I meant to say the animals act more practical.

Sure a cat won’t jump into a burning building to save you; it’s a survivor and it knows it can’t drag you out anyway.

If you try to play with them like you would a dog, they just look at you like you’re a weirdo.

Sampling error: By definition, you never hear from the ones who did give up social media because… they gave up social media.

I also like cats; as animals, they’re just far more practical…

Not if you’re selling whole burgers, but the “set dressings” are allowed to be fake.

You can use fake pancakes to advertise a syrup, and fake syrup to advertise pancakes. McD’s can’t use fake mayo on pictures of burgers, but you can use it in the “serving suggestion” picture if you’re selling frozen burger patties.

I adore a 2-and-half star experience.

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I think that’s the fuckin’ point of the whole “gun regulation” debate, hence the meme… He lived by the sword and died by the sword.

Forgive my ignorance, but how tf are you alive?

Why on Earth would we want to build anything even close to Data from Star Trek under these conditions?!

No matter how you slice it, we’d be trapping them in a living hell!

There was this old book in my school classroom I remember that was speculating about the future; it had illustrations of robot butlers and maids helping people about the house in that 1960s-painting style. Think the future as seen in “The Jetsons”, or Andrew from “Bicentennial Man”.

That’s the “robot assistance” I was promised. So I’d say to my robot “Hey, can you turn the lights down?” And a humanoid robot would walk over to the light switch and turn the lights down.

Of course, it turns out building robots like that is hugely expensive so it’s easier to just sell smart lights that connect to a voice-activated app on your phone. That’s just not the same as a true general purpose robot, dammit! There’s no whimsy. Generative AI is ruining the Internet and for what? I’m no closer to my true robot butler and flying car than I was 20 years ago.

What do you mean “can’t eat at”?

Do you have an allergic reaction when you consume non-meat foods?

I think some cultures are entirely unfamiliar with the idea of not eating meat at all.

Like that line from Big Fat Greek Wedding. “He doesn’t eat meat? Is okay, I make lamb.”

They treat it the same way we might treat the phrase “he doesn’t drink.” Which means no alcohol, not “no consuming liquid of any kind.”

No meat is just taken to mean no whole meats, like cuts of steak. So you get “no meat in the soup, just a bit of the chicken stock for flavour.”

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Ew, math is gross sometimes…

I feel scammed.

I always bought DVDs to avoid ads and that was nice, then they made streaming more affordable and convenient.

Then they quietly dropped releasing streaming shows on physical media and now it’s more expensive and has ads.

You tricked me!

That’s already true…

I hardly ever use “lol” to mean laugh out loud. It’s also just interspersed in sentences to denote when something is not really serious lol.

“Let’s just say, she’s unlearning her conception of attraction” is the woke way of saying a girl is an easy lay.

Cars, and all the resulting infrastructure.

Ruined city structures and, to an extent, local communities. Small corner stores and tight-knit communities have vanished in favour of giant shopping malls meant to serve everyone in a huge radius.

I have an old Apple Watch and this made me wanna get rid of it.

I’ve bought into their ecosystem (mainly just because I hate every other tech giant slightly more) but they’ve really done little to impress me these past few years…

I’ve read (and don’t quote me on it) that the way it gets around those laws is it’s technically not “recording”. It’s real-time dictation with no audio recorded or transmitted anywhere…

… But even so, it really goes against the spirit of those laws.