But there are several other very important differences between human beings and animals that you should know about.

I frequent a wildlife site called e621 that explains and demonstrates these differences. There’s so much you can learn about the natural world!

Shrek 5: The Voyage to Save Donkey

No need to look it up, fact-check or confirm this or verify context. It was posted with a picture of the man so it must be true.

I love how the word “daddy” has been as ruined as the word “step sister” or “step brother.” We cannot have nice things.

I mean, we can have nice things but we tend to always try to find ways to fuck them.

Shitty AI generated Dyson Sphere is off-center. Whole thing is going to destabilize and collapse.

I would hate to work in fast food just trying to get through my shitty day for shitty pay and keep getting weird, stupid prank orders so people online can get upvotes.

If you have an interesting life then you can commandeer small talk and make it interesting. It’s an opportunity to introduce other material.

Just reread it without the benefit of knowing your own intentions and think about how it sounds. (Also a great thing to do in conversation.)

Wait… I am almost positive you were my last manager.

Counterpoint: ya’ll are taking sex too seriously.

I know this is a joke, but I know well from experience that some kids are reading this joke and going “oh shit, what if I accidentally start going YEP YEP YEP the day I actually have sex!”

If you’re not having fun and if you’re afraid of saying the wrong thing and looking awkward or silly, you’re with the wrong person. Go do whatever you want with anyone who consents, but it should NOT be stressful, it’s like the ONE thing we do together where we drop all our guards and be vulnerable and silly with each other. You can’t possibly be naked with someone and not feel a little silly, but you should also feel safe to be silly.

This is a really good way to get hated if you make every chat about some crazy thing that happened in your life, whether or not it’s real.

People like an occasional wild story but if you’re always “commandeering” small talk, people will avoid you. If you want people to actually enjoy hanging out with you, you have to balance this with a lot more asking questions about them, and making them feel equally important to the interaction.

Voyager’s mission parameters and expectations have only decreased since 1977, it will never be required to run newer software or investigate new objects. It is winding down and is just sending back enough data that we can use our more powerful Earth-based computers to detect the most subtle changes to the cosmic medium.

Meanwhile, we have a constantly accelerating global marketplace of new software and new ways of both working and playing games. If ya’ll were operating on a system designed to stay functional for 40+ years you would not like that system.

All that said, we do have a pretty bad problem with bloatware and software/hardware companies colluding to leverage consumers to buy and upgrade phones and computers more than necessary.

I just don’t think it’s a fair comparison if we were to get really pedantic and serious about a joke meme.

Yes you should LOL JFC go get a job, save money, build your future. You are gonna be middle-aged saying “Why the fuck did I let international politics keep me from getting my shit together??”

I promise you, whatever excuses you’re letting your mind invent to keep you from getting a job are just that, internal validations. Take the reigns, don’t listen to the stories your mind tells you.

I have spent my life hearing stories that the world is ending, that world war 3 is about to happen, that we have no future.

Well it’s now the future, and I dearly, dearly wish the people saying all that actually helped me and others prepare for living as an adult in a world that continues to go on.

My entire life on Earth, people have been saying “World War 3 is imminent!” and when I was little, it actually was. In my life, I’ve seen an actual face-off between armed super-powers directly threatening each other with total annihilation, and a few times it came very, very close.

We are in a vastly different world now, with new super-powers all for the most part intertwined with each other financially. While what remains of Russia is a real threat, they aren’t the scary monster they used to be, but are still using the same rhetoric and hostility. However, more and more we have learned that they are not the unstoppable “red tide” that will cover the world, they are a struggling, impoverished nation pouring every ounce of their might into capturing one neighboring country with valuable resources, and not showing a lot for it other than a radically reduced male population.

I firmly believe that we are further from World War 3 than we’ve been since the end of World War 2. It’s possible Putin will lose his mind and try to kill the world, but that’s not a “world war” that’s just terrorism, and he won’t have allies joining in, because mostly, everyone wants to live. He knows this too, so all he would be doing is causing a lot of destruction to some countries and total destruction to his own.

It’s really going to be a shocker for the inhabitants of that expoplanet once you get your shit together and get over there yourself to start making changes.

While the number of actual whalers in the world has declined to just a handful of shitty people, we need to talk about what we’re doing to sharks and octopuses. To say nothing of the newest research and discoveries of how complex fish broadly actually are, with complicated social structures, even languages and the capacity to feel and experience pain.

We need lab-grown proteins and need to put an end to farming sentient creatures in hellish conditions to slaughter and consume them.

Unfortunately, the chances of that becoming normal in the next several centuries is pretty slim. If our solution to the Fermi-Paradox is quarantine, we’re not being let out any time soon.

How are people at work this addicted to AI already? That should be the entire punchline right there, that ANYONE would consider quitting because lack of AI. This is insane.

If you are this dependant on LLM’s you have to stop using them. Like, RIGHT NOW. End your subscription, delete the app, find a good book and start reading.

My dad was the kind of person who would do coke and drink all day and pretended he was he was “doing business” when he was really just calling everyone in his contacts and loudly being obnoxious at them for an hour or two each.

No idea how much money he conned out of people to support his habit but I estimated he probably spent at least a several hundred thousand dollars on cocaine in his life, not counting the hundreds of thousands or more he spent on nightly dinners where he held a captive audience while he ranted and raved like Trump.

Did he eat her?