Less Random Than A Random Dot

This is very true. The 2000s often had VHS and DVDs side by side. It took a long time to phase out VHS in retail.

tumblr updates and releases a new added feature where if somebody both likes and reblogs a post from you, the notes get combined so you only see them once instead of twice so your notes are less clogged, and the nofication says "[tumblr user] thrumped your post: [text from the post]" and everybody goes fucking NUTS that tumblr decided to call it thrumping, and the meme for months is people making up nonsense words for things, like "oh boy, i gotta wash AND dry my clothes, guess you'd call that BLIRMPING them!" and it is the real talk of the town and there is negative discourse about the decision because there are a million things they could do to display the notes better, and thrumping was certainly not a high priority, and thousands of people comment on @support's posts calling them names and ordering them to change it back, which obviously only brings back radio silence aside from one post they make which seems to be adding onto the thrumping meme, except they don't quite get it right and end up saying, "man, i gotta take the LINT and GARBAGE outside to the curb, in a TRASH BAG... guess you'd call that SCRALFING!!!!" and everyone makes fun of them so badly for the post that it gets deleted; on the other side of tumblr, the alt-righters figure out a way to make a post with that joke that gets really popular but it is later discovered that the specific word they used was actually a slur that is not very well-known amongst most people, and so people decide to cancel the meme because it is problematic, and people get called out for having any iteration of it on their dash, but then one day someone makes a post like "thrumping haha it sounds like humping" and somehow out of the darkness staff discovers it and deletes that person's account, starting an outrage; one day apple looks into tumblr more and discovers that thirteen of the highest-ranked executives and employees at the company are smuggling illegal drugs from china and decides to take it off the app store because of this, but they don't realize that was the reason for it and thinks it was because of the thrumping crisis, so they decide to immediately remove all code related to thrumping and somehow accidentally delete the entire notifications feature, which now has an added bug where you can only reblog a post that is not currently liked by you, and if you somehow get around this, your account hard-permabans itself. this goes on for about three and a half months before it finally gets fixed and two weeks later no one even mentions it

this post thrumps

I just got described as an "ad hating commie" by someone because I said a minute of youtube ads is unpleasant. fully spent 5 minutes arguing and defending youtube ads. insane stuff

reblog if you are an ad hating commie

Every day you are stable enough to keep your behaviour visibly 'decent', you have to remember that you too are a certain amount of cruelty and indifference away from publicly 'becoming erratic'. Your potential for this is not removed by having a mental condition and a society which rewards cruelty will specifically encourage the opposite within you. If you forget this, even because it is momentarily convenient, you will become its enforcer. Someone who is erratic is not stupid, they can see how you look at them. That nobody wants to acknowledge that looking at someone a certain way is an everyday form of harm should inform you which kind of society you inhabit and how little its norms are worth.

Article about it here. 

what’s important to note and missing from the “headline” tweet is that they simultaneously constructed additional good public transit to the public transit already in the city (bus rapid transit, train stations). Just removing highway alone isn’t going to make traffic better, the bigger part of the story is that they improved public transportation. And the current mayor wants to do more - cyclist lanes and reinstate a tram system

the scariest thing about the generative AI thing is how quickly people have accepted it as an indefinite, irrevocable part of their reality. people have genuinely convinced themselves that ChatGPT is the only solution to most tasks - tasks they did with their own brain without any large effort two years ago. like you know damn well all of us used to write emails ourselves why are we pretending like this is an impossible task to do with your own two hands. what's with the fucking. AI revisionism. i feel like i am going insane.

let me come to your house so i can keel over and die on your property without any discernable cause to make your life a little harder

I don't trust anyone. I'm a bad ass lone wolf *eats food someone else grew* *crosses bridge someone else designed and trusts it not to fall* *crosses street in front of 70000lb vehicle cuz there's white lines on the ground telling it to yield*

please stop writing "viscous" when you mean "vicious", it produces the weirdest mental images ever

"a viscous murder" yeah i don't want to know what that could look like

it looks like the Boston Molassacre of 1919

Imo the best type of system for children to grow up in would be one that assumes the birth parents/primary guardians won't do shit and takes care of every aspect of childcare that's essential for their wellbeing and development, collectively.

But I'm just a guy who only learned how to brush his teeth properly and got glasses as a child because we had both a dentist and a doctor come to school on a regular basis. The dentist would have us all stand in a circle with our little toothbrushes and show us how to brush and correct our technique. The doctors would give us general health assessments and then have the teachers contact our patents and essentially peer pressure them into getting us any health intervention we needed. My parents only reluctantly got me glasses because they knew the teachers would judge them if they kept seeing me sit in the very front row and still squint to see the chalkboard. So I'm biased.

see also family abolition, and youth liberation .