private/self-hosted smtp servers i imagine. it just doesn’t strike me that these email services that offer free inboxes would be any good for privacy concerns (proton mail, tutanota, whatever). but they’re good to sign up for shit i suppose.
these takes are weird, Somerton was being cited as an authority on queer topics outside of the youboob sphere, which makes his takedown a bit more bigger than a beef between online types. dude was not only a plagiarist, he was also a known falsifier. it’s just plain old academic dishonesty, the sort of thing that would make the news if this had happened on an actual campus. we’re now in an era where bonafide pundits are taking fucking video essays at face value, B-list celebs like Neil Gaiman find out Hbomb uploaded a new video hours after it gets posted. Somerton’s channel was going to be his platform towards building a movie studio ffs. we’re in a new world where youtube is mainstream and things that happen there are now felt in meatspace.
*1960s voice* i hate my wife
he’s jewish
i bought the thing because the cans look kinda cool tbh, not even the tea shit, the sparkling water which is virtually indistinguishable from any other sparkling water brand except 3x more expensive. it’s rare that i come across liquid death on the shelves anyway so it’s not like something i’m going to keep buying. it’s just a novelty item mostly.
insofar as jesus was crucified in order to deliver humanity from sin, god gave up his own son, which is reflected in the ritual of the eucharist: jesus’ blood and flesh gives sustenance to his church. i think it’s a cool ritual personally, i’m not sure if other religions have the sacrifice of its own prophet as a foundational belief.
technology never seizes to amaze me
yeah they noticed there wasn’t a significant difference between zoomers and millenials, which why would it exist, they’re on average a decade apart, it really isn’t a huge unsurmountable gap. spongebob has been on the air for far longer than this, so we mostly consumed the same cultural artifacts during our formative years. i’m not as cynic as to say it is completely useless, but the gaps between generations are arbitrarily short and thus they become meaningless
I think (white) boomers did have a significantly different experience compared to every other generation irt to access to material wealth, but I believe this is strictly US phenomena lol (Mexico doesn’t have this overwhelming conservative slant among old people, at least not in electoral terms). Then again, it is significant enough as to not be a completely useless I suppose.
It’s just so irresistible, like a giant zit you just wanna pop it
I think it should be noted, that some of the members on the board of OpenAI are literally just techno-priests doing actual techno-evangelism, their job literally depends on this new god and the upcoming techno-rapture being perceived as at least a plausible item of faith. I mean it probably works as any other marketing strategy, but this is all in the context of Microsoft becoming the single largest company stakeholder on OpenAI, likely they don’t want their money to go to waste paying a bunch of useless cultists so they started yanking Sam Altman’s chain. The OpenAI board reacted to the possibility of Microsoft making budget calls, and outed Altman and Microsoft swiftly reacted by formally hiring Altman and doubling down. Obviously most employees are going to side with Microsoft since they’re currently paying the bills. You’re going to see people strongly encouraged to walk out from the OpenAI board in the upcoming weeks or months, and they’ll go down screaming crap about the computer hypergod. You see these aren’t even marketing lines that they’re repeating acritically, it’s what’s some dude desperately latching onto their useless 6 figure job is screaming.
it’s horrible and bitter so only hipsters drink it (argentinians drink it too but it’s some sort of masochistic national symbol) and it’s a special brand of unauthentic if you buy it canned. actually i’m just guessing i have no idea what sort of stereotype these obscure wojaks are making fun of and tbh as a society we shouldn’t be making more of them.
Oh fuck that’s the board I was thinking about, it wasn’t askreddit lmao
journal of controversial ideas? no thanks i already can go browse r/askreddit
he literally said people have a moral obligation to not vote for Biden
chat did he say this, it seems to me that only democratic party insiders are the ones framing this in moral terms. conditioning your vote is really the only avenue you have (if you choose to stick to the electoral apparatus) to actually influence the agenda. do they know dems compromise with republicans all the time? if you forsake what little input you actually have and keep giving democrats carte blanche in every single election, you are pretty much just voting for the same republican agenda with a delayed timelapse for its execution.
At this point, does it even matter what their spin doctors and their strategic autopsies conclude? If an electoral system only presents two options against genocide: feverish support, or guilty complicitness then it’s fucking useless, it belongs in the garbage. It sucks that it took me a genocide to really really recognize how useless partisan electoralism is, because it’s hard to dispell the illusion that maybe it’ll give you some crumbs if the right guy comes along. Nope, not even in the face of genocide will it cede an inch.
It’s so funny to me that british cuisine is basically anything that is slapped together from the pantry
I discovered an incredible dinner, it’s basically microwaved potato and tuna lol, but like with shitton of paprika, garlic , pepper and a modest amount of olive oil. this is it. my boy dinner.
i mean while capitalism is certainly horrifying, you can understand its methods and material constraints and even study them and write a whole 3 tome book about how it instrumentalizes life itself. cosmic horror has a sublime trait to it, it’s not just that the universe is cruel, is that its reasons why it subjects terror onto you are just beyond your grasp, and so you imagine that maybe there’s even more unfathomable cruelty on its ways that you haven’t been subjected to yet. in lacanian terms, it’s an otherness so radical it resists symbolization, in a way capitalism just does not. only someone as racist as lovecraft, so neurotically terrified of the abstract otherness of foreign people could’ve authored this cthulhu crap lol. i think our lives are just becoming very secular and cynical. maybe materialism has really taken over everything, even over the hapless mystics who have turned spirituality into a commodity, and we can wonder no more. in itself a horror, yes.
oh right right i forgot about that lol