shlock brain hurt

not his name.

shamrock going proper mental innit

not even his name.

we kill the bat man

they probably pay $32 for garbage from taylor swift every year-- each time she releases an album!

Anyway it's been 1 day since someone defended a serial killer in my mentions.

Like, I know there's a million other reasons to hate Americans, but the regularity with which they'll hop into a conversation about a guy famous for mailing bombs to people and talk about how he 'had some good points' is one of the most damning indictments of this fucked up country i can think of

Every point Theodore Kaczynski made about the alienation and control over the poor that "technology" has brought has been made, with greater clarity of thought and purpose, by the same leftists he repeatedly disparaged, and they did it without killing people, and without advocating for the death of more than 90% of the population on planet Earth.

"Technology," in the sense that Kaczynski speaks of it, does not exist. It does not have an ideology per se. A hammer can be used to build a house or to bash a skull in, but neither of these things are inherent to it. The social organization around technology is far more important than the objects of technology.

But, of course, a 35,000 word essay by a serial killer is less threatening to the American psyche than The Communist Manifesto, even though the latter is both more salient and coherent. So here we are.

americans after eating 2 pounds of pasta and getting sick: uh oh im about to enter a serious food coma lol

americans after eating 2 pounds of ginger beef and fried rice and getting sick: the devious CCP has agents everywhere

i hate how pervasive the r-word has become again

its like the 2000s to early 2010s again where talking to anyone theres a good chance they'll casually say a slur without any thought

and whats even more annoying now is people who'll try to weasel out of being called out on it

'oh its fine because i'm legally mentally disabled so i can say it' NOT HOW RECLAMATION WORKS

AND SAME WITH DEGENERATE

STOP TALKING LIKE A FUCKING NAZI

why was messi lowkey serving saddam hussein hiding spot

not to be a buzzkill but i kinda hate when i see a video of teenagers goofing off or construction workers having fun and people in the replies are like "now THIS is what 'boys will be boys' should mean!" goofing off isn't a boys exclusive activity......... why did you immediately tie it to their boy-ness....... what's going on there huh............

think about this every time i watch videos about youtuber drama

Its crazy that the United States military was teaching Special Forces guys how to build their own bombs from scratch during the Vietnam War and now you can just download the entire thing on Wikipedia because of a FOIA request

Way more legit than Ragnar Benson.

“To Make a Long Story Short”

Stephen Andrade’s wonderful pulp-style tribute to Clue (1985)

Prints and original artwork available at nineteeneightyeight.com or through @galleries1988 on Instagram :)

I make love to men daily, but in the imagination

“fujoshis are harmful to gay men” not this gay man.

on twitter this got a bunch of responses like “wow even the evil fujoshis? the homophobic yet hypocritically fetishistic ones? what if the fujoshi is racist?” and like well no obviously not in that case.

“shoutout to everybody from new jersey!” “even the new jersey serial killers…?”

like it just doesnt make any economic sense. replacing human labor with ai only makes sense if the output is as good or better and cheap as free. but just the fact that you have to build the massive data centers at all-- especially that gpus go bad in just a few years, but even if they didn't, the facility itself is going to be a big expense-- means it cant be cheap as free. they were banking on an uber type situation where they could crank up the prices once people switched to their business model, but the trade is literally "this will be cheaper than using human labor" so if it's not cheaper than human labor then people will just hire people again. and it's not even as good or reliable as a person. so while ai is "here to stay" in the sense that the technology exists and will find its niches, probably people are going to be sexting with them forever just maybe on local models, the current business model cannot survive and never possibly could.

it's all desperation. i do really believe ed zitron's rot economy idea, that the tech sector has been searching for a new internet or iphone or whatever that blows up and changes the world and they get to keep the profits so they'll uplift any garbage (hence nfts and the metaverse) to try and astroturf that. and relatedly, i think nvidia and the cloud compute companies and the ai companies are just passing the same dollar back and forth to create big numbers that paper over how bad the economy really is. it's all an attempt to keep the infinite growth hack going.

like i actually think all of the problems with ai are problems that already existed that are just getting a huge spotlight on them because of the massive reckless expansion and apocalyptic marketing. like people are cheating on essay assignments? no shit, they used to use fiver and other cheating services. higher ups are devaluing and trying to get rid of creatives? yeah, we've been talking about how vfx artists need to unionize for over a decade, especially people working on marvel movies. people with mental health problems are turning to the internet instead of getting support or medical assistance and end up hurting themselves as a result? yup, especially when it comes to like eating disorders, there are some really awful places that will validate you into the grave. data centers use a lot of energy and water? yeah, they also did that before they were used for ai, they do that for youtube and twitch, and tech in general is a massive source of pollution. politicians arent listening to their constituents' needs and demands, instead handing money and special privileges to corporations that wont keep up their end of the bargain? yeah, i remember the public transit proposals cancelled to hand money instead to elon and his terrible tunnels. like it all already existed, they're just doing it so much so quickly that people can actually see it in front of them