“Why do they do this?” he asks. Because you don’t fail them. Give them a big fat 0 on the assignment, no need to even tell them why.

Then if they beg nicely, let the flunked students do a make-up assignment in the classroom, in front of you, with a pencil and paper and their phones turned off.

Rising Conservative Star Just Guy Wearing Nazi Armband And Crying

We aren’t going to all lose our jobs because AI can do them better.

We’re going to all lose our jobs when the soggy bottom falls out of the stock market once the AI bubble pops, because AI companies- that have made no profit but burned through billions in venture capital- are being valued based on the assumption that they will be able to achieve infinite productivity Real Soon Now by inventing the artificial superintelligence that can put everyone out of a job.

A small silver lining is for all the experienced software engineers who will be needed to rewrite from scratch all the hopelessly broken slop-compomised vibecodebases for all the companies that sold their cow for magic beans out of fomo. I think it will be comparable to the late 90s hiring push to fix the Y2k bug.

The only “weird” thing to me is that he’s choosing that “cowboy” look, as a non-Republican, in the 2020s.

I guess it’s appropriate if you actually live somewhere with cows and barns and hay bales and tractors and barbed-wire fences, and you ride horses as part of your daily life, but otherwise, you are a cringey poser. The literal basis of the idiom “all hat and no cattle”.

Generally it’s to identify yourself as a country music fan but again, why? Country music is just jingoistic pop with a phony Nashville accent. It’s been a trash genre at least since Garth Brooks, and all the non shitty, non-rightwing country music has had to be retroactively rebranded as “folk” to distance itself from it.

hypothetical

sigh

If only…

First time I’ve seen this described as “restorationist”. The word I’m familiar with is “revisionist”.

Whatever they want to call it, it is fascist bullshit.

I have never played this game and don’t even really know what it is, but wouldn’t the obvious solution be to have the abandoned bases get eaten by sandworms?

Optimistic scenario: the Great Depression ends up getting renamed, the way they had to rename the Great War when World War 2 happened.

Pessimistic scenario: Economists are forced to invent a third “-ession” word to describe what’s going on.

Why does this new Religious Liberty Commission have an expiration date of July 4, 2026?

And DOGE does too.

Arguably the Antipope (or would be, if he decides to keep pushing this ‘’‘joke’‘’ like he has with the conquering Canada crap…)

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The way I look at it, generation α and the next 5 generations are in a game of no-respin Russian roulette for who gets to be the ones to fight World War IV with sticks and stones.

I would like to see the linearally extrapolated third picture in this series

Dee-dee-dee-dee-deeedoooo, bingBONG, bingBONg-clickclack…gsssSsssSshhHhhhhh…GGSSSSHHHHHT

. . .

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-_ alt –_ binaries —_ pictures ----_ wholesome

This is actually one of the most interesting and entertaining timelines.

There was only supposed to be enough source data to make it to 2012- and that was originally a very generous buffer, since a fraction of a percent of Earths last more than 10 years after both networked computers and nuclear weapons have been invented in-simulation.

So, the operators decided not to pull the plug and just let this one run its course.

As it extrapolates history farther and farther outside of the initial parameters, the simulator is cannibalizing itself with feedback and undergoing model collapse.

Well, it’s a conservative joke, so… yeah.

/cries in aphantasiac

No, really though. Excellent comic.

I can still have the idea of a thing or a place or a character and ‘know’ what it ‘should’ look like without being able to actually visualize it. That itself is a motivation to draw it or paint it or model and render it; once I’m done I finally can see what the thing I was thinking of would look like.

Surely it would be so much easier if I could just… daydream up the future finished piece, and hold it there in my mind as I copy everything I ‘see’ down onto the paper. That’s like an actual magical superpower for anyone who wants to make art, and it’s something almost everyone already has- and just takes for granted. All the practice and technique of getting the lines and colors down right to match your imagination is the easy part- because it’s possible to learn. And I did learn it, and it’s still hard to draw. Always takes lots of construction lines and scribbling and revising and iterating. But if I could visualize at all, that would make it so easy it would almost feel like cheating.

I already knew prompter bros sucked, but I think this just unlocked a new level of contempt. Sitting here with my empty white head-bubble-cloud but making do anyway, while guy #2 has a perfectly functional one that he’s not even using.

Potato salad is a legitimate foodstuff, however- in the United States it is unfortunately a gateway substance- leading to increasingly foamy forms of macaroni-celery salad, and ending ultimately in marshmallow grape walnut kool-hwip jello salad.

That thumbnail giving some god-tier backpfeifengesicht