What I fear is the people who do not realize that they’ve been brought into a fold. They don’t recognize the ideas that are shaping them. Molding them. Pulling them away from their moral center into an extreme outgroup. I am, myself, a colossal jagoff who has done precisely that to others, so I recognize the danger in producing an ostracizing, extremist environment to quench and fold fresh little soldiers.

They steal from you, those spaces. Make you less than you are. I hate seeing them more than I can possibly describe.

Their compliance-based banning practices are objectively working, it seems. They’re more unified than ever. And their comment sections even grosser

I’ll believe it when I see it. By Jove do I hope I’ll see it

Yes, and it will finally give you the confidence you needed to start wearing more red to cover up all of your wine stains. 10% sneaks up on you

Ew, you could get so many more tannins and calories out of box wine sangria for a quarter the price.

You’re welcome and/or sorry!

I know, right? I’ve messaged his boss on LinkedIn to tell him and we’ve bonded over the whole mortifying ordeal. I’m pretty sure his boss jerks it with his right. Soon I’ll have reached the top of his organization, and then the world. Society’s thirst for masturbation gossip is nearly unquenchable, but my reservoir runneth over

I figured it was something silly like that. I just can’t help but make that joke at every time I can. I hope you also got a little kick out of it!

Whoa, you can’t just sling hard Rs and Fs like that. What the hell, man? (They deleted their comment before I saw it and this is 100% a joke at their expense, I have no clue what they actually wrote. Lemmy should probably remove comments, rather than swapping the contents of the comment for “deleted by creator”)

Edit: or disable replies on deleted comments. It’s pretty easy to mess with people, as things currently are

His arms are incredibly uneven, I can tell you with near-prophetic clarity which hand this man jorks it with. What an embarrassing revelation for this dildo enthusiast

Not gonna lie, I wanna try that wheelchair incredibly badly

Frankly, I don’t think the bar has shifted substantially lower. He’s drawn a penis on weather charts and posted an AI video of himself pooping on protesters. This is, frankly, neutral or even positive by comparison.

Rorschach is such a fun character. Both a symbol and a piece of a profoundly broken world. Morally repugnant and utterly devoid of sense of self. A machine destroying itself as both a matter of purpose and function. Over the top, but terribly human.

A long series of character flaws masquerading as not just a person, but a hero. He’s trauma personified. Were the watchmen world to become a utopia, he’d either become a villain or permanently inert.

Very fun to model a murder hobo in dnd after this murder hobo. Very fun and… brief. Usually.

I mean, in the same way that no one knows for certain what matter really is.

But that really doesn’t matter. Release the Epstein files, provide healthcare for the US, and stop imprisoning my friends and neighbors

I think there are between one and five typos in your message and I can’t decide whether this is about shitting the bed or the dawning of a new day

It’s weird getting older and finding myself abiding by Abrahamic religious doctrine by accident. Dietary changes moving me to lighter and less fatty foods, mixed fabrics giving me rashes, no longer mocking bald men due to a fear of bears.

However, I’ve started eating shellfish as they’re relatively environmentally friendly, so it might well be a wash

Only the bit where he starts indiscriminately petting pussy

You don’t remember the scene where Simon Pegg breaks character by slurredly shouting his name, equipping a strap-on onto a confused bystander, and riding him for two and a half hours while whispering his own name? _{Simon Pegg Simon Pegg Simon} Ungh _{Pegg Simon Pegg Simon Pegg Simon Pegg Shimon Pegg Simon Pegg}

The answer is simpler than you could ever conceive. Companies piloted by incompetent, selfish pricks are just scraping the entire internet in order to grab every niblet of data they can. Writing code to do what they’re doing in a less destructive fashion would require effort that they are entirely unwilling to put in. If that weren’t the case, the overwhelming majority of scrapers wouldn’t ignore robot.txt files. I hate AI companies so fucking much.

I mean, yeah. AI companies are nearly universally, and objectively, piloted by fucksticks. Lemmy instances are also constantly scraped rather than just spinning up an instance and pulling the entire threadiverse.