woman who has dealt with the same thing

tapping the sign

>keith urban
>music is country

final take, from seeing screenshots of bad lyrics, she was only ever a good femcel lyricist, now that she has a happy relationship with a guy who isn't a straight twink (derogatory) she's washed

the other explanation is that she's a billionaire and does too much coke

not listening to the music (even though no jack antonoff apparently?) but i suspect that the main reason for taylor swift's AI video is making it harder to find deepfakes of her (or at least harder to find news about them) and secondarily for the streisand effect (not that she needs it)

if there's a silver lining to the bari weiss stuff it's that being put in charge of cbs news in 2025 is kind of like being named the commander of a french horseback cavalry division in 1917

Los Thuthanaka, by Los Thuthanaka 8 track album

i wish the other app didn't have all the nazi stuff because the discourse on here has been atrocious for like a week but i checked the other app for two seconds and saw someone recommending this album and god damn it's so good losthuthanaka.bandcamp.com/album/los-th...

i need an "i know what you are" meme but for being autistic instead of being gay

inventing a guy (nostalgic for electric blue powershell) to get mad at

ships of the line became a great idea when cannons got good and didn't stop being a great idea until bombers got good

yes properly speaking ships of the line were a little later but in the early 1500s they were inventing the general concepts of multi deck warships, broadsides, cannonmaxxing, etc. and last gen dreadnought battleships were still ships of the line

the printing press started a little early and fell off a little late (doing reverse log scale of how much is "little" because of the acceleration of technologies and my 21st-centrism)

last night while falling asleep i started thinking about the phenomenon of technologies that gained incredible importance at the start of modernity (~1500) and plummeted in importance at the end of modernity (~1945). the one that i first thought of was the ship of the line

we did it joe!

i miss the time when most liberals could identify the policies suggested in the great barrington declaration as evil, eugenic, and unsupported by science!

these plus "if you are trying to make the computer alive it is because you want to own/degrade/torture it"

this is straightforward to reconcile imo - we dont have slurs for oil rigs or factory farms. i think treating LLMs as things to *de*humanize anthropomorphizes them too much already, which is tech marketing's desire - that's the thing the "friend" ads were looking for people to react with

to any bureaucrats reading this, i don't know shit about post-battleship naval strategy but it's gotta be better than whatever the fuck is actually going on

strategically speaking we should probably just have a handful of cruisers for suppressing miscellaneous pirates and paramilitaries to keep trade routes open. destroyers for cruiser and container ship escorts and last ditch coastal defense. scrap the carriers and probably half the cruisers too tbh

i was generally aware of the money pit development projects, the suicide epidemic, recruitment problems, etc, but my biggest takeaway here is the is TWO HUNDRED to one advantage that China has in naval production

empires only do this when they're VERY distressed

HELL yeah