God, can you imagine someone from Finland (or wherever) heading to a Midwestern state fair and eating every variety of fried thing imaginable?
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God, can you imagine someone from Finland (or wherever) heading to a Midwestern state fair and eating every variety of fried thing imaginable?
This is the America I believe in, the America that we can be

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Watching this Dan & Phil bit and it has the weirdest set-up for a stand-up routine ever
"You know when you die? says Phil in front of the audience,
you know that feeling when you are dead? Completely cold dead?"
People start to chuckle in the audience. This is relatable, they DO know that feeling when you are dead, Oh boy they know where this is going!
"You know when you are dead and you go to Heaven, and there are all those pictures of Drew Barrymore everywhere? What's up with that?? What's the DEAL?? with all those Drew Barrymore merchandise in Heaven??"
People explose in raucous laughter. What's the deal with that INDEED!
did someone say something
Did they let the fucking guy out
now that we have successfully nitpicked the difference between poisonous and venomous it is time we nitpicked the difference between parasite and parasitoid
[scribbling in a notebook] The…xenomorph…is an…example of…a parasitoid…organism.
yes
that being said landlords are parasitoids

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i know the way people talk about their pets now is probably how we’ve been doing it for all of history. a cat owner in ancient rome saw their cat lounging on the dining pillows and commented “he thinks himself to be the senator claudius 🤣”
The first attested cat in Japan was given to a young 9th century emperor and his diary about it includes such gems as 'I affixed a bow about its neck, but it did not remain for long.", "The color of the fur is peerless. None could find the words to describe it, although one said it was reminiscent of the deepest ink.", "When it lies down, it curls in a circle like a coin. You cannot see its feet. It’s as if it were circular Bi disk." and "I am convinced it is superior to all other cats.” Basically posting about how his void is the best little void and so good at getting really round
I hope you get your favorite food this week and your favorite drink and your favorite 2k dollars
I'm sorry there's no magic in this post I'm just talking. I hope good stuff happens to people online I hope good things happen to all of us
I think the thing that annoys me most about AI on a personal, day to day, level is what it has done to grammar checkers. If you've never done a lot of editing, or used to 5+ years ago but haven't really in the last couple years, I can't even begin to describe how fucking BAD this shit has gotten. And as an author it is EXHAUSTING.
I just want to catch spelling errors and accidental double spaces and repeated phrases and whenever I use the wrong too/to or affect/effect and shit. But no. They've shoved AI up the ass of every grammar checking software out there and now they all fucking suck and make the most random, obnoxious, nonsensical suggestions.
And yeah, I can ignore all the times it's trying to get me to cut out any semblance of my own voice, or shove things into the wrong tense, or make the most random suggestions on comma usage. But if it's getting all that WRONG, what is it just straight up missing that I SHOULD be correcting? What real spelling and grammar errors are still lurking in there?
"Use Libre Office."
I get why people keep saying this (and other versions of it like "Use Adobe alternatives" and "Use Google product alternatives."). But here's the problem: I do not create in isolation. Even my own 100% personal projects are getting sent to other people whether it's editors or printers or beta readers and unless every single person in that train is using the same products, things can get wonky.
Libre Office and Word handle formatting differently on the back end, which can completely break documents if you move them back and forth between the two. So if I write in Libre Office but my beta readers are still using Word, when I send them a manuscript for review there's a good chance things won't look right and my beta reader will not actually be reviewing what I sent them.
Industry standards are industry standards FOR A REASON. Having everyone on the same workflow can be crucial to getting things done effectively and correctly without creating a lot of extra work. And those things are not going to change overnight, as much as we might want them to.
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Yeah, Word, let me just leave this whole chunk of dialogue without the closing quotation marks. That's the thing to do. How dare I have two punctuation marks in a row. It's not like that's how closing quotation marks fucking work.
I am going to light something on fire.
And you know, for young writers, this has got to be so detrimental just from the perspective of opening your document and seeing a million corrections that, frankly, don't need to be there. If you're a young writer you're likely not going to have the background knowledge to know what is and isn't a good suggestion, you're just going to see a document that makes it look like you made every mistake possible so clearly you must be a terrible, stupid writer and should just give up.
What I can’t get past is the tone either
"One punctuation mark is all that is needed"
Shut the fuck up actually ???
It is not a correction it’s a fucking condescending remark
Not only this tool is wrong and doesn’t work but it is built to use the most insufferable condescending tone imaginable

