Off to owl heaven

Which incidentally is also mouse hell.

Slop it may be, but it predates AI. I think it’s pictures of a different bird (not a crow) mislabelled.

I’ve seen this picture reposted about since 2021ish. GenAI had yet to become… A thing.

Resale. The reason is resale. Between the economy being trashed, planned obsolescence, and cultural shifts. People buy things not really expecting to keep them for very long, and the less individual something is, the easier to sell it on to someone else later.

Brib.

easier to maintain

The thing is

they’re kinda not?

Grey(“Silver”) on cars kinda is in the sense that it “hides” dirt, but like, that particular shade of landlord beige they use on buildings? That becomes an ugly colour within weeks of exposure to the elements. And would require constant repainting to stay looking good.

It’s all about that resale value and the fact that nowadays no one buys anything expecting to keep it for very long. So the less “personal” things are, the better to pass them along.

The world has less colour.

This isn’t a dramatic “I’m depressed” post, though that is a factor. Nature is still nature-coloured, for one, and it still looks lovely.

I mean that like, you’d go outside and look at the cars and see a rainbow of colours. Now it’s all black, silver, or white. You only see colorful cars if they are really old beat up rustbuckets or if they are brand new luxury vehicles used by super rich people.

Buildings too. Businesses and the buildings they set up shop in would be painted with garish, eye popping colour. Now everything trends towards landlord-beige.

Edit: And it should be noted, this happened for a reason, and I am aware of that reason, and that just makes me crankier.

Yeah. The way bullying happens seems to have changed since my time.

I wouldn’t know. The only Okra I ever ate was the one my mother made when I was a teen. And it was slimy and gooey and got my autism going crazy.

Nowadays I don’t eat dishes that have it, or do but push it aside.

Okra is the most unpleasant vegetable I ever did eat

But if it helps save the world, it’ll have my eternal respect.

The words “mom” and “dad” are both derived from baby babble, syllables babies have an easy time making.

I therefore suggest that an enby parent should be a child’s wawa

Wolves are big yo

It’s a quote from a YouTube person (Liam, of the old Super Best Friends channel)

… Edited atop an actual GBA magazine advert cuz that’s funny.

The Gameboy Advance. Fuck you. It was like a mini Super Nintendo in your hand. Suck my dick. Fuck you.

If it’s anything to ya, Gaius Julius Caesar saw a statue of Alexander the Great and had an emotional breakdown – Alexander the Great had conquered “the entire world” (or, well, the world as ancient greeks understood it) in his 20s and Caesar was 30 going on 40, and he was “just” a Roman General. – He eventually did scorch his name into the annals of history, but he was over 45 when he did.

And like. We don’t need to be Julius Caesar or JRR Tolkienn. It is more than enough if by the age they became legends you have figured yourself out just enough to be living instead of surviving, especially if, unlike them, you didn’t get a head start by having rich parents. :P

But by that time he was a university professor… And had fought in the Great War.

HUEHUEHUE please do NOT give stray cats and dogs handjobs.

But as the other poster said – It means “half joking”

The cats and dogs out in the street are free. You can just bring a friend home. /hj

In conclusion, your experience here can be what you make of it; don’t be afraid to just block the parts that stress you out. You’re not “creating an echo chamber” as everyone likes to say (often in bad faith) – you’re just taking care of yourself.

We really, REALLY need to de-stigmatize blocking people. Bad-faith concern trolls have successfully convinced people that “choosing not to interact with someone” is akin to censorship and also bad for us because what do you MEAN you don’t want to be disrespected by a complete stranger? Are you creating an echo chamber by preferring to be with people who are nice to you?!?!?!?

Like. No. Fuck off. That’s not how it works in real life. We’re not friends. We’re not even co-workers for me to be stuck having to be polite to you even if you’re an asshole.

You’re a complete stranger and you’re saying rude shit at me (or even at other people with me bearing witness), at best I’ll walk away because I don’t need that shit, at worst I’ll call you a wanker and hit you in the face.

I can’t argue with that.

If it is any consolation – It was most likely a robot.

Like 99% of large reddits are almost entirely moderated by a modbot, and the modbot is stupider than your average LLM assistant (and LLM assistants aren’t very smart), while also being extremely strict.