I’m aphantasic. Until people started really talking about how they “see” things in their heads, I assumed it was all just a figure of speech. Flashbacks, thought bubbles, daydreams in media… I assumed that was all just, you know, an easy way to get the information across. Now I know you freaks actually see stuff and the mind’s eye isn’t some convenient turn of phrase. Weirdos!

In a similar vein, I have empathy. It is difficult for me to intuitively understand the perspective of someone who doesn’t have any. As an example, it’s hard for me to understand a person who’s exploiting children a la Epstein. And in truth, I don’t want to understand them, either. Even knowing how many of them are the way they are… if I had a little less introspection, I’d probably just default to “they’re just like us.”

I’m not surprised. People thought he was a good guy because he sued Apple and Google, but he did it for his own profit, not for the principle. And now he wants AI slop games for his own profit, too.

Sorry, I wasn’t really trying to say that no one likes doing it, or that those who want to shouldn’t. There are plenty of home chefs, and those of you who love it should absolutely do it to your heart’s content! For those whom it’s about the money, asking people to bring ingredients might work?

But I guess I was reading entitlement into the original statement, a sense of “my aunt used to do it all by herself and now the rest of us are expected to help ugh.”

Food is expensive, but my first thought is that one aunt cooking for twenty people on their own is a shitty model regardless of cost. You were asking your aunt to run a restaurant for an evening. Your aunt probably got too old to do that much work, and the next generation decided that was a bullshit thing to force on a single person.

I’m sure they’ll be powered by gen AI chatbots, so just tell them it would be helpful if they’d get you the water.

“Reddit bans sexually suggestive images of children” that was in 2012. They were still cool with doxing on alt-right subs up until 2017. Were there overzealous mods in 2015? I’m sure there were, but as a whole, Reddit as a platform has historically allowed for an awful lot of shit in the name of free speech.

Admin-led bans were for a minority of things. “Jailbait” bans were admin required. Doxing bans were admin required. Now… Pro-Luigi bans are admin required. Bans when posting about protests being admin required is another step that seeks to alienate the userbase, IMO.

Right, but Reddit’s whole schtick was that it was more of a free speech sort of place, so long as you didn’t do anything overtly illegal. That’s the user base it built. When you get rid of your user base, you typically destroy the site.

Just look at LiveJournal. Chased out the users because they wanted to clamp down on the gays in Russia, and I haven’t heard of anyone with a LiveJournal in over a decade.

“My kid is dead but it’s not as bad as the media is making it out to be.” Wut.

Well, I guess at least that child has been saved from the scourge of autism or something? Those people shouldn’t be parents.

I remember it used to be girls getting this shit. Did we manage to protect them and leave the boys behind? Awful awful awful people out there.

I’m pretty sure Alberta would be its own state. But the rest of Canada is way too liberal for him to give us separate representation.

Are they allowed to talk to him? He’s probably too busy chewing his apples.

It sucks, but we all need to accept that selling to the US is no longer a viable plan. Not short term, and not long term either. I agree with this guy that we should make the new housing tax initiatives require Canadian products where possible though.

Yeah, last I checked, the US has elected school boards that decide what books to allow in libraries. Our school boards used to have tax levying power, so electing them was important, but now? I’m not sure they do much now other than draw salaries and give parents a place to complain, and a proper ombudsman could do that.

In the wake of the shooting, the immediate aftermath, a lot of people suddenly got the health care they’d been denied. It’s true that they didn’t change long term, but for a little while, they did.

It is so horrible to know that these people need to be actually afraid or they’ll continue to hurt people.

There were two meeting rooms on the email! (/silly joke)

But don’t they do mass firings by text and just locking you out of your machine these days? The US Aid workers were left stranded for a while— not sure if they got help getting back or just got abandoned and had to get friends and family to pitch in for flights home…

You guys, we have the best opportunity. Next time they hold a Rapture, we all just go completely cold turkey silent for like, three days. Let them all think they’ve been left behind. Then we all come back to social media and the rest of the real world on the third day like, “whoa, that was so cool, what was your favourite part of it?”

Or, I guess, when I start hearing about defenestration being the leading cause of death among CEOs in America.

Sure, sure. I’ll believe it when they actually start doing something to fight him.

At least this indicates the missing people from Alligator Alcatraz are alive. And isn’t that a sentence I would very much like to never, ever say again.

The decline of America is certainly very visible, but if you look at a lot of trends, we’re heading to a bad place. Climate catastrophe is coming for us, and with that, we have the rise of unrest in areas that are becoming more food insecure and/or are being disastered out, creating climate refugees. We’ve got an increase in bellicosity from rich powers trying to stake out claims while they still have time, and the billionaires are all building expensive bunkers…