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i think more robots should be disabled actually. robots whose bodies keep falling apart and need much more consistent repairs. robots whose bodily upkeep is hard and laborious and exhausting. robots who physically cant do things without help from another individual. robots who are imperfect and dont fit the bill of a flawless machine. i want more of this waiter please bring me more disabled robots
On 2 separate occasions in this 20 second video I thought this cat was gonna be absolutely COOKED
They fucming macrowabed him?!?!
All these big companies changing their logos a dozen of times for something that looks worse every time, while the real all-time GOAT found the winning formula on the first try and then even did a victory lap with it:
Nothing! Traffic cones have nothing to do with media players. However they do have to do with the students that original made VLC. The original students used to steal traffic cones when they got drunk together and had amassed a collection of them. So the traffic cone was basically their mascot
I had a pretty major epiphany this morning, although in retrospect it seems so obvious.
I woke up this morning and immediately felt bad, both about myself and the state of my life, I felt anxious, and I felt depressed. I realized that for quite some time I've woken up most mornings feeling this way, and I thought to myself it can't be good to wake up most mornings feeling bad.
I remembered being a child and waking up feeling neutral, maybe even happy or relaxed, even though my life was far from perfect, I had bullies at school and abuse / dysfunction at home. But I still didn't wake up immediately feeling bad, anxious, and depressed most mornings.
I tried to pinpoint when exactly this became the norm, me waking up feeling just generally really bad as soon as I woke up, and I pinpointed it to right about the enshitification of social media.
I had social media / smartphone addictions when I was a teen too, but back then you still had more control over what you saw and were exposed to. This is when your Facebook and Instagram feeds were only people you were friends with, not pages shoved on you by the algorithm. So yes, it still made me feel bad when my feed was mostly people glamorizing their life, as people do on social media, but it didn't completely suck all the peace and joy out of my life the way a steady algorithm of things meant to inspire outrage in me does.
After having this realization, I asked my partner how they wake up feeling most mornings, and they said just neutral (the way I felt before the enshitification of social media), and I asked them what they look at mostly when they scroll on their phone, and they said "idk just tech stuff mostly" since they work in tech. That checks out.
Even though Tumblr isn't as enshitified as most other social media, it does drain my mental health more than it did over a decade ago when I first joined. You still have more control on what you see on here than on most social media sites, but it's still hard to avoid mentally draining content.
Most of all, I think people are so vicious and cruel on social media these days. I'm old enough to know that the internet has always had trolls, but it's one thing to have some trolls on every website, it's another thing for all of social media to be so full of people who are so, so angry, and so eager to hurt other people to have an outlet for their outrage. I think Tumblr is full of a lot of that, a lot of people on here are very eager to hurt and put down complete strangers, and not even in a trolling way, they just have so many unresolved issues that they don't know how else to handle other than lashing out at strangers on the internet.
I know 5-10 years ago if you said on Tumblr "if you feel anxious and depressed, maybe try spending less time on social media" this would make a lot of people very upset. I'm not sure if that's still a hot take, but it's really setting in today how true that is. I'm not nearly as online as many people. I spend a lot of time outside touching grass. But even when I make a lot of efforts to mitigate my social media use, it's still not enough and I still end up feeling bad a lot.
If you're having any mental health ailments, I'm not saying social media is the only sole cause, but spending a lot of time on enshitified social media will make you feel much worse, it's really not good for you. You might not realize exactly how bad it's making you feel until you take a step back and compare the state of your mental health between now and prior to the enshitification of the internet.
A related point is that it seems like every website is social media now. Myspace and Facebook were purpose built that way, but different websites used to have different purposes! Tumblr was a blog site with some social elements and mostly caught on as a replacement for LiveJournal. Reddit was a link sharing site. Youtube was for hosting videos that you shared through other channels. Pinterest was for saving stuff you found online, like enhanced bookmarks. Snapchat was for sharing nudes. Now they're all "social media."
