When an old tv died it was always very understandable. Screen busted. Tubes broke. Animal sick. Smart TVs will have psychosomatic problems that clear within a day. Ur Apple TV gets mental illness.
tech used to die a honourable death of Blow Up The Fuck And Burn The House Down. now its all like waahh wahhhh mommy i camnot update :((
I’ve always had a visceral dislike of what I call “normie theories of democracy.” We are told that democracy works because it provides checks and balances, allows for the peaceful transfer of power, and the correction of mistakes. It takes account of public opinion and gives citizens a say in how they are governed, thus creating some level of social peace.
I used to scoff at these theories. They seemed to be the product of social desirability bias. How convenient that intellectuals who believe in democracy find that it is the best system humans have ever designed.
always a wacky line but when I see things like this I wonder if these people view belief in like, a fundamentally different way
there’s a gap between those two paragraphs though, like I think that peaceful transfer of power is important, as is boosting the perceived legitimacy of government, taking input from public opinion etc. etc. however “the best system humans have ever designed” is a very casual way to sum that up!
there are many democratic societies and they can vary quite widely in the details, so it’s not one single system, and of course there is a big difference between the best system that humans have ever designed and the best system that humans will ever design, it’s not like our current arrangements represent some optimal peak of institutional design as I think everyone would agree.
yea, i thought about it more and it’s very easy to understand now—
—like you can compare a hypothetical benevolent dictatorship to a democracy and it’s unclear which should be favoured if the former was producing better outcomes and how much favouring the latter would be informed by ideological bias towards democracy regardless of practical outcomes
right, in order for a system to be better it has to produce better outcomes, unless you’re so committed to aesthetic or metaphysical principle that you will accept worse outcomes purely for the satisfaction of being punished by something you admire.
as a phrase, “she [x] on my [x] til’ i [x]” only is funny if on either side of a spectrum. either the phrase ends so specific to a sexual action it’s a smart joke (for example, “she strogan me off til i beef” uses the word “beef stroganoff’ but also makes a “stroking off” joke, making it clever wordplay.) or it makes so little sense that it ends up funny from the absurdity of deciphering what type of sexual action could even be taking place. (example: when my roomate the other night asked to hand them a sanpelligrino and then said “she san on my pelli til’ i grino” which begs the question of what ‘sanning’ is, what a ‘pelli’ repersents in terms of human genitalia and what ‘grinoing’ could possibly be.)
glimpse into my beautiful imaginary world where arthropods are really big and we domesticated them
edit: people are starting to say some “my worst nightmare” or “eeeww no that one is yucky and scary” comments on this like they do on any bug post and id like to say. it’s fine if you don’t like bugs it’s fine if you’re scared of bugs but don’t put that on MY post clearly talking about how much i like them and how cute i think they are. you can make your own damn post about how much you hate wasps or spiders or whatever. i’m blocking people who make these kinds of comments.
We met a really friendly cool lady from Argentina at our friend’s house and she asked us if we had seen “THE ANIMAL” from her country, then she showed us photos of a capybara and kept referring to it that way like it’s just The Generic Animal and that is SO true. She also told us all about the time a bunch of The Animals pissed off rich people, which I either overlooked or completely forgot about a couple years ago.
“That’s where the conflict started,” says Marcelo Canton, head of communications for the Nordelta Residents Association. The capybaras—known as “carpinchos” in Argentina—ate up lawns and massacred rose bushes. They caused traffic accidents, knocking delivery drivers from their bikes. Perhaps worst of all, for a country fiercely devoted to pets, the capybaras began to face off with dogs that confronted them on their new territory, causing injuries to both sides. “Dog owners were very upset,” Canton says. “Especially because here, the dogs are mostly French Bulldogs or other small dogs. They can’t defend themselves.”
In July, a group of residents went to the press, griping about a capybara “invasion” and calling for authorities to move the animals out to a nature reserve. The complaints triggered a huge backlash in both Argentine and international media. Viral posts on social media accused Nordeltans of hypocrisy, since their luxury neighborhood is built on the capybara’s historic wetland habitat, with some dubbing the animals “class warriors.” It didn’t help Nordelta’s case that capybaras are extremely cute, with goofy rectangular heads and narrow eyes that make them look permanently sleepy.“
All this time I’ve only seen memes about them being the most chill and friendly of all creatures but really The Animal will fuck up your lawn and then your little dog too :)
if people haven’t seen the memes i recommend them cause they are quite good
HOW DID A BABY TURTLE THE SIZE OF A QUARTER GET INTO OUR LIVING ROOM
absolutely harrowing. it came out from underneath the couch covered in dust. my partner nearly stepped on it, and picked it up thinking it was trash. it was a baby turtle. it stuck its little head out and it was the size of a toothpick. we frantically ran it across the road close to the creek because we don’t know how long it went without food or water under our fucking couch. HOW DID IT GET IN HERE. DID A SHREW GRAB IT FOR A SNACK OUTSIDE AND THEN ABANDON IT UNDER THE COUCH. WHAT HAPPENED.
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THIS GUY?? THIS GUY CAN CLIMB AND HIDE IN MY WALLS??? BABY TURTLE INFESTATION?????
what’s the pink they put in pink lemonade that makes it so poppin
that’s pussy babe!
Is there not a single stock photo of someone drinking pink lemonade that would have been easier than putting a pink cloud over a water bottle
you think i do this shit cause it easy
hi i’m not sure if you’re aware of this but that’s literally what it originated as? like that’s just what it is. hold on let me get the wikipedia page
the story i’ve heard is that it was invented by circuses sort of by accident. a lemonade vendor ran out of water, so they used the tub of water someone had washed their pink tights in. so, traditionally, pink lemonade is flavoured with pussy.
My office divvies up part of our caseload alphabetically, and one of our secretaries just sent me a new file that’s not in my part of the alphabet. Because I’m so very helpful I responded:
Moments later, the printer in my office fired up and spit out this piece of paper:
Imagine it: It’s the 5th of November, 2024 and it’s election day in the US. While everyone is waiting with bated breath for the election results, Jensen Ackles, (in)famous supernatural actor, releases the tapes (unedited recordings of Castiel’s confession scene made with Jensen’s phone). At the same Vladimir Putin drops dead from sudden failure of body that just couldn’t take all the evilness anymore. Everyone is rejoicing when, suddenly, Steven Moffat appears on TV in all countries and announces Sherlock season 5. Furthermore King Charles abolishes the monarchy on a whim, the pope twerks and the mystery of the Mary Celeste is solved once and for all. While you’re processing this information, you remember the ongoing election and learn that Georgia has just turned blue and Kamala Harris is president of the United States. Now, if you can picture all this in your mind, exponentially amplify the feelings you have right now and then you might even get close to feeling what everyone was feeling on DestielPutinElectionDay, November 5th, 2020.
You’re not gonna believe this. The reason my PS5 controllers werent working. Is because there was dust in the charging port. So they weren’t charging properly. So I had to blow into them like an old NES cartridge
For a decade, a beekeeper near Athens, has kept a tradition: every spring, he slips icons of Christ, the Holy Virgin and different saints in his beehives, in order to bless his bees and his yearly honey production. And every year, the very same mysterious phenomenon occurs: bees make their honeycomb cells around the pious images, meticulously avoiding covering them.
what if the bees are actually refusing to touch the holy?
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