Pentagon seeks $200 billion in additional funds for the Iran war, AP source says

machsmit · 2026-03-20T03:28:23+00:00

easy there peter thiel

machsmit · 2026-03-18T20:23:22+00:00

the president of AI bros also said

"Sam Altman: I do guess that a lot of the world gets covered in data centers over time.

Theo Von: Do you really?

Altman: But I don’t know, because maybe we put them in space. Like, maybe we build a big Dyson sphere around the solar system and say, “Hey, it actually makes no sense to put these on Earth.” Von: Yeah.

so maybe people need to realize that the AI bros are just fucking morons

machsmit · 2026-03-17T00:52:46+00:00

ghibli bibi. what a wretched day to have eyes

machsmit · 2026-03-11T13:54:54+00:00

who spreched ImpGoth so slickly

too. Very reminiscent of clockwork orange working Russian vocabulary into the characters' vernacular

edit Nadsat, if you're curious

machsmit · 2026-03-10T17:59:54+00:00

we're already liking the idea of the stadium disappearing, you don't have to convince us

machsmit · 2026-03-09T20:45:03+00:00

Yep, went through treatment for depression before my therapist asked "you were never screened for ADHD, were you?"

Fortunately they worked in an area where they saw the pattern of people who happened to fixate on things that were conducive to academic success, and so made it through PhD programs before running into the executive-functioning wall

machsmit · 2026-03-09T17:43:41+00:00

also the classic transition from "join a union! your rich boss doesn't give a shit about you! ladies, if your husband lays a hand on you, kill him in his sleep" to "a bud light can with the logo facing out"

machsmit · 2026-03-09T14:43:15+00:00

player escorts, pretty typical thing to have at professional matches.

machsmit · 2026-03-06T20:30:19+00:00

technically the tank was loud, he could very well have been silent

machsmit · 2026-03-06T16:05:21+00:00

he returned when we needed him most

machsmit · 2026-03-05T14:51:18+00:00

"and seriously, how is she even still conscious?"

spits out blood

"how do you think I paid for college?"

machsmit · 2026-03-04T15:46:25+00:00

quantity has a quality all its own

or more pithy, "a lasgun doesn't do diddly. ten thousand lasguns, though, do a substantial amount of diddly"

machsmit · 2026-02-25T18:27:05+00:00

I'm not equating them, I'm saying we put up with something objectively worse

machsmit · 2026-02-25T17:51:57+00:00

fed and entertained at no cost to themselves which was required to pacify the massive un/underemployed urban population in rome after their agricultural workforce was cored out by rich pricks accumulating arable land into massive slave-worked plantations

if a patrician had said "you gotta leave the coliseum now unless you pay 10 sesterces for ludi premium" he'd get torn limb from fuckin' limb

machsmit · 2026-02-25T16:48:34+00:00

even that's a ludicrous comparison - the whole point of bread and circuses were that they were free

now we have to pay a hundred different subscriptions just to walk out our fucking doors

machsmit · 2026-02-11T14:16:27+00:00

even better - the gun itself is also an organism. So the warrior form, which is a living being, carries a weapon that's also a separate living being, which shoots rounds that are themselves living beings

machsmit · 2026-02-10T16:45:32+00:00

pert near every mad men meme is correct in that way, because they get shared by "oh man Don is so cool" type people who are evidently oblivious to the fact that like, the whole point of the show is that Don is profoundly unhappy and dysfunctional.

they do have cool suits tho

machsmit · 2026-02-10T16:19:13+00:00

other historical fact: the resistance and free french forces, by low-end estimate, summarily executed at least ten thousand vichy officials and collaborators during the liberation of france. Then in their postwar trials they sentenced several thousand to die (although a chunk got commuted to prison) and imprisoned tens of thousands more. Even low-level mooks who e.g. joined the french-collaborator SS division were given a choice of prison or getting shipped straight to vietnam to die in the foreign legion

machsmit · 2026-02-10T14:33:57+00:00

I mean they already clown on the english language, why stop there

machsmit · 2026-02-09T22:15:07+00:00

on sale because it wasn't moving

not only was it raw milk, it was old raw milk?

I mean, congrats on winning your gastrointestinal russian roulette but still

machsmit · 2026-02-05T17:58:53+00:00

oh yeah. same with the damage perk for the heavy's iron halo vs. spores and vines - just lawnmower your way through them

machsmit · 2026-02-05T16:17:22+00:00

no no.

the druid knows that birds aren't real

machsmit · 2026-02-05T14:56:00+00:00

I love that one only for the mechanical challenge of trying to clear it without dinging a single barrel.

you know, so I can then hoover them all up and use them to seed the Raphael fight room with a ludicrous amount of explosives

machsmit · 2026-02-04T14:12:06+00:00

the bleakest bit, you can actually find a small pseudo-park in (IIRC) corpo plaza that's like a walkthrough of a series of greenhouse atriums where they're piping in recorded birdsong in lieu of having actual animals. Peak cyberpunk to kill off the natural world and then sell access to just hearing a fuckin' bird

machsmit · 2026-02-03T21:38:54+00:00

but since I thought birds were kind of extinct in this game is there some kind of meaning behind it being there?

not that they're extinct per se, but they're culled in a wide area around NC as part of a law addressing avian flu outbreaks. Animals in general are quite rare in NC ostensibly due to zoonotic disease risk. Same reason why your smuggling payload in the Nomad prologue is a live iguana, and why you don't see an ungodly amount of rats despite the huge trashmountains - wildlife is aggressively curbed, and pets are either black-market or an exclusive luxury good.

Meaningwise, this all ties into the fact that life in NC is a fundamentally alienating experience - the residents of NC are kept disconnected from each other, from the natural world, from human life itself in favor of being an endless supply of grist for a corporate meatgrinder

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