There is literally no circumstance where I support age verification to access a website. As I've said before I'm very much the "there's nuance here" person on almost everything but on this issue there's no nuance for me, it's awful and horrible in and of itself and it also sets an awful and horrible precedent

people are so evolutionarily hardwired to see conscious agency and communication in the world that for our entire history we have ascribed agency, communication and personhood to earthquakes, the weather, diseases, stillbirths, the arrangement of entrails, dreams, and much more besides. To this day we have to remind people that wild animals are not like people and do not have our internal world lest they become new Timothy Treadwells!

Everything used to be 20 dollars and now that I finally have 20 dollars everything is now 200 dollars

Show daddy that nice picture again

Another reason why trains would be good is that most people are not good at driving

another annoying thing about AI discourse on here is how many anti-AI people still basically treat AI as synonymous with chatbot. like, regardless of which side you’re on, if you’re engaged enough to start discourse about it then you should be engaged enough to know that Ukraine and Russia are currently writing the next chapter of military tactics with AI-directed drones.

we gotta get back to torrent distribution, i just watched someone eat eight grand in bandwidth charges because they ran a direct-download piracy site with local file hosting through cloudflare. torrents were invented literally for this exact reason

Im grading the final exams for the class I TA for and I'm checking the name of the one I've just graded so I can enter it in the gradebook when I notice that after the name it says in parentheses "just visiting ! =)". And that I do not know this student, they are not enrolled in this class, and they just showed up on the last day to take the final . Innovative use of free will

Job market so bad I started following my dreams

it still makes me go insane that somehow no social media site bothers to implement interleaved text and images. Fediverse cannot support it broadly, Bluesky can't handle it, Facebook can't do it, Twitter can't do it, fucking, LinkedIn doesn't do this, somehow only Tumblr has this, and it barely even counts as a popular social media site.

well you see we're the new pdf

hey you. teenage girl writing in her diary. quit talking about the boy you have a crush on and start writing about the current political situation, the valuation of currencies, and the level of technology your people hold. your diary might be the only piece of evidence our society existed after nuclear war fries all of our data backups. future historians don't need to know about damian, they need at least a secondhand accounts of the great water wars and whether or not your leaders truly did worship a deity called "the free hand of the market"