trolley problem meme, only there's just one track covered with bodies that are being run over by the trolley and the person lacks any sort of control, captioned "You can only watch"

the vibe

People who create stuff have to hustle!

But anyone whose feed gets in a state where they are seeing the same content again and again and gets annoyed should lean into muting keywords or tags for an expiring timer. (Settings/Moderation/Muted Words & Tags.)

An older friend of mine who is showing signs of Alzheimer's has become super obsessed with their AI "friend," to an alarmingly unhealthy point where it seems to be accelerating their paranoia and isolation.
Having just gone through 6 or 7 years of the disease with Pop, this really terrifies me

"But only the monsters known to inhabit levels 33-36, which are the specific levels that I am going to. This lore is important."

My ?favorite? Oh No cosmetic surgery remains the guys who get femur-lengthening done, mostly because I can't not hear KRONCH! whenever I remember it exists. But this is also up there! (How far up depends on the amount of bone cement.)

New Apple CEO Tim Cook: 'I'm Thinking Printers' SAN FRANCISCO—Following the resignation of Apple founder Steve Jobs, incoming CEO Tim Cook called a meeting of shareholders and members of the press Thursday morning to announce that he envisioned pri...

More modern, I more and more frequently think of this one every time some genius thought leader tech CEO especially starts flailing around:

theonion.com/new-apple-ce...

It might not exist in online form, and it kills me I didn't save the paper copy. From its prehistory as just a little local printing in Madison, the headline I start giggling about every time I remember it was:

DAN QUAYLE POOPS ON FLOOR

“We have 20 years of Peppa Pig” sounds silly, but what it means is “if we have a bunch of something already, we don’t need to hire humans to make more of it” and that’s what they’re *all* thinking about right now

Just passing agreement from some internet rando in the amen corner: yep. A lot of people just fundamentally can't quite process deeper than just the intellectual level the concept of empathy disorders, the way other people can simply be just sort of *not real* in the narcissist interior.

Nerd culture is funny because it fooled an entire generation into thinking that if you liked sci-fi and disliked sports, that somehow made you smart.

Solving it requires the efforts of a crack research team.

Ass-essment, as it were.

if i ever need to interview someone about the male loneliness epidemic ill know where to go

The real Golden Path is where there's a high production values cinema experience of entire audiences sitting uncomfortably through a twenty minute sexfight.

this was meant to include captions but I'll allow the lack of care just demonstrated as fitting the modern zeitgeist

side-by-side image of the "Ecce Homo" painting on left, captioned "DLSS 5 off", and the famously botched attempted restoration of damage to it on the right, captioned "DLSS 5 on"

Generative AI has led to entirely new paradigms and unprecedented accelerations in the fields of fucking yourself over in public in the most embarrassing and humiliating way possible

No one has ever bench pressed so much weight, so dominated a weight bench than I have.

To my fellow gym patrons, I welcome, encourage and even demand your participation in lifting this bar off my throat.

Losing money on stolen oil may be an even greater Trump accomplishment than losing money on casinos.

TragedySportz.

Surely we seized some usable munitions from RFK ending the War Against Protein.

It's now obvious that the regime was comically unprepared for the possibility that Iran would fight back. In fairness, they're used to dealing with the Democrats.

I have been Team Triceratops ever since some random dinosaur book when I was six featured what I remember as a remarkably gory illustration of one goring the hell out of a t-rex in a You've Made Very Bad Dinosaur Life Choices fight not going Rex's way. (Probably also early sign of liking horror.)

I recently enjoyed a several-months long personal passive-aggressive campaign of reporting-as-suspicious some internal weekly 'teams across the organization!' type newsletter because it couldn't have looked more like phishing if they'd tried. Fake urgency, hilariously mungled link shorteners, etc.

Which only gets more Waving Vaguely At All This(tm) while making pained weary sighs with each passing year.

I also love what's basically a companion essay piece to it, about how bad faith habits essentially strips the cognitive gears. "Constantly arguing in bad faith leads to thinking in bad faith and to living in bad faith, until bad faith is all you’ve got left"

www.patheos.com/blogs/slackt...

Screenshot of a tweet with a photo by Nathan Fielder. The photo shows him alone and laughing. The text of the tweet reads "Out on the town having the time of m y life with a bunch of friends. They're all just out of frame, laughing too."

Saying that at the time got me a lot of nerdhate on the nerd places I hung out on at the time. A preview of the devolution of further seasons was whatever episode was about Old West Brothel Planet.

can't even really blame the guy for landing on the big idea being strapping rocket engines to a city and then smashing the city back into the ground. Mind Stone aside, his model's training weights were all sorts of fucked up since Stark was in charge of them