It's more expensive than we all would hope, but not unreasonably so given the economic situation.

Yep, that's slop alright.

One big tell to me is how highlights always get slightly brighter just before hitting the outline. It's kind of a similar effect to when you turn the sharpness filter up on a TV, and it looks terrible. And yeah, there are a ton of strange noisy messy shape salad parts that are a defining characteristic of "AI" "art".

"Biasing" doesn't sell shares like "machine learning" does.

The thin green line.

The pro-Trump solution is simply to change the American flag to be red, white and green.

The right call.

AI is basically completely unstudied as a learning tool, and every indication points to it actually making people more stupider, lazier, and with far worse critical thinking skills. It's a technology which frankly causes more problems than it even claims to solve, and it completely undermines the concepts of homework and "showing your work".

School is going to need to adapt to the existence of modern LLMs as an antagonistic force to learning.

I think 13 stripes is fine, as it can be seen as a reference to Trump's age preference for "women".

I prefer my grasshoppers well done.

The fact that the "We the People" of the United States just sit back and shrug as this idiot fucks one thing after another up is fucking nuts.

I've tried to embrace existentialism in most parts of my life, but when it comes to American politics, the very best I can do is absurdism. The whole system of capitalist republican oligarchy has proven to be joke.

Some people really want to believe that there's an elusive magical mystery female sex organ that holds a large amount of liquid and just waiting for the perfect moment, I guess. Anything but accept a little pee in their love life I guess... 🫠

Sadly, 1/3 of the country continues to actually support the current administration and at least another 1/3 seems to be completely uncaring and ambivalent about the fact that we are allowing a literal detained lunatic to sleepwalk us into fasism, corporate oligarchy, economic uncertainty, war and global chaos.

There are people out there protesting and doing the right thing, but there are still far too many people who don't seem to give a damn and nobody in any position of even remote power seems willing to do anything meaningful to correct course.

So we wait for the next election in November to see what, if anything, happens next. But we're still being ruled by the unchecked whims of a madman.

Start the pan on medium high heat, add generous amount of butter and melt it as quickly as you can by moving it around the pan.

Crack an egg onto the pan and immediately turn down to medium low heat. I want the pan hot enough at the start to begin forming a crispy edge.

Season with salt, pepper and maybe some cayenne powder.

Don't flip the egg! Instead, grab a spoon, tilt the pan so the butter collects on one side, and begin basting the top of the egg with hot liquid butter. You'll see small bubbles form on top of the egg as you drop the hot butter on top.

Serve when you don't see any slimy looking exterior parts.

If done correctly, this will give you a nice sunny side up egg with a crispy edge and a runny yolk! Serve on toasted and buttered bread. (You may have enough butter left in the pan to butter the bread using it. Alternatively, you can use a nice bagel or English muffin instead of bread.)

To be fair, "squirting" is known to be mostly just urine.

Basically the same thing happened to me...

Reddit user for 10 years, 10,000+ karma, active in a lot of niche communities and even started a couple myself. All the sudden got banned multiple times in the span of a few months in 2025 for talking shit about Trump, ICE, China, and generative AI companies... And then I was perma-banned across all accounts and devices with any new account banned within a couple of hours of creation. Their loss.

I'm ashamed to admit that I was a too addicted to browsing and commenting Reddit multiple times a day. Like most social media, that's by design, as the algorithm is tailor-made to draw you in and keep you engaged.

It's much better for me, and for the internet at large, to just spend more time on the fediverse where I can be part of an actual community instead of a cog in some corporate data harvesting machine. I'm actually glad that Reddit requires an app these days to browse on mobile, because sometimes i find myself browsing reddit for a few minutes before the pop-up blocks me from continuing and then I remember to check the fediverse instead.

These fucking guys are 70+ years old. Some real "fellow kids" energy here.

I immerse myself in hobbies and entertainment. Art and music are constant companions and the way they make you feel is meaningful, while the escapism of my favorite games and shows are helpful to keep your mind off of negative feelings. Hobbies and entertainment also help you find ways to relate to other people, opening doors for new relationships to form or grow.

I also try to reach out to people. Family, friends, online communities, random people at the store, or whatever. Connecting with someone is the only real way to get over loneliness in the end. It takes effort.

Seinfeld is great.

They've proven to be a paper tiger. They are struggling against Ukraine in ways that few could have predicted, and it's only getting worse for them.

Sure... but it's not so much that places have changed, but that parenting has.

Here in Portland, I'm not sure that the city and suburbs were any more walkable in the past than they are today.