8one6

Aka Dustin. He/him RPG enjoyer. Road Trip enthusiast Trans rights are human rights! Prosecute ICE

[bob-belcher]

[8one6]

"... This is not a website I want to contribute value to anymore, so I have deleted my file and image uploads. Not my posts, though. My posts make the website worse..."

[abbiistabbii]

The Germans really cooked making "Hobbyless behaviour" an insult. It is both devastating, applicable to a wide range of people and behaviours, and doesn't resort to swearing.

Man ranting on the internet about the Superbowl halftime show or complaining that something is "woke"? Hobbyless Behaviour. Girls mocking another girl for not looking right? Hobbyless Behaviour. Mindless vandalism? Hobbyless Behaviour.

It is more powerful than "get a life" or the English "You're Sad" because it gets to the central point of the matter, and that is wonderful. Danke, Deutsch.

[ailurinae]

Even Martin Scorsese Is Using AI… but Only for Storyboarding

The 83-year-old director is backing and serving as an advisor for an AI upstart called Black Forest Labs and played with AI during preproduc

"Only". First off, it may start there, but I bet it won't end there. Also, there are storyboard artists. It's a whole-ass job category, that shouldn't be replaced by AI any more than the others. Ice Pick Joe didn't die for this shit.

[8one6]

People use Ai when they don't value the work being performed. It's clear that Scorsese doesn't see the storyboard artists as valuable contributors to the creative process.

[8one6]

"... This image is old enough that some of you out there have dads that jerked it to a print copy of it..."

[shutyourmoustache]

Good to see San Antonio’s queer community saying HELL NO to Greg Abbott’s absolute fucking loser behavior. Rainbow crosswalks aren’t allowed anymore? Okay, let the LGBTQts take the whole sidewalk then, dickmunch!

[ambidisastrous]

every major structural social problem right now is basically "we don't have enough skilled workers on the ground" and the reason is always "well we've been intentionally underpaying and understaffng them for decades to increase corporate profits" and somehow the news always just mentions the "shortage" without digging into the cause

air travel is a mess? shortage of air traffic controllers - for some mysterious reason

logistics a mess? shortage of truck drivers - for some mysterious reason

public transit can't meet demand? shortage of bus drivers - for some mysterious reason

We even mysteriously have shortages of doctors, nurses, teachers... FOR SOME MYSTERIOUS REASON

FUCKING PAY PEOPLE AND HIRE ENOUGH STAFF

[moniquill]

Yes and: Make education more affordable and achievable!!

[resumbrarum]

The destruction of public and higher education and the degradation and subjugation of workers has been an active part of conservative policy for more than fifty years.

Related: when conservatives say "no one wants to work anymore", what they mean is "no one wants to give up a substantial portion of the fruits of their labor in order to enrich an idle capital-holding class".

[cupidsquilll]

[rosiewitchescottage]

The Beauty of Love

[jfashionese-deactivated20260115]

Cyberpop is a retro-futuristic style that first emerged in Japan during the 1990s under the more generic name "cyber fashion" (サイバーファッション). It is characterized by some fantasy, futurism, and a positive aura, as opposed to Cyberpunk and Cybergoth, which are rather negative and dark (post-apocalyptic).

[estro-boi]

we gotta get back to torrent distribution, i just watched someone eat eight grand in bandwidth charges because they ran a direct-download piracy site with local file hosting through cloudflare. torrents were invented literally for this exact reason

[estro-boi]

torrents work like this

i have a file or folder on my pc that i want to share with other people. let's call it gayshit.mp3

unfortunately gayshit.mp3 is 750mb and im not paying for discord nitro so i need another way to send it

i put it into qbittorrent and it makes a torrent file. this is essentially a very small file that points to gayshit.mp3 so other computers can find it. kinda like a treasure map

i send this tiny file to my friend, who loads it into qbittorrent. their computer takes a moment to find mine over the vast expanse of cyberspace and then (as long as my pc is running and the file is still where it should be), it gets copied from my hard drive to theirs

this is the cool part: if somebody else loads that tiny file, they can download it from both of us. if i'm offline but my friend is on, the third person can still get it. this also means that if two people have separate halves of the file, they can download the other half from each other. as long as some combination of people have the pieces between them, they can all have the whole thing.

