My favorite gif from that series:

Dan Da Dan

You’re gonna carry that weight

Real answer: podcasts. Doughboys, Doughboys Double, Get Played, Get Played Season Pass (can you tell I like Nick Weiger?), Film Reroll, and Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell me

Helpful answer: I like singing along to stuff so that ends up being a lot of 80s/90s pop and alt-rock stuff. CAKE, They Might be Giants, Garbage, Jamiroquai, Vengaboys, a bunch of one-hit wonders. Lately I’ve been on a bit of a trance kick so The Prodigy, Fatboy Slim, Chemical Brothers, and Daft Punk are in there too

India/Pakistan seem to be on the brink of war, multiple European countries have elected self described fascists into power, China continues power grabbing the South China Sea, the Russia/Ukraine war, expanding climate disasters (everywhere) but largely in Africa and South America, and as mentioned the US craziness which drags everyone else into it. I think there’s a pretty good argument that things are falling apart globally, it’s just worse in some places than others

It’s entirely possible there’s an issue with lemmynsfw.com that either has screwed up federation, or the majority of their content. I’m at work so I can’t investigate right now but I’d bet it’ll be fixed by the end of the day

Deadmau5 was live streaming his music writing process and accidentally recreated Sandstorm doing the same thing

Depending on when you were in high school Magic may have been a gambling game. In the first few editions of the game you “ante’d” the top card of your library before you played and some cards could cause you to ante others. Plus kids bringing things with monetary value that is flexible and hard to track is definitely a recipe for fights

Yes

I made a lemmy post about it but I theorize they’re crowdsourced AI training. Post something, post a couple of separate AI interpretations of it, then analyze the highest up voted AI and “organic” responses, and feed that back into the model. Rinse/repeat

I mean the bots don’t help. The sheer number of obviously AI subreddits and response farms is crazy. There’s like 6 prominent “Am I the Assholes”, a bunch of text message “screenshot” subreddits which have always been easy to fake, and a bunch of “explain the joke” ones too. I stop reading halfway through most text posts and comments because it’s obviously AI

Poison Ivy has basically become a good guy in Harley Quinn. I think there are a lot of people who are in favor of the earth fighting back against humans right now

Americans have a weird quirk with preferring “local” grocery stores but not bothering to look up who actually owns their grocery store. So the majority of “local” chains are just regional Kroger brands or in this case Food Lion is the southern equivalent of Dutch Delhaize

Unironically, yes. If the “internet” were to disappear tomorrow civilized society would no longer exist. Too much had been built on an unstable jenga tower of technology. We put a lot of faith in the status quo existing despite the fact that little evidence suggests it will

You jest but there’s a carbonated Persian drink called Doogh and Milkis is a Korean drink that they remove a lot of the lactose from. It’s not a crazy concept

Carbonating water creates a small amount of carbonic acid in the water and makes the whole thing slightly acidic. Usually it’s not enough to instantly curdle milk but it would certainly give off the same smell/taste as almost expired milk. This would almost certainly be very gross, even ignoring the bubbly milk part

It’s kinda the same thing as “selling feet pics” and “stripping to pay for school”. There’s a common belief that since men are so desperate for sex that any woman willing to do sex work will make a decent amount of money. That’s simply not the case if you actually talk to any kind of sex worker. However, America is so puritanical that most people don’t even know a sex worker, let alone have the bravery to ask them about their work

It almost sounds like you might be suggesting that there’s no ethical consumption under capitalism

Because Marvel is a franchise machine. You don’t want to be cast as an Eternal if the movie sucks and the Eternals are never heard from again. Who knew who the Guardians of the Galaxy were? It makes sense if you’re holding out for a bigger role

I would imagine logistics simulators like Satisfactory and Factorio would give you an eye for process design and flow diagrams. It’d probably help with understanding scale, inputs, and outputs too