This is real and here is the patent. Nonconsensual data collection is detailed in column #4 on page 17.
Here’s a report on senators looking into this with Kroger and investigating the possibility that companies could use this to raise prices based on the age, gender, race, income and other customer info.
What if water didn’t have surface tension and whenever you spilled some, the whole floor of your entire apartment was covered in a 2 micrometer deep puddle
Don’t give CPR to wild animals: a thing you wouldn’t think you’d have to tell people but apparently you do. 💀
Also while I’m at it: keep your cats indoors so they can’t kill (or be killed by) wildlife.
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that was an incredible google rabbit hole I just went down, good god
From the comments:
“If your cat damaged another animal enough it stopped breathing, it’s dead. You’re not calling the little bunny ambulance and taking it to the little bunny trauma bay. It’s DEAD. It did not have a little bunny heart attack that you need to give it little bunny chest compressions until you get the little bunny defibrillator and shock it until you get a little bunny perfusing rythym it’s DEAD JIM your cat KILLED IT.”
people like to bring up things like “all your loved ones would die before you” as a concern re: immortality. But the real danger for me would be that i’d literally never get anything done again. I’d adopt the elvish lifestyle immediately. Not doing anything in a week that could be done in a century. Not getting anything done in a century that can be done in 10 centuries. Spending the next 100 years reading 1 book very slowly because i have infinite time and don’t care.
“sounds like a tomorrow problem! :)” - me several centuries in a row.
“fish don’t even know theyre wet” and? you don’t even know youre luft (air equivalent of wet)
This is a really good example of how we can just make up words that work. “Luft” is a perfect word for this it feels correct and we understand and can feel it.
Like it would’ve necessarily work with other words but “luft” is a combination of sounds that means luft (air equivalent of wet).
Thank you but the reason it works is because it is a deliberately chosen word!
The closest word we have in English for ‘wet but with air’ would be ‘aerated’, which is the past principle of the verb ‘aerate’. As a multi syllable Latin derived word, aerated wouldn’t feel equivalent to wet even if you just used it as an adjective in a sentence- so to have something that feels like ‘wet’ I looked for a monosyllabic air-related word with a German root.
As many have pointed out in the notes, ‘Luft’ means air in a lot of languages, because it comes from the proto-Germanic word ‘luftuz’. It’s also used in English as a chess term, and is a doublet of ‘loft’. Because it’s rare in conversational English but has the right etymology to evoke the idea of air and the texture of ‘wet’, it is very easily appropriated for the concept of ‘air equivalent of wet’.
would much like to point out that the people publishing these articles are trying to needle millennials into treating gen z with the same disgusting vitriol we were treated with.
don’t buy it.
our younger brothers and sisters might eat a tide pod and get us blamed for it, but we have more in common with them than we ever had with boomers or gen x.
they are terrified of the things we can do together. remember that.
This goes for Gen Z too. Don’t buy into bullying gen Alpha, they are literally kids. I know most of you probably don’t but I’ve unfortunately seen it a few times and it makes me sad.
GUMROAD IS BANNING NSFW CONTENT IN THE NEXT 24 HOURS
I haven’t seen anyone talk about this yet, so I might as well.
They’ve updated their content policy to comply with payment processor Stripe and Paypal’s censorhip. They gave 24 hours. On March 16th 2024, Gumroad TOS will no longer allows sales of any written or drawn nsfw content.
This is going to hurt for so many creators. Giving that little time leaves people’s source of income wildly unstable, especially with such a huge overhaul of what content is allowed.
I hate this. I hate what censorship is turning the internet into. I hate that nsfw content creators keeo getting pushed to the fringes, that they need to digitally migrate so often, because nowhere can be trusted to allow their art for long.
I don’t know what to do next, there isn’t some sort of “here’s what you can do to help!” People just deserve to know.
