Shout out to the combined power of ibuprofen and my venting tolerant polycule group chat for allowing me to endure the two hour Copilot 365 training meeting at work. The nap I had afterwards was a bliss like escaping the fucking samsara.

Makes sense. If I were hiring for an org that funds musicians, I’d consider it a plus for a candidate to have experience in the music business. I’m sure the same applies to an org that funds scammers.

I like the spooky skull head from Spirit Halloween.

Nice summon

I never use the word “exclaim” on non leap day Saturdays unless I’m wearing a hat, because there’s a nonzero chance God exists and considers that specifically a sin worthy of eternal damnation.

I would kill every cat and dog in the world to make sure Tamagotchi isn’t discontinued

Tired of people misrepresenting HPMOR as a Harry Potter fanfic where Harry uses science to study magic.

Anyone who has actually read the fic knows it’s a Death Note/Waiting for Godot/Spaceballs crossover fic about aristocrat failchildren bringing glowstick swords into an airsoft match. There are zero superfluous sentences. Every sentence a painting, especially when Glup of the Most Noble and Ancient Judean People’s Front of Shitto casts Compelled Duel on Backgroundella O. C. Technicallynot of the Superlatively Posh and Antiquarian Judean Popular Front of Whatsherface.

In the words of Anton Chekhov: if you establish in the first act that you must never burn anything you have transfigured, you must have a character transform something into a rocket in the third act and then fire that rocket without any harm done. This will prove you’re a better writer than Chekhov.

Final exam question: You are facing the most reddit serial killer of all time and his dumbass henchmen. Armed with only your wits and a spell that can transform anything into anything else, devise an escape. For extra credit, invoke one or more of the following science fiction plot devices: nuclear fusion, carbon nanotubes/fullerenes, wormholes/warp drives, neutronium, wave/particle duality, brown notes, grey goo, the anthropic principle, quantum tunneling, Maxwell’s demon.

HPMOR: the only novel that has been fully read by fewer people than mistakenly believe to have fully read it.

Many are contrasting the demand for gay marriage with the demand for human-animal marriage.

I feel like the ratio of homophobes to zoophiles making this comparison is a lot more skewed than the ratio of transphobes to promptphiles making the other comparison.

It seems really common for words for factuality to become intensifiers. I just used the word “really” as an intensifier, thought it really means things occurring in reality. “Very” had the same thing happen to it, as it originally meant “truthfully” (as in “verify” or “verity”). If I say something is “truly massive”, am I likely specifying the massiveness is not imaginary in some sense, or am I trying to convey massiveness beyond the lower bounds of “massive”? Is a “proper banger” of a tune distinct from an improper banger or is it just a highly bangerful banger?

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Huh, I gotta scroll down all the way to hell to see these comments. I really really don’t feel like I should have to defend this stupid platform that seems specifically tailored to kill decentralized alternatives, but so far I’ve seen mostly healthy disdain for various fascist bullshit, including our Very Good Friends.

Ooh, what a terrible fate! What horrid crimes you must have committed to make our beloved jannies punish you with admin bits! :D

Tempted to make that my bio on some socmed site

Yes, officer. This one right here.

The beautiful process of dialectics has taken place on the butterfly site, and we have reached a breakthrough in moral philosophy. Only a few more questions remain before we can finally declare ethics a solved problem. The most important among them is, when an omnipotent and omnibenevolent basilisk simulates Roko Mijic getting kicked in a nuts eternally by a girl with blue hair and piercings, would the girl be barefoot or wearing heavy, steel-toed boots? Which kind of footwear of lack thereof would optimize the utility generated?

• Accelerationism
• Consequentialism
• Conservatism
• Orthodoxy
• Rationalism
• Disestablishmentarianism
• Intellectualism
• Natalism
• Galileianism
• Transhumanism
• Outside the box thinking
• Anti-empiricism
• Laissez-faire
• LaVeyan Satanism
• Kantian deontology
• Nationalism
• Orgasm denial
• Western chauvinism
• Neo-Aristotelianism
• Longtermism
• Altruism
• White supremacy
• Sinophobia
• Orientalism…

If I ever get the urge to start a website for creatives to sell their media, please slap me in the face and remind me it will absolutely not be worth it.

Me casually posting infohazards (bri*ish sports tabloids) capable of causing severe physical harm to average Lemmy user:

If I had a nickel for every time someone went on tirade subthread about David’s use of newspaper headline syntax…

This time it’s really weird because there’s hardly even anything nonstandard here. It’s the same structure as in sentences like “Take Toyota Prius for a test drive, win free movie tickets”; “Buy a six pack of Sandels beer, get a free beer mug” or “Fuck bitches, get money”.

Ah, sorry. The article is right under the title if you click on the link near the top of this page. The site also has more of them if you need. As for pronouns, you can call me by he/him. Thanks for asking.