The middle picture looks very much like a young lesbian couple.

Not that there's anything wrong with lesbian couples of any age. It's just with this pair it's... odd.

I can't help it. I see a picture of them and it's like a puzzle I need to solve.

Mr Burns (seated) and Smithers.

Basically he's like the dudes who left Twitter for Gab or Truth Social and found it boring because there weren't any libs to own.

It certainly gave me a clear indication of how well significant measures against climate change will be tolerated. ie, not at all.

I suspect there are people who have complicated theories about the relative whiteness rankings, and thus superiority, of natives of Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands.

There's probably some blurring of what "AI doom" means for people. People might be left thinking that "there could be negative effects due to widespread job loss etc" without necessarily buying into the weird maximalist AI doom ideas or "torturing simulated you forever" nonsense.

And the weirdo cultists probably use that blurring to build support for their cause without revealing the weird shit they actually believe.

"widgets" must be a euphemism for "opioids"

The African slave trade of slavs? I think she means Arab. Or Arab/Muslim-osphere.

I wouldn't think sub-Saharan Africans ran a lot of ships up to the Baltic or the Black Sea to capture slavs for enslavement. Ottomans, yes. Barbary pirates, perhaps. Of course some of the most prominent of the Barbary pirates were actually raised Christian or Jewish in Europe, and joined the pirates as adults.

And I wouldn't be surprised at all if Europeans also captured slavs for sale to the Ottomans.

Why the hell would anyone think about Cyrus the Great every day, let alone fondly.

My general assumption is that ADHD is both underdiagnosed and overdiagnosed but I'm generally chill about it and not a gatekeeper. But the recent shortages and delays have me a little more on edge about it.

Shit like this is exactly why I'm skeptical of FTX boy's Adderall prescription.

The thing about AI designing and building robots is that making physical things is vastly more expensive than pooping out six-fingered portrait jpegs. All that trial-and-error learning would not come cheap. Even if the AI were controlling CNC machining centers.

There's no guarantee that the AI would have access to enough parts and materials to be able to be trained to a level of sufficient competence.