So two people matched on a dating app and both of them used ChatGPT to message each other, went on a date and had a horrible fucking time.
Two other things
1. This is creepy and extremely dumb from both sides
2. However, it is very funny (read: absolutely expected) that the woman immediately came clean and owned up to using ChatGPT and the fucking guy didn’t own up to it
3. If he had owned to it they *might* have had a good laugh at how silly it was and then actually had a good date
kick the people out of the situation. let the AIs date
Because of long covid now Taylor Lorenz can never win a culture fight against anyone outside her circle with a minimum of awareness and I think that’s beautiful
I’m unironically a bit glad it wrecked me so bad because basically no one can try to pull rank mawkward on me now
Well, the sting of all these neo-hipsters reviving all the things from my young adulthood I liked not registering me as a peer is softened by the way that after the personality change charisma boost they seem to register me not as a sad aging guy who shouldn’t still be at the bar but as a tribal elder (and I suspect I’m eligible for the girls to register as “daddy” now)
Like I feel like I should pivot this into some sort of “it gets better” takeaway message but no, I can’t realistically promise this to anyone else, this is ridiculous.
Also to anyone complaining about countries devoting resources to this sub, the US maintains deep sea capabilities for reasons of state, which includes deep sea rescue capabilities mostly relating to the SLBM leg of the nuclear triad, this was a free practice scenario and like, enrichment for those guys.
I feel like some of the schadenfreude towards these submarine guys comes from finally seeing a rich guy attempt to buy their way to a peak experience fail. You can hire an army of Sherpas to summit Everest, you can pay Musk to go to space, but you can’t vulgarly buy your way to the depths of the ocean.
“Vulgarly” is the key. How else would you do it? Train hard? Work your way up through the normal Abyss Corps? It’s definitionally a logistics challenge.
To which the “legitimate” approach of course is James Cameron, personally involved at the forefront of submersibles, as supported by multiple Oscar-winning and/or highest grossing in history movies specifically drawing on that interest. No one would begrudge him, but then again no one could see him going down on a sub piloted by Xbox controller.
My take on this missing submarine is it’s part of the thing where since Harambe the world operates on novelistic logic. Like, it’s not even that it’s poetic justice for these billionaires to die so much as that it’s a dramatic event arising from the confluence of several major themes of the contemporary world
I love these little gummy packs, I’ll be like “ooh but do I really want one just because?” but like, it’s $5. I was getting down to smoke like ten full percent of a $50 eighth, at 1998 inflation and a 1998 teenager’s budget 25 years ago
people like anita sarkesan, 4chan and other members of the gamer gate movement refuse, to even consider the reality. there is biblical evidence for video games. these people don’t want to believe that basic facts, adam and eve played the xbox which has been proven scientifically and is the word of god, plain and simple. denying video games = denying christ.
3rd century ecclesiastical schism over whether the Xbox came with Uno
God, I just realized that Anita Sarkeesian has totally fallen out of relevance
“gen z is so loud and rude and disrespectful!” good. they might actually accomplish something.
– Gen Z
Seriously, from over-drawing lessons from the 60s – and specifically, the 90s’ reinterpretation of the 60s to flatter and intellectualize the Boomers fully coming into their own as heirs to the country, and the lessons learned under later periods built on that 90s understanding – there’s this widespread youth sense that “if I’m not getting my way, it’s because I haven’t been enough of a brat about it!”
But that understanding could only bear so much weight, the 2010s was a festival of putting too much on it, and now it’s fallen through. And the rest of society has realized it doesn’t need to placate those brats, or win an argument against them, just stop taking them seriously and let it wither on the vine. You already saw it with “defund the police”!
And reimplement the pre-60s – pre-90s, really – understanding of things, which is, “you act in a way acceptable to the rest of society, and in particular your seniors running the established order, or the hammer comes down”
When I was taking Blue Bitch up from LA that one time I passed through Ukiah where they were having some sort of harvest festival, I guess on the pretense that anyone grew wholesome legal crops around there, and one of the booths was Wal-Mart, where they were just giving away vendor-level food and bags of candy, I also took a card that referenced their hopes to build a store on the edge of town. So they were cultivating goodwill, for political purposes.
That’s why ‘90s Wal-Mart was all about not selling pornography, and music only with Bowdlerized lyrics – so as to appear congruent with rural culture (that over the '80s had been significantly redefined in religious-moral terms) for political purposes, to lubricate local government approval processes their business depended on.
So if you’re trying to influence major retailers re: queer stuff in culture that’s one angle. A significant difference though is that Wal-Mart already largely built out through rural America in the early-mid 90s (and Target in inner suburbs and exurbs in the late 90s-early 2000s). And of course the big box model entirely faces challenge from online retail now, so all the pieces are going to be in slightly different places with different angles between them.
So thanks to its Progressive Era western state heritage, Oregon has particularly strict and toothsome balanced budget requirements.
Oregon also has a decade-old Democratic legislative lock, teetering on supermajority. But Oregon also has a two-thirds state Senate quorum requirement, which means that a coordinated mere third of the body can go truant and render the body null – not quite an exploding Diet (the case there was a failed vote voided the entire legislative session, including matters already passed), but close.
And the Republicans have so coordinated; they may lack leverage under regular order, but thus they have established that Oregon can legislate – and budget – on terms acceptable to the Republican Party or not at all.
There’s those toothsome requirements though, it seems state operations would not continue even to the degree federal ones do under “shutdown”, the state might be closer to a federal post-“fiscal cliff”; the reference point I think of is when in the 90s the Portland school district ran out of money one year and the school year just ended a few months early
Amusing to see the radikiddies-but-still-electoralists tantruming that Biden even negotiated the debt ceiling well rather than Green Lanterning through. Kind of hope they try to make a thing of it so they can get smacked down in the ensuing fight; Biden himself is reassuringly continuity-establishmentarian but he hasn’t really done anything to purge his party or render it safe ex-him
(ignoring the Covid maximalists to renter the world is a good start to reining in the trend starting with Bill Clinton feeling our pain that government’s just gotta do something to pacify people who cry out loudly and agonizingly enough by imposing costs on everyone else, but their approach of just not engaging won’t leave clear lessons for the rest of the party)
And what’s their leverage here? I occasionally see foot-stomping that Biden depended on their votes for election and will for reelection, but like, if they tried to sabotage his reelection and fail they could just be totally dismissed, and if they succeed… was Kerry ‘04 more solicitous of Naderites after Gore '00? I don’t see it.
Man all the rosebushes – which must have been messes under the previous methhead couple owners’ tenure and then on divorce trimmed back for sale by her dad to these thick stumps that gave off like 3 man-high nightmare canes a year – have finally been developed to the point where they split their spring growth into a candelabra of color that keeps going a while if you deadhead them. Good stuff!
Must be weird to be the guy going hard through my archives and like two days ago was the harrowing cultural crisis of the mid-2010s and now I’m just going on about my yard and how everything is awesome
Man all the rosebushes – which must have been messes under the previous methhead couple owners’ tenure and then on divorce trimmed back for sale by her dad to these thick stumps that gave off like 3 man-high nightmare canes a year – have finally been developed to the point where they split their spring growth into a candelabra of color that keeps going a while if you deadhead them. Good stuff!
