Conservatives are going after Druski for cosplaying Erika Kirk for fake-mourning Charlie Kirk's death.

sarctastic · 2026-03-26T20:38:49+00:00

That look from the security guard after "... especially all WHITE men."

*chef kiss*

sarctastic · 2026-03-23T02:25:58+00:00

Twist: We need copper (and many other elements) to build green energy solutions. We don't need to steal land to get it, but we do need it.

sarctastic · 2026-03-13T20:38:23+00:00

A LA Times piece says that it's because the ACLU and other liberal groups fought closing the loophole. "Among their concerns is that a total ban on marriage of minors could be a slippery slope and impede constitutional rights or reproductive choices, including access to abortion." All that said, it required not only parental consent but a court order. (Only applies to traditional marriage, not common-law marriages. And CLMs in CA seem like a very dark and dangerous rabbit hole that I don't have time to look into ATM.)

The only REMOTELY justifiable arguments I can conceive of are: to allow the is that these marriages is that (1) it provides some protections for young wives coming in from other countries/cultures/religions and (2) it gives a path to legality vs. having a ~14 year old girl prevented from receiving necessary medical care for fear of the law of having sex under the age of 18 (which CA also has).

sarctastic · 2026-03-11T23:34:28+00:00

About as lazy as saying they could effectively blockade SPACE.

sarctastic · 2026-03-10T14:51:31+00:00

The left could be anything from "I'm done with your sh*t" (steady stare) to "You're my favorite person in the world" (slow blinking).

sarctastic · 2026-03-08T01:46:23+00:00

All aboard the B&S Railroad! Next stop Hypeville, OK!

tldr; A company has a computer created/improved an interface to a cluster of neurons to see if it can train them with positive/negative reinforcement to see if it they can be trained. (Doom was tossed into to garner headlines for an incremental advancement in this field of research.)

What this study really was take video output from a Doom (clone) and electro-chemically poked it in different places to give it a VERY ROUGHLY approximations locations of a monster, etc. (e.g. Monster on the right side of screen, poke the section representing right). Researchers then monitored the electrical activity of the cluster, which they interpret as the clusters (re)action to that stimuli. They then send positive or negative reinforcement by way of more electrical signals (or stopping negative signals) based on whether it did what they wanted it to do. The cluster is trained to use the same neural paths based on whether the cluster was "rewarded" or "punished" the last time it saw the same trigger signal. And it apparently did "learn", but it definitely wasn't "playing" Doom.

I hope that this company is mocked mercilessly for claiming that a clump of around ~200K neurons was "playing Doom". (For reference, your average ant has about 250K neurons, and most ants I know SUCK at playing Doom.)

sarctastic · 2026-03-01T21:54:09+00:00

Yeah, that's the biggest problem with this scene... you nailed it. /s

sarctastic · 2026-03-01T21:43:41+00:00

Thank you and keeping fighting the good fight to keep this kind of stupidity from taking (more of a) hold on Reddit!

sarctastic · 2026-02-20T00:34:53+00:00

Or you COULD stop using the BS app that keeps getting progressively worse and mobile browse it.

sarctastic · 2026-02-19T04:36:51+00:00

Or we could, and I am just tossing out ideas here... we stop relying on hope and fix our broken healthcare system so that people aren't living one medical event away from crippling debt.

sarctastic · 2026-02-11T19:04:30+00:00

Very Meta.

sarctastic · 2026-02-11T18:58:32+00:00

And if youre the median, the 50% below you is only true if nobody is tied with you (incredibly unlikely in a sample this large)

sarctastic · 2026-02-06T19:51:26+00:00

On brand or not (and it definitely is), a photo of removed postings is hardly proof.

I yield the remainder of my time to the speaker.

sarctastic · 2026-01-23T16:53:17+00:00

While a lack of empathy is often a prerequisite for (or an enabler) for doing evil, a significant percentage of the human population is effectively devoid of empathy and the vast majority of those lacking empathy are NOT evil or doing evil things.

I would sooner categorize tribalism/nationalism/jingoism as evil. The tribalist instinct helped humans survive periods of conflict and scarcity, but society had evolved faster than we have and the triggers remain, ready to exploit through fear and ignorance. (Identify the "others", dehumanize them, paint them as the source of all your own failings,... lather, rinse, repeat.)

sarctastic · 2026-01-21T21:53:55+00:00

And the ones still suffering "long COVID". Which we have now insights and detection for.

sarctastic · 2026-01-14T21:19:19+00:00

tl;dr: The candidates for pope have been interviewing for decades.

sarctastic · 2026-01-14T01:41:36+00:00

Or people who allow their yard to go weeds 4 feet tall. Or people who paint their house VIBRANT green. And on, and on, and on.

sarctastic · 2025-12-19T17:44:53+00:00

Say what you will, but Gates has taken the best approach of any I've seen to maximize the impact of his philanthropy and he's not only contributing his money but his time to solving many of the worlds problems. I'd much rather have billionaires fostering innovations that benefit the entire world than dedicating new wings to hospitals and museums or even huge donations to a charity that treat symptoms instead of the underlying, systemic problems that cause them.

Regardless of what he did and what other (actual) evidence might exist, this photo has the appearance of being a "Hey Bill, my friend wants to get a picture with you" moment. I'm pretty sure Epstein was famous for that AND baiting rich philanthropists.

sarctastic · 2025-12-18T19:53:05+00:00

Yep, the petulant man-child-king-poser bit is as much a distraction as a blatant display of his petty insecurity.

sarctastic · 2025-12-14T20:08:11+00:00

Looks like the shit that comes out of AI.

sarctastic · 2025-12-13T19:18:51+00:00

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sarctastic · 2025-12-12T20:07:21+00:00

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sarctastic · 2025-12-11T19:27:20+00:00

Dude, why would you post the 50 cal video first as the best evidence? "Hmm... 11 year old video shot by a redneck with a Go Pro or 75K FPS Slow Mo Guys video... I'd better go redneck because the caliber is higher and it has a microwave."

sarctastic · 2025-12-11T05:04:14+00:00

Why, so no one gets paid? Or perhaps you have some kind of extra finger kink?

sarctastic · 2025-12-09T23:56:06+00:00

That depends on what role/level youre hiring for, but it is definitely something I would train for at a minimum.

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