Edit: wow this blew up. i dont have anything to promote but i made a response to the most common replies ive gotten to this as well as my thoughts on the direction the web has been heading. you can read it here if you like <3
[Image ID: A screenshot of the youtube popup that appears if you use an ad blocker. It consists of a title, then three bullet points, then two buttons. It has been modified to read: Going to pee during the ad break violates YouTube’s Terms of Service
it looks like you selfishly left the room while our ads were playing. Don’t you know that by watching youtube you entered into a contract?
We killed the competition by operating at a loss for a decade. we paid good money to be the only game in town.
now that there are no other options, we can start to make that money back however we like. So turn your webcam on so our advertisers know you’re paying attention
The two buttons read “let us program your brain” and “foot the bill directly” /.End ID]
10 pounds says terfs start arguing men have an unfair advantage in knitting next
I know im being “that guy” but he’s crocheting. He is not knitting. He is holding a hook and crocheting. Look at the fabric. He is not knitting. Wtf has he got in his mouth tho…
I think it’s a tapestry needle? Mother fucker might be that one person that sews in ends in as he goes.
That would make sense. Good for him!
The fact that a terf said “taking women jobs in the home” proves my point terfs are just the political branch of the trad wife movement
People who actually love crafts: how could the headline confuse knitting with crocheting? Uh, oh, whats he doing with that other needle? What’s he crocheting? Do you think he sews in ends as he goes??? Wish I could crochet during an Olympic event
Terfs: men are occupying our SACRED knitting spaces inside our HOMES
walkable cities also means sittable cities send tweet
some people are responding to this like its a joke and im going to assume u are the type of people to say “its only a 3 minute walk” when i tell them the nearest bench is too far away
also anyone who thinks “3 minutes isnt THAT bad” you will be old one day. and you will wish the bench was closer
Any wizard wanna trans a cis man’s gender so he can properly cosplay his female fursona. I’d make a great bunnygirl
or a witch. I’ll take anything tbh.
I really would abuse the hell out of magic to be the most genderfluid motherfucker possible just for cosplays. But as it stands magic is only fictional (for now). Hence why one of my fursonas is a different gender than me, it’s just fun to think about
so i left the mormon church as a teenager (15ish? 16?), but stayed in attendance until i was 20. i was pretty up front about the whole deciding-it-wasnt-true process with my bishop, who frankly took it really well, but it wasnt like i pulled all 150 ward members aside and had a heart to heart with them. anyway, i didnt believe, so at 19 i didnt go on a mission, and while some people in the ward were totally fine with that, others werent. and there was one woman in her late 50s who pulled me aside one day to interrogate me why i hadnt gone on a mission.
“the duty of every young man” she said.
and the thing is, im autistic. and a lot of people assume that when youre autistic, your social skills just arent very good. but thats not exactly true. your Be Polite skills are kind of eh, and they tend to stay that way, but as a sort of survival mechanism your Be Rude skills become amazing simply because you get put in tons of situations where your choices are to Function or Be Polite. and no one can choose Be Polite forever. the world demands function, it merely encourages politeness.
anyway, it can really catch neurotypicals by surprise, because hey, heres this kind of awkward, graceless guy, who stumbles over his words a lot and is very apologetic. hes probably a huge pushover. but i’m only like that when we’re playing The Polite Game, because i am frankly kind of bad at it. but when its time to play The Rude Game, i go fucking ham and asking about the not-going-on-a-mission thing is Super Rude. so i said:
“sister hadlock… they wont let me go because i lit-er-ally cannot stop sucking dicks. i dont know why, its just so, so hard.”
*dramatic pause*
“also - its very difficult to stop.”
anyway, it almost killed her. i think she’d expected to just kind of steamroll me for the entire conversation, but the answer crushed her soul. instead of continuing her interrogation she made a noise like a horse drowning in a bog and left.
to add insult to injury, she went to the bishop after that, thinking he’d chew me out for being an ass, but instead he chewed her out for not minding her own business. then she went to my parents after that, who basically went “yeah, babylon was pretty rude. but youre also pretty rude. what are you, mad that he’s better at it than you?”
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