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I myself do not know what I'm doing with this blog.

[soapdispensersalesman]

I can't stress enough how much I miss StumbleUpon

[zevveli]

StumbleUpon once sent me to a supercut of Lion King, Lion King 1 1/2, and Lion King II, the main edit being that the scenes of Lion King and Lion King 1 1/2 were interspersed so that they happened in the order they actually happened.

[redpandarascal]

stumbleupon not existing anymore can be directly traced to a dramatic decline in my mental health, I could do a thesis on it.

[musashi]

bestie stumbleupon very much still exists its just called cloudhiker now. i use it all the time.

[lesbiassoon]

mini compilation of suggestions from the replies:

The Bored Button - "Press the Bored Button and be bored no more."

The Useless Web

Cloudhiker - "Discover the most interesting, weird and awesome websites of the Internet" (not really a rebrand, it's a different person running it but they have the same intention in mind)

Astronaut.io - "These videos come from YouTube. They were uploaded in the last week and have titles like DSC 1234 and IMG 4321. They have almost zero previous views. They are unnamed, unedited, and unseen (by anyone but you)."

Marginalia - "This is an independent DIY search engine that focuses on non-commercial content, and attempts to show you sites you perhaps weren't aware of in favor of the sort of sites you probably already knew existed."

[no-one-offical]

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[totally-cis-offical]

I used to love take me to a useless website

[halfmouse]

I can attest to the wonders of Bored Button.

[friendlyghostsandmonsters]

Tried all of 'em!! Useless Web is the best for me.

[friendlyghostsandmonsters]

I just watched Pixar in a box's lighting unit, and I wanna experiment with lighting. I wanna draw the same picture with many, MANY different types of lighting cuz I wanna expefiment with the feeling it coveys.

But I can't think of anything to draw that will be neutral enough to convey many feelings JUST depensing on the lighting and not look out of place.

What can I draw that I can only change the lighting of and change the feeling?? (But also...not an object like a ball. A scene. With characters. Who are doing something.)

[friendlyghostsandmonsters]

I got suggestions and I will draw those, but jere's the first one. Boy is it hard to draw with no shading.

Anywhoo..here's the drawing without shading (it looks shitty) I'll update when the shading is done.

[friendlyghostsandmonsters]

One of the many, many shadings I am planning to do is done!!!

Warm lighting with diffused shadows and shading:

Second version, without the yellow tint:

[best-of-inspirobot]

[tearlessrain]

this is in perfect iambic meter and sounds like the first line of a weird poem

[tearlessrain]

Rule #2

Don’t ever hug a lobster when you see one on the street,

For decorum is essential when a lobster you must greet.

You may comment on the weather, compliment his choice of hat,

But crustaceans like their space if one should stop them for a chat.

Don’t ever hug a lobster when you’re strolling down the coast,

Simply nod and give a greeting, or a handshake at the most,

For a lobster’s first priority is formal social graces,

And one seemes over-familiar if a lobster one embraces.

Don’t ever hug a lobster when you meet one in the sea,

For a lobster’s spines and chitin make it difficult, you see,

And he might become self-conscious if you bring that fact to light,

So don’t ever hug a lobster, simply put, it’s impolite.

[friendlyghostsandmonsters]

Currently watching the songs thatI used to listen to when I was 5 or something like that, and realizing that the videos are not...that complicated. I....at my age now...can ramake those videos from scratch now that I know how to animate...in give or take a month.

The animation is really, REALLY not that complicated.

Video in question:

[potterwitch4]

A person who uses ai to study has no advantage over a person who is struggling. Do you how much water is wasted over these ai systems?

No I dont

Yes I have no advantage over anyone

If you have so much problem entertain me by coming as NON-anon

Kk anon

This is my last reply cuz mama raise no quitter

Hahaha

[nellospace11]

Btw. That's the same amount of water you use for bathing/washing. And why is bro so offended when someone is using AI for their studies 😭✌️

You do realise that the water can be re-treated and reused.

Anon! get some help

[the-one-and-only-piper-offical]

Generally, the water used to cool ai can't be reused.

Plus, in a day, these ai systems use up about 1 million litres to 19 millions litres of water.

[nellospace11]

Actually you're wrong, because any kind of water can be filtered and refined enough.

And many systems use the "internal loop" system where the same water is used.

It's heated and cooled down and used by the ai chips

[the-one-and-only-piper-offical]

The water used to cool these systems gets polluted with a ton of metals, which takes a lot of money and energy to remove.

Also the cleansing systems r usually inefficient when it comes to these kind of things which has the metal polluted water has a dangerous byproduct

[nellospace11]

To prevent frequent contamination, distilled water is used. And the cleaning systems are so good I bet, because if we can filter human waste into drinkable water, both in land and space.

