I always assumed it came from Shakespeare, or something along those lines. That it actually came from putrid legalese was like finding out that my online girlfriend was an AI chatbot all along.
The main 'Show Desktop' function (Win+D) is a bit overbearing, in that it will minimise desktop applications that are intended to be a permanent part of the desktop itself (such as Portals). I discovered that Win+M will minimise all windows, and won't affect desktop-integrated applications, which is nice. I'd like to have this ...
They could cover 'Killing in the Name' and not change a single lyric. They just need an aura of "and that's fine, actually" which will be provided by their TRUMP 2024 flags.
Republican Rep. Thomas Massie roasted Attorney General Pam Bondi after she showed up on Capitol Hill with prepared insults to lob at critics while refusing to answer questions about Jeffrey Epstein. ...
A genuinely, thoroughly reprehensible piece of human effluent. If she has kids they almost certainly hate her. Her lonely aged years will probably be the only consequence she faces for her despicable behaviour, but I guess it's better than nothing.
Might have just been my parents but I remember ironing clothes being so integral to life during childhood but I think I've ironed maybe a dozen things as an adult. What happened?
Many newer fabrics don't require ironing, or not as much of it at least. Newer washing machines and driers, as well as newer fabric softeners and detergents, seem to play a role in the non-wrinkliness of clothing, too.
I rarely own anything that would require regular ironing these days. I tend to avoid buying clothing that looks like it would be a pain in the ass to keep wrinkle-free. I guess in our parents' era there ware no such choices available.
Plastic in clothing might have circumvented the need for ironing, but of course it has brought its own issues. Plastic might be an apocalyptic death substance, or it might actually be fine to have 5% of our bodyweight to be nylon. Not sure which yet.
A British woman who was shot dead by her father while visiting his home in Texas had argued with him about US President Donald Trump earlier that day, an inquest has heard. ...
Is our collective memory of this trope (man ties woman to train tracks) all based on one instance of it in one silent movie, or was it really as widespread a cliché as it seems to us nowadays? 🤔
Reclaim real African artifacts from Western museums in this Africanfuturist heist game. Recruit crew members, plan escape routes, acquire the precious cargo, and bounce out of the joint as fast as you can. ...
Discord announced on Monday that it’s rolling out age verification on its platform globally starting next month, when it will automatically set all users’ accounts to a “teen-appropriate” experience unless they demonstrate that they’re adults. ...
Michael Wolff seems like the kinda guy who'd ask to borrow your pen, use it, and then place it in his pocket. "Can I have my pen back?" you'd ask. He'd respond with "what pen?" and walk away.
Self-professed misogynist influencer Andrew Tate believes reading is for people with “slow brains,” according to a recent resurfaced clip of him on X. In the video, Tate is seen bragging that his brain is too advanced for reading and that he’d rather be in constant chaos. ...
I need action. I need constant chaos in my life to feel content.
This is the sound of deep, deep, profound, deep insecurity chasing a man down a never-ending alleyway peppered with neon signs that say "Unattractive to Women?", "Easily Bullied By Other Men?", "GAY???"
I hope he does serious prison time for his crimes, because it will be extra enjoyable knowing that it's literally the worst place he could ever find himself. No escaping one's own mind in that place.
It's the first of January 2026. You wear your t-shirt with the VHS cover art for 1992's 'Passenger 57' on it. You bump into an old friend you haven't seen in 10 years, let's call him Sebastian McGillicuddy. You chit chat, he compliments your objectively awesome t-shirt, then you part ways, expecting to never see him again. ...
Curious how we're viewed across the water these days. Obviously our lot did a wee bit of terrorism over there a while back, but sure it's all Semtex under the bridge now 👀 ...
We expected it to be more than that, actually. If it's $700, that's pretty good. It's not a Switch. It's a prebuilt gaming PC in a tiny form factor. Building a gaming PC today with the same horsepower would probably set you back a lot more than that, and you'll also have a giant tower taking up space.
It's not for me, but I can think of at least 3 people in my family who would get a lot of value out of it at that price point. No PC-building headaches, no researching every bit of hardware and comparing prices and performance, no tedious planning of the cooling layout, no thermal paste, no separate warranties and RMA headaches for every individual component, no Windows bullshit, not needing an entire corner of the room just for the tower, perfect for the living room, driver and software updates that apply to and work for every customer, I could go on. I don't see any downside for the average gamer. Sure, if you're an FPS penny pincher who simply has to OC and have the best of the best and latest hardware, it'll not appeal to you. But that's a minority of gamers.
