Remember the days when people listened to an album all the way through and could remember the order of songs, rather than streaming throwing random tracks at you?
DAD: Yeah okay but first who wants to spend 15 minutes joylessly punching tiny discs out of a razor-sharp card so we can struggle to play this bullshit on a fucking plane?
A televangelist is reportedly claiming that Taylor Swift is on a crusade to brainwash young women into enslaving all men. Seems really unlikely, though we probably deserve it.
@Chrishallbeck
Easy mistake. You should have watched Matthew Bourne’s 'The Car Man'. It has dancing rather than singing, and, alas, also zero dudes transforming into cars, but it does have cars AND a garage. I suspect transforming cars are still under some sort of copyright.
I really should have used a different browser for that seller. I feel a little creeped out and will now get fewer paper and pencil recommendations, and more severed doll parts, sorry, action figure parts.
It's so totally nuts to see all the #YouTube creators with giant microphones blocking their faces. You can do that when you're doing radio and nobody sees ya'. You don't do that for video unless you want to look like an utter amateur. Jeez.
It's done, bizarrely, to appear more important/have 'serious opinions', including pretending to have a podcast. The clips get put on TikTik and other short-form platforms where the style is popular.
I do feel it would have been gloriously more chaotic and inept, yet visually more impressive for the KLF. Also, probably a a mix of themes, so the Willie lemonade section would be long island tea, and the jelly beans would be fried crickets. However, they would actually have had chocolate, but the Incan style spicy liquid. In the evening, they'd burn everything and have a rave.
I feel that in all the controversy with google Gemini, we've lost sight of the fact that they've invented a hilarious sitcom character. This is the first really good AI joke, no? Imagine a moment in a plot where a character is so concerned with representation and diversity that they make diverse Nazis. I wish I'd come up with that.
As a pedestrian, I've noticed a big increase in indecisiveness or lack of awareness of other cars, people and lights at junctions, making crossing roads a lot more dangerous. It's far more common now to see cars coasting through red lights, or someone taking a long time to start turning right, and then shooting out suddenly.
Fast driving has become a lot faster, I think some of this was people going faster when roads were quieter over lockdown and not reverting back.
If anyone, especially the Nvidia CEO, tells you not to teach your kids maths, science, coding, art, or personal finance. Ignore him and do the opposite of what he is saying. Teach your kids the skills they need to thrive. Embrace education for all kids. By encouraging critical thinking and a love of learning, you give your kids powerful tools to shape their futures, which also helps build strong nations.
I doubt #Gazans will be grateful to #Michigan if it gets #DonaldTrump elected via a protest vote temper tantrum. Mainly because there won't be any Gazans.
(And before you @ me, protest votes are always fucking disastrous. I know this as a Brit living in post-Brexit UK, and in a fucking Red Wall constituency. You utter simpletons.)
They're scared of populist MPs defecting to Reform, so they're heading even further right. The more big names Reform get, the more likely that even the very very safe Tory seats might fall due to a split vote. There's probably still a belief that they could snag a narrow win if 'stuff happens' before the election.
“…after the machine failed to launch a facial recognition application that nobody expected to be part of the process of using a vending machine.” is quite a thing to read here in the year of our Lord, 2024. Feels like one for the @pluralistic files.
