On a TV.

Are you mad?

Sword: Part of an ritual where sweaty muscular men grunt and scream alot while thrusting hard long objects into each other.

I don’t think swords have ever been not gay.

Thats… Thats like a flat earther in computer stuff.

Do those really exist??

It’s different because it’s not a bell, and it’s not white people making the noise. Stupid question.

don’t make me cry.

A BBC journalist ran the image through an AI chatbot which identified key spots that may have been manipulated.

WTF?

Doesn’t the fucking BBC have at least 1 or 2 experts for spotting fakes? RAN THROUGH AN AI CHATBOT?? SERIOUSLY??

This is a pet peeve of mine: Scientific terms (“ritual” in this case) that also are commonly used in everyday language, but have a slightly-to-massively different meaning between the two worlds.

This “ritual” vs. “ritual” is a harmless example (that only annoy archeologists, which is fair, because they are overusing this even if you understand it as scientific term) but if you watch (early) Jordan fucking Peterson talks, he does this extensively; using Psychology-specific scientific terms that are misunderstood by the public, and he and his crowd are both too stupd to notice. (nowadays, he is just spewing insane bullshit, so, no more confusion there)

if you haven’t, you should play Legend of Grimrock (1&2)

It seems my moving away from major tech companies is working well, I didn’t even notice there was an outage (again).

Just ignore them. That’s what I do, doesn’t work at all, is a terrible idea, doing it anyway. Also only read the topic, not the post, probably contains sad shit, don’t want that currently. Too busy ignoring shit in my own life.

sure. ready. can’t even beat a thrid rate former part of it’s own empire.

Ridiculous.

I’ll admit it. I can feel that vibe and I don’t totally disagree.

I CAN BE BOTH!

Hey Anon, you did great!

In this situation, as in many in life, Judo rules apply: Go with the punch, don’t push against it.
This was a win, you just need to recognize it as that.

• you proved yourself that you have lots of courage
• you were not a creep when talking to a stranger
• you dodged a bullet with that woman.
• you tried something new. (might not have worked out at the first try, but can’t really expect to be that lucky)

keep it up, don’t lose heart, you’ll find your match.

uff. this is very hard.

I’m sure there is a Mastodon joke in there somewhere.

This is a genuine “mind blown” moment for me. I will now need some time to process this.

nods or cake.

Milk and sugar next week.

Free Crepes.

Waiting is usually not the best option. like, you can wait until the trash goes away on it’s own, but it might take longer than you expect, with consequences you might not.

Just saying…