$700 is a dream. $1,000 is reasonable in the current climate I guess, but pushing it a little. $1,500 would be unfortunate, but it really depends on what extra value the system comes with from Valve. I wanna know their RMA and warranty plans. If they're anything north of "Kafkaesque", which is how it is with virtually every other hardware manufacturer/reseller, the extra money might actually be worth it, for one's mental health. If they send out a replacement unit before you have to return a defective one, for example, that would be enough to justify a little more cost, but that's coming from someone with a long and storied history of nightmarish, abusive RMA practices. I'd suck a dog's dirty dick to not have to go through that shit again.
Is there some way we can make this more likely to occur? Maybe some AI videos of clergy calling him a shitty-pantsed child molester with small hands and short skyscrapers?
Seriously. Look, the piece of shit is in the oval office already, that ship has sailed. But we might actually have a good use for the cunt in this case. Let's make the most of it!
Over the last few days hackers and trolls have targeted a slew of ICE spotting apps and their users in an apparent attempt to intimidate and stop them from reporting sightings of ICE. These hackers sent threatening text messages to users of StopICE, claiming their personal data has been sent to the authorities; attempted to wipe ...
While I don't think she herself had anything to do with Epstein, the fact that people in her entourage did is its own problem. If I had a member of my team who tried to hook me up with an already-convicted paedophile, I would have to wonder what sort of operation I was running and what sort of people were buzzing around me. I'd have to wonder why they thought I'd be OK with it.
Many of us on platforms like this are introverts, or autistic, or have social anxiety, or for whatever reason, have trouble meeting new people or engaging with strangers. If someone wanted to engage you in conversation, what topic would you be happiest to talk about?
I can't do small talk or general chat, but I can do meta. I can talk about how awkward it is to talk to strangers, for example. That feels like information exchange, as opposed to a complex two-person dance where I don't have rhythm or sufficiently-malleable limbs, which is what small talk feels like to me. The goal of small talk seems to be the process itself. If we're instead 'educating' each other about something, and that information is the ultimate goal, I'm much more comfortable.
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I know they're almost all bots and various foreign state actors shit-stirring for their own agendas, but the comments supporting him on Twitter are just depressing. You can see the wheels of cognitive dissonance spinning at 10,000 RPM.
"We'll do socialism, but we'll do it just a little bit, not enough to matter to any single human being's actual needs, but at least we broke our ultraconservative ideals for no good reason I guess?"
Is there a sadder, more pathetic, more wretched side-character who lives for the attention of celebrities than Ian Miles Cheong? He lives in Malaysia, but seems singularly devoted to MAGA. A movement that would bury him upside down in a hole if he ever tried to migrate there, legally or not.
I try to imagine what the day to day life of a person like that is. I imagine him living in utter squalor, with a flickering bare lightbulb swinging in the breeze above his head from the drafts spewing in through every crooked window frame of his shack. With his 100 open browser tabs for each of his fake Elon-sucking accounts. Suicidally-depressed except for the 8-second dopamine hit he gets on the occasions when Elon acknowledges his existence. A fungal infection of a human.
Cops have a stressful, often life-threatening job, no doubt. But so do a lot of people. My family has a history of working in psychiatric lock-ups with extremely violent mentally ill and developmentally abnormal patients, most of whom are being held because of murders and rapes they've committed (usually of their own families), and who would murder you if they had the chance/inclination to do so, because they simply don't know any better. The nurses don't carry firearms, they're trained with a few restraining grappling technique and a lot of deescalation tactics. They don't even have tasers. Put an armed cop in that situation and you'd have a ward full of corpses within a few days. Hell, put a regular prison guard in that situation and you'd have a similar outcome. But my family members aren't MMA experts, and have never been [seriously] injured in their job. They've been properly trained, that's all. Cops are trained like they're being shipped off to 'Nam in 1969 to fight an unseen, non-uniformed enemy.
At least they have an AI-free option, as annoying as it is to have to opt into it.
On a related note, it's hilarious to me that the Ecosia search engine has AI built in. Like, I don't think planting any number of trees is going to offset the damage AI has done and will do to the planet.
Always wondered why Bart's hair is made from his flesh. Same with Maggie and Lisa. I also wonder what a trip to the barber must feel like for them. Imagine getting your fingers shaved off your hands every couple of weeks with no anaesthetic. Is it any wonder the boy's a menace?
