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[fadingpeacedogg]

I have a Guy now

Art and design by @saifern

[ri5k]

the replacement of websites with apps sounds so backwards when you actually describe it. like hmm you have to download an entire program onto your device each time you want access to a portal, where it takes up storage indefinitely. somebody should invent an app where you can "browse" any portal just by typing in its address... 🥴

[rakiloslov]

Every thread on an imageboard is a coded communication between federal agencies and cells of secret societies. Or do you actually think a real person is posting a cover of a game from 2003 and asking strangers opinions on it?

[c-elegans971095]

[ned8-back-again]

[pinklocksoflove]

[sashayed]

has anyone figured out how to turn off the thing where you love your pet so much it slides inexorably into grief-borrowing

[boomstab-papa]

[your-cosmic-creature]

“For me this glass is already broken. I enjoy it; I drink out of it. It holds my water admirably, sometimes even reflecting the sun in beautiful patterns. If I should tap it, it has a lovely ring to it. But when I put this glass on the shelf and the wind knocks it over or my elbow brushes it off the table and it falls to the ground and shatters, I say, ‘Of course.’ When I understand that the glass is already broken, every moment with it is precious.”

[aspirateur-killeuse]

[inkwellraven]

What made me laugh most is that the post just days "sponsored by parmesean cheese." Not a cheese brand. Parmesean itself as an entity and business.

Big Parma, if you will.

[knitmeapony]

Villa began working with Parmigiano Reggiano—the official consortium of authentic parmesan cheese producers—in 2021

She is actually literally sponsored by big Parma

[bobzillashiftwoods]

[r4cs0]

[ned8-back-again]

All the birthday cards for sisters are like "ooooh my beautiful sister whom I love and admire it's your birthday" fuck that give me the card that says "happy birthday you fat bitch, love your fat retard brother"

[crabs-and-bedbugs]

Black guy drunk driving in an Escalade runs from the police. He t-bones a Honda Civic while going 130mph and kills all five teenage girls inside. He gets out of the wreck unharmed and runs on foot to a gaggle of young white women who then try to protect him from the cops.

Saying "oh he was here with us all night", and when that doesn't work they try to physically stop the cops, screaming "ACAB".

God help me, I'm starting to become racist against white women

[gearboxpraexology]

It's easier to resist the urge when you remind yourself who's been hijacking their instincts to make them like this.

[cash4bees]

I think the reason I still enjoy tumblr is that even though this all still pisses me off, I know that anything that makes me mad on here is 100% earnest. It's not ragebait or engagement farming, y'all are actually just that stupid sometimes

[northirish]

I'm following blogs that haven't posted in like eight years but I don't care I shall never unfollow them because I am a true and loyal knight #loyalknight

[mister-merica]

[diversityland]

"A North African immigrant randomly punches a girl waiting for the train in Barcelona, Spain. The blow was so violent it perforated her eardrum."

[boomer-mythology-destroyer]

[euronymous4e]

>buys shit on temu

>auto delivered

>donates to actblue

[monarcho-mysticism]

I said this some time before on some other post but I think it deserves its own post: the shift from "protecting the environment" to "saving the climate" is nothing but greenwashing and a psyop to kill actual environmentalism.

Environmental protection is a threat to the capital. You can't build a new factory on old growth forest, you have to modernize your old factory, etc etc. There are limitations, even on the consumer lifestyle layer (right to repair, reuse recycle etc)

In "climate action" you only produce more. You tell your customer: by buying our new fridge you're saving the planet. And they do. The capital wins and the consumer is happy thinking his new car that uses 0.0001l less gas is a way to save the planet. It's maddening.

[kriegsherrin]

this came up in my architecture course and i 100% stopped taking it seriously the moment i saw this hypocrisy.

they told us that the construction industry is the biggest pollutant on the planet (fair enough) so the logical answer would be to make buildings out of natural materials like stone and wood in an ageless vernacular style that is suited for the local environment and the bigger more important buildings something pretty nobody would want to tear down like a neoclassical style, right?

nope, they wanted us to design the ugliest shit possible with "recycled concrete" and bricks made out of sawdust to deliberately limit the building's life to 30 years so it would be "easy to take down when trends change"

not to mention how they were big on the "oooh no the climate is heating up" but prevented us from designing buildings inspired by mediterran designs because they had to be airtight for "insulation and energy performance". if it's getting warmer then insulated buildings won't do shit

i also spent my dissertation looking into who is pushing those ugly modernist trends and contradictory regulations and they really didn't like that

[kata4a]

i think by the end of the year we'll be using "never kill yourself" as a general greeting. it will be our shalom

[heywriters]

Ivy League teacher makes students use typewriters to fight against AI-written work

Once each semester, Grit Matthias Phelps, a German language instructor at Cornell University, introduces her students to the raw feeling of

Not only did this experiment prevent plagiarism, it also taught her students to become better writers and thinkers.

"No screens, online dictionaries, spellcheckers, or delete keys."

Concerning the AI papers she kept receiving: “What’s the point of me reading it if it’s already correct anyway, and you didn’t write it yourself? Could you produce it without your computer?”

From one of her students,

“ 'While writing the essay, I had to talk a lot more, socialize a lot more, which I guess was normal back then...it’s drastically different from how we interact within the classroom in modern times. People are always on a laptop, always on the phone.' Without a delete key and the ability to correct every mistake, he paused to think more intentionally about his writing."

"Most students found their pinkies weren’t strong enough to touch-type, so they typed more slowly, pecking at the keyboard with their index fingers."

Another student said,

" 'This thing I handed in had pencil marks all over it and definitely did not look clean or finished. But it’s part of the process of learning that you’re going to make mistakes'..."

All this in a college level foreign language class. I cannot imagine attempting to pass a language class using AI and then expect to somehow magically speak it! Why pay buckets of money to be taught something and then refuse to actually learn it?

Whatever, I'm going back to hand writing my stories because relying on devices that keep breaking down on me is nuts.