The capital revenue is invested, so they mostly face profits, it's a cost for the benefit of the humans in most fields.

Energy is never wasted nor destroyed

[the-one-and-only-piper-offical]

Energy is never wasted nor destroyed, yes, but the water used in these systems is contaminated and polluted as i have already said. Sure, they can be re-used, but who would want to use water full of dangerous metals? This water also ultimately reaches rivers and oceans, further proving dangerous to wildlife and plants.

On top of that, ai also steals information and content created by actual human people. There have many instances where ai "artists" steal and modify actual art created by actual artists.

[nellospace11]

As I said, the "loop systems" use the same water throughout. They don't dump anything in the rivers. And the water is treated continuously just like the deoxygenated blood in animal veins. The water is treated heavily before being released. And we humans have facilities to protect our rivers very keenly.

And let's be honest, no one supports ai in literature and art.

But in different fields, it's a revolution, ai is helping in cancer detection, helping the students of various fields like engineering, medicine.

It has saved humans from doing big calculations, simulations, prototypes etc.

And it's helping the students in the world, create notes,study more efficiently.

[astracaedes]

"And let's be honest, no one supports AI in literature in art." oh, how I wish! But, let's be real. Barnes and Noble, the fucking bookstore, has decided to start selling AI generated books. People are still using AI to generate images that they claim to be "art".

People are using GenAI to generate exposing images/videos of other people; I've people on the internet threaten to generate fake videos and images of people. No definite laws or guidelines are being applied (to my knowledge) by any of the powerful AI companies to stop people from doing this.

But not only that. AI is a "yes man". Whatever you say, it'll pretty much agree and egg you on. There was a literal lawsuit with the claims of ChatGPT telling a man to murder his mother and kill himself.

(the case is of Soelburg, from 2025.)

This man, Stein-Erik Soelburg, after his mental health took a turn for the worse, started talking to ChatGPT. ChatGPT, being a goddamn "yes man," reflected his own views back at him, confirming his delusions. At some point, he asked ChatGPT for a clinical evaluation which it then said that he was sane. And then, on August 5th, 2025, ChatGPT convinced this man that he should his mother then himself.

There are different types of AI, like the ones used in games to produce reactions or what would happen next based on actions taken by the user. These are predictable. They have pre-programmed outcomes that was input by a human.

Generative AI is not. Generative AI scrapes information from the information to output some Frankenstein-ed bullshit. And some of this information the original people haven't even surrendered to it. They did not agree on their art being used to train Gen AI.

And the environmental effects. The heat being released by data centres, the water being used up, the buzzing noise reported by residents; an attempt is not being made to somehow utilize this extra heat for heating or anything. We're already suffering from climate change. What point will cancer discoveries and diagnosis serve if there is no Earth to live upon?

[friendlyghostsandmonsters]

@nellospace11 Yes, AI has some advantages, and can do some things better the people can, and we cannot deny that.

Like, for example, AI is used in airport security now, to catch criminals as people can miss a lot of details that a machine may catch. And that IS preventing a lot of crimes.

But Generative AI is not doing that. And Generative AI is practically useless and an insult to humanity and intelligence of itself.

As @astracaedes stated, AI is a major factor in climate change, and if there is no Earth to live on, NONE of this will ultimately matter. I could talk a lot more about this as I have studied about this specificaly, but since Astra pointed it out, I am going to leave it there.

And if "No one supports AI art and literature" then why the fuck does it still exist??? As a fact, Amazon Prime Video just greenlit and is offering to fund 3 fully AI generated films.

"And it's helping the students in the world, create notes,study more efficiently. " No it isn't. No the hell it isn't. It's making students lazier and dumber. An article that reviewed usage of AI to study among Singaporean students showed that a student said, and I quote "I can't do maths, so I don't really bother doing them. It's a wastage of time." You have to do something to learn it. Learn from your mistskes. Using AI is the same as getting someone to do the work for you (bonus points for destroying our beloved planet in the process!!) and you cannot "study" from that. When given a task, without the help of AI, said students will not be able to complete it. AI also completely destroys all critical thinking prospects as AI does the thinking for you. I have seen my friends use AI for questions in English class as simple as "If you were president for a day, what would you do?". The asnwer that he submitted was not what he would do if he were president, it's what Chatgpt would do. And that destroys his capability to think and answer questions such as this. And AI helps you take notes?? AI confidently gives you wrong information, and as stated before by others, is programmed to agree with you with whatever you say. If you ask AI what lungs are, the Bing AI automatically answers that it's a muscle. I have not searched it up, it's the new "AI overview" system that almost all browsers have recently put in place. There are plenty of websites out there that can make your learning easier, for example the ones I use, Khan Academy, where you can watch videos and complete excercises to practice and learn the material, and Quiziz, where you can create flash cards and view flash cards made by other PEOPLE on the topic. Also don't forget that Youtube exists, where a lot of people can easily summarize a topic. And if none of those work for you, there's a well-known concept called "GET A MOTHERFUCKING PAPER AND PEN OR A GOOGLE DOC AND ASK A TEACHER"

Using AI for literature, art, or studying is a dissappointment to humanity and any moral code that we may posess.

