#we are the problem

[kool-aidjester]

The water the ocean is made up of is fucking 𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙩 bro. It's the same water that the dinosaurs swam in. It's just crazy how old Earth is. Earth is like that one great great grandparent that's older than everyone else and has outlived all of their children, been through wars, seen major fucked up shit, and still pushes forward and lives on. And Earth would still be beautiful and lively if it wasn't for humans. Humans are one of the main reasons that so many animals have gone extinct and so many habitats have been lost and destroyed. Humans polute, destroy and kill.

Literally my baked ass thinking about this⬇️

[joeyclaire]

i love how tries desperately to win an award opens with the gang being like why haven’t we won any awards? is it us? are we the problem?? no that can’t be it. then ends with them concluding oh yeah it is us

[jackiemeandthispod]

The only way me and my friend could react to the panic news was "this is gonna be huge for the throam pod". I feel like brendon disbanding panic at the disco is as a direct reaction to you guys finishing vol 1

I’m not trying to say that we are influential but… there have certainly been some big fandom events since we have arrived so…

[jim-fetter-illustrations]

Back to the past, and regrettably so….

Have ya ever woke up one morning and just felt like your finally out of that rut you were in?

You were too fixated on one particular type of thing, activity, method, etc., and thinking things weren't right but ya couldn't put your finger on just what the hell it was?

You felt like you were needing change, but didn't have a clue as to what kind of change that was, or how to achieve it???

Well that's what I kinda felt like, and all-of-a-sudden it ended, and I was ME again, the me I'd thought I always was but wasn't,........... sound crazy?..... and it did for me, but now I'm back for whatever reasons, I'm back, and I think it was because of my meditations (consciousness) that finally turned on the reality light bulb.

.......... and I can tell ya, I don't like what I see in this new light of reality, because people in this new reality are just as stupid as the last reality I was observing!

Were still polluting and poisoning the planet, and denying we are the cause, were still voting and supporting criminals who boast that they are criminals, and proud of that fact, and were still greedy as fuck and pretend to hide that fact, and like it could be hidden,.... and it can't, we know who you are and ya ain't fooling anyone but your own ignorant selves, which is dangerous when ya think about it, because it means we aren't going to change to anything better anytime soon,..... because we don't know we are the problem!!

Sometimes it seems like I'm the only fucking one that sees the shit about to hit the fan, and everyone else is just standing there in front of the fan trying to get that cool breeze because of climate change we caused.

When the shit starts to splatter there's gonna be a lot of upset people starting to panic, and our President will no doubt "Exit Stage Left" on that logic.......... and leave those people splattered and smelling like shit......... Just a thought I had, but it's probably right!

[sunbentshadows]

Hey all, you know how internet searches suck now? When the results are awful, full-of-AI, death-of-the-internet levels of bad?

Start appending date constraints to your searches - "before:2023".

My results have gone from 90% AI bullshit to ~60% usable - which frankly at this point is a huge improvement.

[werewolf-transgenderism]

keep seeing undergrads on social media saying “oh if a prof has a strict no-AI academic integrity policy that’s a red flag for me because that means they don’t know how to design assignments” like sorry girl but that just sounds like you’ve got a case of sour grapes about not being allowed to cheat with the plagiarism machine that doesn’t know how to evaluate sources and kills the environment! I have a strict no-AI policy because if you use AI to write your essays for a writing course it’s literally plagiarism because you didn’t write it and you’re not learning any of the things the course teaches if you just plug a prompt into the plagiarism generator that kills the environment, hope this helps!

[blessyouhawkeye]

i love that every time magneto loses his helmet in the x men movies he immediately starts going charles you could make me do ANYTHING YOU WANTED right now......... i'd be POWERLESS TO STOP YOU........ you could GET IN MY MIND and HAVE ME AT YOUR MERCY..... i think a lot of their problems could have been solved if charles just took him up on what was a very blatant proposition

[nando161mando]

[ered]

Here’s my take on the whole audio books vs. reading:

Oral tradition of storytelling predates written ones by millennias, and honestly, which one you like is just a personal preference.

The actual difference is

when listening, you have no idea how to write characters’ names

when reading, you have no idea how to pronounce characters’ names

hope this helps!

[sorchathered]

Please remember your favorite writers are attention whores with a praise kink, they need validation to survive. Feed them comments and reblogs to save a life.

[variksel]

i hate you ai art i hate you "unalive" i hate you youtube premium i hate you twitter 8$ checkmark i hate you nfts i hate you therapy app advertisements i hate you non-chronological timelines i hate you instagram reels i hate you subtle tiktok filters that cant be turned off i hate you family bloggers i hate you ads on true crime episodes i hate you facebook i hate you vr glasses on chickens i hate you dystopian social media

[problemnyatic]

"I think this Category of human being is disposable" okay that not only sucks and is fascist but also makes getting you to deem someone to be disposable a simple matter of convincing you they're in The Category regardless of the truth. Also The Category is often misapplied to a vulnerable minority because it makes people like you agree they're disposable.

"Anyone who disagrees with me about The Category of people being disposable is a Category apologist or probably also in The Category themselves" Oh so you're just totally unconcerned with truth or justice or ethics or human rights and just are feeding your bloodlust for the sake of revenge fantasies. got it 👍

[stinkybrowndogs]

I mean I get that’s it’s not the only contributing factor, but I’m curious exactly how much of the shelter dog over-population problem is actually due to poor dog ownership/management vs the housing crisis and economical stress. I’d be willing to bet by investing in social programs that give people the resources they need to care for their pets (cough cough affordable and free housing cough cough) that the amount of pets in shelters would dramatically drop. We can all sit here pointing fingers and screaming at each other until we are blue in the face, but if the owners basic needs are not being met, how can we hold them to a basic standard for their pets?

[secondbeatsongs]

for anyone too young to know this: watching The Truman Show is a vastly different experience now, compared to how it was before youtube and social media influencers became normal

before it was like, "what a horrifying thing to do to a human being! to take away their autonomy and privacy, all for the sake of profits! to create fake scenarios for them to react to, just to retain viewership! to ruin their happiness just so some corporate entity could harvest money from their very humanity! how could anyone do something so evil?"

and now it's like, "ah, yeah. this is still deeply fucked up, but it's pretty much what every influencer has been doing to their kids for a decade now. probably bad that we've normalized this experience"

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

not "i ship these characters" or "i want them to bond platonically" but a secret 3rd thing (I want them to be forced to interact by the Narrative bc they would HATE that)

[relaxxattack]

for a while there i was sympathetic to tumblr because of how much they’re in debt; i was kind of like “well of course they’re absolutely desperate for new users, they literally need the money or else tumblr goes down forever”. and then suddenly today it hit me that there’s actually no fucking reason for that debt to be causing these ui changes? the userbase has been INCREDIBLY clear about what they want from tumblr over the years, not to mention clear about the fact that even twitter people don’t need this place to look like twitter. it actually would be very… EASY? for them to just make changes in a direction people would actually be HAPPY with?

for fuck’s sake there were people trying to organize a “crab day” for tumblr despite tumblr doing nothing but telling us to go fuck ourselves for months on end. there were people spending hundreds of dollars on check marks just for the glee of MAKING FUN of twitter. can you IMAGINE how much money this userbase would donate to tumblr if they actually made ui updates geared toward what people have been asking for?

if tumblr actually crowdsourced ideas or even just LISTENED to their userbase it may have been possible for them to make way more money than they’re begging for now, they just insist on trying to drive their actual demographic and loyal userbase out for literally no reason