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The other day at the store a 4yo flipped me off. Like in the exact manner that made me think it wasn’t an accident

What do you even say to that? What do you do?

It didn’t occur to me until later that returning the gesture would’ve the funniest wrong thing to do

Instead I just nodded and said “okay buddy”

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There is something fundamentally evil about turning communication devices into bombs. To turn the integument of the modern world, the ability to interact with one another at a distance, into being something that could kill you and the people around you, it's just wrong.

You could say we were already there. Plenty of people out there in the world think about how making a phone call or posting a video could bring down a drone strike on their heads. Hezbollah ditched cellphones out of fear they could be easily spied on. But for the danger to be immediate, to be in your hand, to have been there for months by your bedside, in the radio on your belt...

The pagers yesterday beeped before they exploded, to make people bring them closer to their faces. We're conditioned to pay attention to the devices in our pockets. They are an indispensable part of our social worlds. And they are inextricably connected to the globalized supply chains that it's difficult to even imagine securing.

It seems like a fundamentally different kind of attack, and nobody knows the consequences. Planting explosives inside thousands of devices, at some point in a supply chain? It's a new kind of terrorism that only an immensely powerful state shielded from fear of consequences can perform.

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Before James and Meowth know Jessie and Delia are dating

Delia just wanted a lil goodbye kiss :)

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Sometimes the experience of using Tumblr is just repeatedly scrolling to art and going "I don't know who these two women are supposed to be, but they're happy and kissing so cheers to them!" and you scroll on and are confronted by another set of mysterious fandom lesbians.

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fuuuuck you're so hot i want to *i close my eyes and you audibly hear the disco elysium check roll and click as randomize a yuri trope* overhear you confessing your love to another girl

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I don't talk about it much but I do work at Google and I just want to contribute, as a small addendum to the wider conversation about AI, and how much it sucks, and how stupid it is, and how if you make garlic oil like it tells you to you will give botulism to your entire family -

we don't use it.

like internally. we don't use it.

I mean that we don't use it for anything. because we know it's years away from being better than human judgment in basically any way. sometimes they try to encourage us to use it, for low stakes things, like drafting an e-mail or something. and mostly we don't.

we are the ones MAKING AI and SELLING AI and we don't actually use AI because we know it sucks.

stocks are up through so that's something

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Ok, good. You're using her pronouns, and you're doing it consistently. That's... better.

But are you using her adjectives? Her nouns? Do you call her girl, woman, lady, wife, mom, girlfriend, and everything else when it's appropriate? Are you giving her her appropriate context when you're talking to her and about her, or are you just carefully gender neutralizing everything else so that those pronouns stand the fuck out like mad when they happen and make everyone including her feel like you're emphasizing stuff weird?

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hi if ur unaware georgia 🇬🇪 (where i live) has officially banned gay marriage, gay ‘propaganda’, gender reassignment surgery and anything ’promoting’ it. a trans model, kesaria abramidze, has been murdered as a direct consequence of this legislation. if you have a queer georgian in your life pls let them know they are loved and let this solidify why we Need pride and hope cause jesus fuck man

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if this gets 5 notes i'll get out of bed tomorrow morning, at 6 notes i'll have breakfast, at 7 notes i'll have a shower, and at 50,000 i'll smile or smth maybe

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did you know you can maybe grow tits if you hit yourself hard enough and often enough

Over 70 percent of the German battalion's soldiers have been diagnosed with significant gynecomastia. Military officials have promised to keep an eye on the men's breasts.

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Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster, on account that a bunch of monsters can turn you into a monster by biting you. Vampires, werewolves, zombies. those are the big ones, there are others

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does anyone know if we have to scroll the app tomorrow

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Slowpoke girl gets spooked.