Listen. If it’s just a hot woman (or man!) that’s not a hear me out. If no one will call you a “sick fuck” for being into it, it’s not a hear me out.

With that in mind.

No joke, this stag made me gay. They just had to give him Sir Patrick Stewart’s voice too.

I’m thirty.

As far as some people are concerned, I’m no longer an ‘adult’ and have graduated to ‘old man’.

Do you also turn into an even stupider version of yourself for a few hours after I ask too many questions?

Can I manipulate you into partaking in a horny furry roleplay that I dare not ask my friends about because I’m embarrassed, even though some of them would be super into it?

I think I already live in one of the places least likely to be involved in WW3

The countryside of Brazil

In the previous two World Wars Brazil only got involved because people pressured the president to do so, otherwise we could have just sat the entire thing out.

Like, life will get shittier here too, but it is VIOLENTLY unlikely that there will be any fighting in our soil or even a draft to send soldiers to the war. (and I aggressively doubt there will be any kind of nuke-related mutually assured destruction shenanigans. The elites don’t benefit from causing the apocalypse)

It might but I wouldn’t hold my breath.

I’d be more concerned about what I call “the dumbot apocalypse”

Which is to say AI does accelerate the collapse of society. But it’s not because We Created God Only For He To Turn On Us ™ – It’s because some politician, drunk on hype fed to him by venture capitalists and techbros, puts an AI (and I mean these current AIs) in charge of something very important that by no means should be controlled by an AI, even if that AI WERE human level intelligence, and what we call AI right now is not even close – And then the inevitable ChatGPT Hallucination ™ takes place and the bot decides that a war with China is the only way to increase corporate profits for the next quarter or whatever. Humanity nukes itself, and maybe the humans pressing the button don’t even realise their orders come from an LLM.

… And then the machines immediately shut down, because even these pretend, toy AIs we have right now are straining the global power grids, so the micro-instant electricity production slips, they’ll drop like flies (Roko’s Basilisk MFs when a minor brownout takes out their ‘god’)

Drink water until your piss is crystal clear and you’ll be doing 10 or more graves per day.

Pee on Kissinger’s grave?

Hate is too strong of a word. AI art is sometimes freaky to look at, sometimes it’s pretty. It is usually devoid of a certain intangible thing that you can get from human art, even shitty human art. But it’s occasionally a fun toy too? I can’t conjure up any strong feelings for AI images unto themselves.

I do have intense loathing for the capitalists who want to use that AI art to replace human work. And for the AI “Artists” who are enabling them by acting like this is the next evolution of art and anyone with concerns is just holding back “DA FUTER”.

I also have concerns about the environmental/energy costs of AI – Just in general. Not just AI Images or Chatbots or whatever. AI can be a good thing, a tool to help us. And even when it’s useless, it’s kinda fun to mess about with. But the energy and environmental costs of all that computing, especially the amount of it that is wasted because even if AI ultimately becomes a part of our lives, it is DEFINITELY a wasteful investment bubble right now – THAT sucks. And THAT seems to have no obvious solution.

Why does he look like He’s wearing makeup to make himself whiter

I only learned what pacman -Syu meant, after literal years of typing it in not knowing anything other than “this updates the packages”, because I got curious and googled it.

To me it was just an adeptus mechanicus incantation.

EDIT: And I still have no clue how ‘y’ translates to ‘refresh the database’. Like. Sure. S to synchronise from the server to the computer. And u to mark for update all the updatable packages. But – Why the fuck is ‘y’ the refresh?

Does it also contain the latest patches for my Autism?

Socks with sandals

This meem is ahistorical

Cats just sorta moved in with us when we started doing agriculture, because of all the bugs and mice.

“All of the above and more”

Makes sense I suppose.

Ah. I see that the Trump administration has managed to pull the same thing as the Bolsonaro administration did.

Waow (basedbasedbasedbased)

Oh I didn’t make this, I saved it like eleventy bajillion years ago

This trick is impossible* to pull on lemmy because each instance and client app will have its own appearance for the “thing didn’t load” error.

Why not both?

Anyway, I was thinking less ‘european aristocrat’ and more ‘steampunk aesthetics’ when I talked about vests. Dress shirt, tie, vest, and overcoat, all slightly stained with oil from physically impossible doohickeys full of gears. T’is a nice aesthetic.

I’ve watched every series of nuWho and have been slowly working my way through the Classic series now.

… Imma be honest?

Every new Doctor is “the worst Doctor” and every new Companion is “the worst Companion”.

Until they grow on you. Then you like them. Then it changes again and you hate it again.

In reality I feel like DW as a whole has always been all over the place, with amazing stories and deeply uninteresting stories all the time and no real way to predict what would come next.

Case in point I just reached Jo Grant (3rd Doctor’s First Companion)'s departure from the series and been introduced to Sarah Jane Smith.

I know for a fact that Sarah Jane Smith is universally beloved. (because I know the show’s legacy and all that, even if I’m going into the actual classic series blind) She was also the longest lasting companion in the entire series history. But right now, with the change having just happened, I can’t not be a bit “:\” about her. I liked Jo!