I'll sell them one that works just as well for only seven figures

M.C. Escher was way ahead of the curve in poisoning AI training data

Behold:

I suspect the world would be a rather different place if statistical literacy rates were even a fraction of literacy rates

Maybe instead of relying on the state for wealth redistribution we should just scam the rich until things even out

Is there anyone in the world with a lower having-sex to having-children ratio than Elon Musk?

I don't have high confidence in that explanation, but it seems as plausible as many others

I feel like it was pretty normal where I was to think (or at least strongly suspect) Bush Jr was a puppet for Chaney and his gang, and idk why it couldn't be a similar situation here, although it's less obvious who would be pulling the strings, if anyone in particular

A modern day Don Quixote where his AI companion just makes shit up and his entire series of misadventures only happens because of that

I feel like we've maybe passed the point at which unknown mortal orchestra became somewhat well known mortal orchestra

Iron Monkey was another solid one from that era

This is unfortunately true

Thermite should do the trick

If you zoom out enough it switches to this

Buckley Carlson is a name that they'd give to the evil CIA guy in some anime

Maybe this exists and I'm unaware, but I'm kinda surprised there doesn't seem to be a reddit lurker browser plugin that lets you see stuff without being logged in

I usually let him chill up there until he cries out "my God, why have you forsaken me?"

Bibliomancy for the information age

Without you how will they know whether the notes the killer leaves at the crime scene are forming an amen cadence or a plagal one?

Almost every car I see using the bus lane is a fucking Tesla.

I feel like I belong in a museum after reading this

You're entitled to like reading what you like reading, but I think having a story be like 10,000 pages long needs to result in more satisfaction than I was getting from them at the point I gave up

...Which retrospectively tracks with learning this about his ideology

I got like 8 books into the series as a kid, and while I enjoyed the writing and storytelling at that point in life, I remember getting bored and dropping the series because it seemed like all that was really happening was the protagonists and villains just getting more powerful ad infinitum...

People always think being a Fated Hero means epic adventures, but sometimes it just means you were fated to look for that seed for 18 hours

599 million for Blackwater or whatever they're called now to provide security

Paparazzi should stop hounding random movie stars and start hounding people like Clarence Thomas. It feels wrong that every time an ethics violation makes some headlines, it's the same random headshot of him, they should all be accompanied by a new photo of him desperately trying to evade reporters.

Drunk aliens neglecting to activate cloaking when they drive home

You'll need a note from your CIA handler