Yeah I hate fake nerds on TV. Big Bang Theory being the absolute worst.

Obligatory Portlandia Nerd PSA (invidious link)

I grew up with actual nerds in the 89s and 90s. No one was like Big Bang Theory. We were not cool.

Absolutely. "Flood the Zone".

All the stupid stuff also including annexing Greenland, renaming the JFK Center, removing exhibits at The Smithsonian, the weaponization fund... it's all to distract from the further hollowing out of the middle class and all the real behind the scenes grift happening.

Math and headlines. Enemies since the dawn of print.

I'm sure at first I would love it because instead of having to purchase this robot it would be "free" to me.

But after everyone gets used to the clothes robots there would eventually be paid subscription tiers and the next time you open your drawers all your pants have DraftKings ads on the butt.

+1 for stating that the technologies themselves are not the grifts.

LLMs are fantastic tools. Quantum Computing will have meaningful uses.

The grift is the marketing and the dumb C-Suites that fall for it.

To answer your real question though, I need an AI that will actually convert a basket of dirty laundry into a stack of neatly folded clean clothes. That shit will be revolutionary.

This Dad needs a CPAP so he can get a real 8 hours. Not needing naps during the day is life-changing.

Addicted to alcohol: Stop drinking. You can't control an addiction so you have to completely stop.

Addicted to cigarettes: Stop smoking. You can't control an addiction so you have to completely stop.

Addicted to crack: Stop smoking crack. You can't control an addiction so you have to completely stop.

Addicted to food: Must be your fault for being weak-willed. Just don't consume so much of that thing that you're addicted to. You can control your addiction. Just stop being a loser...

The literal solution to every addiction is stop it, cold turkey. One Day At A Time. But you can't stop eating food.

Make it affordable and I'll buy one tomorrow.

Let's talk VW specific. I would absolutely love an ID.Buzz. But you made the fucking thing SIXTY THOUSAND DOLLARS.

I would love if most restaurants had pdfs.

Lately it seems almost every restaurant's "menu" button takes you to an online ordering site where you have to pretend like you're ordering to view the menu.

That is very much not what I asked for when I clicked "menu". I clicked menu because I want to see a god damn menu.

Obviously...

This movie absolutely destroyed me emotionally for like a week. I was wholly unprepared for what this movie was really about. I was expecting an alien invasion movie and got a brickload of emotions dumped on my heart.

Wait, you mean a Connecticut-style lobster roll? Which is amazing? Are you messin' with me? Culinary sin? You mean culinary heaven?

I've re-watched that Gojira performance like 10 times. The beheaded Marie Antionettes were <chef's kiss>.

I'm getting old and have watched a lot of opening ceremonies with all of this art that they have to explain the meaning to you.

In front of an in-person audience of hundreds of world leaders and live to the entire world, the French chose to depict their final monarch that they deposed and beheaded while playing death metal and opera. That's one of the most badass things I've ever seen. And the announcers didn't have to explain to you how badass it was.

Yeah, someone said no when a woman asked to touch their penis. Totally realistic.

Yes, you can hold it when I pee. Yes, you can hold it while I'm making sandwiches. Yes, you can hold it while we're on the VelociCoaster at Islands of Adventure...

My kid's school just implemented an app-based pickup process this year.

You have to download an app and register your phone and email and child, then when you get in the line to pickup your child you have to press a button in the app.

I literally cannot retrieve my child from school without a smartphone.

Japan is still trying to figure out has figured out Christmas.

This is the second screenshot post today that asked why women used to have big hair and someone snippily "replied" that the hairspray is illegal now, which is objectively false. Only the CFC propellents are illegal. You can still buy a big ass can of AquaNet and spray your hair into the same big crunchy hairdo.

What are the odds of the exact same idea but with different photos and slightly different wording happening organically on the same day?

https://vger.to/mander.xyz/post/53218289

I'm 50; when I started my career pretty much everyone a little older than me had pensions and I arrived right as the pensions were being phased out. It was a running joke when they would talk about pensions and I would say "what's a pension?"

So my age group will be retiring in 15 years, not 30 years. Almost everyone I know my age has a meager 401k and nothing else.

The streets are going to be flooded with people too old to work and no retirement income in much less than 30 years...