Why does that photo look so off? I’m leaning toward not AI, but it also doesn’t look like a real protest. More like a stock photo or a staged photoshoot.

Yea, he better watch out or he’s gonna get a $6000 fine instead of $5000.

I don’t know if people are just not recognizing the metric fuckton of nuance with this situation, or they’re being willfully ignorant. Either way, not my monkeys, not my circus.

Some kind of meaning behind them, huh?

Let me ask you something.

Can you count…

All the way…

To shfifty-five?

How much of this is influenced by people just paying more attention to those around them when they see someone dressed as Batman?

Like, personally, when I’m on public transit I go into full disassociation mode. I wouldn’t even notice a pregnant woman because I’m trying my best to ignore everyone. But someone dressed as Batman would snap me out of that. Its hard to ignore someone dressed as Batman, and once you focus on him, you start focusing on other people as well.

To play devil’s advocate, an issue arises when there AREN’T more verifiable sources. If someone makes an outlandish claim like “Billy Joel used to wash his ass with crisco” and cites a dubious interview, it’s hard to find a source that definitively states Billy Joel DIDN’T wash his ass with crisco. Even worse, is if there was an actual, verified instance of one time where Billy Joel washed his ass with crisco. That may have been the only time he ever did it, and it may have been done as a joke or something like that, but now we have an interview saying he did it regularly, and an example of when he did. Now it’s a lot harder to disprove.

I feel gross defending Republican talking points, now I need to go take a shower. Maybe wash my ass with crisco.

Straight into the garbage.

There is a solution, but y’all aren’t going to like it.

The solution is blockchain. Actually, it’s even worse, the solution is NFT’s.

Not the scammy, crypto bro, nonsense it has been used for; but the actual technology.

A cryptographically secure digital token that can track where something was made, where it’s being used, who has the rights to it, and ensures that it’s authentic and not some copy made with AI.

Unfortunately, thanks to crypto bros, the technology has become so tainted by scams that most people get upset just hearing the letters NFT, so adoption isn’t likely.

*Earliest formation of a solar system discovered

We have seen many, many examples of solar systems being formed, this is by no means “for the first time”. It just happens to be the earliest. But wishing astronomy news headlines to not be click-bait is like wishing for snow in the Sahara.

I have yet to see a single item have a significant discount on prime day, it’s not even a sale.

A 2D image of a violin is not a violin.

“This moment in time is also the way things will be, forever”

I would like to remind everyone, as people seem to keep forgetting, Tesla means nothing to Elon. It could go to zero and it wouldn’t affect him.

Twitter, or X, means nothing to Elon. It could collapse and shut down and it wouldn’t affect him.

SpaceX is his baby. Nothing even comes close. Starlink alone guarantees he will always be one of the richest men in the world.

That’s ok, insanity comes in many forms.

Is the Valve Index really that unpopular? Or is it not included in the list for some reason?

It’s a scary word to use, but humanity does need some form of eugenics for space travel.

No, not the racial kind.

We need to breed resistance to radiation and adaption to low oxygen or low gravity environments.

We need to be able to be stuck in cramped quarters around other people for years without eventually killing each other.

We need to be able to be cryogenically frozen for long periods of time and then reanimated.

None of this is possible without fundamentally editing the genes of humans. We essentially need to evolve into a new species.

Golly gee, how awful of me to expect someone who volunteered for a position of authority to actually do something their position requires.

This isn’t random bystanders catching flack, these are people who SIGNED UP TO DO A JOB. If I volunteered to help at a soup kitchen and then just never showed up, the soup kitchen has a right to be upset with me. They are, in fact, entitled to be upset with me because I made a promise to help. And then I broke that promise.

Yes, if you sign up to be a mod, you are signing up to moderate. That includes dealing with whatever hate falls into your community.

The fuck is wrong with you? Oh, the poor little moderators have to do what the name of their positions fucking implies they should be doing? How dare we feel entitled to demand those who volunteered to do a job actually do their job?!

If you’re too much of a coward to acknowledge or deal with hate or drama when it shows up, then you shouldn’t be a fucking mod.

Well the first was overjoyed to have some autonomy back and used his time to play a game of Civ.

If you go to a museum and see an impressive skeleton of a dinosaur, you’re not actually looking at dinosaur bones. And no, I don’t mean because they’ve calcified and become “rock”. I mean the real bones are in a drawer somewhere, if they even exist. What you’re looking at is plaster, often with many of the pieces wholly created from scratch in order to produce a full skeleton.