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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Skeletons with huge artificial breasts. Graveyards are full of them. Bones and silicone don't rot.English
9·7 days agoHeady times for the patient necrophile.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies insteadEnglish
16·19 days agoAI, along with crypto, is getting to the point where even oil executives are like “dudes, the planet…”
58008@lemmy.worldto
Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•If it were possible to travel back in time and manipulate events, we could take a book back in time and publish it before the author historically does... as a prank...English
9·1 month agoI’d be all up in them Dead Sea Scrolls adding a preface page with a boilerplate “this is a work of fiction, any similarities to persons living or dead or undead are purely coincidental” disclaimer.
58008@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me"English
6·1 month agoDr. Frankenstein ass reply.
58008@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Passkeys Explained: The End of PasswordsEnglish
122·1 month agoNope.
58008@lemmy.worldto
Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•If God was real (just go with it), then how he's portrayed in the Bible might not even be how he actually is.English
61·2 months agoYeah it’s hard to imagine a more petty and pathetic incel of a god than the one described in the Bible. Genocides entire populations because they don’t love him enough. Nevermind the quintillions of planets and star systems and galaxies other than the rock we live on, it’s the most recent bipedal primate on Earth that he needs affection from, on pain of eternal torment in a place he had to have created himself for that purpose. Even sent his own kid to get tacked to a board so we could be forgiven for not being deferential enough to him, even though he could have just said “meh you’re forgiven”. Or, you know, grew the fuck up and got over himself. Who was he saving us from with his infanticidal sacrifice? HIM! The daft bitch was in debt to himself and had to off his kid in a brutal and humiliating fashion to wipe the slate clean.
And on top of that, he won’t just appear and confirm his existence, which would make everyone fall in line instantly. Instead, we have to infer his existence and base our entire lives on that inference, and the only manual we have to do so was written by dick-mutilating Bronze Age numbnuts who didn’t know shit about fuck.
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Fediverse@lemmy.world•Beware, another "wonderful" conservative instance to "free us" has appeared English
511·3 months agoWhy would they not just stay on Twitter, Truth Social, reddit or Facebook? Those places are tailor-made for MAGA 🤔
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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•What is the origin of the whole "X destroys and humilates Y" genre of debate videos?English
8·3 months agoNot sure who came up with it first or why humans are wired this way, but the magic combination of anger, outrage, and the vicarious bullying satisfaction of seeing someone dunked on and made to look stupid/humiliated, is all grist for the mill that is the attention economy. The longer you watch, the better it is for the YouTubes and Twitters of the world. And nothing glues people to their screens quite like their own masochism. It’s like when you have a sore tooth and can’t help but prod it with your tongue. Makes no sense, but it’s what we do. The fact that this stuff is so effective is why the algorithms force it down our throats and why cunts like Ben Shapiro have made careers off of it. Society is being torn apart at the seams by this shit. That pent-up hateful energy gets co-opted by state actors and bot farms, and then we get Brexit and two terms of Donald fucking Trump.
I’ve been making a conscious effort to avoid any videos that have titles like that (and by extension, the creators of those videos), and my life and mental health has improved immeasurably as a result. I have literally no idea how to convince anyone else to do the same. It would probably be easier to get people to exercise and eat healthily (something I don’t fucking do either). People get as much of this content as they can consume for free and at any time and any place, thanks to the inherent portability of cellphones. If you’re into this shit, there is no time of day or room in your house where you won’t have it calling to you like a pocket version of the wee devil that sits on a cartoon character’s shoulder whispering evil commands into its ear. And in this scenario, there is no angel on the other shoulder, because that would cause people to maybe spend a bit less time on these platforms, which is no bueno to Silicon Valley sociopaths.
Debates are almost entirely pointless. Very few people in the audience are actually open to being swayed. It’s just verbal UFC, and the winner isn’t the one with the best ideas, but the one with the best tongue jiu-jitsu.
As for Plato et al., I think having something to fill one’s attention in those days was probably a good way to stop people from fucking their livestock. So debates were necessary to prevent sheepman monstrosities from polluting the gene pool with their woolly nutsacks.
math hurts
58008@lemmy.worldto
Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•It's weird that we "take a shit". I don't know what other people are doing, but i definitely leave a shit, not take itEnglish
4·4 months agoI gift a riverboat to the otter people in exchange for splashy kisses on my cheeks.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Tesla sales plunge 40% in Europe as Chinese EV rival BYD's tripleEnglish
191·4 months agoAny non-cunts in the EV manufacturing space? Or is that a prerequisite?
The nihilist school shooters of the world are way more litigious than I thought possible.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains batteryEnglish
1513·4 months agoLiterally no one on this green earth asked for this shit. In fact, we’ve been pretty direct about how much we don’t want it.
It’s exhausting.
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Technology@lemmy.world•How Wikipedia is fighting AI slop contentEnglish
8·4 months agoWould be funny if the Wikimedia Foundation developed an AI that is trained on all the major AI models, and uses that to detect AI slop.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UKEnglish
511·5 months agoA VPN is a must if you wanna go down this route
Soulseek (and I recommend the Nicotine+ client over the official one) is a fantastic source for all music in all formats, and particularly obscure off-label shit you won’t get anywhere else. You’ll even have some success finding audiobooks there, although this is very hit-and-miss. I wish audiobook pirates would use it more heavily. It’s P2P, like Napster used to be. You’ll have to share something or you’ll get auto-ignored by most users.
RuTracker is a great non-private/non-ratio-monitoring torrent site for music (does require a free account though). I’ve never had a single torrent from there that wasn’t seemingly seeded by a Godzilla’s dick. Obviously it’s in Russian, but there’s really no difficulty navigating around. The only thing you might struggle with is signing up for an account, but just have your favourite translation tool open in another tab 👍
If you don’t mind slow download speeds (from the likes of RapidGator), I enjoy Exystence. It’s a blog that shares link to the latest albums and offers both lossy and lossless versions. Nice RSS subscription to have.
If you do find yourself using RapidGator a lot, don’t waste money buying a sub directly from them, it’s insanely pricey. Instead, get a reseller like Real Debrid, which costs like 10% as much and also covers you for about two-dozen other file hosters. I highly recommend putting as much distance between your credit card and the company as possible, just for safety reasons. Using PaySafeCard is fine, as Real Debrid will never see your details in that case. I don’t have any specific reason to be weary of them, I just don’t trust random/small/hitherto unheard of companies as a rule.
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Technology@lemmy.world•GOG.com gives away free horny games to protest credit card company censorshipEnglish
12·5 months agoRedCandleGames watching this situation like:

58008@lemmy.worldto
Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•"A guitarist who's also an astronaut" sounds more impressive than "An astronaut who plays the guitar", despite both meaning the same thing.English
17·5 months ago-
The president of the United States is a rapist
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A rapist is president of the United States
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58008@lemmy.worldto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•What do you call the first person with a new genetic mutationEnglish
2·5 months agoPatient 1

Is there like a petition or something we can all sign to show that literally no cunt wants this?