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Eateth Pilaf @johnnypi.bsky.social · 1m

one of the worst things about the human brain is the heuristic that finds the easiest way to earn the most benefit even if it does incalculable harm. it's also one of the best things about the human brain when it is leveraged toward doing the most good for all

Eateth Pilaf @johnnypi.bsky.social · 5m

if you get deep into the vibecoding/llm reddits you find people who are essentially 'whales' to use a casino term (which is apt) - they set up a software-as-a-service that rakes in steady income and hope that they earn more than they end up spending on llm subscriptions, which might be 1000s a month

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Eateth Pilaf @johnnypi.bsky.social · 18m

it's either that or charge parents that refuse to vaccinate with murder when their child dies of a preventable disease

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Eateth Pilaf @johnnypi.bsky.social · 19m

my most authoritarian trait is probably that i think if you won't vaccinate your children then you are unfit to have children (barring a medical reason for non-vaccination). you either take classes until you accept the science or you lose your kids

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Eateth Pilaf @johnnypi.bsky.social · 56m

schools are closing due to measles outbreaks. the people responsible need to be removed from any semblance of power or authority over others

Eateth Pilaf @johnnypi.bsky.social · Feb 27

I was never a fan of The Simpsons episode "Trash of the Titans" but it is feeling very relevant lately

A panel from The Simpsons episode "Trash of the Titans." The family is sitting at the dinner table eating. Marge is saying, "And the school nurse says Bart has the plague" while Lisa and Maggie look on.

A panel from The Simpsons episode "Trash of the Titans." The family is sitting at the dinner table eating. Homer is saying, "It's like the measles: good to get it out of the way." Bart has a worried look in his eyes.

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🗡️🎃ChiliDishGamBOOno 🎃💀 @chilidishgambino.bsky.social · 1h

Gonna be fucked up when we find out ChatGPT has just been Sam Altman behind a Wizard of Oz-looking console the whole time & his ultimate goal has always been complete control of the horny texts

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Eateth Pilaf @johnnypi.bsky.social · 1h

*brushes out old teledildonics stock certificates*
i'm gonna be a rich man

The Verge @theverge.com · 7h

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

ChatGPT is about to get flirty.

buff.ly

Eateth Pilaf @johnnypi.bsky.social · 1h

every politician's town hall meeting should have a box of soft vegetables and it should be legal to pelt them with old tomatoes, rotten cucumbers, and lettuce heads (iceberg only)

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Eateth Pilaf @johnnypi.bsky.social · 1h

*does the house, m.d. stare* my favorite movie just might be 'o brother where art thou'

Eateth Pilaf @johnnypi.bsky.social · 1h

🎵 hear me,
feel me,
touch me,
beer me...🎵

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Chairman Goa Tse-tung @jctenton.bsky.social · 2h

true poster's bushido was learned on the something awful forums when you knew that making a certain joke was going to cost you $10 but you thought it was funny enough to be worth it

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Eateth Pilaf @johnnypi.bsky.social · 3h

doordache jeans

Eateth Pilaf @johnnypi.bsky.social · 3h

they really nailed it with chicken pot pie. beef and turkey are just pretenders

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Eateth Pilaf @johnnypi.bsky.social · 3h

unemployment will only cover you if you've worked more than 18 months. i'm at month 16

Eateth Pilaf @johnnypi.bsky.social · 4h

you know what's awesome for individuals and societies? paying more in interest than you do on the principal so that you can never, ever get out of debt

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Eateth Pilaf @johnnypi.bsky.social · 5h

trump is just krang's latest android shell

In the final season of the 1987 animated series (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles), Krang showed signs of psychic powers when he hypnotized one of Lord Dregg's soldiers into obeying his and Shredder's commands, saying it would only work on weak-willed people.

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Bill McCarthy @billmccarthy.bsky.social · 6h

NEW:

A dramatic voiceover video the White House and Donald Trump shared last week claiming to show "chaos" in Chicago is littered with outdated footage from Florida, Texas, South Carolina, Nebraska, California and Arizona, an AFP investigation found.

factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

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Eateth Pilaf @johnnypi.bsky.social · 5h

my cat's nickname is sillious billiam, s'why i call her silly billy

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Eateth Pilaf @johnnypi.bsky.social · 6h

i reach down and pull a vienna sausage from my boot holster

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Eateth Pilaf @johnnypi.bsky.social · 7h

'army of darkness' is almost entirely great one-liners

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Eateth Pilaf @johnnypi.bsky.social · 7h

i'm torn between that and "here lies sub zero! now, plain zero!" from 'the running man'

Eateth Pilaf @johnnypi.bsky.social · 7h

i need to hear him laugh

Eateth Pilaf @johnnypi.bsky.social · 7h

just me, or does geddy lee sound a little bit like spongebob squarepants?

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Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 7h

Jack Kirby: "I was raised in an area where you had a lot of gangsters. I know what gangsters do. Hitler's gonna want war. You start jumpin' around and giving him what he wants, he's gonna feed on your weakness."

MARK: So the capacity for great good and evil is inherent in everyone?
JACK: Of course. I was dating my wife at the time Hitler was coming on, and I did this editorial cartoon which showed Neville Chamberlain patting a boa con-strictor, and the boa had a bulge called Czechoslovakia. Chamberlain had just given Czechoslovakia to Hitler, okay.
And the boa had Hitler's mustache. I showed it to my boss at the syndicate and he says, "How dare a 19-year-old like you do a cartoon like that? What do you know?" I says "Well, I was raised in an area where you had a lot of gangsters. I know what gangsters do. Hitler's gonna want war. You start jumpin' around and giving him what he wants, he's gonna feed on your weakness." And Hitler wanted more and more until there was a face-off.

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sweetie π @sixfeetofcandy.bsky.social · 13h

i come on here and say stupid stuff bc everything is stupid including me

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