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Intestinal parasites go to heaven

@WANGHAF I fear her music is actually quite good including this song, I be bumping that shit

New Hobo Johnson just dropped

@fuzziphy @AaronBergman18 right, just seems like everything has become smoke test.

@MORGkorg @AaronBergman18 I’ve always used it to mean an informal or low value test.. i assume it originates from hardware. If you apply power does it let the magic smoke out?

Nobody: Somebody somewhere occasionally: uses the term "smoke test" very occasionally Claude Opus 4.7 every other sentence: let's run a smoke test

“Gays shouldn’t be allowed to get married.” Not a single barely literate Southern Baptist that foamed at the mouth while berating my generation as teenagers could explain *how* gay marriage would lead to them buying, trading, and raping kids and dogs, but by God they were right.

Once you get into your 30s everyone around you starts writing children's books

@Zigmanfreud People in general are just uglier (fatter) dressed and groomed worse now.

There are a lot of reasons why Americans in general are having less sex, but here are the factors dramatically reducing the number of young people having sex (for better/worse)… -Thanks to social media, all the attractive women are only having sex with the top 10% of men -The bottom 70% of men have no shot and have decided free/easily accessible porn is way easier/safer/less expensive than actually playing a losing game

I present this evidence again to make one thing clear: your life is not worse because of the top 1% it is worse because of the bottom 1%

REMINDER: Drunk driving and texting while driving are perfectly safe above a certain IQ threshold and the people who cause accidents while doing them are simply too retarded to be allowed to drive or learn how to read in the first place.

Showing up 20 minutes late to work with a huge ice cream cone

Imagine a 19-year-old scrolling TikTok. She watches a creator list five "signs you have undiagnosed anxiety." She recognizes three in herself. By the end of the week, she's describing herself as anxious to her friends. A month later, she's avoiding situations she used to handle fine. What went wrong? In a new paper by my PhD student Dasha Sandra, titled "Why mental health awareness can harm: Converging explanations for a societal problem", we argue that well-meaning mental health awareness can backfire, and we identify how. Four separate literatures (concept creep, nocebo effects, prevalence inflation, and illness self-labeling) have been circling the same problem from different angles. We show they converge on three mechanisms: 1.Awareness lowers the threshold for what counts as a disorder. 2. It trains people to scan their inner lives for symptoms and reinterpret normal distress as pathology. 3. Once someone adopts an illness identity, they behave in ways that confirm and deepen it. The evidence is wide. Learning that loneliness is harmful makes solitude feel worse. Learning that stress is harmful worsens well-being and performance. Awareness videos about fake conditions like "wind turbine syndrome" produce real headaches. Trigger warnings raise anticipatory anxiety without reducing distress. This does not mean awareness should stop. It means awareness can have unintended consequences, including manufacturing the suffering it tries to prevent. Inoculating people against these mechanisms works, and we already have evidence it does. Link to paper: michael-inzlicht.squarespace.com/s/The-psycholo…

women really were psyopped into thinking gay men deserved their empathy lmao gay men hate women. they have built entire subcultures around mocking women, and they have done it with female support because so many of you are too stupid to realize when you ARE the joke

@thechosenberg Haiku???

I guarantee claude hallucinated over the course of 660,000 pages

What are the odds those tiki torch carrying neo-Nazis from Charlottesville would only rally once? Feels like it was an American intel op against Trump. That’s my working assumption.

7 decades in public life 0 controversies 0 allegations

Dave Rubin… bought a boy. Benjamin Cohen… bought a boy. Anderson Cooper… bought a boy. Pete Buttigieg…. bought a boy. Sam Altman… bought a boy. George Santos… bought a boy.

we live among the ruins of an incomprehensibly greater fallen civilization

The Red Sox posted video of opening day in Boston in 1950s. The decline is insane.

@Grummz ok but if I didn't have a daily standup I would never get anything done because why

Someone made a game about SCRUM meetings destroying productivity.