I like winter

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For the gentlest of rain that comes from the sky, I will keep it untainted from the sludge of AI. For the most delicious of fish from the sea, I will keep the water pure from AI. For the splendor of a refreshing gulp of water, I will keep the blood of the world free from AI.

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Big pediatrician doesn't want you to know that if your child is misbehaving and biting your hair then you should give them 1 day blinding stew

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I fucking love opening a foil wrapper on a chocolate bar. Fuck that KitKat and Hershey's candy shit. Toblerone is where it's at.

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Sometimes, I wonder if it is truly virtuous to stay informed

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Another bag.

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Another bag. Mainly sogged gutter trash and broken glass.

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Full of trash collected from a grassy area between a parking lot and the road. Mainly bits of plastic and shattered glass.

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Water is the fucking best dude. Absolutely bomb ass drink.

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I don't normally engage with celebrity gossip but there's a documentary on one Hollywood family that I'm absolutely fiending to get my little pickled fingers on. It's a documentary on the Smith family, Will, Jada and their son are very curious personalities, and their time in the eye of the media makes them extremely interesting to me.

Will, for starters, is an industry icon. He's been in plenty of great films, and definitely has had a fair share of stinkers, but he's generally regarded as a talented, flexible actor. It's just very strange to then see him turn around and try to convince everyone that his family is an amazing, cohesive unit who spend a lot of time together. While that's fine if you just want to politely but distantly introduce your wife and kids to an executive at your company, it's going to play out a lot different to a camera with millions of people on the other end of the screen, and on some level, Will must know this. It's like he's trying to convince himself that his family is wonderful rather than share anecdotes about their time together, and that makes me feel like he's a deeply insecure person.

This theory of mine, that he's really insecure, definitely has some merit, I think.

Obviously, I have to bring up the Chris Rock-Will Smith Oscars slap. Appearantly, when Chris was doing his material, Will was laughing along to the jokes at his wife's expense. I say appearantly because this claim is just speculation from some photos. Though it does fit very neatly with the idea that he's insecure, and his wife is a narcissist, which isn't even debatable. She's cheated on him, and confessed to him because she thinks it would protect their family and support his happiness. There's also an infamous media appearance where Will talks about how set up a lavish 40th birthday party it was going to be a deep proclamation of love and she called it "the most ridiculous display of (Will's) ego".

To get back to the slapping, it fits into the idea that while he may have organically enjoyed the joke, she took so much offense she made him do something objectively humiliating to correct the situation. Will, despite his seeming lack of knowledge of how he might come across when he shares these really depressing glimpses into his family life, knows optics. If an A-list celebrity slaps a famous comedian on the stage of a yearly contest of Hollywoods most impressive tax write-offs, it's going to be all over the news, and it's not going to look like you made a rational decision.

It's going to make it look like your narcissistic wife didn't like that her bald-headed ass was catching some strays and, knowing that you're insecure, convinced you to stop laughing and make a fool of yourself in front of all your peers in the name of protecting her reputation. Because one thing narcissists hate is being criticized, even mild jokes. They have very thin skin. Disclaimer: I'm not saying she has Narcissistic Personality Disorder or something. Narcissism is still a trait independent of a psychological disorder.

Another example that supports my thesis that he's insecure is his terrible rapping he did a year or two ago. While I recommend listening to it because it feels like something a sheltered 11 year old would make with a baby's first DJ kit, the song is basically him repeating "I like pretty girls". Hardly Sappho's poetry. It's definitely got the highly sanitized feel of early Will Smith, but instead of feeling like the intent is to be family friendly, it feels more like he's very uncomfortable with his current identity and is trying to shift/return his public image to something explicitly positive.

It leads to some very cringey moments where he freestyles like a kid on rhymes.com on podcasts trying to promote his music, as well as ai generate crowds of fans cheering and dancing to his music, while when he did a live street show, it was underwhelming. Pretty much the only people moving were Will and the people he paid.

