@radix @gregorum I can just FEEL how super useful that was many many years ago. How utterly brilliant everyone felt when they got it working. How depressed they must feel to know it's still going.

@TheOneWithTheHair good lord what happened to just punishments. Even if this was something to punish (which it isn't) anything more than a detention is kinda extreme? Ya'll taking away scholarships? That's a future by some measures. You're saying it's okay to take away her ability to get a bright future because she was at a party on her own time?

@MelodiousFunk @dantheclamman I didn't learn about chemtrails in high school contrary to all the sarcastic comments i see every time this comes up.'

I used to hear people talking about chemtrails and i'd have to picture what they're saying. Then one day when I was an adult someone online showed a picture of a "chemtrail" and I laughed for a solid 30 seconds straight.

Such an innocuous thing. I googled what caused it and it made perfect sense and I stopped caring even a little about chemtrails.

@TheOneWithTheHair

"They had other people dancing in that video who were on the dance team that nothing happened to. He said she was punished because she is the 'hood ornament' of the school."

Based on the NY Post pictures it was probably awkward teenage white girl twerking too. This whole thing is just a nothing burger and it doesn't even seem like a private school. what the heck?

https://nypost.com/2023/10/06/honor-student-loses-scholarship-after-twerking-video-surfaces/

@mysteriousquote 100%

I grew up in the desert in Cali near an airport. I'm not like a plane expert but I'm certainly just comfortable around them and what they look like in the sky. The idea that the trailing clouds would terrify someone just tickles me pink.

@roastedDeflator I mean it is a funny piece of satire and I support satire. But did they? Reading the article? The only thing I can see is the tick tock has a lot of comments. Is that what it means When we say they fell for it? that tick tock has a lot of comments. I don't see any screenshots of articles where people were writing think pieces about it. Just three tiktok comments? This feels more like an ad for that satire website. And if so it kind of worked, I bookmarked it. I'll check it out.

@cyborganism @wreckedcarzz If you take internet reviews there are only three types of restaurants.

1. Excellent places that deserve their Michelin Stars

2. Excellent places that should have Michelin Stars

3. Diarrhea fuel garbage pits. With food so disgusting you shouldn't even feed it to the stray dog that bit your baby.

On our national deal hunting website you can see all the "It gives you diarrhea comments" every time there's a coupon for McDonalds or franchised Shawarma

@Pietson @TheJims @Decoy321 that wasn't what I heard but I didn't look too too far into it. I read a few of the light articles that discussed the viability of the butt plug cheat device, but aside from that I didn't really go back to the source or anything.

@finalarbiter @return2ozma Hmm for the record the device itself seems fairly inoffensive. it doesn't have any wireless. It doesn't connect to the internet. You have to manually upload it to whatever website they want.

That said. That is a tape recorder. We already HAVE this technology. We don't gain anything in this except a non-unique form factor and the Prego/StoryCorps logo. Potentially it's even worse if you can't just get the raw audio files from the device and can only directly upload.

@wreckedcarzz @cyborganism

this is hilarious fellow millennial, because I just went to Red Lobster today and had a great time.

Of course this was the first time I've been in 20+ years so it's not like I'm a regular.

@JasSmith @FlyingSquid it was a public school. And they cited religious beliefs as for why they were so offended. That's a clear violation of church and state and while it's certainly not new or unique it's not defensible or right.

@Quetzalcutlass @umbrella and it was a stupid but effective tactic that let the republics know he was their guy. would that the dems would be so forward.

@finalarbiter agreed. and just because it's a perfectly "offline" device now doesn't stop them from pointlessly iterating and adding features and subscriptions.

@Duamerthrax @ChickenLadyLovesLife *conceited

@Decoy321 @TheJims It was definitely a real controversy for months a while back. He won and his opponent iirc accused him of having a vib to help him cheat.

General concensus is that it's unlikely. The sheet complexity of communicating movements via vib patterns alone makes it a stretch.

Plus... ya know: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWCDc4I0cSQ

@LifeInMultipleChoice @inclementimmigrant

@Artyom @seaQueue The American political system is in many ways supposed to be self-correcting. There's no real mechanisms. Except that which are enforced. I always used to wonder about this when learning about politics in school. It seemed like anyone could do anything but I just assumed everyone was smarter than me. So what happens is people do things and they expect you to be so embarrassed you bow out. And that's fine for most people except extremely insane people like Trump.

@0ndead @andros_rex it's already failed multiple times already. This is just a nightmare. Those innocent kids are gonna get their lives ruined doing this.

@sholomo @Lightor I think you're wrong but It's an interesting argument. Why is this shooting seen by many as more reasonable than the guy who show the kid knocking on his door. For my money it's the justifiable confusion. A kid knocks on your door and your first response is to shoot doesn't make sense. You had room and barriers to make decisions. In this case the dude was in his face and wouldn't back off. IMO they're incomparably different. But yeah guns are a problem in both cases.

@AskewLord because people blur the lines on AI. No one thinks their car can give them advice.

But people treat AI not just with human-like traits but like it's a real person and because it talks like a real person. It's just a bad look. We need less of this specifically in the AI space.