crucially this does not require a server!!! you can just upload the file to a few people and as long as they keep it, it's still accessible. as long as somebody, somewhere is still connected, it's available forever. the only way it goes away is if everybody disconnects from it.

please learn to torrent

[macleod]

How to Use Torrents (with Pictures) - wikiHow

An expert guide to get started using torrentsTorrents are one of the most popular forms of file sharing on the internet, accounting for over

always use qbittorrent, do not use bittorrent or utorrent.

[8one6]

"... please do not read what im about to write with any semblance of tone or sarcasm. I am really sorry you couldn't jerk off to my writing. Thats such a bummer. I promise i will try harder next time..."

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

yeah google has gone downhill ever since they let ai take over their platform

[theoccasionalhyperfixation]

Nothing on google in your private documents has been actually private for years now.

[velartis]

“what radicalized you” bro EMPATHY

[puppygirllaika]

"what radicalized you" well in kindergarten they told me to share things and be nice to people.

[fyodior]

a talking point i often see when defending the consumption of dark content is that it’s a coping mechanism for those with trauma which is very valid and true but i also want to make this abundantly clear: you can like dark content for no reason. you can enjoy fucked up shit in fiction because it’s enjoyable and entertaining. trauma is not required as a ticket for entry. enjoy your dark content bc it’s fun and sexy and don’t let anyone take that away from you

[amorphousgenderlesscryptid]

sometimes the reason is this

[robot-roadtrip-rants]

reblog if you love to see that shit that was fucking crazy

[rouxelf]

There’s also something to be said for allowing yourself to process ideas ahead of time. Figure out how you think and feel about some things that you’ll probably (hopefully) never experience.

But to op’s point-

Sometimes you just have to rotate the horror spider in your mind.

[8one6]

"... Other countries label their food crimes "American style" the same way Americans use "Chicago style"... "

[exxos-von-steamboldt]

[delicatefury]

I just googled this and… yes, it’s absolutely real.

And there are so many articles and videos and discussions. Like, the scientific community is buzzing about this.

So much research will have to be redone because the data was absolutely compromised, off by orders of magnitude, by using standard lab gloves.

The world is probably not horrifically contaminated by microplastics. Sterile laboratories, however, are contaminated by latex and nitrile gloves.

Thank God someone bothered to check.

[beardedmrbean]

>I just googled this and… yes, it’s absolutely real.

Sources beyond dude just trust me, for the skeptics.

Scientists shocked to find lab gloves may be skewing microplastics data

Scientists may have been unknowingly inflating microplastics pollution estimates, and the surprising source could be their own lab gloves. A

https://www.technologynetworks.com/applied-sciences/news/scientists-lab-gloves-may-be-causing-an-overestimation-of-microplastics-411138

Nitrile and latex gloves may cause overestimation of microplastics, U-M study reveals

Nitrile and latex gloves that scientists wear while they are measuring microplastics may lead to a potential overestimation of the tiny poll

Nitrile and latex gloves may cause overestimation of microplastics - Phys.org (it’s a pdf)

An Embarrassing Mistake May Have Skewed Microplastics Research All Along

Researchers discovered a standard piece of lab equipment has added thousands of microplastic ‘false positives’ per each square-millimeter un

Ordinary Lab Gloves May Have Skewed Microplastic Data

Ordinary Lab Gloves May Have Skewed Microplastic Data: That doesn’t mean microplastics aren’t a problem, though

That should be enough

[sci-fi-art-666]

Cyberworld 'The Ambushers' cover art by Keith Parkinson (1994)