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Confession: I have lurked on Tumblr on and off for years now and I still don't get why people use the hashtags as a way to add comments to a post...

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Quick question, when the robots and AI finally take over, will they also hold the same biases that were a part of their training set?

Asking because I need to know whether or not to bleach my skin white... 👀

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Now that it is X, are they still called Tweets? 🤔

What are they now called?

Xeets? Xosts? XP?

XCommunication?

Just asking...

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Corpos gonna corpo...

While we're all talking about both the WGA/SAG strikes and Barbenheimer, I hope everyone realises that the entire reason this exists is because Christopher Nolan stood up to Warner Bros against pushing their entire cinematic slate onto streaming in 2021, by taking his next film to another studio.

Then, as an act of petty revenge, they decided to deliberately move their single biggest movie of 2023 (and arguably WB's biggest non-Batman/Harry Potter movie in DECADES) directly onto his release date.

So no, the Barbie Marketing isn't "so good it helped another movie". The Barbie Marketing Machine was specifically designed to get back at someone who dared to stand up against WB executives.

It was a calculated move of malice by soulless corporate fuckeroonies.

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Back on Tumblr after a LONG time.

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Still as confused about what to do here as I was on the day I signed up... 👀

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The closest I'll probably ever come to an #F1 car. #VodafoneSpeedFest #ibdiblogger

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An example of my daily work-life as the CEO of Vella Industries...

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Tribute to Madhubala on NDTV Good Times! Brilliant songs! She's definitely the most beautiful woman to have ever walked this planet! #SWOON

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Google Android Gingerbread 2.3.6 has Indic fonts! YAY! http://twitpic.com/87j336

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Psychics can make vague predictions and later claim credit for anything that was near the mark. The media tells the story of the fascinating successes and ignores the failures as being not newsworthy. The public gets the impression that psychics can locate dead bodies with regularity. In fact, such cases have been rare and probably a result of geniuslevel pattern recognition, or luck, or simple exaggeration.

"The God's Debris" by Scott Adams [PDF] pp. 81

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Differences of Opinion

Thomas: I am a firm believer in X.

Hartford: I am a firm believer in Y.

Thomas: Let's discuss X & Y.

Hartford: Sure, let's.

Thomas: Here are the reasons I choose to believe in X rather than Y.

Hartford: Here are my reasons why I believe in Y rather than X.

Thomas: Counter-reason

Hartford: Counter-counter-reason

Thomas: Another point.

Hartford: A different point.

(A few moments later)

Thomas: You, sir, are a buffoon.

Hartford: You, sir, are an ape.

(More insults)

Thomas: You are a cunt!

Hartford: You are a dick!

Richard: No, that would be me.

(The names in this conversation have been changed to protect the identities of the idiots involved.)

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At least 80% of chats in the world would end flawlessly, if we all chose to accept a ":-)" as the counterpart of "Hello?!"

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Life (and Physics-Chemistry) Lessons from an Autorickshawallah...

There were two rickshaw-walas vying for our business when we wanted to go to Sankat-Mochan temple in Benaras. I agreed to go with the one who was about 20, seemed like a regular young rickshaw-wala, but I found something interesting about this fellow in his eyes. I was not proved wrong.

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"I think you have the wrong number..."

"Rrriiiiinnnnggg, rrriiiiinnnnggg..."

"Hello?"

"Hi honey. This is Daddy. Is Mommy near the phone?" "No,  Daddy. She's upstairs in the bedroom with Uncle Dave."

After a brief pause, Daddy says, "But honey, you haven't got an Uncle Dave." "Oh yes I do, and he's upstairs in the room with Mommy, right  now..."

Brief pause.

"Uh, okay then, this is what I want you to do. Put the phone down on the table, run upstairs and knock on the bedroom door and shout to Mommy that Daddy's car just pulled into the driveway." "Okay, Daddy, just a minute."

A few minutes later the little girl comes back to the phone.

"I did it, Daddy." "And what happened, honey?" "Well, Mommy got all scared, jumped out of bed with no clothes on and ran around screaming. Then she tripped over the rug, hit her head on the dresser, and now she isn't moving at all!"

"Oh my God!!! What about your Uncle Dave?"

"He jumped out of the bed with no clothes on, too. He was all  scared and he jumped out of the back window and into the swimming pool. But I guess he didn't know that you took out the water last week to clean it. He hit the bottom of the pool and I think he's dead.

Long pause... Longer pause... Even longer pause...

Then Daddy says...

"Swimming pool? ......... Is this 486-5731?" "No, I think you have the wrong number..."

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F**k you, PayPal!

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'Ramayana' (as told by "Wall Mickey," the NRI kid)

Ramayana 

as told by "Wall Mickey," the NRI kid...

A young second generation Indian in the US was asked by his mother to explain the significance of "Diwali" to his younger brother, this is how he went about it...

"So, like this dude had, like, a big cool kingdom and people liked him. But, like, his step-mom, or something, was kind of a bitch, and she forced her husband to, like, send this cool-dude, he was Ram, to some national forest or something... . Since he was going, for like, something like more than 10 years or so..... he decided to get his wife and his bro along.... you know...so that they could all chill out together.

But Dude,the forest was reeeeal scary shit... really man...they had monkeys and devils and shit like that. But this dude, Ram, kicked with darts and bows and arrows.... so it was fine.But then some bad gangsta boys, some jerk called Ravan, picks up his babe (Sita) and lures her away to his hood.. And boy, was our man, and also his bro, Laxman, pissed.

All the gods were with him... So anyways, you don't mess with gods.

So, Ram, and his bro get an army of monkeys.... Dude, don't ask me how they trained the damn monkeys... just go along with me, ok...So, Ram, Lax and their monkeys whip this gangsta's ass in his own hood....

Anyways, by this time, their time's up in the forest... and anyways... it gets kinda boring, you know.... no TV or malls or shit like that.  So,theydecided to hitch a ride back home... and when the people realize that our dude, his bro and the wife are back home... they thought, well, you know, at least they deserve something nice... and they didn't have any bars or clubs in those days... so they couldn't take them out for a drink, so they, like, decided to smoke and stuff ... and since they also had some lamps, they lit the lamps also...so it was pretty cooool... you know with all those fireworks...

And this is how it started."

The mother  fainted.

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"...you're on MY side!" :D #funny

A guy goes into the confession box after years of being away from the Church.

He pulls aside the curtain, enters and sits down.

There's a fully equipped bar with crystal glasses, the best wine, Guinness on tap, cigars and liquor chocolates nearby, and on the wall a fine photographic display of buxom ladies, who appear to have mislaid their garments. He hears a priest come in: 

"Father, forgive me for it's been a very long time since I've been to confession, and I must admit that the confession box is much more inviting than it used to be".

The priest replies, "Get out, you idiot. You're on my side". ----------  Source: Forwarded message  ----------

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