Maple Walnut FTW

Anything that has an intransparent, engagement driving, ad laden algorithm that determines what you do and don’t see is thoroughly unappealing to me. At least now that I’m a little more tech savvy and anti-corporate.

Hear hear. Under the guise of Engagement, corporations have weaponized algorithms to maximize the time you spend on their platforms, and it’s absolutely been a race to the bottom, prioritizing Outrage above all else. Hard pass, thanks.

Corporate goals don’t align with that of users like they used to.

I thought everything went crooked the day Harambe died

Oooof, too true

It’s meant as a comparison in terms of Moral Crusades via Prohibition tactics. I have a feeling that a “ban” on pornography will likely end the same way, with hyperbolic responses and lives disrupted to no positive resolutions. But it really seems untenable as a concept, that genie is so far out of the bottle that there is no bottle anymore; only the whole entire internet

Hilarious. As if this could ever actually be instituted nationwide. Regulations on sale and access maybe, but moral crusades like this are perpetually doomed to failure, much like the War on Drugs.

Doesn’t mean they won’t try, won’t posture, won’t grandstand about it, but to actually succeed in this goal when over 50% of the populace isn’t going to be behind it? I guess we’ll just have to watch them try.

Haven’t been to Reddit since the API changes last summer. I’m trying my best to be a good Lemmite but I don’t post enough OC, so that’s my bad

Worth checking out the Search Engine podcast about Kratom & Tianeptine, “The Mystery of the Vape Shop Kratom”. It’s absolutely nuts that this stuff has zero oversight

The Verge basically just copied the notes from the Behind the Bastards episodes about Curtis Yarvin. A frustrating experience to listen to, and read about as well considering how Yarvin is so very full of bad ideas

I would love to hear more about this. Those books are SO long

Pffft

Just go barefoot everywhere

Shoes. Indoors, in your own house, on your furniture?!

I believe that it exists as a concept. That’s what you’re asking, right?

Depends on the brand. If it was secretly manufactured by any particular nation’s secret military service, then Maybe.

Microplastics

Tough to take that bet now that death threats seem to be part of the playbook

Thanks! I was intending for it to be more of a shitpost, but I guess I’m not very good at those, it turns out

Lol whoops, I meant to give a wrong answer, my bad

1. Pick some friends that you like
2. Download “I Am Never Going To Give You Up” by Rick Roll
3. Put the song on the disk in very low quality .mp3
4. Give the disks away as “fun, retro” drink coasters
5. Watch as they use the coasters, unaware that you Rick Rollered them

My car is brown.

The first time I brought it home without telling my wife the color, she was unimpressed and said that it was “shart colored”.

We immediately named it “El Sharto”, and 5 years later the name has stuck