Dig a hole as deep as you can, bury it oriented correctly, hide the burial site as best you can. Sooner or later a landslide or earthquake or flood or something might move it, but hey, if we get really lucky, we might have bought a few million years!

Being a fascist will do that to you. (That's Giorgia Meloni, not Philomena)

i think it has more to do with what color skin people think they had and not how advanced they actually were...

missing from this retelling is the part where op shit themself in public

This is a dangerous "skill" to have, though. Very easy to slip into the trap of assuming you know what they're talking about, only to have them end on a different point than you expected and then suddenly you're responding to a point they never actually made

Sometimes cats have just one, especially if it's their first litter.

Also, Sayaka's Digital Attic is an actual good channel; she does interesting board repair work and has been at it since long before December of 2025

It's been a while since I saw the ep, but wasn't Moriarty stuck on because the computer was asked to create an opponent that could beat Data and it got caught in a weird loop? I'm pretty sure Moriarty was a major exception in some way, none of the other constructs are self aware and all get turned off with the program

Forget Melinda Gates. I was subjected to 2 minutes of her garbage NPR interview yesterday before I was able to skip it; it's fucking crazy that this woman is being allowed to do a goddamn press tour about this, like she's the main character. Oh, are you sad that Bill was a total piece of shit and you did nothing? Go be sad on your own time, on the miniscule chance you're somehow not a total psycho you can go find a therapist, I'm sure you can afford one. Stop hogging media time to wash your own bullshit image. I wonder how much she donated to get them to have her on.

I don't know enough about Fetterman's past to make a judgement on how his stroke affected him, but you totally could. Brain damage can fundamentally change who you are as a person on every level, from memory to logic, or even spirituality. It can change or entirely destroy your ability to feel empathy, damping some emotions while amping up others. Strokes that fundamentally change personality like that are rare, but certainly not outside the realm of possibility.

Don't forget, Trump's full of shit. He was talking positively about Ukraine right before the shipments stopped in the first place. As far as I remember Hegseth got blamed for the stoppage, but he's still the Secretary of Defense, sooo... don't assume anything Trump says will happen until actual moves are made. And as far as I can tell, zero moves to restart shipments have actually happened.

26 mass shootings at home this year already,, but a trans person in a different country snapped and so that's all they care about. Fucking ghouls. Bring it up to them and they'll probably claim all 26 were false flags carried out by the transgender mafia

Ha, this reminds me of how angry I got at NPR the other day when they aired this. They were all too happy for the centerpiece of their story to be an interview with some spokesperson who did the classic move of blaming Overbearing California Regulations as a problem, saying that it's forcing them to keep a shitty old system in place, and then they moved on to the next piece without addressing how the real problem was that AT&T is refusing to install new equipment before cutting off service to the old stuff. California's regulations are saving hundreds of thousands of people from losing service, and somehow they're the bad guy here.

Drives me fucking crazy that NPR is somehow considered a left leaning news source. I guess it's all relative, huh...

Edit, I've actually been trying to remember to make notes whenever NPR airs a story that pisses me off. Just for fun, I'm gonna include the few I have here:

::: spoiler Tap for spoiler I'm American but the dates are d/m/y because this is from my personal notes so whatever:

9/06/26 npr ran a story about copper wire thieves, and painted California regs forcing att to serve rural communities as bad, instead of pointing out att can remove that copper the second they install an alternative for those homes

27/05/26 npr newscast called Texas trump endorsed candidate anti establishment. Technically did beat an incumbent but jfc trump is not anti establishment

20/05/26 planet money's "human certification in the age of ai slop" may just be the dumbest piece of media I have ever heard. They put an H logo on a photo and call that verified??? Then they advertise a data collection service masquerading as a verification service, tell the company ahead of time that they are being tested, then end the episode. Genuinely, the mind boggles. Have they always been this bad and just forgot to lie about it?

23/01/26 I just listen to NPR regurgitate a line about Trump's board of Peace presiding over Gaza without a single moment of criticism (in the politics podcast later I heard them eventually get into criticism but it's insane they didn't include 5 seconds in the original story to mention the price tag or who is slated to be on the board) :::

I wouldn't mind it as much if they weren't specifically doing it to fuck with us

Any minute now... Aaaaany minute now...

I'm not denying that AI is a bubble, but this is one of the (many) big reasons that the huge wealth disparity we've built up is so fucking dangerous: the people who make the market move can afford to make it act irrationally for a long, long time. This bubble should have burst in like 2024 at the latest, but LLMs in their current form are vitally important to the march of fascism. I mean, they cast doubt on all media. You can't trust the pictures you see, the videos you watch, not even that the people you're messaging online are people. I like to think many of the people here are better at spotting generated content than the general populace, but it can still be hit-or-miss, and for everyone else, trying to figure out who is a trustworthy news source at this point is just a crapshoot.

So billionaires are gonna fund this bubble as long as they can. They need to get as many people to give up on trying to discern truth as possible. Even with all the other crazy shit threatening to imminently topple our economy, this bubble could have years of life in it yet.

If their soul is somewhere else, then what the heck is the ghost?

you mean other than jorkin it?
Food. Good god. I've been right on the line between obese and overweight for most of my life, but there was a brief period like 5ish years ago where I finally dropped like 30 pounds and got myself looking the way I wanted.

Then I started living on my own, and while that's been really good for me in a lot of ways... oh boy, I went hog wild. I've always enjoyed cooking and baking, but not having to worry about hijacking the kitchen (or anyone stealing the fruits of my labor!) meant I was making all kinds of cookies, brownies, babka, breads, bagels, I've made croissants from scratch a couple times... eventually I memorized my brownie recipe and I got into the habit of, several times a week, making a "single serve" brownie by just throwing everything into one little oven safe bowl (sorta like these) and then eating the whole damn thing.

Last week I made enough dough for 3 pizzas, so I did one basically normal, and then inspiration struck. For the second one I made a southern-style gravy and used that instead of tomato sauce, and then the last one turned into a dessert pizza. Made a chocolate sauce out of cacao powder, melted butter, sugar, and honey, and then topped it with shredded coconut. Holy fuck, so easy, so tasty, both fresh out the oven and cold out the fridge. Highly recommend. But anyway I ate all 3 pizzas in 2 days.

Surprisingly enough my weight's actually been trending downward this month. Maybe if I'm lucky it won't have to be such a guilty pleasure for too much longer lol

edit, I keep forgetting to take pics of the stuff I make or else I'd post about it, but at least I did take this one of the dessert pizza

Hi FBI, I have great news! I've done extensive My Own Research and after carefully reviewing the footage, maps of the university, and consulting with the gods of psilocybin, I have concluded with a high degree of certainty that his neck just kinda did that. Hope this helps!

No damn way dwarves aren't cheeked up. They literally spend all day carrying heavy loads and mining. They're just short and covered in gear so you aren't blinded by their majesty