This idea really has me tickled pink. It’s like if Unicron was a fuckin dinobot.
That being said it’s hard to forget that the difference in elevation between Mt. Everest and the Mariana trench is less than the greatest variation in elevation on a standard regulation billiard ball so this would be one gummy ass velociraptor dinobot planet
Body positivity is such a strange concept to me. There’s efforts to reclaim words while simultaneously calling them bad if used as an insult. Ideally, people wouldn’t be offended by someone describing their body with common descriptors, but socially there is so much value attributed to certain body types that it’s almost...
I’m pretty confident the slur-status of a word is closely rated to whether or not it is used in a hateful way to refer to a people group or member of a group that is in some way disadvantaged. For example the n-word is obviously a slur and “cracker” or “whitey” obviously are not. That’s why cisgender isn’t a slur, even if people can and have use(d) it in a hateful way.
IDK if it’s unpopular, but I’m worried that TikTok, Instagram, and Youtube Shorts have completely screwed with what kind of music gets popular nowadays. It seems like every popular song has some kind of intense drop because content creators love the “quick build up to some kind of visual punchline” video format and it has ruined what I think could otherwise influence and encourage originality
AI was filmed on a soundstage in California. Sam Altman was played by Jesse Eisenberg. ChatGPT is just a recording of Mark Zuckerberg talking to himself in the mirror
“Outrageously” priced weight-loss drugs could bankrupt US health care (arstechnica.com)
Valve’s hero shooter Deadlock leaks with screenshots, gameplay details - Polygon (www.polygon.com)
I just saw a Youtube ad for penis enlargement
I’m not sure if this is the right place to post this, but it’s the first place that came to mind....
Polis signs bills to pump millions of dollars into public transit (www.denverpost.com)
Flat Earth is so yesterday (lemmy.world)
What do you think of the term "short king" as a term that's supposed to champion body positivity for men?
Body positivity is such a strange concept to me. There’s efforts to reclaim words while simultaneously calling them bad if used as an insult. Ideally, people wouldn’t be offended by someone describing their body with common descriptors, but socially there is so much value attributed to certain body types that it’s almost...
X now treats the term cisgender as a slur (www.engadget.com)
What's your most unpopular opinion about music ?
For me : Trippie Redd’s “!” Is actually a great album
Wait, it's all Linux? (lemmy.zip)
Big Tech Is Faking AI (yt.artemislena.eu)
Canonical YouTube link