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mickey [he/him]

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  • I feel like Musk's brand of quasi liberal inventor-investor Tony Stark Ironman shtick has already kind of worn thin around the time of CTs launch, revealing the freak he always was. Obviously the Tesla brand started getting heat for his closeness to Trump and Musk's own eugenicist etc. politics.

    I do get some satisfaction knowing that the ability of a CT owner to get a reaction out of people is kind of falling off. It seems like primarily only other Musk stans think they're cool, but if you're driving one and randos sneer at you for it at least you can tell yourself you're tirggering the libs. When general audiences just have no reaction, now your status purchase is only worth its usefulness as a vehicle which is probably less than what you paid for it.

  • An older relative recently mused to me how amazing it is that soon ai will put all the world's information at our fingertips! And it's like, no we already have that you just have to have a modicum of curiosity, ai will just digest this down into the most statistically average version delivery of this and allow the models' owners to present their version of consensus reality as something objective bc the slop machine said so. And I've talked to this person multiple times about the enshittification of google search which they agreed they've also seen, so I have to assume they are just seeing ai get glazed up on the legacy media they consume.

  • "Dude is a gender neutral term!" "I call everyone dude!" Is such a real thing where I came up, and any pushback brings up this defensive response instead of a simple correction on terms. And that's just for calling women and girls dude, absent any kind of trans or NB identities.

    Tangentially I've also heard a sheriff's deputy threaten to punch my friend for addressing him as dude, and I had a professor get red in the face when he was chewing me out unprofessionally and I said something like, "you've got to chill out dude." The older generations do not handle younger people's slang use well, then they turn around and act like you're being stuffy if you keep interactions formal and proper.

  • It's nasty, and more than an annoyance it really endangers drivers and residents. I had a job a few years back with a lot of driving and Google maps would route me through a random residential street with houses to switch between two main roads that run parallel. I could tell that was happening to other drivers too both commuters and work vehicles. It was really unacceptable the algorithm would route this way because the dead obvious direction should've been 'left turn on to this road when you get off the freeway, right turn onto the road you want'.

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  • That's good, yeah I wasn't really trying to go after Adam specifically here and I have not watched it, he gets so many good guests and I'm not up to date on his show for a few months now. His passion is really there, you can see it in the Ritchie Torres interview or that famous clip where Andrew Cuomo is like, "oh hate is such a strong word how can you invest that much energy into somebody" and Adam replies that Bush killed a million people.

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  • That comment got me ngl. I'm not gonna go after Adam of all people on platforming discourse but I think it is always fair to point out that his guest is associating with all manner of far right folks and violent misogynists and still gets to be seen in polite company. Real lip of the funnel of the pipeline situation imo.

  • Getting particle accelerated into an HR meeting for having this as my our desktop background.

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  • Obligatory plug for Sid Meier's Pirates!: Live the Life (PC, 2004).

    I want to be clear, so you scalawags don't get the wrong idea; I'm the best sailor, the best gunner, the best sword fighter, the best dancer & romancer, the best treasure hunter, the best bounty hunter, the best discover of Lost Cities. I don't usually mess with the Indian villages, and their canoes are too fast for me to bother hunting but I won't shy away from capturing one with a rumored treasure aboard. When I pull up on the Jesuits they tell me right where Baron Raymondo is sailing. I duel Jealous Fiances as a trifle, and Colonel Mendoza's galleon is a speed bump in the waves.

    I will lead my band of pirates and buccaneers into land battle against a fortified European garrison. Plunder the town, leave, and attack again. I'll raise a country's flag, get promoted with that country, then sack the town again for a rival power. I will coax a pirate captain to raid a nearby town, sink or capture the pirate interceptors, then betray the pirate ship I summoned. I will sword fight Marquis de Montalban on his ship without disabling his crew first. I fuck with this game, but I do not fuck around with this game.

    Edit: I forgot to mention hunting the named pirates -- 'cause they're nothing to me but a convenient source of ships with preinstalled upgrades.

  • Yeah that's pretty much what I'm referring to. I suppose I'm asking whether she should be thought of as having been trafficked vs. having informed consent; but by asking that I'm lowkey begging the question that there is even a difference when we're talking about Epstein's network.

  • Okay but does this make me homophobic for preferring a soft sideways fist bump with the fleshy part of my palm? I don't want my little handies to sting from a macho high-five.

  • I like this, I relate to this from the opposite side of the spectrum; when I've tried to relate e.g. a series of events as a story on here, it is very dry and precise because I want it to be as clear as possible. LLMs don't really write that way because they are meant to mimic human writing I suppose, but I can sound very terse and robotic.

  • What a timely reminder that those responsible for the state of things have thus far continued to evade consequences for their actions and are all part of one big beautiful team.

    I wonder about the observation that Melania may have been introduced to Donald through the sort of model trafficking networks that have been in the news lately. Not that that absolves her of choosing to be in the Trump org but it's an interesting angle to poke at.

  • Hey I didn't respond in time while this thread was active but I wanted to say 1 - that sucks and solidarity to you! 2 - thank you for sharing this hard won knowledge which hopefully won't be needed 3 - to compliment your clear description of a complicated-to-describe tactic vs multiple aggressors.

  • Schrodinger's step-cat stuck in washing machine.

  • Doubtgooning skepticels get TURNED INSIDE OUT when digestionmogged by faithmaxxing Owlchad. Can alpha owl avoid career ending cortisol spike when caremaxxing foid approaches with soaphammer to smash dort?

  • Thank you, I'll try less next time!

  • badposting @hexbear.net

    Lentgooning popecels cortisol SPIKED when they get pietymogged by Ramadanmaxxing Islamochads

  • I was watching the Superbowl Big Game muted because I was tuned in to Hasan-Felix-Noah-Pablo-bowl like a real sicko, but I saw that ad in the background and immediately clocked how fucked up it was. I'm genuinely encouraged that this seems to have been the mainstream reaction.

  • Those three jokers in the middle screenshot, Pip, Handle and Zoe; do they think they are not proletarian? I suppose they could be petite bourgeois but I'm going to vibe-infer that they are PMC who don't see themselves as workers and think the proles are those dirty blue collar folks that work with their hands.

  • Hey bud, you should take some time off so you don't get burnt out :) Also remember to get it approved months in advance and not at the same time other people will be out :-]

  • Slop. @hexbear.net

    Tom MacDonald drops a pop punk ballad of absolutely undistilled RW victimhood

  • Chapotraphouse @hexbear.net

    internal pressures in MAGA and impact from ICE raids and Epstein releases, Winter 2025-'26

  • badposting @hexbear.net

    My 'Do not fuck with the ATF' T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.

  • badposting @hexbear.net

    Mods are sleeping post kabuki

  • badposting @hexbear.net

    Mods are sleeping post hen-tie

  • guns @hexbear.net

    Venezuelan militia units with Mosin-Nagant rifles