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Ecco the dolphin

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I am a time-traveling dolphin. An entity made of giant balls gave me the ability to breathe underwater, but this ability was recently stolen from me by aliens.

Sometimes I turn into a bird.

  • Ye storms out of interview after Piers Morgan gets his follower count wrong

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  • jesus christ stop giving Ye attention. That means you, reader. Stop clicking on these articles.

    One of the symptoms of bipolar disorder is "delusions of grandeur".

    ...But Ye is rich as fuck, and everyone keeps giving him attention, even if it's just to gawk at him. Everyone is feeding his neurosis.

    This disease unravels people. It changes their personality. It robs them of their ability to sleep. It rewrites their memories. **If ** (with emphasis on "if") there is good in Ye we might never see it, because in order for him to truly get help he has to see himself as the problem.

    Stop giving clicks to this mentally ill Nazi fuck, and stop giving clicks to people who platform him. Piers Morgan is a vulture.

  • PSA for cat owners

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  • I got a cat on a restricted diet (diabetic) and two kittens who get to eat whenever they want. However, we gotta keep the kitten's food away from our toothless old diabetic. Meal time for the kittens happens behind a closed door.

    Constantly the kittens are meowing at the door for snacks. We let them in, they have a few bites, they stratch the door to come out, process repeats. We make jokes, "Time for second breakfast", "time for elevensies", and our poor old diabetic cat gets none of it. She gets carefully portioned prescription food twice a day (and an injection).

    I always wonder what she thinks. The vet says the diabetes makes her feel hungry all the time, and I believe it. We have to keep the sandwich bread in the pantry or she'll chew through the plastic bag and have some. Or, at least, that's what she would do when she had teeth. We still keep it away from her.

    She gets grouchy when we shoo her away from the kitten's magic infinite food room. My socks and ankles have been gummed when she's felt especially unhappy with the food situation.

  • insecure

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  • This.

    If I don't cover up my very natural dark under circles and acne scars, I am treated differently at work by customers.

    Wearing light makeup is professional, like wearing a collared shirt is professional. Society has decided this for me.

    Some men at work don't even realise I wear makeup because I choose natural looking application without eye-shadow. They only notice when I don't wear it ("Are you OK? You look tired/sick")

  • ‘The Worst Internet-Research Ethics Violation I Have Ever Seen’ | The most persuasive “people” on a popular subreddit turned out to be a front for a secret AI experiment.

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  • Which, in an ideal world, is why AI generated comments should be labeled.

    I always break when I see a deer at the side of the road.

    (Yes people can lie on the Internet. If you funded an army of propagandists to convince people by any means necessary I think you would find it expensive. People generally find lying like this to feel bad. It would take a mental toll. With AI, this looks possible for cheaper.)

  • McDonald's suffers worst U.S. sales decline since 2020, warns of 'anti-American sentiment' abroad

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  • Right? The McDs I remember growing up was a themed one. It was trying to be like a 50s soda shop. They had a model (or actual?) grill for a retro 50s car coming out of the wall. There were neon light decorations around the place and pictures of Elvis. They played rockabilly music instead of top 50 recent hits or whatever.

    McDs these days reminds me of airport bathrooms.

  • If you had to ruin an entire app/website by integrating automatic logout, which app would you choose to achieve maximum damage?

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  • Do you not charge it when you sleep? I don't even have to charge mine every day because it's pretty new and I'm barely on it. And I use GrapheneOS so it's debloated.

  • If you had to ruin an entire app/website by integrating automatic logout, which app would you choose to achieve maximum damage?

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  • I have to sign in to 2-5 programs to complete service for customers

    I use shared terminals so I have to sign out when I am done

    Each task takes about 3-4 minutes of computer work, feels like most of my time spent is typing in a 15 character password in 2-5 programs. I do this all day, 8hr shift, graveyards.

    I just change a single digit number on this password when the 90 day rotation happens. Typing it in incorrectly 3 times gets me locked out, a call to IT. I work for tips, no time for that. My work environment is distracting, noisy and stressful, so even if I wanted to use "best practices" in choosing passwords, I really shouldn't.

    Management refuses to replace keyboards that aren't in good repair. Several have keys that stick.

    I type in a 15-char password probably 100+ times a day.

    my phone is dead for 2fa

    Lmao skill issue

  • Pearson complaining about using Linux to access my course material

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  • I had this problem with Pearson. I got around it by making sure my bowser (librewolf) reported windows as my user agent. This was last semester for an online intro level course, ymmv

    Edit: I see your other posts about how its not blocking access... Tbh I don't remember checking, I just remember checking my browser settings haha. Guess I didn't have to bother.

  • On Art Accessibility (Art by Sarah Andersen)

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  • Yeah, I was really looking forward to google making more of those neat images with all the eyes and the dog faces. Additional fingers were always a plus for me, like cracking an egg and finding two yolks.

