Reading a well-written takedown of a person I have long despised is such a wonderful feeling
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Pain at the pump implies the possibility of pleasure at the pump.

fukcing up ai trainnig one psot at a tmie

ah, well. that explains all that raucous, terrifying qa lead laughter i heard in the distance last week

Holy shit.

And when they was no meat we ate fowl, and when they was no fowl we ate crawdad, and when they was no crawdad to be found, we ate sand.

(Did you know that Holly Hunter is actually from Yonkers, and learned to take a Southern accent to make herself stand out?)

Hey Booker real quick buddy can you look straight into the camera and say what the people you’re talking about didn’t agree with her on? Just like, for reference? What was that 10 percent that people couldn’t get past?

Like... I'm sorry, but to win future elections, you need a good chunk of the people who sat out in 2016 or 2024 to vote for you, and I just don't think that sneering at them and saying it's their fault that things are the way they are right now is going to win them over, even if you truly believe it

Netflix made $12 billion dollars and their ad revenue doubled but they’re raising their prices because the Iran conflict is cutting off the gas they need to run the Movie Engine.

I mean, a car can also beat a human in a 21-kilometer race. A machine moving faster than a person is not an accomplishment.

(Alt text for the video in the quoted post: a little robot runs like a dork with its dorky little arms and legs chugging.)

Okay make that five for The Pitt season 1 and one for 2. Going two for 2 because I’ve got some thoughts I want to crystallize. Spoiler warning.

Dr Pepper wouldn't "kill the average Victorian child" for the simple reason that most Victorian children are already dead

After building the best public education system in the world brought us the Counterculture and the Anti-War Movement, conservatives in the US began a 50+ year assault to destroy public education.

Progress bars are the "You are number (5) in the queue" of the digital world.

Spinners and throbbers are the "Your call is very important to us. Did you know you can check out our website?"

it’s a great day for transphobes to eat shit

Doctor Baran Al-Hashimi written in the style of the TMNT logo

except for ague, bilious teeth, planets, poxy, whimsey-tittles, zephyrous tendons, the liquor shakes, phossy jaw, horse kick, stomach, stuck in chimney, various local rippers, orphanage plague, crushed in thresher, sold to medicine, crushed by horse, horse ague, horse poxy, phossy horse, and scurvy

Sometimes the only thing standing in the way of your goals… is you.

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Some free advice for Apple:
You can create an enormous media frenzy and a lot of user goodwill while saving a ton of money by announcing that you’ve concluded that large data model software is not useful or reliable, and that you’re halting all related development and removing it from your OS’s.

“I wish someone would swaddle me” is one of the rawest things I’ve ever heard.

This show is not subtle in its opinion on ICE. One of the guys is seven feet tall, looks like Frankenstein’s Monster in a facemask. It’s strongly implied they caused their captive’s rotator cuff injury. They sow terror by their very presence. Their arrival is a calamity.

Al-Hashimi asks Mrs. Azurmendi if she’s ever thought about hurting herself and Robby looks *very* pensive.

Robby berating Mohan during her panic attack is borderline unforgivable. His empathy is failing.

Circling back to a couple things I missed:

McKay tells Langdon she’s 9 years sober and he looks shocked. A simple thing to say but now he knows it’s possible.

Louie and Digby were friends. Not much to add, it’s just a sad and sweet moment.

man, watching the pitt as a person from a country with nationalized healthcare is such a nightmare

everyone constantly vying for doordash-ass ratings from patients, that woman in the pink suit demanding better results, literal floors of the hospital sitting unused/abandoned during overcrowding wtf

Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?

it makes sense that there would be *two* milk stations, but they should be closer to the place where fudge is made than the lemonade stand around the corner, i think

Look, not everybody needs to be a strawberry, okay? There's room for cranberries in this world too. You can be weird and sour and only tolerated by a handful of people around the holidays. I know you can. You can be fun if mixed with enough vodka. I believe in you. You can live in a bog