Clockboy was the biggest crock of shit.

The kids dad put the thing together and prompted the kid to get in trouble with it for lawsuit bait and to boost his political career.

It wasn't even impressive he literally just took the guts out of a RadioShack digital clock and taped it inside a pencil box.

It was 100% low effort bait, it was literally a timer sticking out of a briefcase shaped pencil box that's obviously supposed to look like a bomb.

He didn't even get in trouble for having it, he got in trouble for repeatedly pulling it out to disrupt class.

The family got a ton of free shit then a year later tried to sue the city for 15 million and some conservative talk show hosts, all dismissed.

They then accepted a scholarship to a school in Qatar and moved there in 2015.

This is such a good example of the dumbass culture war shit that drove people to trump.

It's crazy to think this all could have been avoided if Biden just kept his word and let us have an actual primary where Kamala predicably would have lost early on.

Instead we got a half assed bait and switch for the worst polling candidate possible. I swear she was picked because she was the cheapest corpo money could buy.

The DNC needs to be dissolved because they keep picking loser corporate stooges that nobody likes in the belief that they can just AstroTurf and gaslight their way to popularity.

OF models make most of their money by flirting with sad, lonely nerds.

Reddit is flooded with them because it's direct advertising to their clientele.

3 seconds later the bartender clears the queue and OP wasted $20 to annoy nobody.

"Gifted" programs are so fucked up.

They separate kids out for being "smart", put them on a pedestal, endlessly gas them up with wildly unrealistic expectations and then only teach them how to be good students at the expense of all social development.

All these kids go into the world thinking that being good at math or memorization is 95% of what it takes to be successful when in reality it's like 10% intellect and 90% social ability.

The worst part is that these kids usually aren't even extra smart, they just have more involved parents.

It always ends up that the kid with infinite potential lives up to none of it and has a massive ego complex because they got gaslit into believing their parents pipedreams were realistic and that it's their fault for not living up to them.

Edit: It's really funny all the former gifted kids are taking this as a personal attack.

Sometimes we need to learn multiple times to make sure it was just a one time fluke

AI has ruined long format YouTube videos.

Too many times I've been 10-15 minutes into a video when I notice that it's talking in circles, mispronouncing a basic word, majorly contradicting itself or is just obviously spouting bullshit.

It's to the point where if I see a video has less than 10k views or the channel has less than 25k subs I immediately assume it's AI slop.

Especially when the channel has a big "NO AI" watermark/icon.

Music has been completely ruining on YT and the AI slop is beginning to show up on Spotify.

I cannot wait for the AI bubble to pop so it becomes prohibitively expensive to churn out garbage.

I don't think it'll disappear but once the VC money dries up and these services need to support themselves the availability for slop will dramatically fall.

This post makes no sense and desperately needs context.

It's pointless because California standards are so stringent that literally everything has a prop 65 warning on it.

It's completely lost all value or meaning to end consumers.

"Not the only black character in harry potter btw"

Yeah everyone forgets about Hermione

JK pushed a tweet out explaining that she always envisioned Hermione as a black girl.

It was at the beginning of her descent into madness.

I got perma'd a month ago for posting links to .edu domains showing proof that UV light damages your eyes.

Some guy was claiming "the CDC/FDA doesn't know shit because I used to start into the sun to spite the people who told me not to."

I got a redditcares and then a site wide shadowban.

No action on the appeal.

I decided not to make another account and to try quitting the internet, when that failed I decided to go to Lemmy instead of reddit again.

When Lemmy gets shitty like that hopeful I'll be ready to disconnect for good.

Here's a bbc article about how the lawsuit was dismissed

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39982239

It includes a picture of his "invention."

Here's an archive link of a Washington times opinion piece after the 3rd attempt at frivolous suits failed.

https://archive.ph/5wiop

Clockboy was a straight up scam

I just assume tankie's are children who just learned about leftist politics.

They're universally immature, hyper reactive and hopelessly naive.

If someone is an adult but acts like a tankie I just assume mental disability/disorder.

Generally speaking I pity them more than anything because being a tankie must be a miserable and confusing experience.

The bells were measured and found to Be loud enough to damage the cows hearing.

If I recall correctly the bells right at like 100db which is like a concert or a lawnmower.

I think it's kinda cruel to the cows but I also get where it's crazy to show up, tell everyone how to shit and then expect to be invited into the community for it.

I hate feeling pressured into stereotypes just to prove my gayness.

If this whole thing is about living genuinely why should I have to read books that define who I am to me? Why can't I just be me the way I like to be?

I've always felt trapped, like I'm too straight for the gay kids but too gay for the straight kids.

The two main reasons it took me decades to come out were homophobic neighbors and feeling like I wasn't gay enough because I wasn't interested in all the stereotypical gay hobbies/interests.

Side note. I didn't think you were pressuring me or being negative. Your line "read up on queer theory" reminded me of some of the toxic interactions I had so I felt the need to vent.

Harris is deeply unpopular with anyone who isn't a rabid neolib and was solely picked by the neolib establishment (read fucking dinosaurs addicted insider trading) for her willingness to be a corporate stooge.

If she was half as wonderful as the online astroturfing suggested she wouldn't have had an abysmal turnout and wouldn't have lost the election along with every primary along the way.

I knew she was cooked the moment she announced her VP and he got 1,000x the enthusiasm and coverage that she did.

We needed an actual democratic socialist to excite people, not another fucking Israeli funded Republican-lite campaigning on a desperate gamble to gaslight people into thinking she isn't just another dogshit neolib.

People talk about the wild West era of the internet with nostalgia but I think what people actually miss how genuine things used to be.

Monetization is a big part of it but I think there's been a culture push to call anyone being authentic "cringe."

As someone with a 401k I really hope it isn't.

The economy crashing won't hurt billionaires but will kill the middle class.

If anything the economy crashing will allow the 0.1% to buy up anything they haven't gotten already.

A: Wanting to sext a chatbot is pathetic and is absolutely harmful to developing social skills for anyone at any age.

B: It’s going to be lame as hell anyway. Gpt sucks at creative fiction. Ask it to write a short story and it’ll be the most blasé shit imaginable.