Brittany

this is functionally equivalent to what everybody who reposts for a typo is doing

That would be arguably a win with an asterisk, but we’ve erroneously thought Iran was on the brink of collapse for apparently forever so I definitely would not accept the prediction of such as victory, and we still spend several years looking like losers.

If Iran’s current government survives this “excursion” intact and continues ruling the country afterwards they will have pretty obviously won, even if they are worse off for the attacks (which certainly they will be)

I'm using Google Translate a lot to work out how to say certain things in French and sometimes when a sentence involves the second person it chooses the wrong form for what I need (tu vs vous) but it turns out I can get it to use the desired form by ending the sentence with either "buddy" or "sir" 🙃

I’m not sure what this is about but the logic feels ironclad

By this definition, didn’t we win in Vietnam? And Afghanistan

it’s so incredibly hilarious that this particular flavor of spaniard is a reoccurring thing but absolutely it is

I imagine you said something along the lines of “Gavin Newsom is not Satan incarnate”

A lot of people on this site *don’t* want their politics to get popular for more-radical-than-thou reasons, allies are undesirable in this case

& imho I think renaming things "allyslop" is of very limited utility since we can already call jargon what it is. Ironically calling it allyslop delivers the same kind of gatekeeping confusion as the jargon, especially since everyone's just calling everything they don't like slop now. Slopslop

The bonsai is just a stick on a rock wrapped in plastic

My husband’s newest bonsai experiment intrigues me

"mdni" on bluesky is so funny dawg everyone here was alive when watergate broke

I wish I could allow the QTed person to reply, even if I am dunking tbh fair’s fair, but there’s no way to easily do that (mention them, I guess, in your post? but that feels like aggressively demanding a response!)

I feel bad about doing this, but all the alternatives are worse. Also, you don’t even need that many followers to make this preferable.

genuine problem with having so many followers and having replies locked down for quality control reasons is people thinking that QTs are a means to dunk on them from behind a quote instead of the regular setting to improve reply quality on here

“we’d be happier if we would RETVRN” is perennial discourse on this website (because of the density of communists, I think)

I guess to be totally fair I think it would be hard to jump into a hunter-gatherer society as an adult, but afaik you can join like, the Amish!

I’m not advocating for this either but it makes a lot more sense to agitate for a return to hunter-gatherer lifestyle, we spent time immemorial doing that and evolved around it (we mostly evolved to be flexible though!). Agriculture is a blip in history, and a pretty brutal one at that

I don’t want to return to subsistence agriculture because my primary role in such a society would be growing farmers

don’t people know lobsters are bugs

hey sitting all day has consequences! you feel like shit at the end of the day! this is how i know i would be happy toiling in the fields (although i am very resistant to doing exercise)

All the examples are like that. This is why I find AI pretty easy to recognize, even if some people (like the New York Times) think I’m full of shit. If you try to get AI to add color, it’s mostly gonna be through metaphor or simile, not structure.

You preferred human writing. You're either sharply attuned to the qualities that make for great writing, or a lucky guesser. Maybe you also noticed that human writing often includes some clunky phrases, like this passage from Cormac McCarthy's "Blood Meridian," caused by the author's aversion to punctuation: "As well ask men what they think of stone." A.I. used to make mistakes like these. But today's systems are much more fluid than their predecessors — so fluid, in fact, that finding grammatical errors or nonstandard syntax is often a hint that you're looking at a human's prose, not a machine's.

even preferring human writing, NYT seems to suggest perhaps I don’t?

I hadn’t really been into Kpop for a while but the news still shocked me, haven’t really listened to Shinee since

I don’t have time to photoshop that image and the 2024 election results into the Office meme, but, it’s the same picture

Yeah I don’t read the OP as theorizing young people are the solution, so much as their *presence* might be

Website of people scared to answer their phone or put a child on a school bus has thoughts on how fun and badass shoplifting is (or, more likely, would be)

Tweet from @ElizaLuLuBelle: Dear @Disney - are you aware that, in Australian vernacular, there is an episode of Spidey and His Amazing Friends called "Blowjob on Methamphetamine"? Gobby on Ice Marvel's Spidey and His Amazing Friends episode The Spidey team puts their fun on hold when Green Goblin creates a giant snow monster. Show: Marvel's Spidey and His Amazing Friends

Some tweets are important

Reminds me of Bruce Campbell's breakdown of pay for "Army of Darkness," which started off at half a million dollars, 25% to the agents, 50% to taxes, divorce settlement, and taking two years to make left him with $46,875 a year.