Hey, I don't know you, but the last few lines of this post genuinely worry me, especially "I have nothing to lose." If you're thinking about hurting yourself, please reach out to a crisis line tonight (988 in the US, or search "[country] crisis line"). Whatever's going on, you're clearly in a lot of pain. Talking to a doctor or psychiatrist about what's going on could actually help: what you're going through sounds awful and treatable.

Hollywood literally cannot tell a "looks don't matter" story without sneaking the looks (or status) back in by the third act. The Beast turning into a generic prince. She's All That spends ninety minutes insisting personality matters, then resolves it with a makeover. The Princess Diaries goes one further: "you're fine as you are" turns out to mean "you're fine as you are, also you're secretly a princess."

I don't think the people writing these endings believe the lesson themselves. An industry that runs on headshots and red carpets isn't positioned to sell "looks don't matter" with a straight face, and that disbelief leaks into the third act. Shallow people writing a story about looking past shallowness was always going to end with someone getting hot again. What bugs me is that they sell this corrupted message to our kids, repeating the cycle.

Number of men with driver's license in 1850

Let's say you could temporarily reverse the laws of physics and rewind the universe to the exact state it was in this morning. Would anything have happened differently the second time around?

Depends on your view of free will. If they never did, they never could.

Wdym, they get donations all the time

The "no restrictions" part is a very strong signal. Any prompt to an image model is basically a coordinate in its latent space, and "no restrictions" will point straight at the darker areas.

Turns out, I am no longer human

Self checkout works just fine in Sweden, the only people with an issue are dementia-ridden elderly (but they can't make sense of how to pay with a debit card either).

You: Cool! The entrance to the subway is around the corner.

Bob: Thanks for the help, friend!

You: You’re welcome! Good luck.

I bet he wants to use the milkies for cheese production

But why is it human nature to put a bench right where people are walking. It's like people in charge get off on creating obstacles for the common man just to feel powerful.

The trick is to time the cocaine and crystal meth ingestion so that they peak at the same time that you orgasm, leading to an 80% * 300% * 1400% = 7460% 10700% dopamine increase.

"To stop the crime, you must put a hand on his penis"

My nVidia-branded plastic "sculpture" with a laser-etched 3D Eiffel tower and an actual pre-production GeForce 3 GPU embedded.

In the early 2000s I worked for a small game studio and got the attention from Nvidia for how we used their graphics cards. They wanted us to adapt our game to their new secret GeForce 3 project which was the first programmable GPU (as in shaders).

It was a crazy time with a lot of stories to tell. We got invited to the press conference for the new card, which was held in the Eiffel tower. Yeah, they actually rented the Eiffel tower.

As a thank-you for the work we'd done their developer relations representative had these made for all of the external game developers involved.

Are they?

This is how stupid his followers actually are.

The irony of the Reddit ad banner saying you should stay on Reddit for the empathy

Brits don't actually use spices in their food so they probably couldn't think of any.