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My friend just wrote in the group chat "can you imagine how normalised chat gpt is, like you can say 'go ask chat gpt' and everyone will think that's normal" well me personally I react like this:

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my fav girlies !! 💗

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YouTube user Bill Philips realizes they have been listening to a horror fiction podcast 74 episodes in

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You might think that it's really dumb to be using fancy computer technology to solve regular-ass problems. Well, the board members and amphetamine-laced stock speculators think it's really dumb to be not giving them a ton of money. Maybe both of you are right.

Last week, my city announced that they were going to use drones to figure out when traffic is backed up. Those drones will be launched by a person, who will have to drive to the traffic jam and fly the drone out of their car. It is only through the magic of the drone that it is possible to identify the heretofore mysterious state of "there's a lot of fucking cars here."

This development was heralded as forward-looking innovation, unlike traditional municipal responsibilities such as "building a train." That's old technology, from the age of coal and steam. Shooting buzzing AliExpress drones at angry people trying to get home from work? Visionary shit.

Now that we live in an incomprehensible hell made up entirely of interlocking micro-hells, a lot of folks just like you are looking around and going: who do we blame for this? Politicians have their ideas, sure. It's mostly "not our donors," which is understandable, because nobody wants to point the fingers at the guys they spend all weekend with on the golf course as being the harbingers of a mechanized apocalypse.

Personally, I'm looking even forward-er than that. Did you know there is actually no law in my city against using one of those electrified flyswatters to knock down the traffic drones? All you need is to tape one on the end of a couple broomsticks and you can knock one of those things right into the bed of your truck, stunned, with just a little practice. Once you sell what's left of them on eBay to foreign dictators or regular perverts, you can afford a gently used Xbox. Hey, maybe technology was the answer after all.

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youtube voice Uh Oh we see you're using an ad blocker that's no good! we can only show you threeeeee videos before we're gonna cut you off forever and ever or at least until the next time you restart your web browser. We're kinda fucked if you decide to close mozilla firefox and then open it up again

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We are seeing the same playbook as Iraq and a lot of Iraqi diaspora also said the same things when it was ongoing. Regardless of how you feel about the Iranian government, do not fucking do CIA job

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How are you able to make so many relatively accurate observations about fandom culture?

Because I have been researching fandom culture for over a year (using only Reddit arguments as a source) and this is what I’ve leaned:

Fandom does not mean being a fan of something. Fandom refers to a group of adults creating and consuming romantic (also known as “shipping”) “smut” (p*rnography) content based on a handful of commercially-produced intellectual properties catering to the Teen Demographic.

Although these intellectual properties are marketed to 12-16 year-olds, fandom “spaces” are NOT for teens. This is because when minors are in fandom spaces fandom adults cannot comfortably share their Shipping Smut, due to Purity Culture.

The relationships in this shipping content may feature 2 or more canon characters (that is, characters created by people outside of Fandom) or a mix of canon characters and “OC’s” (characters created by someone in fandom). However, if you make shipping content that contains ONLY original characters, what you have created is not fandom but “mainstream media.” This means that the rules of fandom etiquette such as “ship and let ship” and “don’t like don’t read” no longer apply to people who consume your work. You made the mistake of, for example, creating a webcomic with 5 readers that pays $0.84/month and now your fandom is free to harass you for ruining their comfort characters and head canons. Also, do NOT complain about people making smut out of your OC’s as you will get a lecture about the Death of The Author.

But the good news is, even if everyone is making smut out of your OC’s, at least your name & likeness will be left out of it, right?

WRONG. You, the non-fanwork content creator, are now a “public figure,” making your private life fair game for RPF (real person fan fiction), which hopefully you will never see unless one of the billions of internet users unfamiliar with fandom etiquette sends it to you.

So, in conclusion, fandom is a joyful and creative space for anyone over 21 who wants to get into endless arguments about which cartoon characters are ******* each other

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a detailed list of things i hate

hot weather

high temperatures

heat

warmer than average conditions

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love being sent emails about the alumni events of my uni. girl i'm still studying there

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Spin this wheel first and then this wheel second to generate the title of a YA fantasy novel!

(If the second wheel lands on an option ending with a plus sign, spin it again)

Share what you got!

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saw this cute post and now I'm not going on reddit for the rest of the day. quit while you're ahead