“But first, Rainy Day Women # 12 & 35”

There will be a brief moment of satisfaction when these types all lose their jobs to drones before things get even more dystopian

" im not boomer humor! im not boomer humor!!" the barber insist as he slowly shrink and transform into a minion

Sorry you’re dealing with that, this might be helpful - https://www.montanawildfiresmoke.org/diy-fan-filter (arc)

I mean, at least you made me laugh my ass off just now at the absurd bleakness of seeing this comment in this context

I hope you have more days than you think, but either way there are certainly worse legacies to have

Why I otter…

For whatever it’s worth, whenever I am finally able to understand thoughts that come from a way different context than my own it is super satisfying. It’s like finding a hidden world that was underneath my feet all along.

“I have one main point I want to convey with five points of supporting evidence but actually each of those require arguing and some qualifications and point 4 is an essential part of the argument for point 1 and all of this reminds me of a funny conversation in a tv show that to me does a better job of explaining it but if you haven’t seen it what’s really important about that show is that it came out at the height of the War on Terror and -”

You probably stopped listening around the word “supporting” and I don’t blame you for that

Not surprising when I think about all the different ways the extremely wealthy have corrupted all of our democratic and regulatory institutions, but it’s pretty ironic that only privately held companies can respond to public feedback in a healthy way these days

My hypothesis is that the rise in distracted driving was just as bad in European countries but they have safer infrastructure that limits cars’ speed and otherwise protects pedestrians, and I think that could be tested by looking at the rates of car crashes overall in Europe (if those went up at the same time as the US without a corresponding rise in dead pedestrians I think that’d suggest their infrastructure is the difference)

This doesn’t read like AI to me, it actually does connect its thoughts together and builds an argument narrative

That said, it is really awful human writing that has some cringey phrasing choices and the kind of grammar/sentence structuring I’d expect from a text to speech derived unedited stream of consciousness, I’m just not getting AI vibes off of it

Yeah, hearing the NYT decry hijacking of the public square is like hearing a Republican complain that Trump’s foreign policy is destabilizing the world

we can be bees

This is the most self defeating use of power I have seen since the last news story about US foreign policy I read

That tracks

Time goes more quickly when you’re older

All good and totally relatable tbh

Lol, I sincerely love what it says about this website that we get wholesome and intelligent comments "Well, actually…"ing like every submission to the shitpost community. Like, we just never turn it off.

But also, yeah, the original message is super judgmental victim blamey stuff, but that just makes the “your parents’ divorce” photoshop on it perfect satire

A kid in my elementary school got yelled at because her stomach gurgled too loudly for the teacher and it wasn’t til years later that I was like “She lived in a trailer park, she probably didn’t have food at home” and realized how fucked up that was (to be totally fair, the teacher was kinda joking and had a reputation as the asshole teacher he really leaned into, so he yelled at kids for stupid shit all the time, but still)

Wouldn’t have happened if he was on Pixelfed instead