i’ll have to check those out!!

hot take: if an artist is already popular, then they dont need your support anywhere near as much as a bandcamp artist does. i believe it is ethical to enjoy “popular” music without paying for every megabyte. just go see them when they come to town and buy a t-shirt if the spirit moves you.

ah yes, supporting corporate-owned social media, the one true revolutionary praxis

ai is taking jerbs, despite the fact that it cannot perform them at all, and the cost is being externalized to the customers. its not about whether they can do what they’re meant to do, its about giving corporations excuses to further drive down human wages.

But despite some of the viral glitches facing Taco Bell, it says two million orders have been successfully processed using the voice AI since its introduction.

how much you wanna bet they’re counting the orders where the drive thru worker had to step in and save the floundering algorithm who could not in fact understand basic speech, or even the purpose of a conversation, as orders “successfully processed” using AI

look, vowels are expensive. vanna white literally charges people for $250 apiece for them. my way saves an entire vowel. thats $250 more to be spent on the shitposting and bickering that keeps us all alive in this galaxy of the Federated Universe.

i pronounce slrpnk.net “slurpnik dot net”

because it pleases me to do so. i dont know, maybe the instance can start a ramen rating app or a porno site on the side with the domain name. possibilities!

the ancient Longboi has awakened

mine is bork. it is a secret third meat that is neither beef nor pork.

lick frog

its an archaism. a modern understanding of animal behavior and ethics have both pushed that training modality out, and probably the more successful animal trainers of yore never really relied on it, but people absolutely used to beat the shit out of animals. perhaps not often, and perhaps not horribly, but animal cruelty was certainly common enough to enter the lexicon. see “carriage whip”. see “spurs”. see “bearing rein”. see “branding iron”. etc etc. hell theres even the phrase “spare the rod, spoil the child”.

and this is not the worst place a study of the history of language will take you. remember that european and white north american cultures both (among others) unabashedly practiced chattel slavery for centuries, if not millennia for older cultures.

MISTER JELLYBEANS DID NOTHING WRONG

ce, ome, yei, nahui (Nahuatl)

what about thirmty three

“your honor, in my defense my website sucks. like really sucks. like try using it for a good purpose. it is inherently evil.”