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Cake day: July 2nd, 2025

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  • i didn’t say earth was special. do you know what it takes for those elements to come together in a way that even begins to approach life? do we ever get brand new single celled organisms that have no relation to anything that currently exists? why does every organism we’ve studied seem to descend from a single ancestor if it’s so easy for life to arise from a barren soup?

    we don’t even know if we arose from that soup. maybe we’re actually the aliens, delivered as a single frozen cell from some asteroid that crashed into earth. maybe! who knows! if people wanna write fanfic about the universe that’s their business, but it’s wildly frustrating how so many people pretend that fic has any scientific basis





  • He didn’t create jack shit. He bought into a wave that had already been rising and took all the credit because it was his money funding the ads. But he got involved late and had little to no involvement in design. He was happy to destroy it because he sees more money in cozying up to this administration, getting regulations relaxed, and getting government subsides for his other investments.

    Just don’t ever give him credit as a creator of any kind. He wrote some shitty early code for PayPal in the 90s or something. That’s the most he’s ever “created.”







  • In before y’all are actually baiting me by pretending to be offended by censored swear words. You got me.

    No, it’s not just you. I’ve never seen so many posts get completely wooshed as I have since I started browsing here. I think my most common “type it out then delete it” comment is typing out an explanation of the joke before remembering that whoever misunderstood it in the first place is not likely to react positively to having it explained.

    Also yeah it’s wild how every single post with a censored word just gets flooded with self important “you can swear on the Internet” comments. Like… ok. Downvote then fuck off if you’re not actually going to engage with the post.

    Honestly I wonder every single day what proportion of posts on this platform are fully automated.






  • To be fair, as the biggest instance, .world deals with the most bots and spam of any instance. Not surprising whatever countermeasures they’ve implemented also involve blocking some VPN-associated addresses; they’ve probably been used by bots before and were blocked due to having been abused, not specifically because they’re associated with a VPN.