Bad At Stuff

[tlirsgender]

Rewatched x-men (2000) and can I just say magneto's plan (turning all those politicians into mutants) was objectively hilarious. Like can you imagine. Somebody's firing the transgenderization beam into congress

[depsidase]

[orteil42]

given the current climate this pride especially i feel i must mention that i love my trans friends, i stand with trans people in the fight against transphobic legislation and those who would enforce it, and this blog is not a good place for you to be if you do not vibe with that

[marisatomay]

I’m very pro-rereading books you loved as a child at different stages in your life

[just-shower-thoughts]

Babies are socially accepted parasites.

[onion-souls]

When u read Ayn Rand 1 time

[unfitninjuh]

They’re not a parasite, they’re a potential investment

[onion-souls]

When you read Ayn Rand a dozen times

[funstyle]

Im always like "i will not add my two cents. i will not add my two cents" but i cant lie the pennies are getting sweaty in my hand

[txttletale]

it's really funny how whenever you tell chatgpt it got something wrong it either brazenly gaslights you or starts going "I'm sorry. I let you down. It was unacceptable. I'm holding myself accountable for my egregious failure. I should be shot"

[imsobadatnicknames2]

It's not like I want to be defending chatgpt here but like. Questions like this being directed exclusively at people who use AI starts looking kinda silly and unserious the moment you become aware of the impact of doing *literally anything* on the internet. Like according to the most recent article I could find, watching an hour of high-quality video on youtube consumes roughly 500x as much water and electricity as two (2) AI chatbot prompts. And I think we can all agree that at any given point in time there are probably more people in the middle of an hour-long youtube session than there are people in the middle of asking chatgpt a thousand questions in a row.

Which is not to say we should be uncritical of the environmental impact of the AI industry (particularly when it comes to the environmental costs of *training* AI models), but like. It's weird and silly to act like individual AI users are having this disproportinately huge impact whenever they use their little touy when like. Their actions are about as environmentally damaging as anything else they could be spending their online time on, and if we're working from the premise that that level of environmental impact is unacceptable we kinda have no choice but to reckon with the fact that maybe we should all be using the internet a little less, you know?

[storm-tornado-archive]

OK PLEASE DON’T JOKINGLY VOTE FOR DEEZ NUTS

IT’S FUNNY AND ALL, BUT IT’S REALLY, REALLY IMPORTANT WE DON’T DETRACT VOTES FROM BERNIE

BY VOTING FOR DEEZ NUTS YOU’RE LITERALLY THROWING YOUR VOTE AWAY

PLEASE DON’T ACTUALLY VOTE FOR DEEZ NUTS

[demiboydemon]

For speed runners, this is canon.

[evilvillain123456789]

Instead of crass and discriminatory "jokes", I prefer to get my chuckles from wholesome humor, such as: "my god, the scrimbly blumbo!" Hahahaha! Really, there's no need for slurs and put-downs when comedy like "skcrunklo bonglo bingo" is available! I am racist as fuck though,

[gloomsday]

sent this message to my coworker today and he sent me this screenshot with microsoft teams's suggested replies... incredible 10/10 no notes.

[mercifulmother]

– Animorphs: The Reunion, K.A. Applegate

[syzygynephile]

Me, trying to impress my date with a display of my boundless humility: I would like to order one single, solitary crumb.

Waitress taking my order: Such arrogance! Not only do you presume to boast under the guise of being humble, but your order employs the most decadent of linguistic excesses - the tautology!

My date, who until recently thought "tautology" referred to the study of tensile strengths and upon learning her mistake compensated by reading through its Wikipedia article: That would be more correctly identified as a "pleonasm".

The editor I hired to curate my posts who styles himself as a sort of scheming court advisor: My liege, this one is getting away from us. The punchline loses much of its impact when the rest of the joke is derailed by this increasingly self-indulgent meta humour. Were it up to me, your Grace, which of course it is not, I would cut the others and leave myself as the only supporting character. You need noone else, Your Majesty...

My card: Declines

[homoquartz]

i’ve warmed up significantly towards the concept of small talk ever since i learned that its sole purpose is to make friendly noises.

as long as you smile and nod, people are satisfied. it’s just to show that you are nice and there with good intentions. we’re small in a big world and have to rely on other people to be decent to us. so we do our little human dance to each other to say, “i’m not here to hurt you. here’s something we have in common, like the weather or sports or itchy sweaters, so we both know we’re on the same team. we both agree on a basic fact, like that it is rainy or that being itchy is uncomfortable, and this proves we can get along. i’m being light-hearted and non-threatening right now.”

small talk isn’t to get to know a person. it’s just a greeting to affirm you’re buddies in the universe.

i am motivated by wanting the other person to know i am friendly, so i have gotten pretty decent at small talk when i used to hate it.

[piratedgender]

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[theweirdwideweb]

[freebroccoli]

REGRET TO INFORM YOU YOUR SON HAS DIED FROM TRENCH FOOT LOL HE SERVED WITH COURAGE AND HONOR LOL PLEASE ACCEPT OUR DEEPEST CONDOLENCES LOL

[cpericardium]

I love this video... going to put it under the read more because it sucks (cw misogyny, racism, unfunny 'comedy' question mark). probably don't bother actually watching unless you want the full experience. But it's amazing. The woman in the audience doesn't say a single word and the comedian just unravels. Her silence becomes increasingly unnerving to him; he starts making up things he imagines she would want to say to him, rambles about how even her friend is trying not to laugh (cut to her friend's expression which is just tired annoyance), spirals into a rant about how she wants to take away his freedom of speech and would freeze his bank account if she could, eventually fantasizing about her getting gangraped (with some extra racism thrown in there). It's art. She's so powerful. Why did he post this himself.