Everyone else just pointed their phones at him in probably one of the most horrifying situations I can imagine. Will must know that his music is being received poorly. If not by metrics, at the very least by the fact that crowd immediately around him is completely static, and are only there to watch him perform a droning, juvenile song he is presumably hoping returns him to a wholesome figure. Hundreds of phones, hundreds of eyes watching him with nothing but the nadir of enthusiasm, a motionless, judging sea of cameras as he performs his best, knowing the script he wrote has set him up for failure. Maybe, Will Smith is just an actor.

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I don't know why a kids graphic novel that's written in 2013 but with humor from the early 90's just popped into my head but there's a scene in Big Nate flips out that is genuinely so baffling its funny. I barely remember the story but an important plot point is that Nate is a delinquent and he's friends with this super studious kid Francis. Francis gets a camera from school and the teacher stresses the importance of not losing it. Francis lends it to Nate, Nate loses it, and Francis blames the loss on himself.

I just remembered the one panel of the teacher going nuclear on Francis for this because he's normally such a good kid, and like, okay, American schools are pretty terrible, I'll agree. I lost a piece of tech and they made me pay $250 for a replacement instead of accepting the exact same device we purchased brand new for like $150. Pretty stupid. What absolutely gets me is why the hell would you go off on a kid for this. Like he obviously doesn't have a track record and this is just a fluke. I've lost like 3 pairs of earbuds in the span of 7 years. That doesn't make it okay to scream at me unless the price of earbuds spikes from $30 to $100. Like do you just want to torment this kid because you don't care about him?

Second. Why the hell does the teacher not do any kind of triage. Like, "How many days ago did you lose it?" If Francis said something close to a week, then you could judge him as irresponsible or at least fearful of consequences, but if it was 1-3 days ago, fine, ask him to retrace his steps. "Where did you go that day? Did you go to a club? Could you have left it at school?"

If that fails, ask for any suspicions. "Do you think someone could have stolen it? Do you think a family member might have borrowed it?" If they say yeah, then call the police non-emergency line, and just say "hey, I'm a teacher at [town name] high school, have you encountered anyone in possession of a black camera with [markings that identify it as school property], could you also ask your officers to keep an eye out? Thanks." Sure, that takes a lot of responsibility off the student but it's a lot better than yelling at them.

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I don't know if the writers of the current US political dramedy pay attention to Tumblr but I would like to ask them to please do another party switch where the Democrats stay how they are and the Republicans turn into democratic socialists. That would be a solid twist.

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My 3 DPS teammates taking cover behind my tank main when the guy with freeze powers attacks

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😭 just got a week long ban from reddit for commenting under a post that said that liberals love prison because you get free gay sex and I said they were talking about rape. I genuinely thought that I'd never be able to shake my addiction to that site but it looks like my gradual transplant to Tumblr is going to be a Robert Liston-esque speed amputation.

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If I ever get to pick my method of execution I want it to be the method of sticking me in a sack full of rats and throwing me into the water, but instead of dying by the rats eating through me to get out of the water, it's kittens, and they all purr at the same time, like how bees can surround a predator and vibrate in order to kill them, but it's kittens purring me to death.

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Another bag less.

This one has everything. Burger joint cups, soft drink bottles, plenty of bits of packaging, wet leaf litter that's caked with hair, so it feels like you're unclogging a shower you share with someone with long hair, a vape, 2 used condoms, chips packets, crap from a storm drain, loose plastic, a methhead gave me his garbage, and about 2 kilos of cigarette butts.

These things get heavy. I'm pretty sure if I went longer there would be a lot more tears.

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One bags worth of gutter trash left in the world

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I wanted RFK Jr and Donald Trump, when elected, to recreate the scene in Mad Max Fury Road where Immortan Joe opens the gates and floods his subjects with water, but instead of water it's beef tallow. I'm a believer in the grease apocalypse. I'm a grease accelerationist.