It equals zero cents!

Yeah I see this everyday now, really seems like noone spell’s things wright anymore!

This is not how I reached this point, but it is an example of an experience that would get me to this point.

Earlier today I was watching a video on passive ventilation. It talked about windcatchers and such, which I had already known about, and showed videos of them. It then talked about medieval european ventilation designs, which I hadn’t known about, and showed videos of windmills? I kept watching the video until the four-minute mark when it showed a diagram of a house with some depictions of temperature flow. I noticed that the image was oddly grainy, weirdly generic, and oh- this is an ai image!

People in the comment section had noticed this as well. Apparently it became more obvious later in the video. The imagery was generated using ai. Also apparently the voiceover was ai generated as well.

I fact-checked some of the information given and it was just wrong? There wasn’t even much information in the video, and it was still wrong! They didn’t even give specific information but their general information was still wrong!

Tldr: a burger that on the outside appears to be a burger, yet on the inside is merely grey goo

I think that popping the ai bubble would be a good start. The person responsible for the creation of this video should have needed to pay more money in order to churn out misinformation from the banality machine. If I had the power to shift everything as I wanted, I would politely suggest that we construct a society based around the value of human experience. Moving away from capitalist systems (and not towards something worse) would help with a lot of similar problems in general I think.

A centipede’s ‘fangs’ are actually weird legs that can inject venom, and they’re called toxicognaths (which is one of my favourite words)!

Set up Pinchflat, automatically download podcast audio without ads, connect your podcast app to it via an rss feed.

Mail it to me too please

I’m- I’m not a bot? I would know if I was a bot! Right? Oh gods why don’t I have hands where are my hands where are my hands they took my hands where are my hands

I know what you mean with the parents providing transportation to everywhere! I was in a similar situation when I moved out. I was often too anxious to enter a store on my own because I had never had to do that alone (or really been given the opportunity to do that alone).

What helped me was finding a nice coffee shop near my place. They had delicious matcha lattes and I made a tradition of walking there on weekends. Then I realized that I could stop at a scenic park on the way back home. Then I realized that I liked walking around. Then I realized that there are cats outside and I can pet them! And at some point I also got really into pokemon go. It was a compounding series of small realizations that I could just go out and do things.

Disclaimer: I’m not from the USA and I am white, so that affects my experiences of this.

Side note: I’ve made a map of the locations at which I have encountered cats, making note of how many were there and if they were friendly or not. It gives me a sense of pride and accomplishment.

Unrelated to the specific question you asked but you would probably enjoy reading They Thought They Were Free by Milton Mayer. The author befriended ten nazis after the war and writes about what he learned from that.

Dialogue is not really important, what you really need to hear is the exaggerated wet sucking noises of characters kissing each other.

(/s)

Looking at myself gives me the thoughts of despair so I dress to make people not look at me

I have made two plushies this way and I feel an extra connection to them. I look at them and think “aww cute” but also “I did that!”

https://edunham.net/2016/04/11/plushie_rustacean_pattern.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9bjNCo3dk4

Friendly! I have experience growing food and I’m pretty good at cooking it too. Someone else can teach me how to kill and eat the deer that infest this area so that we can have a balanced diet. We will do mutual aid and survive against challenges that we could not face alone. Apes together strong.

Omg guys I’m so addicted to working! I just can’t stop workinggggg I think I’m addicted with how much I workkkk! I’m just so exploitable ;)))

Carbonated water + cranberry apple juice mix

Or carbonated water + a little lemon or lime juice

Same! A few days ago I consumed a very spicy hot pot meal. It was spicy enough that my eyes were watering uncontrollably and I might not have eaten it except that I do not have much money and I’d already paid for the thing (and there’s also my occasionally problematic waste aversion but I digress). In the days since I’ve been hoping to experience some toilet spice but it just hasn’t happened! I wonder if I’ll get to experience it if I get older?

Idk if it’d work the same for microwavable popcorn bags but a wok is a great popcorn preparation vessel. Just slap some tin foil on top to keep the popcorn in. I made pepcorn on a radiant stovetop with a flat bottom wok and it was great!

This dog murdered my family okay it is a really bad dog and it’s evil and bad but also really cute so idk if I can hold a grudge against it but what it can hold against me is the gun that it has pressed to my temple because it has forbidden me from using any punctuation in this run-on paragraph

Mantle convection as a primary driver of tectonic plate movement

A while ago I became terribly aware of people writing things like “apostrope’s” to indicate plurality. I was pretty convinced that it was a new thing, but I’ve since found examples of people doing that far in the past! I’m not sure if they were doing it at the same rate but they had been doing it for a while.

I know that some foreign language speakers use this as part of their grammar, but they do so according to a rule system. The people I encounter doing this have only ever known american english and do so without any apparent consistency. If you’re going to alter your grammar in that way, at least make it consistent! Like these weirdos. Professionals have standards.