Chores are important. They teach kids how to work just hard enough to get the people in charge off your back

After 11 years of renting I was given 30 days to vacate. Yesterday I was notified that the new owners would like to (presumably unrelatedly) "inspect the property" on day 28...

...This is extremely sus, right?

Back when Aotearoa New Zealand was voting via referendum on whether or not to ditch First Past the Post for Mixed Member Proportional for our voting system, the cartoonist Murray Ball put out the below comic.

I see those telling New Yorkers not to vote for Zohran Mamdani and think on this comic.

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD ***************** Investigation of: LOSS OF THE SUBMARINE TITAN IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN ON JUNE 18, 2023 * * * * * * Accident No.: *********** * * * * * * Interview of: Co-designer/Pilot Deepsea Challenger DCA23FM036 via Microsoft Teams Friday, July 26, 2024

INTERVIEW OF 10 BY LCDR 11 Q. So how did you get yourself started into submersible 12 operations? 13 A. Well, I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic. When I 14 set down the path to make that film, the first thing that I did 15 was arrange to be introduced to the head of the submersible 16 program at the P.P. Shirshov Institute in Moscow, a guy named 17| Professor I. I did that through a mutual friend 18 of ours, a guy named , who is one of the preeminent underwater cinematographers in the world. And had been on a 20 submersible expedition out to Titanic the previous year with the 21 Russians. And that was organized by a Canadian company that was 22 doing an IMAX film which was released under the title Titanica.

Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."

WTAF are the knights doing with the #nrlw team??
How does the club that committed SO HARD to winning in 2022 fail this badly at key player retention so quickly?

To ‘ultra-crepidate’ (19th century) is to lecture others on subjects you know very little about.

hey it worked for me too

#RepositoryOfKnowledge

When you save a document to the cloud, it's actually looked after by a Samoyed.

The time it takes to download is really for figuring out which Samoyed has your file.

Wow we should base our entire economy on this technology

Posted @withregram • @mollyburkeofficial More of this, please! 🙏🏻

Discworld QOTD, from Night Watch

“Once you get troops on the streets, it’s only a matter of time before it goes bad. Some kid throws a stone, next minute there’s houses on fire and people getting killed.”

I realise I'm an old person, and also wasn't paying attention, but looking at the list now I need to ask:
Have/did The Veronicas become some sort of retro-tiktok famous?
I clearly missed something on that one.

UK users when the website asks them where they're posting from today.

It honestly does rule how much we revere a guy who died jerking off

Insight into the oblivious way my mind works:
"Wow. One of my neighbours is apparently a HUGE INXS fan. Weird to be playing loudly at this specific time of night. It IS a pretty popular song on chart lists.. I think there's a triple J voting thing going on.. I wonder when that.....oh."

Huge fan of this French guy who absolutely cannot speak English and can only sort of sing but still covers songs in English

I genuinely don't understand why Jesse Southwell hasn't been GIFTED red and blue headgear by now..

I have many grumpy thoughts about the NRL game that just finished.

It was a bold choice from NSW to decide to go into this game without a 7...

I’m petrified about today’s science news. Genetically modifying crabs to have cheetah genes? This could go sideways fast.

Unremarkable Prediction: Ricky will still have a whinge regardless of how much they win this by.

Screenshot of TCM wine club webpage for Yarrunga white wine showing movie pairing for Donovan's Reef(1963)

Screenshot of TCM wine club webpage for Domaine de Longuet Viognier wine showing movie pairing for "It Happened on 5th Avenue" (1947)

I just watched this on Nebula and I'm not sure if this is possibly a regional specific thing or a broken website issue for them but I found it super weird.
When I check from Australia I get a different layout but still seem to see movie pairings for a bunch of these:

Stories of AI DOOM are, one and all, fake

They are nothing silly attempts to hype the technology and, more importantly, the AI investment bubble

The latest example is, yet again, the result of the "researchers" explicitly prompting the LLM to produce the "scary" output

"At the request of the indigenous creators, all recording and photography is forbidden during this show.."
Asshole down the row from me has literally just turned on his GoPro...

Congratulations to the Panthers, apparently, for their gutsy 6-1 victory over the knights in...some alternate version of how sport works...?

Fukken step your game up, cunts, this is dogshit.

AI Overview If a red dot just appeared on your forehead and you suspect it's from a gunscope, it's important to address this immediately. Here's what you need to do: 1. Seek Medical Attention: Contact a medical professional or emergency services as soon as possible. This is particularly important if you have any other symptoms like pain, swelling, bruising, or vision changes. 2. Describe the Incident: When you speak to medical personnel, clearly explain that you believe the red dot on your forehead may be the result of a gunscope. Provide details about what happened (e.g., how close you were to the gun, if you saw the scope, when you first noticed the red dot).

*sidling up to a lady at the bar* hello would you like to join my polycule? we sleep in a Fisher-Price xylophone.

Canada goose fighting with its reflection in a tall mirror next to some trash bins

Someone put a mirror out with the trash near Grange Park, and this one Canada goose is VERY MAD at this FUCKING GUY who will not STEP OFF