Went to the dealership because I had a coupon for a $30 oil change
Oil change comes with a complementary inspection
Shockingly, this inspection has discovered about $1800 of “urgent” issues
mom need a fuse replace. Mechanic wanted 150. She did it herself and bought a 1 dollar bag of what she needed
it’s crazy how when you’re 11 you think wow nationalism is the root of all evil and war is despicable and religion is the opiate of the masses and misogyny is everywhere and climate change is our most dire threat. and you start to grow up and you think well surely it will become more nuanced to me, surely there must be a reason adults arent breaking down wailing in the streets due to the cruelty of this world. and then you become an adult and you think wow nationalism is the root of all evil and war is despicable and religion is the opiate of the masses and misogyny is everywhere and climate change is our most dire threat
I think a lot of the time people get overwhelmed by everything that's going on right now, and sometimes I do too. I was thinking about that the other day, and reached a place where I was trying to fold my mind around accepting all the things I can't possibly do, because I'm only human, and only one human.
In thinking this over, I remembered reading the fable of the Crow and the Pitcher as a kid. If you've never read it, a crow finds a pitcher full of water, but can't reach the bottom, so, after failing to knock it over, he piles pebbles into it until he can drink from the pitcher.
I've heard various morals for this, from "thoughtfulness works better than brute strength," to "necessity is the mother of invention," and "little acts add up." But like... I started thinking about being a pebble, rather than being the crow.
I don't have to be the whole solution. I don't even necessarily have to be the one person who finds the solution. I just have to be willing to help as much as I can and raise the water level, and help the solution happen.
I'm sure some people will say that sounds weak and defeatist or whatever, which, you know, first of all, fuck you. But this is - in all seriousness - one of the ways in which lasting change is made. Not by big singular dramatic gestures, not by one person burning themself out by somehow doing everything all of the time, but by the dogged and continual persistence of people being present and doing what they can do, over and over, raising the water line.
It's okay to be a pebble. It's okay to raise the water level a little, in concert with all the other pebbles, and get your comrade a little drink of water. Do what you can, when you can, the best that you can, and find your peace with that.
It's okay to not do everything.
It's okay to be one of a hundred pebbles.
op i hope you don't mind but i made this gif non-looping and it has been sending me into hysterics every time i think about it
before i go back to my usual blorbos, have some dunegeon lesbians hehe. did stream with friends and this lil sketch was the result uwu
not sure tumblr knows what's "for me" anymore tbh
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Look at all the fucking space he had and he still fucking hit him. This was a premeditated attack!
That Nautilus was born to drive a BMW and is cursed to be unable to do so
PHRASE ADDED!
"That Nautilus was born to drive a BMW and is cursed to be unable to do so"
you can tell the economy is doing awesome when every ad is like “play our slot machines—they’re weirdly addictive!” “no money? try loan shark!” “sports betting: the cooler way to be a man” and i swear to god i’m barely paraphrasing the copy of several ads i just saw i swear to jesus christ
My dash did a thing and I hate it
social media is mostly this over and over again forever
My cartoon for this week’s New Scientist magazine
chu han contention dashboard simulator
👮♂️ sheriff-liu-bang follow hey chat, quick question, if i were to hypothetically lose some of the convict labourers i'm suppose to be guarding, what would the hypothetical punishment be here? time-sensitive question.
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hi peon, thanks for reaching out! this is punishable by death. hope that helps!
👮♂️ sheriff-liu-bang
cool. cool cool. follow-up question, what if i hypothetically started searching for the escaped prisoners right away, but turned up for work a few days late?
being late for work is also punishable by death. hope that helps!
👮♂️ sheriff-liu-bang
ok. so if i figured i had nothing left to lose, released the rest of my prisoners, became their leader, and we openly rebelled against the state, that would be punishable by death too? hypothetically.
you got it!
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thanks for clearing that up
glad to be of service :)
hey whats with the name change
