would you rather be waterboarded by blizzard game ads or disney movie ads
this image is making me realize fandom wikis are so impenetrable and smothered in ads that I have never actually seen any of the attempts at branding that fandom tries to make with its logo or choice of colors or whatever because I literally don’t have the opportunity to do so on their own goddamn website
this seems like a good opportunity to remind everyone that the Indie Wiki Buddy extension exists, and works on both Chrome and Firefox!
it makes it so that whenever you click on a link to a Fandom wiki, it helps you redirect either to an independent wiki (if there is one), or to a site like BreezeWiki that removes ads, suggestions, etc from Fandom pages so you can actually read them without all the clutter!
If I didn’t remember actually reading this in an actual Calvin and Hobbes book as a child I’d think it was ironically photoshopped like those comics where Mickey Mouse and Goofy talk about how reality is an illusion but this comic strip was actually just……. already………… like that……………
Calvin and Hobbes is one of those pieces of media that’s a lot smarter than you think.
You go in expecting wacky shenanigans of a boy and his tiger, and then out of the blue the comic just makes you think.
You’re just reading some comics and all of a sudden you get hit with a “sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere is that none of it has tried to contact us.”
Like, damn, bro. I just wanted to have a laugh, not contemplate human nature as a whole.
would you rather spend an entire night in a haunted house (regardless of whether you believe in ghosts or not, this house is actually haunted) or an entire night in a forest?
in either case you'd be alone, but you can prepare yourself prior and you can take with you a maximum of three things
Would you rather spend an entire night in a haunted house (regardless of whether you believe in ghosts or not, this house is actually haunted) or an entire night in a forest?
in either case you’d be alone, but you can prepare yourself prior and you can take with you a maximum of three things
there is something horrifically grim to it, but illustrations for gaza and palestinians tend to catch more mass attention that actual photos of people. this made me feel incredibly helpless for a long while, seeing both how people would rather look at a neat drawing of red black green and white than look a human in the eyes, and how online platforms would rather push a viral drawing while suppressing those begging for help at the same time.
a way to cope with this feeling has been taking advantage of it to directly guide people to helping palestinians.
if art gets better traction, then there’s an incredible amount of good that can be done by creating art that immediately links to fundraisers. creating art of the many images of those who are asking for help.
within hours of posting my drawing, there has been jumps in the thousands for bashar from gaza’s fundraiser. it’s a small effort in the grand scheme of things. it’s not a fix it. but it’s something good. please take care of each other and do what you can. i think this could help a lot of people if a lot of people did it.
here is bashar. i’ve drawn him, spoken to him, and known him now for a few months. any shares help, any art helps. draw who you see, draw what you see. thanks all
i think you’re lowballing the furry art amount tbh
I’m sorry for the inaccuracies, Doctor Yiff
no matter how I respond to this I don’t look good, well played. i walked right into that
Well, furry artists are typically more competent and courteous than your average doctor, so I can see that.
Did you just legitimately tell me that a person who draws wolf ass is more competent than a dude who spent 8+ years in a university to give you your lung transplant?
doctors are bullshit and furry artists perform an infinitely more valuable service to society compared to them
You will die in 7 days
It took doctor’s like 10 years to diagnose what was wrong with me, some insisting I was faking for attention while a furry artist I knew just went “that sounds like crohn’s” after hearing me complain once and ended up being right
Also I can’t go to a doctor and ask them to draw Rouge the Bat wider than she is tall with tits to match, now can I
i think you’re lowballing the furry art amount tbh
I’m sorry for the inaccuracies, Doctor Yiff
no matter how I respond to this I don’t look good, well played. i walked right into that
Well, furry artists are typically more competent and courteous than your average doctor, so I can see that.
Did you just legitimately tell me that a person who draws wolf ass is more competent than a dude who spent 8+ years in a university to give you your lung transplant?
doctors are bullshit and furry artists perform an infinitely more valuable service to society compared to them
You will die in 7 days
It took doctor’s like 10 years to diagnose what was wrong with me, some insisting I was faking for attention while a furry artist I knew just went “that sounds like crohn’s” after hearing me complain once and ended up being right
Also I can’t go to a doctor and ask them to draw Rouge the Bat wider than she is tall with tits to match, now can I
“Not intentionally. Ghosts are just drawn to me. I’m a ghost sponge. A ghost magnet. When I’m hired to check out a haunted house, I walk in and take all the ghosts with me when I leave. And if it turns out there’s a demon the ghosts eat ‘em. It’s a very efficient system.”
“…Say that last part again.”
“The ghosts eat the demons. Like a pack of hyenas taking down a wildebeest. I’ve seen the ghost of a 90-year-old Ukrainian babushka tear apart a demon with her teeth.”
“Wouldn’t that be the other way around? I thought demons would be more powerful than ghosts.”
