you’re pushing the “But on the other hand most hard quality of life indicators are up globally” line but like, the number of negative things you’ve listed is more than the positives.

I mean, it’s almost as if you are manipulating yourself into questioning and rejecting reality*. You should stop doing that

*there is no one word description for this action. Believe me, I looked, and I’d use it if it existed.

am beyond flattered that my name suggestion was chosen, we will watch GAS's career with great interest

fwiw i attribute this to the stop doing x meme (that I believe skillissuer is referencing):

been thinking about making one for (memory) safe c++, but unfortunately I don’t know the topic deep enough to make the meme good

Ugh. Tangentially related: a streamer I follow has been getting lots of people in her chat saying that one of the taters wants to hire her. I've started noticing comments like "I love white culture" and weird fantasies about the roman empire. Historically she's also been asked multiple times what her ethnicity is (she is white), specifically if she is scandanavian, which I am starting to view under some kind of white supremacist lens. I've told her to ignore anything mentioning the taters or "top g" as one of them is known.

Honestly, I'm worried that she could get brigaded by these creeps, even if she shows no response whatsoever.

obligatory IBCK.

stop gaslighting yourself

This is great.

What I’ve heard from my endless hours of comedy podcasts is that at corporate gigs like this, sometimes some execs start getting the idea that, because comedy is being performed, that they get to make some jokes too. Once they get up on stage, the worst possible mask off shit just pours forth. I kind of want to know if that happened.

A wallpaper app? What is this, 2008?

Chinese whisper

Complete tangent but outside of the commonwealth, this game is referred to by the much less racist moniker “telephone”

ATTN: If you're coming into this thread to say, "The output of AI is bad because your prompts suck," I'm just proud that you managed to figure out how to use the internet at all. Good job, you!

LLMs, and everyone who uses them to process information:

You’re right. We should move onto feeding it orphans