In any other business, having 6 simultaneous failed projects would be cause for dismissal of the CEO and probably the majority of the management staff. If I owned or had a large amount of shares in a company where this happened, I would not be a happy chappy. But I'm assuming the Ubisoft upper echelons are patting themselves on the back for their business acumen and financial savviness, already penning their bonuses into their calendars.
Meanwhile, regular workers are dropped like pubic lice the minute it's convenient to do so.
As I understand it (see: not at all), if you leave a spaceship with no suit on, you'd get baked like Marie Curie's ovaries from the radiation. It's mainly our atmosphere that protects us from most of the nastiest stuff. Would a giant cable reaching from Earth all the way to a platform outside the atmosphere become ...
If we're talking artistic credibility (as opposed to job security, plagiarism, and environmental impact), I want anti-AI people to uninstall their desktop graphics applications like Photoshop and GIMP. If you depend on buttons, value inputs and algorithms to get the art you want out of the machine, as opposed to using an easel and scanning your work into the PC without minimal touch-ups after the fact, then you're no better than the person typing book-length prompts to get what they want. If you animate with key frames instead of hand-drawing every frame, you're likewise just as credible (or not) as the prompt jockey. Hell, if you at any point use CTRL+Z, CTRL+C, CTRL+X or CTRL+V, you're as artistically incredible as Paulie Promptnuts.
Just to be clear, I don't think any of those things. But if you're dismissing art on the basis that AI was used at some stage in its development, you should be thinking those things.
I'm gonna get a stupidly-hot wife despite being a fat layabout piece of shit with a clear neurological condition.
I guess that's not really physics related, so I'll also add "gracefully float towards delicious food on a wafting scent trail". I could toss a burger down a canyon and use the scent trail to lower myself down safely. Like a Portal gun, but for fat layabout pieces of shit with clear neurological conditions 👍
TIL that the phrase "time is of the essence" comes from 18th century contract law ( www.myenglishpages.com )
I always assumed it came from Shakespeare, or something along those lines. That it actually came from putrid legalese was like finding out that my online girlfriend was an AI chatbot all along.
Is there a way to have a button on the taskbar that will perform the Win+M keyboard shortcut (i.e. 'minimise all windows') when clicked?
The main 'Show Desktop' function (Win+D) is a bit overbearing, in that it will minimise desktop applications that are intended to be a permanent part of the desktop itself (such as Portals). I discovered that Win+M will minimise all windows, and won't affect desktop-integrated applications, which is nice. I'd like to have this ...
Rage for the machine?
Pam Bondi’s Prepared Insult Flash Cards Exposed by GOP Rep ( www.thedailybeast.com )
Republican Rep. Thomas Massie roasted Attorney General Pam Bondi after she showed up on Capitol Hill with prepared insults to lob at critics while refusing to answer questions about Jeffrey Epstein. ...
Governor Newsom proclaims Ronald Reagan Day ( www.gov.ca.gov )
Dewormer ivermectin as cancer cure? RFK Jr.'s NIH funds "absurd" study. ( arstechnica.com )
Is ironing clothes significantly less common now?
Might have just been my parents but I remember ironing clothes being so integral to life during childhood but I think I've ironed maybe a dozen things as an adult. What happened?
British Woman shot by dad in Texas after 'arguing about Donald Trump' ( www.bbc.com )
A British woman who was shot dead by her father while visiting his home in Texas had argued with him about US President Donald Trump earlier that day, an inquest has heard. ...
Where can I get a set of furry train tracks to complete the scene?
Relooted - a game about reclaiming African artifacts from museums - was released today! ( store.steampowered.com )
Reclaim real African artifacts from Western museums in this Africanfuturist heist game. Recruit crew members, plan escape routes, acquire the precious cargo, and bounce out of the joint as fast as you can. ...
Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month ( www.theverge.com )
Discord announced on Monday that it’s rolling out age verification on its platform globally starting next month, when it will automatically set all users’ accounts to a “teen-appropriate” experience unless they demonstrate that they’re adults. ...
Photo bomb
Kid Rock is the people version of an above ground pool
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Jeffrey Epstein claimed Donald Trump’s friends ‘were concerned about dementia’ after 2017 dinner, emails show ( people.com )
In an email to Trump biographer Michael Wolff, the late sex offender wrote that the president "did not recognize old friends" ...
Andrew Tate is ’too smart to read’ and says books are for ‘slow brains’ ( www.irishstar.com )
Self-professed misogynist influencer Andrew Tate believes reading is for people with “slow brains,” according to a recent resurfaced clip of him on X. In the video, Tate is seen bragging that his brain is too advanced for reading and that he’d rather be in constant chaos. ...
