Everyone that said they “dropped a bomb in the toilet” is just a poser. This guy is the real deal.

It’s no different than other kinds of voting: It only works if everyone is well-informed.

I did a ton of research about the neurological differences (the kind controlled by hormones like oxytocin) between men and women for a book… Men and women are equally emotional but testosterone is a literally “chemical brake” on tear production… Which is a stress reliever (reduces cortisol).

What this means is that if you have a room full of people and the women are crying because something awful happened, it’s likely that the men would also be crying if they didn’t have testosterone cutting it off. The same emotions are there, it’s just they aren’t as visible (external) in the men.

That’s just the most obvious, easy thing to explain (everyone understand tears) but there’s so, so much more to this kind of thing. Understanding these sorts of differences would be greatly beneficial to society. If only there were some area of study for this kind of thing…

Wait until you see Gen Alpha’s spending on alcohol!

Yeah it’s a common thought: An afterlife where people gather before going on to the next.

Usually, people think that the quality of your choices for the next life will be based on whatever criteria they think was most important in life. Someone who went out of their way to be nice will believe that it will be based on how nice you were. Whereas someone who spent their life accumulating money/power will assume it’s based on that.

For all we know, though, your “afterlife score” could be based on how many different sorts of food you tried, how many buttons you pressed, how far you traveled from where you were born, etc.

I actually have a novel idea about this concept: Dude dies and gets the red carpet treatment in the afterlife. He’s very happy about it but he doesn’t understand… He never got married and spent most of his life doing data entry and courtroom steganography.

Turns out, he got the high score in “button pressing.” He’s at the top of the leaderboard and this qualifies him for all sorts of “premium” reincarnation options. Not only that, but the gods intend to put his talents to use right away on “pressing issues.”

Comcast—in the top ten of the shittiest companies of all time that no one wants to have to deal with—is surprised that their “new” deal of, “be slightly less villainous, and expect all our problems to go away” isn’t working.

Some day, you will fall down.

In hell, they just use Crow Pilot for this sort of thing.

Me, at life’s exit interview…

“Sooo… I’m regards to my, er, contributions to the good of the world… Does open source software count? What about all those times I made witty comments that made a few people smile? 😬”

If there’s so much gold you can pave the streets with it, it’s not very valuable.

Having said that, if we’re all living in a simulation, then having our “streets” (cables) paved with gold sounds fantastic 👍

Only thing better would be fiberoptic cable but that might not be possible since you can’t carry power over fiber 🤷

Aside: You can generate power from light traveling through fiber optic cable but it’s not the same thing as carrying power efficiently over copper or (better) gold.

Speaking about assumptions about the afterlife, people who believe in reincarnation typically believe that after you die, you get reincarnated. The assumption there is that it happens right away. What if it happens like a thousand years after you die or maybe an entire universe goes by?

Wrong way to handle AI summaries: Google crawls the article and presents it’s summary.

Right way to handle AI summaries: Your own browser uses a local AI model on your PC to generate the summary.

The first is easy to stop with legislation, the second is impossible to stop and yet, if you try you’re a fucking asshole trying to tell people what they can and cannot do with their own hardware. That’s straight up villain behavior.

Quick! Someone throw a bucket of water on her!

Now you have me thinking: Isn’t “FUCK VILLAIN” just another way of saying, “rapist”?

YES: If you don’t want creeps on the other side of the globe generating nudes of your children DO NOT POST IMAGES OF THEM TO THE PUBLIC! How is this not obvious‽

Also, NO: No one has a right to privacy in public. That’s how that works!

If someone takes a picture of your child, posts a fake nude of them to the Internet, that is already illegal. That’s CSAM. And because they took the picture that means they’re local and can be found and prosecuted.

Trying to stop random creeps across the entire Internet of six billion people is impossible. It’s like searching for aliens in the cosmos.

Ok, there’s actually a bit to unpack there…

Free fake porn of anyone

This isn’t actually the problem. You know that, right? If I generate a fake image of you in the nude and just keep it to myself on my own hard drive that has no impact on anything. It harms no one. It’s no different than drawing your picture and keeping it in a drawer.

Also, fake porn is still porn. However, mere nudity is not porn. For something to be porn it has to be a sex act. I know a lot of people think that’s untrue but it’s reality. Nudity is not porn! Is it an “adults only image”? Maybe. But porn? Not necessarily.

Example: The New York Times had a famous front page image featuring a little girl who tore her clothes off, running away from napalm in Vietnam. Definitely not porn.

People who associate nudity with porn need to get their minds out of the gutter.

Also, I really, really need you to explain what “true porn” is. Give me your expert opinion!

Also watching Frasier for the 27th time.

This doesn’t count as “seeing a psychiatrist”!

Kunon the Sorcerer Can See is also an absolutely fantastic anime this season. It looks like a typical low-effort, power fantasy anime but it’s actually got some of the best writing I’ve seen in ages!

My other thoughts on this season: Cursed VS Curses is a total shit show but Plants VS Ninjas is a decent continuation of the first season.

Does anyone actually watch these Bang! Dream shows?

Mercedes and BMW surprised that their vastly superior vehicles are selling well.