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are bots making communities now??? some of the ones i get recommended feel like it
like the admin of this one is deactivated and at least 95% of the members are bots
can you imagine you wake up one day in a dark room chained to a radiator with your phone at 1% and you unlock it and find that you've been added to this community
The first thing you do in that situation is open Tumblr?
Where the hell else would I post about being chained to a radiator, fucking Bluesky?
SCARED
I really do think an important component of activism is to make sure your motivation is based on a desire to help/improve things for the people being harmed by a system, and not hatred for the ones doing the harm. both for mental health reasons, and because either way you're training your neural pathways and it's gonna turn out a lot better for literally everyone if the question on everyone's mind after achieving a goal is "how/which people can we help next, what's the next step for improving things" and not "who do we need to attack next."
I'm not saying don't be angry, there are a lot of good reasons to be angry right now and it makes for an excellent kick in the pants, just don't define yourself by it or it's gonna poison you and potentially do collateral damage.
the easiest people to attack will always be whoever’s closest and whoever’s vulnerable.
if you’re training yourself to enjoy the thrill of righteous violence, your easiest, quickest joy is going to be from attacking someone in your peer group, not whoever’s actually got the social leverage to be oppressing you.
this is called lateral violence and is the absolute bane of activist circles everywhere.

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Seeing this set off a genuine fight-or-flight response
After my experiment with Coca-Cola waffles and this video about mountain dew fried rice I think it would probably have less of an impact than you'd expect. Any unique flavor of the soft drink just gets condensed down into "vaguely sweet" and get overpowered by the other flavors brought in by the other ingredients...
... That being said 32 ounces is a lot
It's the lack of instructions that really gets me. Like, I know it's a joke recipe and not intended to actually be cooked, but... the directions are just bake and then stir. Are you supposed to saute the onions and celery? Melt the butter? Cook the pasta? Do you just dump raw noodles and gatorade into a casserole dish along with everything else and hope that somehow it'll magically turn into something edible in the oven? Why do you stir it after baking but not before? I have so, so many questions.
(I think probably I would cook the noodles in more gatorade first to give them that nice radioactive yellow color and classic sporting event flavor. That feels like the correct and also worst way to do it.)
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You know what I'm about to ask right?
OH NO
@crowscriven you know, I'm NOT just a bad cat that creates twisted games where you have to cook abominations against Nature
I can also be NICE
I contain MULTITUDES
Here, I have a GIFT for you!
A cookbook! For all your cooking endeavors !
Are you thrilled ? I can tell that you're thrilled
I actually have the pdf by the way I can absolutely give it to you
You could then parse its many (144) pages and let yourself be tempted by its many salivating recipes such as:
If there has ever been a government sanctionned weapon against joy and happiness I think it was this book
This book was created by the CIA to wage psychological warfare against usa's ennemies during the cold war. Any reader becomes immediately clinically depressed.
But there's worse... oh there's so much worse in that book.....
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Oh... oh no...
@xfhsfh Yeah that book looks like nightmare fuel and I would love to see it if you're willing to share!
I've seen some pretty horrific microwave cookbooks from around that time, and they never disappoint. You can just microwave an entire raw trout! Shrimp? Yeah, throw 'em in! An entire raw chicken? You betcha! Just be sure to cover the wings and the ends of the legs in aluminum foil first so they don't get burnt! Aluminum foil! On your raw chicken! In the microwave! Nothing will go wrong!
I follow the "leave nothing but footprints take nothing but photos" rule of state/national parks yeah because conservation. But also because when I was 11 i read a short story about a girl who went to a museum and stole a bandage flake off a mummy on display with the mentality of "im just one person one piece won't be missed" then at night she was visited by the mummy and it plucked a single hair from her head and then the next night a different mummy took another hair and she realized that there were only so many pieces to her before there would be nothing left and that story was forever wedged in my brain. Anyways leave cool rocks where you find them or the mummies will get you