Is there a word, perhaps as 40-letter compound word in German, that explains this annoying social phenomenon?
It's the first of January 2026. You wear your t-shirt with the VHS cover art for 1992's 'Passenger 57' on it. You bump into an old friend you haven't seen in 10 years, let's call him Sebastian McGillicuddy. You chit chat, he compliments your objectively awesome t-shirt, then you part ways, expecting to never see him again. ...
Any thoughts or feelings (good, bad, or indifferent) about Northern Ireland?
Curious how we're viewed across the water these days. Obviously our lot did a wee bit of terrorism over there a while back, but sure it's all Semtex under the bridge now 👀 ...
Why $700 could be a "death sentence" for the Steam Machine ( arstechnica.com )
Article discusses the effect of rising hardware prices on the deck. ...
WATCH: Trump says he will revoke church tax exempt status if leaders 'say something bad about' him ( www.pbs.org )
Hey Mr President! I represent evangelicals, televangelists and scientology like Kenneth Copeland, Joel Osteen, David Miscavige, etc. ...
Kamala Harris unveils “Headquarters 67” to mobilize Gen Z through a new digital media hub ( diyatvusa.com )
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Hackers and Trolls Target Wave of ICE Spotting Apps ( www.404media.co )
Over the last few days hackers and trolls have targeted a slew of ICE spotting apps and their users in an apparent attempt to intimidate and stop them from reporting sightings of ICE. These hackers sent threatening text messages to users of StopICE, claiming their personal data has been sent to the authorities; attempted to wipe ...
To an animal, we are like anti-Cenobites; beings dedicated to giving them genuine comfort and pleasurable experiences that they would never otherwise receive or even know were possible
[For those who don't know, Cenobites are the sadomasochistic torturers in the Hellraiser movies] ...
Fake Shemp - Body doubles used in movies to replace actors who die or are otherwise unavailable ( en.wikipedia.org )
(Spoilers) In 12 Angry Men (1957), was the behaviour of the jurists strictly legal?
Huge spoilers ahead! ...
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If you had to talk to a stranger, what would you want it to be about?
Many of us on platforms like this are introverts, or autistic, or have social anxiety, or for whatever reason, have trouble meeting new people or engaging with strangers. If someone wanted to engage you in conversation, what topic would you be happiest to talk about?
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20th Anniversary Poster for "V For Vendetta", returning to theaters November 5
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Trumpcare
Exposed Musk Now Insists Epstein Files Don’t Matter ( www.thedailybeast.com )
How many children did he fck?
Man allegedly tried to break Luigi Mangione out of jail by impersonating FBI agent: Sources ( abcnews.go.com )
Cop gets 20 years for fatally shooting woman who called 911 for help ( www.independent.co.uk )
A former Illinois deputy has been sentenced to 20 years for fatally shooting Sonya Massey, a Black woman who called 911 for help. ...
DuckDuckGo poll says 90% responders don't want AI ( www.pcworld.com )
Kristi Noem Blames Her Actions on Trump and Stephen Miller ( www.mediaite.com )
~~Pastor of Muppets~~
Live: Man shot by federal agent in south Minneapolis this morning, witnesses say ( www.startribune.com )
Gift link, with URL shortener so that Lemmy doesn't remove the gift token ...
The lyrics to "if you're happy and you know it" imply you can be happy and not know it
The White House Confirms It Altered Photo of Arrested Protester to Depict Her Sobbing: ‘The Memes Will Continue’ ( www.mediaite.com )
So much less refined
Ubisoft has cancelled 6 games, including the Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time remake | VGC ( www.videogameschronicle.com )
Trump pledges not to invade Greenland ( www.semafor.com )
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If a Space Elevator became a reality, wouldn't the cable act as a kind of wick for all of the unfiltered radiation from outside our atmosphere?
As I understand it (see: not at all), if you leave a spaceship with no suit on, you'd get baked like Marie Curie's ovaries from the radiation. It's mainly our atmosphere that protects us from most of the nastiest stuff. Would a giant cable reaching from Earth all the way to a platform outside the atmosphere become ...
A murder
Ocasio-Cortez ramps up fight with Vance amid 2028 speculation ( thehill.com )
Steam updates AI disclosure form to specify that it's focused on AI-generated content that is 'consumed by players,' not efficiency tools used behind the scenes ( www.pcgamer.com )
Cartoon physics is now in effect. What are you going to try?
ICE agents ate at a Minnesota Mexican restaurant before arresting staff ( www.the-independent.com )
I hope the staff spat in their food