cheerful, even in death

i chose this fate of my own free will

[hommv]

[perriaeyjeve]

[tomb-mold]

the problem is i really do love staying up until one billion o'clock. it just cant be helped

[fnordseer5]

our idiotic ancestors used to believe stuff that's not true but luckily we've now figured out all the true things to believe in

[vintageandroid]

i made a post like this before but I can't find it now. so. I'll just redo it.

What's the first "big news story" you remember from when you were a kid?

It's something I love to ask mixed-aged groups sometimes because I think it's really interesting to see the responses. I've gotten answers from the Olympics of [whatever year] to Watergate to more recent stuff from my niblings.

My first news thing I remember is the OJ Simpson trial. I vaguely remember watching the news with my grandparents before that, but that's the first story I remember, in part because my second grade teacher had us go play so she could watch the verdict 😂

[life-spire]

[salmon-n-hazel]

Cherry blossom

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[leefi]

Visit Original Link

Sad FM is a radio station specializing in sad, slow rock songs.  You seem to know its frequency by heart.

[kosmogrl]

[thespongebobsquarepantsmovie]

[kosmogrl]

[dsunearthed]

北京, 2007

[tockthewatchdog]

im going to start dissecting clearly AI posts to explain to you guys what gives away AI generated text because it’s not the em dashes here

- “worth” - this is a huge AI tic. “Worth noting” “worth flagging” “worth pointing out”

- AI also abuses the modern stylistic habit (one i personally hate) of truncating sentences up front by deleting the subject or references to the subject. “worth flagging” not “it’s worth flagging, “completely different stories” not “these are different stories” or “two completely different stories.” most people will naturally alternate and vary, but AI doesn’t seem to like alternating or varying

- “there’s X before you ever Y,” i see this a lot too

- AI loves to try to use a hyphen to force two words into a compound as if it’s common lingo. “wealth-building” isn’t commonly used, “building wealth” is the more natural way to say it. it’s not that a human being wouldn’t say this, it’s that among a bunch of other tics, it stands out.

- lists of two. “30k into the 401k, 16k in the 529” and “cash flow of $1, savings rate north of 11%”

- using an em dash incorrectly (that should be a comma) followed by “and” to end the response on a smug, generalizing little button. AI will either put a trite, reddity little button on whatever it spits back at you, or it will end the response by asking you a question to try to get you to use more tokens. every single time! you have to put in a lot of work to get it to not do that

[kristina100000]

love me love me say that you love me fool me fool me go on and fool me

[bardace]

Shut Up, I Don’t Care

[stay-the-knight]

[huariqueje]

Meteor Shower - Mia Bergeron , 2025.

American, b. 1979   -    

Oil on panel , 11 x 14 in. 27.94 x 35.56 cm.