Icarus27k

People who comment on pet videos to say owners are mistreating their animals probably have pets who hate their guts.

Mike is a funnier host than Joel.

Also Michelangelo is the best ninja turtle.

I hate that new show everyone likes.

It's unfair that "haberdasher" means such a specific thing because I want to use it more often. Sometimes I intentionally misuse it just so I can say it.

I talked to this guy over one of his social media accounts. He's okay. He did have a big argument with his roommate and will be moving out. But he's okay and fine with it.

This one is weird. I joined a chat stream of a guy using a VR avatar. He and I greeted each other, and the mood seemed pleasant. We had a few additional exchanges about games. Then his avatar reaches for his invisible headset. There's a few seconds of silence, which is uproariously broken by a female voice screaming in anger. She says something like, "My mother made that! My mother made that by hand! My mother made that by hand. I'm going to come in here and break something of yours when YOU'RE at work." And then the stream ends. I don't know if this is a gag or what, but I kind of want to return to his account when he next streams and make sure he's okay.

A few minutes after this part, the guy on the left talks again with the Icelandic guy and confuses Iceland and Greenland. He asks something, "wait, you're from Greenland, right?" The Icelandic guy then does a very comedic facepalm.

.... I'm jealous they were having a good time and I wasn't.

That's how I spent an hour of my Saturday night. It was only like the second time I've ever used that app. There were lots of fun moments. Like when one user from Iceland tried to explain to two others a brief history of his country while they politely listened but couldn't hide their eyes glazing over. "Because of overpopulation in Norway, they needed new land. So they steal a couple of women from Ireland and Scotland, go to Iceland...."

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I get the image of you parents and siblings celebrating their birthdays and being like, "no, @The_annoying_one just doesn't get to have any".

I read a column recently from a writer who, like me, is skeptical of AI. I remember agreeing with him a lot, but the only specific point he made that I remember was a dumb one. He was expressing disappointment that AI will never live up to the expectations people have for it, and then he said something like: "on the plus side, we'll never be in danger from out of control AI, but on the negative side, we'll never have robot companions that we can befriend and love." Aren't there plenty of biological lifeforms that already exist that can be our friends and show us love? Why do we have to create an entire new being to fill that need?

Think of how chaotic and undisciplined the GOP is. The past three GOP House Speakers have left politics humiliated, probably wondering if the career choice was worth it. Contrast with the Democrats, whose House and Senate leaders served for many years and are well liked (Pelosi, Reid, Schumer and now Jeffries).

Republicans have a real talent for doing stuff they think is good but it weakens the United States. Like how the January 6 rioters thought they looked good.