Especially when the worst that could happen is nothing which is exactly what’s going to happen if OP says no. Literally can’t go backwards no matter what, but it’s possible they could go forward.

Well…unless something psycho happens, I guess. Then OP will suffer greatly, go very backward, traumatised for life etc. etc. etc…

Nah, they’ll be fiiiine.

How is this not the Idiocracy timeline? I’d anything it feels like the pace of the “dumbing down” is too fast.

You can also filter out keywords like Trump, Elon, GOP, etc. Generally this excludes shit from their little tribal conflict but retains post that could be of interest.

I’ve never seen that. But I see a lot with some massive logo decal blocking the back window on what’s definitely not a company car .

“As the head of a religion that claimed your religion as our own and made it all about the gentiles, stop, mmkay?”

Bet they don’t even like horses, let alone plying hockey with them.

God damn, that nails it.

Well, ackshually…

Eh, I can’t be bothered looking it up, but knot theory in mathematics, we’re at like 56M combinations or some insane number possibly many millions above or below that.

It’s a weirdly interesting area of mathematics lol

I think Vance would then flip on everything Trump failed at and refer to his historical ctions to say, “I was never about that”, appealing to a lot of short-term thinkers on the back of a large angry mob familiar with him and are looking to redeem their egos. And he seems to be kind of playing that. He can’t be too loud else he’ll lose favour, hence he’s been around a long time when most others are well and truly discarded by now.

I just imagine them also woob-woob-woobing off to freedom Zoidberg-style.

Unpopular opinion, but Vance is actually quite clever. He’s ambitious and plays the game well. His history is riddled with sucking onto whatever’s doing well. When he was younger it could be argued he was actually a good person at times, but ambition took over and he’s certainly a prime candidate for any devil wanting a cheap soul.

If this shit continues, he’ll do well out of it because he plays his cards well. He knows when to be the idiot that throws people under the bus for personal gain, he knows when to be the idiot that throws himself under the bus for being valued internally, he knows when to say the right things at the right time to weirdly seem sensible at times. Then out of no where “slips up” to make chaos.

The dude seems to be a cunning fox when you actually look at the big picture over time. Every time he does something stupid, I’m sure it’s intentional. It’s either that or he’s improbably fucking lucky and Americans are dumber than we realised.

Ah, so through these judges, Trump’s protecting Obama and Hillary but trying not to let MAGA know. Couldn’t be anything else at this point, right? Right?

…with nothing but their logo on it. So you can be a literal walking advertisment but you paid them to do so. For a $8 shirt that sells for $35, but is $70 with their logo on it.

Nothing says, “I’m really dumb with money” more than sportswear that has no practical use beyond general clothing.

I’ve done similar before and was still blown away by the bad data.

Somewhat unrelated, but still a hell of a story in the power of human input into data…

Working in the healthcare industry during COVID, federal law had 18,000 of our employees required to submit proof of vaccination to continue working in our hospitals and clinics. All they had to do was get their vaccination certificate PDF off the government website, type in their staff number, and upload the form, we then submit this information as the employer to confirm that these people do indeed work for us and are safe to continue doing so.

56% managed to do it. The rest were all sorts of shit. Most common were people that took photos of their computer screen, converted the photo to PDF, and uploaded that. Next most common was people print the PDF, scan it, then upload the scan PDF.

We had thought of everything to make a simple download then upload as easy as possible, including a 3 step video, and yet they went above and beyond in unimaginable ways. The people that genuinely didn’t know what to do hit the support link so they could be guided through it and did things perfectly in a couple mins—the self-confessed computer illiterate people were not a problem at all.

Thanks to training a form detection bot, I got it down to under 2000 remaining in a day, and the looming threat of “You have to do this or we can’t legally give you work and pay you until you do” quickly sorted out the rest.

People will ALWAYS fuck things up in ways you’ve never thought of before. Reading the short, clear, and user friendly instructions for the simple job doesn’t work and they’ll get angry that something went wrong, every fucking time.

Americans love their camoflauge and tactical gear. Two entirely impractical things in 99% of situations, but deep down boys love to play dress-ups.

The father/son thing makes it extra cute but there’s cooler things to bond over.

They throw weirder shit on the NHL ice. Usually sea creatures, but plenty of other animals and random obkects too.

But, yes; someone could retaliate by throwing a fleshlight onto the court in an NBA game. People would probably find that fun though.

Kennedy is generally opposed to vaccines, but he is particularly hostile to mRNA-based vaccines

I reckon the mistake was calling them mRNA vaccines. Yes, that’s what they are, but RNA sounds scawy and vaccines cause autism and homosexuality, so something with some razz to it would be the right call…

“What’s going on here?! Is that an RNA experiment?”

“Umm. It’s a-… Um … Elixir.”

“Oh, I see. And how does it work?”

"…universe stuff. It’s complicated, sir. Sugar, nitrogen, phosphate… "

"Indeed. I’ve seen those on a cereal boxes before, and nitrogen is from that racing movie with the pretty women. What’s it do?

“It’s for…um…mosquito bites. Also a good degreaser. Jenkins has it in his head it cures viruses too, ha. We’d obviously have to test first.”

“I like that Jenkins. Which viruses?”

" The annoying ones."

“What about viruses that put thoughts about a person’s daughter in their head all the time?”

“…Sure.”

rolls up sleeves “Give it to me. Right above the lamprey hickey there’s a good vein. You’re doing good work here, son. We’ll up the budget to get this Elixir of the Universe out to the shamans.”

Knowing Athens artists, the envoy just fanned the flames big time. The city’s world famous for its protest graffiti and is absolutely covered in it. It’s part of the charm.

It is an em-dash. So it’s like George says “That should be techno” and has the random thoughts of “phobia”.

And, yep, the LLMs use them incorrectly too. ChatGPT notoriously.

It’s a testament that no one’s been hurt by AI generated recipes yet. Even our dumbest aren’t that dumb.

“Wait a second… Ya know what? I don’t think 5W40 is canola.”