GrouchyGrouse

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[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 34 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

You know those fascinating videos of folks getting brain surgery playing an instrument as they undergo the procedure? Imagine one of those for Milo where they just give him a keyboard and he types slurs.

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Is that an axolotl with the Cascadia flag?

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 26 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

It’s pretty much the best option. The ill-gotten gains of kings often includes piles of trinkets and art that’s not really valuable to the rest of us sold off or melted down. There’s valuable history and artistic merit on display. Turn it into a museum. Charge a little to keep the place nice so the next generations can remember.

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 13 points 1 day ago

That’s such a hilariously good point.

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 9 points 1 day ago

Never get between a liberal and their emotional attachment to buying things. They literally think their god gives a fuck about human money changing hands. It’s beyond an emotional attachment. They honestly think it’s political, too.

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 38 points 1 day ago

Democrats desperately trying to thread the needle of kinda needing this protest movement to have teeth to preserve their norms, as Joe Walsh basically admitted, and being mortified that the movement might ask for anything beyond the status quo.

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 12 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Which way, ~~western~~ wrestler man

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 5 points 1 day ago

It’s the HDR bloom effect

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

In order for the AI to get better by reading people’s posts we, the humans, have to start posting better. It’s not actually learning. It’s just predicting what should be next. And this is the real world. So asking people to voluntarily be better isn’t happening any goddamn time soon. (Especially not with the profit motive of Damocles dangling over our necks.) So this was always bound to happen. There is no graduate school of internet comments that the AI can attend after it’s done scraping Reddit.

And you know what I am certain of? That none of this tech is making us better. It might be making us worse! At least on the internet we certainly aren’t all our best selves! And it’s learning from that version of us. And that’s the last real shit it will “learn” from. I’m so glad that the financial wellbeing of billions of people will be impacted if this godforsaken behemoth collapse.

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 10 points 1 day ago

A lot of “pop” academics/science is just people taking some discovery/concept and trying to merge it with their capitalist realism. At least that’s how I see it. Some article says something about sleep and then the next day some fuck is writing about how bosses should monitor our sleep schedules. The application of whatever learned under capitalism gets infused with capitalist ideology from the moment it enters public discourse.

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 9 points 1 day ago

However much I doubt consequences I think he is certain it’s his only guarantee to stay a free man, so it’s gonna be a real shitshow until he just dies and removes himself from play sometime in late 2027

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 18 points 1 day ago

These colors don’t run!

 

You know how everyone always talks about their what they’d do if they could have a wish come true like a fairytale? I remember doing that as a kid. Aladdin had just come out and everyone was talking about what they’d wish for. Million dollars was a top one. Invincibility another. Laser eyes.

But a genie gives you three wishes, and most people obsess over how to use their wishes to the fullest potential. Or… with three wishes you can wish for more mundane wishes. I wished I no longer had to poop.

But genies are tricky, you have to be specific. So instead I would need some kind of intestinal collar. A machine that obliterates any poop before it gets to the colon. It would have to be a machine, too, as I might need to remotely disable it. I don’t really want to require surgery - or another genie - to turn it off. I might need to shit in the future for personal or political purposes.

The device would require only about my life expectancy x 1.2 or 1.5 times if I really think I’ll hang in there. Nothing beyond the powers of a genie.

As you can see I really worked this all out. No more wiping poop. But I never told people about this. Maybe just wishing I didn’t have to poop.

I never told anyone about the Star Trek inspired colon zapper. If they invented one I’d probably get it installed. I’d feel pretty vindicated.

 

Lmao, even

Yes please memorialize this shithead instead

 

When cedar-rapids was in the senate she passed legislation about violence in videogames

Meanwhile, those videogames have been great at pushing pro-imperial propaganda and training kids how to use the Xbox/drone controller

hillary-assassin

Which pipeline kids toward being the bloodstock of the forever wars her neoliberalism demanded.

