I don’t know, but my 2 yaers old does this too: “you NEVER let me have chocolate!”

So in my head I see Trump also saying “NOBODY will ever build me a monument” while pouting, crossing his arms and wiggling his shoulders back and forth for emphasis.

Practice beats theory in ethical behavior too. I grew comfortably in a house with very woke principles (before “woke” was turned into a pejorative). My partner just grew up in a large, poor family.

She is a much better person than I am.

“Those candies are for the children” for her is now like muscle memory. Her instinct, carved by years in a big family, is to mentally count the children and the candies in the jar and to split the candies in two if there are more children than candies. Because that’s what her elders used to do for her as a child.

For me it’s more hit and miss. I do a lot of things semi-consciously before I can stop to think “oh, those were supposed to be for the children”. I do know the theory. In theory I am not a bad person, I promise.

the plot thickens… So to recap my current understanding:

• the person who wrote the gibberish is “in love” with a fictional character, who’s voiced by WillowVA presumably in an anime. Said fictional character, in their story, has a (also fictional) girfriend.

• gibberish-person has created an AI version of their “love interest” in character.AI, which is a chatbot offering exactly this kind of “AI companionship” service.

• Gibberish-person (Gibby, from now on) lives happily with the character in their AI-fueled fantasy for a while. But as their relationship deepens, Gibby wants to be exclusive. The “official” character still has a girlfriend. And, maybe worse, other people are watching the anime, becoming fans of the beloved character and possibly (gasp) also entering pretend-relationships with them. This makes Gibby uncomfy.

• Gibby hatches a daring plan with their AI-character. The breakup with the girlfriend has to happen in the character’s official story/anime. Plus, every picture of the character itself should be deleted from their story, so nobody else will have pretend-relationships with them. Gibby needs to convince the actual character.

• the AI pretend-character helpfully assures Gibby that (while they can’t talk to a fictional character), they can talk to the character’s closest physical manifestation, the poor voice actor. Compared to the rest, that part of the logic almost makes sense… talking to someone’s voice is like (or close enough to) talking to them… So Gibby proceeds to harass poor WillowVA with the above delirium.

Am I close enough?

Same! I got to the third paragraph of the article before understanding they were not planning to harass their customers (or at least not in new ways…)

Is pedophilia still a no-no? Seems weird to have higher standards for an FBI grunt than a President.

English is not my first language and I’m a C- at best at Internet vernacular… what part of the song do you mean?

no worries! Clearly it’s not time for me to quit my day job to do stand-up comedy, yet. :)

I was actually agreeing with what you wrote. I was referring exactly to the atrocities that Japan committed before and during WW2. Russia, by contrast, did come out of WW2 on the side of the “good guys”, having sacrificed probably more lives than any other nation to defeat Nazism.

My attempt at irony was on the fact that the contrast with how these countries (and even Nazism) are viewed today is so striking that it truly seems like we’re living in an alternate timeline.

Ah yes it was that timeline where Japan was doing war crimes, while Russia were the good guys. Oh yes… and back then Nazis were generally considered very bad people!

except that those links are increasingly pointing to slop content anyway. Even scientific papers.

Next: why do we even need the planes; we can directly catapult stones on the enemy! Wonder why nobody ever thought about it

Firet sentence in the article

Social network MySpace is reportedly planning to make a comeback

No. Planning to make a comeback is not the same as making a comeback. You are making a comeback when lots of people are actually using your site.

To be fair, there is this tiny group of people who are responsible for a lot of terrible things in my life, but they never seem to get punished. They might temporarily get voted out, but they keep coming back.

Fun read! I think a closed fist with seven fingers would have been a better illustration tough…

If the other person feels the same about it and if you trust them and you are good friends and…

Come to think of it, to make this work in the long run, you need basically the same ingredients as a “regular” marriage.

if you’re far enough to the right apparently everyone looks like a Marxist. Even Hitler was a National Socialist (Socialist!)

Sometimes I get the nice version of that. In my dreams I am not trying to get down and I can just sort of silde where I want. It’s a pleasant feeling!

Look, it’s statistically possible that the flight attendant is just a piece of s##t.

But, having been friends with one, I’m also open to the possibility that they just know they are going to be sealed in a flying can with a lot of nervous people and just want to go through a whole f###ng flight without someone getting triggered or panicking.

Already did. How else would he know if the meetings were positive?

“Terrorist site” is just the name of the place where the missile strikes, if it’s one of “our” missiles.