The original ídea for The West Wing was that the president would be an off screen character and they'd focus on the white house staff.
I would like to pitch a similar idea, a medical drama that doesn't feature any kind of doctor on screen, instead we're only seeing administrative staff, cleaners, nurses, students, other medical support staff, etc.

300g dry lentils

2 gallons of extra virgin olive oil

3kg salt

1 Bay Leaf

Every time Super Eyepatch Wolf makes a video about a game I watch half of it, close the video swearing that I'll play the game myself, and then don't.

edit: hmm it seems he's only made three videos about specific games which is weird because it feels like he's done more

Whenever my parents watch a slop movie they treat it like its a reprieve from all the serious media they consume. "It was just fun. Simple fun" I think most recently it was cause they saw Deadpool for the first time. Likez they mostly NASCAR and sitcoms but they always seem to try to excuse their slop watching for movies like theyre taking a break from Goddard for some light fare.

I've started to use DeepSeek for certain technical questions for which I once used Google (because Google is shit now).

These new-fangled LLMs are actually useful when you know absolutely nothing about a topic. High-level overviews seem to be their strength.

Then again, it will occasionally get details wrong. When I point it out, it says "oopsie poopsie! 🤭 you're right! Sorry about that UwU".

So I had an idea to do some credit card fraud. So hypothetically, as a regular wasp, could I get an Isreal passport and take credit cards out on it? I have no papers indicating I am Jewish but I doubt they check it that hard. I could probably get a llm to make me some.

I swear to God I installed Ubuntu because I was sick of Microsoft's shit and now none of my games work and I can't get a bootable USB stick with Windows on it because the tools require dependencies that are deprecated on Ubuntu 25. What the actual fuck.

You know you are approaching the "the meme is dead" phase of the CEO getting caught cheating when corporations join in it. Oh and now you have AI edits too.

This thread prompted me to finally start on Fanon’s Wretched of the Earth. It’s looking like the perfect thing to read for me right now, having just completed Camus’ The Rebel. The topic is very similar but they’re starting from different attitudes: Fanon, the colonized; Camus, the French Algerian settler. The disgusting conclusions Camus draws are, I think, inextricably linked to his settler background.

Consider the way Camus develops the concept of rebellion:

What is a rebel? A man who says no, but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation. He is also a man who says yes, from the moment he makes his first gesture of rebellion. A slave who has taken orders all his life suddenly decides that he cannot obey some new command. What does he mean by saying “no”? He means, for example, that “this has been going on too long,” “up to this point yes, beyond it no,” “you are going too far,” or, again, “there is a limit beyond which you shall not go.” In other words, his no affirms the existence of a borderline.

and later (emphasis mine):

The act of rebellion carries him far beyond the point he had reached by simply refusing. He exceeds the bounds that he fixed for his antagonist, and now demands to be treated as an equal.

Compare with Fanon (emphasis mine):

To dislocate the colonial world does not mean that once the borders have been eliminated there will be a right of way between the two sectors. To destroy the colonial world means nothing less than demolishing the colonist’s sector, burying it deep within the earth or banishing it from the territory. Challenging the colonial world is not a rational confrontation of viewpoints. It is not a discourse on the universal, but the impassioned claim by the colonized that their world is fundamentally different.

Fanon considers the colonized rebel and draws a conclusion opposite to Camus. Rebellion, rather than asserting equality according to Camus, instead asserts difference.

I only ever pick rock when playing rock, paper scissors. Im only easier to beat if you know this. Most people don't study my patterns when playing, maybe instead of the standard closed fist for when counting off and keeping it the same I'll give the player a hint by counting with my hands in either paper or scissor position

can't even hit on your coworkers anymore because woke

In episode 17 of the OG Gundam series, Bright tells a soldier that he is "authorized to use excessive force if necessary", which would be a pretty good line if it felt at all like it was on purpose

Its probably cause rhe chef is on vacation for 2 weeks but I am being absolutely flooded with great food ideas

unironically used burgers as a unit of measurement in a meeting today because my manager couldn't understand anything else

The wastewater COVID data closest to me definitely makes me feel pretty good, each spike has been a fraction of the size of the previous since like 2022, and while the data doesn't go all the way back to COVID's start, our current numbers seem comparable to pre-lockdown wastewater in other locations.

Anybody know a twitch steamer named Jasontheween? One of my younger nieces has been watching him develop a relationship with this girl and she showed me clips of the whole thing.

I actually found myself interested in it lmao reminded me how awkward I was while dating in my early 20’s.

watched again tonight. what a good movie, the ending hits so hard.

also watched Mickey 17 last night. also very good. I find the trend of actors playing two characters at the same time very funny. why hire two actor, when one actor do trick?

season premiere of its always sunny may be the worst episode I've ever watched of any TV show

Did you know that the T-Rex is genetically closer to Cleopatra than an iPhone?

Its not a sexual thing, but put on the Maid outfit