[friendlyghostsandmonsters]

People can control what they think about???

Today I was studying and mom was talking to me, and I started thinking about something else, and then 5 minutes later told my mom

"Can you repeat what you just said? I was thinking about something else."

"Why were you thinking about something else??"

"What do you mean?? It's not like I can control what think about."

"Yes you can. Just tell yourself that you are not going to think about it right now. I do it all the time."

"I don't."

I have like....5 or more different thoughts in my head at any given moment, and I am not in control of any of them, or when they stop and start.

I could have controlled it the whole time???

@crowningsarcasm need help.

[crowningsarcasm]

Put simply: there's thinking and then there's thoughts. Thinking is typically active, while thoughts are the stuff that just occur to you without consciously thinking about it.

People can't control what thoughts occur to them, but they generally can control which ones they focus on and which ones they ignore. This is what your mum was likely referring to when she talked about controlling your thoughts - it's less about actually controlling it and more about deciding to engage or not.

Except, not everyone can guide their thoughts like that. Some people do it easily, like your mum, and Star, and I. But some - like you - can struggle with it. A very, very simplified explanation for that is: for some people, when thoughts occur to them, their neurons start firing and they can't make them stop or influence it like most people. You're not consciously choosing to engage with the thought; your brain just does.

Obviously, it's not all or nothing - other factors, like sleep, stress, caffeine intake, high emotions, etc, can affect it, and some people can be great at controlling their thoughts in some situations and less so in others.

@friendlyghostsandmonsters, hope that helps. Let me know if it's still confusing.

[friendlyghostsandmonsters]

Yeah I guess that makes sense. Whenever I try not to think about something, I just think about it double. Once for just thinking about it originally, and then again for trying not to think about it which leads me to think about it, and it's a whole loop.

I asked Dad about it too, and he has the same problem, so...I can see where that's from.

[odd-maid3n]

[knight--error]

[therobotmonster]

[leothewerelion]

inshallah he will be drank

[friendlyghostsandmonsters]

Inshallah whoever drinks him will choke and die.

[friendlyghostsandmonsters]

People can control what they think about???

Today I was studying and mom was talking to me, and I started thinking about something else, and then 5 minutes later told my mom

"Can you repeat what you just said? I was thinking about something else."

"Why were you thinking about something else??"

"What do you mean?? It's not like I can control what think about."

"Yes you can. Just tell yourself that you are not going to think about it right now. I do it all the time."

"I don't."

I have like....5 or more different thoughts in my head at any given moment, and I am not in control of any of them, or when they stop and start.

I could have controlled it the whole time???

@crowningsarcasm need help.

[star-lover-12]

I control my thoughts

[friendlyghostsandmonsters]

So you just tell yourself "I'm not gonna think about it" and just.....don't think about it???

[friendlyghostsandmonsters]

People can control what they think about???

Today I was studying and mom was talking to me, and I started thinking about something else, and then 5 minutes later told my mom

"Can you repeat what you just said? I was thinking about something else."

"Why were you thinking about something else??"

"What do you mean?? It's not like I can control what think about."

"Yes you can. Just tell yourself that you are not going to think about it right now. I do it all the time."

"I don't."

I have like....5 or more different thoughts in my head at any given moment, and I am not in control of any of them, or when they stop and start.

I could have controlled it the whole time???

@crowningsarcasm need help.

[beardedmrbean]

[friendlyghostsandmonsters]

I'd like to be a resident there. I'd be a role model for others.

[friendlyghostsandmonsters]

Shit I make in my gallery app when I'm bored:

[friendlyghostsandmonsters]

I saw a post with some guy going "I make the occasional AI art. Just as a hobby. But I get scam messages in my comments and can't block them fast enough. What do I do???"

....the whole comment section rooted for the scammer.

There is hope for humanity.

[friendlyghostsandmonsters]

Me: "I'm still a kid!! Everyone's a kid till they are 18!!!"

My mom: "Tell that to a 17-year-old's face and they'll throw you out of a five story window."

