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I am not American, so my observations on its politics will be limited and often wrong. Apologies. 33 year old male. Have a good day.
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careful here, next thanksgiving they could transfer the pain to you by forcing you all to play monopoly: cow cum edition
A snipped picture of the game board for a board game titled "Grade Up to Elite Cow". The picture includes four game pieces shaped like cows.
November 27, 2025 at 6:08 AM
I wonder if this grows from video game piracy. Among video gamers, the "pirate every game" mindset has become at the very least morally justified due to horrible anti-consumer decisions by gaming companies. Maybe from there the zeal grows uncontrollably to 'pirate everything'?
Two youtube videos. One is titled "Why It's Morally Okay To Pirate All Of Sony's Games" by Stephanie Sterling. The second one is titled "Piracy is morally correct, actually." by noRugrats.
November 27, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Holy shit

I just asked it to rewrite and translate and it did that. decently, too! And without internet! Whoa

damn i got (at the very least) a rewording/translating program that's completely offline here! I never knew LLMs can work in this weak laptop of mine. Thanks, Mr. Paulauski!
Screenshot from Ollama, showing a prompt and a response. The prompt is: "Alright, I'm going to ask you to rewrite an English passage. Can you make the following passage more formal: After taking a short course in general translation, I grew interested in the time-limited, high-pressure challenges of interpreting, and would like a more formal education. As there is no exclusive interpreting program in Indonesia, I chose to study abroad." The response is: "Okay, let’s elevate that passage to a more formal tone. Here’s a revised version of the text: “Following a preliminary course in general translation, I developed a significant interest in the demanding nature of simultaneous interpreting, and I seek a more comprehensive and rigorous educational opportunity. Given the absence of specialized interpreting programs within Indonesia, I elected to pursue my studies abroad.”
November 25, 2025 at 1:31 AM
It's this.

It's too positive on LBJ to be Caro's work
A screenshot from Google Books showing a 2010 book titled "Who Cares? Public Ambivalence and Government Activism from the New Deal to the Second Gilded Age" by Katherine S. Newman, Elisabeth S. Jacobs
November 15, 2025 at 8:34 PM
I am unfortunately not the type to want a custom ringtone, even when I can buy it by simply sending an SMS to this number written on the television screen. Was it this busy too in US televisions?
A screenshot of an Indonesian music video where about a third of the screen, in the bottom, is covered by garishly colourful boxes. The boxes are each telling the viewer in Indonesian how to purchase the music by sending a certain SMS to a certain phone number.
October 29, 2025 at 3:42 AM
"Americans are so poor they think four nickels, a mere fifth of a single dollar, is a lot."
October 26, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Genuine question: how would you behave in the inevitable cloud of diverging beliefs on AI consciousness, then? Do you lean more towards treating them as conscious, or not?

I am very confused and would like to hear others' views.
Excerpt from chapter 12 of the draft of AI and Consciousness, by Eric Schwitzgebel. Over time, we will reinterpret our uncertain science and philosophy through the new social lenses we construct – perhaps with the help of these AI systems themselves. We will prefer certain interpretations. Lovers of AI companions might yearn to see their partners as genuinely conscious. Exploiters of AI tools might prefer to regard their systems as nonconscious artifacts. More complex motivations and relationships will also emerge, including ones we cannot currently conceptualize. Tenuous science will bend to these motivations. We will favor the theories that support our social preferences. Even when scientific consensus speaks clearly against our preferences, systems can be redesigned to make the evidence conveniently ambiguous. If the leading theories say, for example, that recurrence and self-representation are necessary for consciousness, designers who seek consciousness attribution can add enough recurrence and self-representation to escape easy refutation. Designers seeking instead to deny consciousness can ensure their systems differ enough in material and function to count as nonconscious on some reasonable theories, which then become their favorite theories. The result: We will think we have solved the problem of AI consciousness, even if we have not.
October 10, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Oh? I think even lower-spec laptops can run Fortnite nowadays
A table showing the required specifications to run the game Fortnite on PC in 2025, divided into three tiers: minimum, recommended, and performance mode. As the post is a joke by deliberately misreading the poster's intention, you do not need to actually know the literal details.
October 3, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Thank you for the Mammoth Hog.

I shall repay you with this: Craven Heifer.
Oil painting of a massive cow named Craven Heifer. No your mom jokes are posted here, it's just a gigantic cow. This titanic cow weighs almost 2 tons.
September 10, 2025 at 2:36 AM
A cut screenshot showing a YouTube video from the channel "MinuteEarth" titled "Trash vs. Garbage"
August 10, 2025 at 4:53 AM
When the main leads kiss the theatre clapped hard, and I can hear someone screaming 'finally!' really cool, never heard that kind of reaction before.
August 2, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Is that like this? I grew up eating this. when I was a teen I once found what I thought were maggots in the flesh while eating and after throwing that part out in panic I resumed eating the rest because...because.
Picture of a can of sardines. Its brand is "Ayam Brand".
July 13, 2025 at 12:36 AM
I assume this is the toilet reading
A boxset containing two thick books, titled "Abraham Lincoln: A Life" by Michael Burlingame, volumes one and two
July 4, 2025 at 7:26 PM
I remembered when a Democratic Representative said this and it was controversial, because he told the truth back in the good old days of 2009.
A United States House of Representatives member stood behind a podium next to a huge white card. On the car is written in red letters, all caps: "THE REPUBLICAN HEALTH CARE PLAN:" and in black underlined letters, also all caps: "3. DIE QUICKLY" Source: Former Representative from Florida Alan Grayson. Image is from TPM: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/nrcc-brands-die-quickly-rep-alan-dis-grayson
June 29, 2025 at 8:19 AM
It's all the judges' fault!
Quote from Daniel Farber, professor from University of California: 'It’s too early to assume that the Supreme Court will roll over for him or that he will directly disobey a Supreme Court ruling'. Quote from Adrian Vermeule, professor from Harvard Law School, highly educated idiot: 'The impression of a “constitutional crisis” is misleading. That impression was initially created by overreaching district judges selected by plaintiffs, who obtained temporary victories and leveraged those victories in the media. If there is a crisis, it does not arise from the actions of the administration, but instead from a slew of highly aggressive judicial decisions that have transgressed traditional legal limits on the relationship between the judiciary and the executive branch — limits the courts respected during the Biden administration'.
April 28, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Oh my god it's real, I thought this was an edit

Also this professor makes a lot of videos, like 8-9 5-videos a day? Short, 5 to 9 minutes long, videos, but still.
A screenshot taken from youtube mobile app, showing the videos page of Professor Tim Wilson. There are a list of videos, and at the bottom there is a video titled 'Ukraine may be smarter than putin and possibly smarter'. The full title is cut off.
April 25, 2025 at 10:28 PM
You ended another comedic tv show starring non-realistic dinosaurs with a meteor impact?
A meme image of a well-suited man in glasses from the film Hunt for Red October. The man is saying 'you have lost another submarine' in disbelief.
April 20, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Don't you worry about the trickster god, bane of ill-begotten bravados, sharply suited slayer of stupid schmucks. Derek is wise.
Screenshot of a Twitter conversation. derek guy @dieworkwear imagine driving 2.5 hours to find an asian guy at a store that looks like this Picture of a crowded uniqlo, full of presumably Asian shoppers bill @b__d_b_e Will you actually fight him though? derek guy @dieworkwear the uniqlo is at the stonestown mall, so if he actually arrived, i was going to send him around the mall, like "im in front of anne's pretzels"
April 5, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Yeah, at least it fits with the rest of the icons better
March 11, 2025 at 10:03 AM