Upside down smiley is used as like a smile-through-the-pain, everything is fucked kind of reaction, similar to melty smiley. Similarly the blushing smiley is usually deployed ironically. Or maybe my friends are just really sarcastic haha
Depends on the thing and the mood I’m in. Sometimes I just have to be pragmatic - my life will be better in the long run if I do this because I’ll keep my job, my house will be clean, etc. Sometimes the thing I’m doing is just really fun. Sometimes it’s fun to just check boxes, like your completing tasks in a videogame. And finally, once you’ve established a habit like exercise or stretching or learning a language, it just feels wrong to not do it every day.
Everyone knows 67 = basketball star Lamelo Ball’s height (6’ 7"). It’s a reference to a song that talks about that. It’s now just a silly in-joke reaction to hearing/seeing the numbers 6 and 7, literally the exact same thing as millenials and 69.
Well not everyone knows that I guess - just everyone cool!
Also how weird is it that 2 of the biggest memes of the past decade - the dab and 67 -are both made famous by sports stars based in my hometown of Charlotte, NC (not exactly a cultural mecca)
Seven Devils by Florence and the Machine is a fun one :)
Ok, well I wouldn’t call that “grift” to be honest. The video you linked repeatedly says “Sabine is not a charlatan”. I do think she leans into science controversy a bit more than she should, and branches out from where she’s an expert, but those are less serious “crimes”. I also think her gripes about academia are not completely without warrant and I can’t blame her for acquiring a following of people that are trying to use her criticisms to further their own phony conspiracies.
I used to subscribe to her a couple years ago but stopped. What do you mean by grift?
That’s completely different though. So they partner with all the big pharma companies, which makes sense given their research. Unless you think he’s secretly on the take from AZ (idk how you would even attempt to bribe Bill Gates), he does not benefit at all financially from the Oxford/AZ deal and there’s no sign of wrongdoing.
No they don’t dude. AZ doesn’t have a parent company. Immunocore has about 1 billion dollars in assets, AZ has about 100 billion. Stop making stuff up.
Where do you see that? That isn’t anywhere in your link. The only reference to AZ is that they partnered with one of the companies that Gates invested in.
Listen m8 all I do is try to do is stop the spread of misinformation. If X thing is just as bad as Y… just say he did X thing. No need to embellish the story.
No, I don’t think that’s accurate. Oxford Unkversity was going to waive their rights to the vaccine, and Gates pressured them to instead partner with Astra-Zeneca. But to my knowledge Gates never profited from that deal. Now, was there still some shady backroom dealing going on? Very possibly.
I think we all feel that way from time to time, but the way I know it isn’t true is that the closer you actually are to losing civilization and the comforts it provides the less you want it. Freezing your ass off in the rain? Nobody craves the stone age then.
Hey at least I put my ball-spoon there myself
Oh nice! Yeah I’m a fan of the Green brothers they’re legit.
I don’t believe there’s a spoons worth of plastic in your brain. Ain’t no way. It’s suspiciously sensational, and confirms something we all believe to be true (plastics bad, humans reckless, etc.). I have zero evidence to the contrary but im pretty confident that in a few years to a decade it will be debunked.
That’s a wild one I like it
I feel like the 0.01% is either a mistake or an exaggeration? Isn’t Linux something like 1-2% of the gamer base depending on how you measure it? Why would a Linux supported hard-core game be 100x less than that?
The one thing I continue to love AI for is it is absolutely cracked at image recognition. Whats this plant? An aerial yam, duh! What’s this shower head? Well, the original manufacturer is gone but the exact same part is still being sold without a label - here’s the webpage we found a match on. That still amazes me.
But in general I hate how AI is just slowly rotting not just the internet and social media but just human talent and general. In 20 years we are not gonna have nearly as many young artists and writers because they have to compete with AI able to crank out slop for free. AI cannot (and in my opinion, almost by definition will never be able to) equal the very best artists and writers, but how are up and comers supposed to get to that level? Think of all the all time great creative people who started off just grinding as a cartoonist, background character, or pulp fiction writer. Those are gonna be the ones to go first. Instead of a, for example, 2 year pipeline to be able to scrape by pursuing a creative profession it could be a 10 year pipeline.
accidentally cut a power over fiber cable house bursts into flames as five million lumens of light erupts from the severed end
“Like your job. Love your wife.” - Dell from Trains, Planes, and Automobiles. You can generalize that to say, your job is just a means to an end. Don’t work a job you hate, but look elsewhere for true fulfillment in life.