we're in it now boys

it would be nice if people could just Chill™ Also read Worm by Wildbow

[animepopheart]

★ 【Glycan】 「 CHAINSAW MAN 」 ☆ ✔ republished w/permission ⊳ ⊳ follow me on twitter

[mortalityplays]

ngl it's driving me a little bit fucking insane that the whole conversation about image scraping for AI has settled on copyright and legality as a primary concern, and not consent. my shit should not be used without my consent. I will give it away for free, but I want to be asked.

I don't want to be included in studies without my knowledge or consent. I don't want my face captured for the training of facial recognition models without my knowledge or consent. I don't want my voice captured for the training of speech recognition models without my consent. I don't want my demographic or interest profile captured without my consent. I don't want my art harvested for visual model training without my consent. It's not about 'theft' (fake idea) or 'ownership' (fake idea) or 'inherent value' (fake idea). It's about my ability to opt out from being used as a data point. I object to being a commodity by default.

[mad-hare]

bruh what

[aspiringwarriorlibrarian]

Oh for crying out loud....

The youtube grandma here is based off this video by a historian who suggested that it could be used as a knitting tool, something that’s considered a fringe theory because the vast majority of what we know about knitting history suggests that it hadn’t been invented yet at this time or place. Just because something could be used to make glove fingers doesn’t mean that it was used to knit gloves, any more than your average hair stick can be used to knit with. What’s more even the youtube grandma acknowledges that it’s not very good at making glove fingers. 

Historians have found dodecahedrons without any holes in them, with wax inside (meaning it might be a candle holder), and in coin hoards. There are a lot of theories for what this thing did and a knitting tool is one of the least likely. It’s cool that she saw this and actually tested the theory out, but it doesn’t hold water, so stop turning this into a “historians don’t know what they’re doing” post.

[tefmiles]

at first i did not care for the sexy man polls but seeing cecil come back from the shadows to absolutely kill and destroy and remind everyone of the sexy man ROOTS and now i’m left patriotic like im rooting for my favorite long forgotten baseball team with all these fans who have never heard of the Spider Wolves before

[neverthere12345]

[blacksleepingbeauty]

This is so disrespectful. It should be illegal.

[brownroundboi]

THAT IS A LIE!!!!

[zachofalltrade-deactivated20250]

WTF?!

[acupoftea-great-enough]

I’m not even from the US and know like three things about US history but I studied genocide at Uni and congrats guys this is genocide denial at its finest

[stele3]

….I think this is a Canadian textbook? I’ve never heard any textbook in the US refer to Native Americans as “First Nations” people.

Ah, yes, Snopes has it. Textbook is from Canada.

Which is absolutely not intended to exonerate American textbooks, which have done similar things. However, let’s also not forget that Canada treats their indigenous people the worst of any “developed” country in the world–yes, including the US.

[oidheadh-con-culainn]

reading a book with a medieval setting and i was v excited for it BUT these characters have such modern hangups about touch and personal space that i keep forgetting it's meant to be the fourteenth century. lads. get in bed together, it's cold.

[oidheadh-con-culainn]

like this man is freaking out about sleeping next to someone (for warmth) because he has never shared a bed before

sir??? you are from the fourteenth century??? surely this is not such a novelty to you

[oidheadh-con-culainn]

also so far christianity does not exist in this book. we have not even so much as mentioned passing a church while travelling.

i repeat: sir, you are from the fourteenth century,

[champawattigress]

"This video of a wild animal playing with children's soft toys in a person's home is fine and cute actually bc it comes from a wildlife rehabber!"

Yeah, but... are they a good rehabber, tho? Does letting a near grown-ass beaver loose in your home seem like the action of a good rehabber to you?

Like, idk, man. Seems a little suspect. :/

[what-even-is-thiss]

The Dublin spire isn't a bad looking landmark per se but why does it look like it was specifically designed to pop blimps

[what-even-is-thiss]

It looks like whoever designed this hates balloons.

[what-even-is-thiss]

It's a 120 meter tall stainless steel spike. Can't go in it.

[timemachineyeah]

this looks like it was designed specifically so you could trip a kaiju and impale them with it

[echojulietfoxtrot]

I used to hate it, but it actually makes more sense when you're actually in/moving around Dublin lol.

Most buildings in Dublin are less than 5 storeys high, so you can see the Spire from most of the city centre, and get to the rest of the city from it fairly easily.

The Spire is designed so it works as a landmark you can see from almost anywhere.

Before Google Maps was really a thing, and even now it is, you could use it as a physical reference point to move around the city, and you're kind of drawn to it one way or the other naturally. It's kind of a giant IRL map pin.

That means there's always a group of people at the base; teenagers meeting up with their buddies before setting off for the day, tour groups, folks from out of town just off the bus waiting their friends, and - my perpetual favourite - well dressed people with visible nerves trying to act cool as they wait for their dates.

So rather than a blimp defense system, think of it more like a spawn point.

Also when there's a Star Wars movie they turn it into a lightsaber.

[null-is-sparing-you]

for those interested, this is a good example of how "Major structure you can see from everywhere" is a good thing for cities. The needle, though maybe not loved by everyone, is exactly as EJF says - a navigational reference point.

If you were ever lost, you could look for the needle and identify a major spot in the city. This can help avoid getting turned around (since you can track your direction in reference to a single point) , or provide a known spot to return to if you get disoriented.

This would also mean that if someone was new, they could learn the directions from the needle to where they were staying, and then travel the rest of the city with confidence that they can find their way back when they are done.

Water towers can serve a similar purpose in smaller towns, which is one of the reasons why they're often kept, even when no longer used for storing water.

In conclusion, make fun of how it looks all you want, but this giant needle is now part of vital city infrastructure.

[duckdotcom]

brb gotta to go splash water on my face in the mens bathroom and look haggardly at myself in the mirror

[prohaloplayer-deactivated202601]

can you do that somehwhere else i'm changing my baby right here and he is freaking the fuck out

[duckdotcom]

*holds your baby up to the mirror and he rapidly becomes more haggard as my face reverts steadily to an expression of youthful cheer*

[prguitarman]

[rosyish]

op paid about $215 for blue check marks on this website

[de-sterren-nacht]

show some fucking respect thats the guy who invented nyan cat

[doccywhomst]

hey remember when pop-ups and banner ads were associated with malware? when youtube didn't have any ads at all? when you could get a cheap netflix subscription that was better than cable TV? digital marketing experts estimate that most americans see 5-10k ads every day. what the hell is going on

[animentality]

[turtle-owl]

WAKE UP BABE EASTERN EUROPEAN CHO CHANG JUST DROPPED

[beemovieerotica]

@kos-chei im REELING!!!

[xhuth]

also like in all seriousness furry hate is 10000% a warning sign as a sort of garden-variety expression of homophobia and transphobia. call me insane or delusional, and pardon the animal metaphor, but furries are consistently one of several common canaries in the coal mine when it comes to Acceptable and Reasonable hatred of Degeneracy. it almost always snowballs from there, too!

[zdf-deactivated20251121]

[purified-zone]

the internet is a perpetually burning library of alexandria

[starship-squalleater]

They’re gonna kill off Molly in like ep 2 so they don’t have to animate that fucking coat

[lmaonade]

reminder not to use turbotax and that the irs website literally has a page of official approved places where you can file for free if you make under a certain amount of money. just look up IRS free file and find one that applies to you. it's easy as dick

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