Just recently finished rewatching House MD.

Hugh Laurie is ridiculously handsome. Olivia Wilde is beautiful beyond words.

And Jesse Spencer’s hair, by the gods.

All up, the show meandered and was formulaic (by design). Parts of it aged terribly, but was a good rewatch

Virtual partners are indeed a thing.

One of the more popular ones a few months ago decided to nerf the sexy time talks, which was intersting in how much it emotionally hurt users. They described feeling like their virtual partner was no longer the same person that they’d fallen for. Source: https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2023-03-01/replika-users-fell-in-love-with-their-ai-chatbot-companion/102028196

There are also huge fears of how much data harvesting they are capable of performing.

I’m in two minds. On one, they are definitley not real. They are code. But on the other, the epidemic of lonely human beings is only getting worse with time and not better, and anything that can help people feel less lonely has to be a good thing, right?

Guns. Lots of guns.

Forbidden bathtub waffles only taste so good cause of the extra danger.

~~this is also a dark joke, do not do this~~

It was old almost as soon as it began. I’m still shocked that people seem to be wanting those parts of Reddit rather than leaving them behind.

A lot of people are the problems with that place, and like a bad smell it followed them.

Blocking entire instances I’m told improves things, but gods damn that’s a huge block list to have to enact

Started encountering mods being asses now. For some communities, it leaves Reddit as the preferable alternative, which is a horrible state for things to be in.

But won’t answer DMs about an instance bug where being temp banned from one community functions as an instance wide ban

This

This surprises people? Mozilla has always been Mozilla’s biggest enemy.

Who?

WHO?

Probably more of a bait and switch tactic, but Deadpool 2’s trailer focused on setting up X-Force with some fantastic casting - then killing them off almost immediately in the film

Ugh I’m glad we’re part this part of history, when every film and tv show started this same trend for a time.

Do you want Ancient Aliens? Cause this is how you get Ancient Aliens

At least they’ve stopped forcing IM’ing into everything… Haven’t they?

Stepsister. So when I get a notification when I’m away from home that it’s stuck, I giggle instead of raging

Graham Lineham was controversial for years before he was ‘cancelled’. A prime example of a talented writer who needed a PR team to keep him away from the general public.

Father Ted, Black Books, IT Crowd. These are all gems that I always enjoy rewatching.

Ian Watkins, lead singer of the band Lostprophets. Never read the court transcripts of his crimes, they really are that horrible and will ruin you for some time.

I’m in the exact same boat

It certainly is low… to the ground

Personification?

Edit: Anthropomorphic Personification!

(GNU Sir Terry Pratchett)

Do people read this headline and believe that this is a design flaw? That of all Teslas sold and driven anywhere in the entire world since they were first sold, none have ever been in rain?

There was major flooding around where this Tesla was. Idiots obviously drove it in flood water or it got submerged while parked. This is an insurance problem, not a click bait “herrrr derrrr Elon so stupid” problem.

And if they are stupid enough to not have had insurance on a brand new car, this is a “point and laugh at the idiot crying to the press” problem