when the bodybuilding people started naming body types like fuckin pokemon shit (“ectomorph”, etc) I knew we were well and truly fucked
you can’t name a vegetable a “ramp.” that’s wrong. you’re not allowed to do that
although I played extremely well - possibly the best I have ever played - I learned a valuable lesson in tennis, which is don’t play in 95F weather with four pizza cheese rolls in your stomach
I based on a dude in Vigilance on Peter Thiel and I don’t think it was far off because some people are uhhh impossible to satirize
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this feels like it’s a much shorter answer though: “someone googled it and nobody, not nobody no how, checked it”
fuuuuuck he dead now friend
Senator Alsobrooks: You’ve been unable to address specific questions about your agency. Can you name which office the Safe to Sleep program operates out of?
RFK Jr.: Guesses wrong 5 times
Alsobrooks: It is the Eunice Kennedy Shriver NICHD.
Pretty tired of the political donation texts but I did appreciate the one that started with “Robert - I’ve forgotten where my ass is. This means I can’t eat my own ass anymore. Please help me”
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lack of alf hog
I immediately sent this to my dad
imagining "kill the boer" but set to the wagnerian "kill the wabbit" from looney tunes
always good when you reread your draft and find yourself laughing at some of your lines. I forgot that a few of these are pretty good.
I am on this so I agree that it’s good, very good
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these all feel like they were written by Philippe from Achewood
See if you and your friends can solve my riddle!
fucking insane that genevieve o'reilly was cast as mon mothma 20 years ago for some scenes that more or less got cut in revenge of the sith
apple has a lot of money and the app store is a rigged game, so they've never had to compete, not once, so the lame failed shit they've tossed out has been:
1. self driving car
2. VR/AR
3. all their AI shit
4. now a crappy neuralink for a phone
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yeah, that's the one thing. and yes, 100%.
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here's the main thing, on the neuralink issue
something i DON'T need right now, in a BIG way, is my fucking phone taking up more of my brainspace
I should be clearer: they have not had to compete in about 15 years.
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kind of! they spend millions on shows, then never promote them
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correct, friends there report it's a huge ongoing controversy
imagine eating ass before, like, 1990.
now imagine all these sexy medieval romances. no thanks, friends. life is aromatic enough
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saw the bit where Dickens wrote about a megalosaurus and did wonder if teens would have much comprehension about the state of paleontology in the victorian era
PG Wodehouse stuff is 100 years old and reads shockingly fluidly - though it takes some awareness to know when he is referencing late 1910s jazz, pop culture, movies, dress, etc, which is not infrequent.
have been in publishing long enough now that I see author pics from folks I met long ago, say "damn, they got old," and then look in a mirror and mutter, "oh, right"
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my gut says that the environmental issues are a very familiar objection that's worked before for other issues, and they allow us to entirely circumvent discussing the utility of the thing, which is both nuanced and catastrophic
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mine is Casimir Pulaski Day. that's one of those ones that feels so intensely proximal to lots of young people's first experience of true death.
our nation is just the internet, with all its sins and madnesses and gaudiness
As a member of the generation raised screaming “REPRESENTATIVE” into our phones, there’s nothing we like more than listening to robots
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yeah, he's really great. sounds perfectly like Din in my head.
who can forget the common sailor's rhyme,
"friend, if ye movie have steven root
then ye movie surely to be a hoot"
continue to recall that running water, heating, and electricity were hailed because they replaced awful, *physical* labor: they gave you invisible little servants to do all the backbreaking waterhauling for you.
these are the automations we want. we're getting exactly none of them, it seems
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question is if they’ll charge the same price. like, it’s already pretty cheap
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It’s not my favorite, no, specifically because I can’t stand the slight weirdnesses in some narrators. A robot one would drive me insane
my guess is they’ve dug up some ream of old texts that they think has decent audiobook potential but they have yet to apply a voice actor applied to it - like hours of slop for the indiscriminate listener
but that would be like listening to static
it is interesting to watch Minority Report, which imagines all kinds of fascinating technologies, but not internet phones.
part of the reason is that internet phones break stories. but more, they just really aren’t a very interesting technology
“this magic machine makes text, images, and sound appear, from anywhere” is just not a very great sci-fi pitch. and yet, it’s a cultural revolution, but mostly in bad ways
electricity was a productivity revolution, in that everything it was applied to became dramatically more productive.
phones and the internet are the inverse: everything it’s applied to, it mostly kind of stagnates, gets worse.
biggest industry change now? sports gambling.
my wife inhales audiobooks, and she very much follows around performers and voice actors she likes. this is a human entertainment, and I have grave doubts if an AI voice will be able to capture the nuances of words read aloud
like one of my favorite podcasts is just a sad Irish man soulfully reading poems. he reads them twice. I listen both times, every time
this really is the goblin mode bullshit they pulled with X, only instead of coders keeping a dogshit microblogging site working, it is giant tubes of metal full of alive human beings and hydrocarbons hurtling through the fucking sky
Sean Duffy: "Patriotic controllers are gonna stay on and continue to serve the country."
i bet i could chop through a lot of tony robbins's head, with the proper gardening tool, in one blow
i wonder how the flintstones died, way back 10,000 years ago. you think it was starvation or was it a full murder suicide thing
anything can be heritage if you're a big enough asshole
I'm always impressed by the alacrity with which a certain type of guy will get all blood and soil about New York City of all places and start arguing that only lifelong residents have a right to weigh in on things like housing policy.
this is photoshopped, right. these proportions are... not natural
graham linehan does not exist
boy you can claim anything fixes back pain. some motherfucker on instagram just told me drinking water cures back pain. come on
what the fuck. why.
