Well Then

Uselessness upon uselessness is just plain useless

[cartoon-fanaticism]

GLaDOS voice: "Would you like to see some artwork I generated? I've heard from other test subjects that AI-generated artwork produces an uncanny valley response in human viewers because they can't perceive it as fully real. They've told me that it looks absolutely hideous to them, that they can't imagine anything more disgusting than AI art. But, well I've been practicing and wanted your honest opinion. Feel free to let me know how ugly you find this by ranking it on a scale from 'vomit-inducing' to 'eye-bleeding'." A robotic arm lowers from the ceiling holding a hand mirror up to Chell's face

[wassuppeas]

[dataandphilosophy]

“For example, if you’re trying to convince people to boycott a segregated store, your object is to convince them that boycotting the store will have a strategic effect, not that desegregation is morally important. For whatever reason, on a cognitive level human beings have a really hard time with this. Smucker cites an example of a Lefty roleplaying session where people were tasked with selling an action to people who agreed with them on principle but didn’t see the strategic merit of the action. Surprisingly, the sellers couldn’t make the conceptual switch to sell strategic merit: instead, they doubled down on THIS ISSUE IS IMPORTANT — even though it had been stressed to them that the people they were selling to bought into the importance of the issue. People react poorly to “this is important, so do WHATEVER I SAY”; they want to be convinced that what you’re proposing will work.”

Source.

[myfootyrthroat]

Also from above:

“Bob Wing, a grassroots organizer, explains this nicely: “If winning feels impossible, then righteousness can seem like the next best thing.” But righteousness is not conducive to getting normies to join your team if your team cannot demonstrate ability to, at least sometimes, win. Nor does righteousness help you make real inroads with regular people.”

[bbcwhereareyou]

Somewhat related, my favorite comic strip of all time:

[sludgebitch]

it was around this point i considered i may be playing this game in a way that is unnecessarily stressful

[smoothjazzdigit]

Have you guys seen that clip

Go off Kermit

[juliathefacesofevil]

we're just normal men

[oddjoblin]

Why the heck is this dude trying to confirm if the frog puppet is hetrosexual???

[karnalesbian]

assessing the situation before he shoots his shot

[defilerwyrm]

Happy Pride to Kermit the Frog, questioning king

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[beemovieerotica]

[vsemily]

[yokowan]

okay I'll bite

[yokowan]

hawm

[lifeafterpsychiatry]

Since realising I'm autistic, I'm starting to believe that I never actually had social anxiety. I was just picking up on actual hostility and judgement from other people and was apprehensive about going to social events because I knew I would be overstimulated and had poor social skills so would inevitably piss someone off. Yet the absolute insistence throughout my entire life from everyone that it was all in my head and that I just had social anxiety has completely eroded my judge of character or ability to read the atmosphere in a room which has been incredibly dangerous and caused me significant harm when I've given terrible people the benefit of the doubt by convincing myself that they're probably fine because I overthink things. Idk why the knee jerk reaction is always "noooo don't be ridiculous, of course people don't hate you" when tbh, autism aside, it's just human nature that not everyone likes everyone else. As long as everyone is being respectful, I feel like that's a neutral thing and idk why everyone else does all these mental gymnastics to avoid acknowledging it. We really need to do better by autistic kids because I think saying "yeah maybe you're not everyone's cup of tea but that's okay, don't feel bad about it" would have been a lot less detrimental to me than telling me I'm crazy and teaching me how to ignore my intuition.

Yeah. Like people who are read as autistic are more likely to face hostility and social rejection and adjusting to the consequences of this is not "irrational social anxiety." It's not that everyone will automatically hate you, or that no one will love you, but people are more likely to judge you unfairly and that's a reality we have to grapple with as we navigate society

[wikicamp2]

[lackadaisycal-art]

Nostalgia Comp!

[aroace-ryland-grace]

get him outta there!!!

[aroace-ryland-grace]

bonk. bonk. bonk. bonk. bonk.

[corporation-cats]

[only-cat-memes]

[abrahamshipwreck]

[stromcuzewon]

this is probably my favorite tiktok of all time and I finally got around to showing it to my dad the other day and now he comes home every day and tells me about all the places he saw crumbling concrete and says "guess they didn't add enough chinchilla flakes"

[thatdisasterauthor]

My dad has worked in construction is whole life, primarily with a company that does concrete foundations, and I immediately sent him this back when I first found it on TikTok, and he IMMEDIATELY shared it with everyone he worked with. They apparently still quote it on his job sites to this day.

[elbiotipo]

pro-tip: don't ever use the sentence "thousands of years" in your worldbuilding unless you really know what a thousand years is like

[elbiotipo]

Quick cheat sheet:

The middle ages were one thousand years ago

I don't know if I need you to tell you this but Jesus was alive 2 thousand years ago during the Roman Empire

3 thousand years ago the Mediterranean and Middle East were recovering from the bronze age collapse. None of the philosophers of Western philosophy (or Eastern for that matter) were born yet

Earliest writing dates roughly to 5 thousand years ago.

Agriculture started roughly 10 thousand years ago

So yes, you can write whatever you like but if you're telling me that an individual dynasty has been ruling since 8000 years ago (HOLA JORGE) I have to wonder if they even had writing back then

[imsobadatnicknames2]

To be fair you can find one guy like that in the comment section of most metal bands on youtube

[can-i-make-image-descriptions]

[Image ID: Tumblr tags reading: #Made a character 10.000 years old and then had to sit there thinking 'oh god he's older than metallurgy' #Little old man rambling about how kids these days are all addicted to metal and in His day they only had rock /End ID]

[rvllybllply2014]

His sugar work is more impressive than his chocolate work at this point

[kvotheunkvothe]

[pinqui]

SINGIN' IN THE RAIN (1952) ↳ dir. GENE KELLY and STANLEY DONEN

[pinqui]