4-panel SMBC comic update. A man and his young son are standing on a hill at night beneath the stars. The son asks what's the key to a happy life, to which the father responds "achieving your dreams." He explains "so, while you're still young, still ahead of all your crossroads... Pick out some shitty *shitty* dreams." The son answers "I'm gonna be the member of the friend group who speaks only in trivia and movie quotations, and then cries at night but doesn't understand why." This brings tears to the father's eyes, who says "attaboy!"

I'm pretty sure this is how Stoicism works, just more douchey.

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Ideal relationship dynamic

Hegseth Borrows Violent Prayer from ‘Pulp Fiction’ to Bless Iran War at April Pentagon Worship Service For the second month in a row, Pete Hegseth, who likes to call himself “secretary of war,” read a violent prayer — that echoes a scene in the Quentin Tarantino film Pulp Fiction — during a worship ser...

what’s funny about this is that tarantino wrote this “ezekiel 25:17“ for the film. it isn‘t actually in the bible. publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/hegseth-bo...

The other day I scrolled past someone complaining about backblaze no longer automatically backing up local cloud storage folders (e.g. Dropbox etc) and .git folders.

Had to chuckle because these are the things I had to make sure to exclude from my backblaze backups years ago when I set it up.

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto theonion.com/man-who-threw-molotov-co...

a lot of people whose work I like is substack, and they'll never get a dime from me until they move somewhere else.

holding a post-it that says "doordash grandma" over the "stages of capitalism" chart and constantly looking back at the audience for approval like a contestant on the price is right

Fokus auf heimischem Gas auf sehr vielen Ebenen unangenehm einfach

Zitat: "Im Beschluss heißt es zudem, das Energieangebot müsse langfristig ausgeweitet und die Abhängigkeiten im Energiebereich reduziert werden. Dazu gehöre »auch die Nutzung heimischer Energiequellen, zum Beispiel die Erschließung ausgewählter heimischer Gasvorkommen«"

In Bruges scene where Colin Farrell is pointing a gun at his head and Brendon Gleeson is also pointing a gun at Colin Farrell's head

Current status of the Strait of Hormuz dispute

Right now the #Artemis II capsule is engulfed in hot plasma as it plunges through the atmosphere and will be out of communication for another 3 minutes. Holding my breath.

Season 21, Episode 1 - 'Cube is good.' | Full Episode YouTube video by Taskmaster

Look it’s me in my favorite show. And again I must stress: I am NOT doing this show because of Jason. I was a fan before him.

Thrilled to be on my favorite show with people I genuinely love. Alex is there as well.

youtu.be/oRfHA2d3DhM?...

NYT: US Fertility Rates Drop to Another Record Low The fertility rate has been falling since 2007, in large part because of a plunge among teenagers

There are some clues in the age breakdown: The fertility rate for teenagers dropped by 7 percent from 2024’s figure, setting another record low for the group. Since 2007, the rate for teenagers is down by 72 percent, and since 1991, when teenage fertility rates were at a high, the rate is down by 81 percent.

Why I don't trust anyone a little too obsessed about falling fertility rates

I agree that it’s silly to claim that LLMs Can’t Do Anything (obviously they can do many things). I also think it’s silly to claim LLMs Can Do Everything (obviously they can’t).

regardless of how one feels about that, this is a very scary time to need a job and people are reacting accordingly

increasingly believing much of the communication gap between LLM Enthusiasts and LLM Skeptics on this website boils down to “are you someone who has largely experienced a *reasonable* amount of job security in tech, or are you someone who has not experienced job security and likely aren’t in tech”

That’s one hell of a cover…..

Sorry no insulin for Grandma, we are busy giving Ayatollah Ali Khamenei‘s more extremist son control of the Strait of Hormuz

“…a rudderless ship heading for a major disaster.”

A few years ago I made a joke about the US having the world's biggest political shitshow, and a bunch of people from Eastern Europe and South America mocked me. Who's laughing now? 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Bürgermeisterwahl von Paris : Paris wählt den Mann der leisen Straßen Emmanuel Grégoire ist mit einer radikalen Anti-Auto-Politik Bürgermeister von Paris geworden. Warum gelingt ihm, woran andere Metropolen scheitern?

Der neu gewählte Bürgermeister von Paris, Grégoire, will tausend neue Straßen zu autofreien Zonen erklären und zehn große Boulevards in Parks für Radfahrer und Fußgänger umwandeln. Derweil kämpfen Politiker hierzulande für Verbrennerautos und gegen ein Tempolimit
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There is no ethical consumption of HBO's Harry Potter series J.K. Rowling has made it abundantly clear that she will continue using her fortune to harm trangender people. by + Charles Pulliam-Moore

nick124536 $ SUBSCRIBER 8 minutes ago This is classified as a report?? This is an op ed. By all means publish opinions but presenting this diatribe as a list of accepted "facts" undermines journalistic integrity. 13 Rec 2 + Reply * Share • Report Nilay Patel THE VERGE 1 minute ago ~ In reply to nick124536 Reports are a spectrum

I mean it was right there www.theverge.com/report/90181...

This is, quite literally speaking, a white supremacist, anti-feminist patriarchal project. If women must look and behave a particular way to be granted the status of womanhood, compliance with those standards is required to participate in society.

Liberal responses to this, while well meaning, often make me sick.

“Well just piss on the floor then!” “This is a distraction.” “What will their reaction be when a passing woman enters a mens bathroom, that will sure show them.”

Like none of this makes it better. It’s not funny, it’s not a gotcha.

Introducing ggauto: automating better charts – Nicola Rennie The ggauto package is an opinionated ggplot2 extension package that aims to help people make better charts by default. This blog post explains why it exists and how it works.

🎉 ggauto is now on CRAN 🎉

An #RStats package that selects better chart types, and provides more accessible styling for #ggplot2 plots 📊

Blog post explaining why I made it and how it works: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/introdu...

#DataViz

Seeing "trans kids given deadline to segregate themselves" and "trans women banned from yet another part of society" headlines *every single day* while everyone you know and every organization stays breathtakingly silent takes such a damn toll on your heart.

was mir in letzter zeit auf dieser plattform und auch auf vielen anderen auffällt. menschen posten screenshots von headlines, videos, oder bildern im netz, um sie zu thematisieren, aber ohne link zur originalquelle.

das ist eine von algorithmen antrainierte soziale unart, die bekämpft gehört.

Fassungslos. Was für ein Albtraum.

Es ist so viel schlimmer als die Überschritten suggerieren.

Radical extremist cleric issues angry new fatwa -->

#Positron and #VScode #rstats folks who have muscle memory of creating reprexes from highlighted code in RStudio: I made an extension to do basically the same thing, with HTML preview and all: open-vsx.org/extension/je...