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
Yeah, doesn’t look like a punch to me either, but just looking up the IG account that’s tagged on here I kinda wouldn’t be surprised if they did post an image of a woman getting punched given all the other right wing stuff there
Fwiw, I think yoinking a good pun off a bad account on a bad website and posting it to a better website makes the world a better place
Hard to say anything for sure anymore given how we’re all several layers of irony deep at any point, but I think that may in fact be the joke (or part of it anyway)
I would vote for someone who promised to legalize duels again. Having roughly half as many bloated egos to deal with seems way more manageable.
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Yeah she told me
At first I really thought this was some sort of ai generated arcane horny post, but after looking it up - yeah that’s pretty shitty too
Can’t put my finger on it either, but my brain is telling me this is a 2D image, not a photograph of a 3D space. Like I can’t say why for sure, but it looks like there’s nothing “behind” that chyron to me.
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