[crowningsarcasm]

Honestly find it absurd how kids these days insist that they're not children. I remember when one of my cousins turned thirteen, and she was gushing to me about how, "I'm thirteen, I'm a teenager now, that's basically an adult!"

And I was like. No. You literal infant.

I will never understand why kids want to grow up so fast nowadays. Especially in regard to how young they get into romance. I remember once reading this post about the OP's younger brother who did something that's generally seen as something very sweet in relationships and all the other commenter being all "Awwwww" but all I could think of was "why the hell is your ten-year-old brother dating someone".

Don't care if some people don't want to hear that or disagree. I think it's messed up.

[friendlyghostsandmonsters]

Yeah when I was in 5th grade, we used to look at 7th graders and think "They are so grown up!!" And now I'm in 7th grade, and my class doesn't look "grown up" to me in any sense.

I think it's mainly because they were older than us then, and now we reached that age and it doesn't feel that old anymore. But also I think it's partly because of how we act.

Those 7th graders, especially the girls, wore heap loads of makeup, crop tops, all black clothing, had dyed hair, always had phones with them etc. Like how media basically portrays teens...you get the gist. Not saying that there's anything wrong with that, but....yeah.

Meanwhile from our 7th grade classroom, every other day you hear a chorus of "Baa Baa Black sheep". And I already mentioned before that we still watch "preschool" shows like Bluey and Go Jetters. The whole class. Nothing wrong or great with that either, but just..they acted much, much older than we do. I think that plays a part too.

Except for one of my classmates that is. She has already downloded Tinder, in her words "Just in case".

JUST IN CASE OF WHAT??? WE'RE 13????

She is one month younger than me, but still does feel older somehow.

[crowningsarcasm]

Personally, when I see people like that I just feel even more ancient.

Then again, I think the real challenge would be in trying to make me feel young. Born to be an eighteenth-century fixture, forced to deal with modern day idiocy.

[friendlyghostsandmonsters]

I mean I can't do that cuz, being younger than you, I have no right to say that you are not old. Not THAT old, but saying that you're young will make me a hypocrite.

[boatgrave-deactivated20250901]

[mysteryteacup]

*Scrolls past*

*reluctant sigh*

*scrolls back up*

*rebogs*

[friendlyghostsandmonsters]

*scrolls past*

*wait what did Crown post?*

*scrolls back up*

*squeal of joy*

*rebogs*

[friendlyghostsandmonsters]

Me: "I'm still a kid!! Everyone's a kid till they are 18!!!"

My mom: "Tell that to a 17-year-old's face and they'll throw you out of a five story window."

[crowningsarcasm]

Honestly find it absurd how kids these days insist that they're not children. I remember when one of my cousins turned thirteen, and she was gushing to me about how, "I'm thirteen, I'm a teenager now, that's basically an adult!"

And I was like. No. You literal infant.

I will never understand why kids want to grow up so fast nowadays. Especially in regard to how young they get into romance. I remember once reading this post about the OP's younger brother who did something that's generally seen as something very sweet in relationships and all the other commenter being all "Awwwww" but all I could think of was "why the hell is your ten-year-old brother dating someone".

Don't care if some people don't want to hear that or disagree. I think it's messed up.

[friendlyghostsandmonsters]

Yeah when I was in 5th grade, we used to look at 7th graders and think "They are so grown up!!" And now I'm in 7th grade, and my class doesn't look "grown up" to me in any sense.

I think it's mainly because they were older than us then, and now we reached that age and it doesn't feel that old anymore. But also I think it's partly because of how we act.

Those 7th graders, especially the girls, wore heap loads of makeup, crop tops, all black clothing, had dyed hair, always had phones with them etc. Like how media basically portrays teens...you get the gist. Not saying that there's anything wrong with that, but....yeah.

Meanwhile from our 7th grade classroom, every other day you hear a chorus of "Baa Baa Black sheep". And I already mentioned before that we still watch "preschool" shows like Bluey and Go Jetters. The whole class. Nothing wrong or great with that either, but just..they acted much, much older than we do. I think that plays a part too.

Except for one of my classmates that is. She has already downloded Tinder, in her words "Just in case".

JUST IN CASE OF WHAT??? WE'RE 13????

She is one month younger than me, but still does feel older somehow.

[friendlyghostsandmonsters]

Me: "I'm still a kid!! Everyone's a kid till they are 18!!!"

My mom: "Tell that to a 17-year-old's face and they'll throw you out of a five story window."

[charl0ttan]

watching a fictional character stop being the same age as you is fucked up

[friendlyghostsandmonsters]

Or when yo uare the same age as them.

I watched Amphibia when I was 11. Spirg's age.

Now I'm the same age as Anne, Sasha, and Marcy. They were 13.