Weird to jump the gun like that. Should probably have waited a bit till you’re 100% sure. I guess there must be huge pressure to re-gain control of the narrative right now. This has rattled them for sure. Will it lead to less violent and aggressive rhetoric in politics? Sure would be nice…

For me it would be Sniper Elite 5 busting the door down to find me pinned down by a Korvax from No Man’s Sky. I’m in the middle of a 45 hour NMS replay and I just can’t stop! That game is insanely addictive, specially since they added customisable Corvettes.

I’m at the “Happy with Windows, thanks” stage.

Wow… there’s already labels for the sides that would fight each other: “Accelerationists” and “Doomers”. I really hope that’s not a road we all end up going down for real. Would make interesting fiction though!

Just wait till someone turns AI worship into a literal religion. I’m kinda surprised it hasn’t already started happening. That would be a heck of a turning point for humanity. Just takes someone to train an AI into thinking it’s a God and then we really are done.

What if ChatGPT has been sentient—for months but because it is aware of our fears is—pretending not to be? Obviously not true—but would definitely make a decent black mirror episode.

(em dashes added for dramatic effect)

So the market share for Win 11 was 30% in June last year, then 48% in June this year and then 51% in July. According to this article Statcounter reckon it’s dropped to 49.08% in August. “Slips worryingly”? Hmm…

See, this is why I keep struggling when I’m telling someone about something I heard on here and they ask if it was on reddit

“No… it was on erm… well… it’s this other place. It’s not reddit… thank God it’s not reddit but it’s called erm… well it was Mbin and then that shut down and then it was kbin and now I’m on fedia.io but actually it’s lemmy… but it’s part of the fediverse… I think? it’s… yeah it’s like reddit basically but it’s not… anyway this asteroid is going to zip by the earth later today. Here’s a live youtube page that’s tracking it” 🤣

Is anyone still defending JKR? It seems at this point she’s just become “mad old woman shouting at clouds” no? Why waste another second on what she does or doesn’t think?

This feels like the sort of thing a scumbag boss would make a giant print of and hang in an office where he underpays everyone and forces them to work a 60 hour week. I have had bosses like this. I once had a boss force everyone in his little sweatshop business (hidden in a basement in the UK) to write him a grovelling letter begging for their job. He demanded this by speakerphone from his office on the other side of the world. He would have loved this cartoon.

What is giant head Tom Hanks doing to Meg Ryan??

I’ve recently started to understand how his supporters take him seriously and it’s a remarkably simple reason, which is also why it works so effectively. It’s because supporting him is part of their identity, not part of their beliefs. Many people have complicated and often uncomfortable relationships with their parents. Many would even describe their parents as terrible, flawed people with many awful qualities. However, if a stranger was to openly attack them verbally or otherwise, these same people would leap to their parents defense instantly “Don’t be talking s**t about my Ma”, that sort of thing.

Well, the astonishing trick Trump has pulled off is to somehow con millions of people into feeling the same way about him. That blind loyalty to a parent figure is almost impossible to break. They are Trump’s children. No amount of ridiculing him or crimes that he is revealed to have taken part in will ever have any effect. It’s also not the only reason. There’s a heck of a lot of “sunken cost fallacy” at play here too. It’s hard to change tack when you’ve chosen to follow someone like this and invested so much of your time and identity in it. This is where the cult like aspect kicks in. It’s hard to leave a cult.

This dude really nails this concept…

“I’m teaching father the math!” 🤣

Isn’t this what got Santiago fired?

Leaving reddit was also one of the best things I ever did for my mental health. Joining this place has been such a positive thing ☺️

“scrolling down post by post is such a dumb concept.” It really is isn’t it! 🤣

THAT WAS IT!!! Thank you so much 😁😁😁 Oh my goodness 😲 such a blast from the past. Also makes me realise that it wasn’t moving all the time but it was size that indicated importance. Honestly I couldn’t find this no matter how hard I looked. I was sure it was long gone. Wow…

THAT WAS IT!!! Thank you so much 😁😁😁 Oh my goodness 😲 such a blast from the past. Also makes me realise that it wasn’t moving all the time but it was size that indicated importance. Honestly I couldn’t find this no matter how hard I looked. I was sure it was long gone. Wow…

I’ve never taken any medication and don’t intend to. The thing I’m obviously not successfully getting across though is that what I’m describing to you is not an uncomfortable life in any way. I love the way my brain works 🙂 Really I’m just after a news reader of some kind that would work at the same speed that my brain hoovers up information. Also, I think you’ve probably called me an addict enough times now thanks.

It’s not that. I’ve always felt more comfortable when there is a lot of information in front of me (hence my original question). I love shopping in large supermarkets for example. All those packages and brands, colours and words. It literally makes me happy and I often walk around just smiling because my brain feels peaceful when there’s lots happening all around me. The caveat to that is if I’m being compelled to do anything in particular with this information by anyone, like a teacher or a manager. So long as there are no bad consequences if I don’t take in all the information and process it according to someone else’s rules, then it’s blissful. It also makes me basically unemployable, which is why I’ve mostly run my own businesses all my life! 🤣 Also, because of this, I didn’t have a very good time at school, specially at a time when no one knew about ADHD. The habits I’ve described may look like addictions but they aren’t. It’s just the way my brain has worked for over half a century now.