“One ghost, sure. But they’re never prepared to take on fifty ghosts at once. Especially if I bring Olga.”
i think you’re lowballing the furry art amount tbh
I’m sorry for the inaccuracies, Doctor Yiff
no matter how I respond to this I don’t look good, well played. i walked right into that
Well, furry artists are typically more competent and courteous than your average doctor, so I can see that.
Did you just legitimately tell me that a person who draws wolf ass is more competent than a dude who spent 8+ years in a university to give you your lung transplant?
doctors are bullshit and furry artists perform an infinitely more valuable service to society compared to them
You will die in 7 days
It took doctor’s like 10 years to diagnose what was wrong with me, some insisting I was faking for attention while a furry artist I knew just went “that sounds like crohn’s” after hearing me complain once and ended up being right
Also I can’t go to a doctor and ask them to draw Rouge the Bat wider than she is tall with tits to match, now can I
It’s amazing how much baking you can do when you follow all the goddamn directions. Baking is not a category in which you can fuck around unless you have tons of experience.
today in “google AI is fucking useless because it hallucinates things that never happened”, i bought a couple CVS thermometers that have both been acting up, tried to search if there had been a problem with the whole product line:
there is no record of this product recall. it did not happen. the date “feb 8 2024” is the date someone listed a thermometer for sale on ebay.
Google’s trying to save you the time spent clicking on a site full of AI-generated SEO garbage by presenting the AI-generated garbage right up front! Such efficiency.
I was under the impression that we did know why: AI isn’t actually a brain and can’t actually think or understand information, so it has no concept of something being true or not, or what markers indicate truth or falsity, or how to synthesize information. It’s putting a bunch of words in a jar, shaking the jar, and then dumping it out, and acting like that means the jar knows how to talk.
Like, in this case, OP asked for information about a recall. The AI knows that, throughout the entire internet, the word “recall” usually is surrounded by information like a date or a number, so it gives you a date and a number. It doesn’t know what a date is or what it’s for or what it means. (It also apparently doesn’t know the difference between “recall” as in “removing a dangerous product from the shelves” and “recall” as in “remembering,” since it smooshes the two together)
what’s that thing again that you can put into ublock that blocks all the ai results from google?
[ID mostly by @homunculusalphonse : A photo of the Google search results for the phrase “cvs thermometers recall”: “On February 8, 2024, CVS Health recalled its rigid tip digital thermometer with memory recall and fever alarm. The thermometers have a memory recall feature that stores the previous temperature. The item number for the recall is 375235991489.” Both the links attached to this text are from eBay and Pinterest. This module does say “AI overviews are experimental”, in much smaller font. /End ID]
The uBlockOrigin AI blocklist above is super helpful y’all.
“Autistic people need special accommodations” and “autistic people should not be infantilized and talked down to” are schools of though that can and should co-exist.
btw the thing she couldn’t ignore was someone calling her out for saying anti-depressants/hormone therapy are only perscribed by lazy doctors
Update:
J.K. Rowling is apparently now filing a defamation lawsuit against someone who made fun of her for saying this, which means its time to spread this like wildfire!
In fact the organic protest was carried out by a teenage Claudette Colvin. She was dark skinned and pregnant so the NAACP didn’t want to use her as the face for the movement. It was mostly for their image-based activism but also it protected her. She still got involved with the movement though just not front and center.
She’s alive today. None of the horrors and indignities we faced are that long ago and many are still ongoing.
im able to understand the humor in the cyber truck sucking ass in a historical context. as though i am from the future. imagine learning about this. the first “cyber truck” just sucks absolute dick. people mistake it for a dumpster. it will kill you if it has the opportunity. this is a futurama gag.
alright, making a second post just because of how wretched the experience of me trying to find a job has been
it has been close to a year since i was fired from my previous job, and i haven’t been able to find work since so i have been living off my savings for that long.
Despite that i have been doing my best to actually enjoy what i can in life, even if that has meant making financial decisions that realistically would’t be the best at the moment.
My visit to my girlfriend helped the building stress that i have had since then but unfortunately it has returned with seeing just how hard it is to get a job. It would’ve been nice i didn’t have to exchange that joy for shortening how long i can still say i have money
I know my savings won’t last forever, and especially since there is a planned *move* over to her some time in the near future. I would prefer to have the option to go without too much hassle or burdening those who i am living with with too many of the things i can’t bring. That’s just assuming my savings will even last long enough for it to stay a real consideration instead of it turning back into something that was once impossibly far away.
I hate how the more time goes by it starts feeling more and more impossible for me to be back safely. I know it’s safer for me there and it just highlighted how alone i feel here, but i am holding n with everything i have until i am back in her arms again and to stay
I don’t regret my actions up to now, but i think that it would be preferred if i could be able to more comfortably say i can at least get to somewhere i want to be instead of this growing hellscape that was both through other’s actions and my own.
I know that the money could go to better places than me, and likewise i hate asking to begin with, but here’s a ko-fi link: https://ko-fi.com/a_sentient_cup
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