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Kinda funny

 

Click it because why not

Article is full of quotes from reddit users. It's a circle. It's like an oroborous but instead of a snake eating itself It's an anus shitting itself a new ass. Immediately I feel that way I feel about too much shit these days.

If you ever read the Lovecraft short story The Nameless City we are in it and the big metal door has ominously closed behind us. We're trapped in whatever here is now. The zone, whatever you want to call it. Who cares anymore. Honey, the internet is taking a break from being an advertisement. We're on the news.

 

His name is Lester and I feel like we should adopt him as an unofficial site mascot. Along with Crow T Robot.

Who else do you think sorta summarizes Hexbear in appearance and attitude from various media? And be specific. Don't just say "raccoons" (even though we all know raccoons is the best fit.)

Discuss!

 

The democrats would have tripped over themselves crying about it and appealing to norms and civility and their usual gormless bullshit and Kamala would have eaten shit even harder.

And instead of shouting "read the room!" the DNC consultant and liberal pundit classes would have gone along for that ride because they are just as clueless as their bosses.

 

What's new and what's good, comrades? It was kinda nice being away for the entire election bullshit but otherwise I'm playing catch up for the last 30 days.

I hope you all have been well and you have instituted fully automated luxury communism (with gay characteristics) in my absence.

af-heart stalin-heart

 

I got caught drinking again. It feels better to come clean about it. I'm tired of being a drunk mess. It takes so much energy to be a functional alcoholic. Please don't do what I did when faced with this genocide reality. Its so hard. You just want to push it aside. Don't fall into the self medication trap. Its a trap and it will fuck you! Christ I am still so fucked up and I try not to do the "drunk posting" thing. I smashed a glass thing and picked through the glass to find something worthy, something with a cutting edge, because concerned relatives already emptied my gun closet and took them away. I'm bleak as hell right now. I want to be ethered. something where I can go away but I won't fuck up my family by doing it. But thats selfish. I'm a communist. I can't do that to myself because I don't want it to bounce back on other people. Communism is why I don't slouch and let myself slide into these pits. I need to be here for the rest of y'all. The hiding takes so much energy away from myself. I'm so tired of the selfish act of nipping a bott;e. Im very sorry but theres nowhere else to post it

I hope I helped somebody else laugh. Like when you re-read what I wrote I was just trying to have a positive energy or I was doing a bit

I read awhile that they call these things "deaths of despair." for whatits worth I get that. I finally get that. But we aren't alone. Im fucked up but I won't be part of that grim tally. I refuse that.

 

Huckleberry is the Sunspider that runs into my bathroom whenever I take a shit at night and tries to hide in the shadow under my feet. She also runs around my desk sometimes. Huckleberry's body and head (not including legs) is about 2cm long, which is about as big they get where I live. The front pair of legs aren't actually legs - they are called "pedipalps" and she holds them up while running around to touch stuff like a little kid doing airplane arms. She zooms around eating dust mites and other small bugs and is very fast. Huckleberry is an arachnid but closer in relation to a scorpion than a spider. She has no venom and spins no web preferring to hunt and explore.

You may also know these fine creatures by other names: Whipscorpion or Camel Spider.

So say hi to Huckleberry, she is nice.

 

Every so often some synapse decides to zap my brain and I think about the "black folk ain't having no Bernie" tweet.

Was it a tweet? I can't remember anymore. But I still remember that line. Just at random. Apropos of nothing. Not even in a "hey remember that?" sorta way. Instead it just fires off and disappears almost as quickly as it appeared.

How about y'all?

 

How do they do it? You'd think running that slogan for years would have laid some kind of framework for being ready for an alternative doormat-being they can shit out into the oval office.

I mean, if people followed that slogan they wouldn't need Biden.

What gives? Wrong answers also welcome.

 

Seriously this is such a funny picture.

"America's Mayor." He looks like he's about to cast a mischievous curse on your shoes because you didn't leave a bowl of whey by the hearth.

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