    Now, instead of AI creating man-made horrors beyond my imagining (which are alien and rainbow colored), AI creates man-made horrors within my imagining (excuses for corporate layoffs, aggressive ads, etc, all excused by internet posters who don't value art to begin with and have no idea what it is. Quit abdicating the human experience to matrix algebra).

  • It puts the frequency in the bucket or it gets the sigterm again

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  • pushes glasses up nose well actually,

    Radiowaves are electromagnetic radiation (like visible light and microwaves). Sound waves are kinetic motion between air molecules. Your music radio is receiving electromagnetic waves and converting to sound waves through the radio speakers.

    I'm not a biologist or a linguist but I think its perfectly reasonable to call a device that captures inaudible sound a radio. But it is different than your music radio.

  • Trump staff puts immigrants' mug shots on White House lawn

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  • Alleged pedophiles

    The article is sparse of actual info, so I might be wrong, but these are just arrests. They might have gotten the wrong guys, or just made shit up.

    Even if these guys are all pesos/rapists/etc its still a problem he's doing this. The rate of criminality is actuality lower in immigrant populations vs regular citizens so it paints a false picture. But its not even clear this is anything other than (baseless) accusations.

  • Female-presenting wallet (????)

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  • Apparently I am this obtuse

    I bought a plain black wallet at walmart because idgaf.

    Apparently this is a "man's wallet" and its completely reasonable for my coworkers to ponder why I have borrowed my husband's wallet for [insert coworker bonding activity]

    I did not get this memo. Apparently I need a guide to acting "normal" and like a ciswoman even though I am a ciswoman. My debit card couldn't care less about where it lives.

    I don't really think this comment has anything to do with yours. I just felt like venting. Sorry.

    All wallets remind me of vaginas. They are flappy things, and you put stuff in them.

  • "You need to try Linux"

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  • The fediverse isn't ready for this level of sarcasm. Look at those downvotes, lmao.

  • Fuck AI with "Fuck"

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  • duck duck go has been giving me AI summaries / suggestions

    You can turn it off but if your cookies are cleared you have to do it again.

  • Stalin the mysagonist

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  • I do believe that in order to achieve welfare/prosperity, not all the people have to work. And I do believe that there are more important things in life than working. I’d love to be a stay at home dad, but I can’t.

    Being a stay at home dad is work. Raising children is necessary work that capitalism requires, because it requires laborers. We have engineered a system in which this work is uncompensated, and if you gender this work, it causes gendered oppression.

    I will also point out that in America we have decided that unless you have a "job", society has decided that you pretty much don't deserve health care. Anyone who chooses a life of domestic labor in America puts themselves in a position where they are financially dependent on their spouse and their spouse's employment status. It doesn't have to be this way. We have forged these chains.

    Whether doubling the workforce is a good thing - that I’d keep up for a debate.

    If we had more workers, it could be that we wouldn't need those workers to work as long. Earlier retirement, shorter work weeks, whatever. The issue is not the size of the work force, the issue is what is chosen to be done with it.

  • Stalin the mysagonist

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  • Are you trying to imply doubling the available workforce is not good? Its usually a good thing. While their motivations are cynical, those leaders are doing good.

    ...or are you trying to imply that keeping women out of the traditional work force (by only allowing them to work unpaid in the home in domestic servitude, labor that capital does not value) increases the value of male labor through scarcity, which would be preferred?

    Sorry that second question kind of reads as an attack. A shitty coworker of mine said that to me unironically and tried to play it off as a joke when I pushed back.

  • ghibli posting

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  • Ok... but is the picture art??? I don't think anyone would try to argue it is. Miyazaki was specifically talking about how no algorithm can produce art, and I agree.

    What makes this screenshot funny is the human element, the performance! It's all ridiculous.

    Glorified Matrix Algebra: [Presents an image of a caked-up gnome]

    Internet goblin: "Make it's butt even bigger."

    Glorified Matrix Algebra: "Sorry, that's a bridge too far for me."

  • Child support

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  • I know right? Have any of these posters met a baby? They're too short for this.

  • Trump admin sent journalist classified U.S. plan for Yemen strikes

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  • Yeah, this shit is on purpose. These people have no respect for national security (and no respect for our allies), so it makes sense to me that at least one of them is playing dumb games. Pete should have never risen to this position in government.

    As it stands, people who like the trump admin will see nothing wrong with these messages (if they even read them). Maybe they'll even think those goobers are doing a good job.

    The people who hate the trump admin will not change their opinions of them after this (it can't possibly be lower for most people who hate these fascists). Critiques of the signal meeting will be met with comments like "so the journalist should be in jail for leaking!" or "Does it matter? Look at trumps men going after the terrorists! Do you love terrorists or something?"

    Facilitating the of leaking this stuff is win/win if you don't value the lives of military personnel, records acts, security clearances, international opinion, etc.

  • im on both extreme ends and nowhere in the middle

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