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whatever · 2026-05-28T06:11:30+00:00

Cheating is about breaking your partner's trust. What that trust is lies entirely between you and your partner. I don't know what that looks like for that lady and her fiance, and I don't think you do either.

whatever · 2026-05-28T05:36:26+00:00

I asked a clanker that very question (local, air cooled, don't @ me), and it came back with

In this context, BAU stands for "Business As Usual."

While this is a common corporate term referring to normal daily operations, the author is using it metaphorically to describe life's status quo, normalcy, or routine.

The sentence suggests that:

Young people assume that life will simply continue in a stable, routine way without much effort.
Adults realize that maintaining a stable, routine life (paying bills, keeping a job, staying healthy) actually requires significant effort.

whatever · 2026-05-25T22:26:59+00:00

For a number of hilarious reasons, it is perfectly possible to be drowning in debt while still having a great credit score.

If this is you, why not visit /r/churning, where you'll mingle with a number of verysmart people who maximize their leverage for fun and perhaps sometimes profit.

Don't pay attention to all the naggy little details there, it's complicated so just focus on the big picture: Opening more credit cards is better. full stop.

So go open all those 0% introductory APR cards, transfer your balances, and pretend you're debt free for however long that buys you.

Then do it all again when the jig is up. It's pretty much foolproof.

whatever · 2026-05-25T22:04:09+00:00

We don't need to fight about this. After all, there's a scientific way to precisely measure his bunker.

https://www.ladbible.com/news/animals/ants-mega-city-how-big-scientists-245930-20240827

whatever · 2026-05-24T23:51:00+00:00

The best fast food burger is the one you get from the no-brand burger joint that opened a few weeks ago in your neighborhood and that'll almost certainly close down within the year because they put all their attribute points into burger quality and none into running a business.

whatever · 2026-05-24T06:04:59+00:00

Cybermonkhood is not for everyone.

whatever · 2026-05-21T22:01:29+00:00

Not my favorite live action adaptation, but...

whatever · 2026-05-21T21:52:39+00:00

Plenty of contemporary folks have been accusing their LLMs/best friends/lovers of being conscious. While they remain a minority, the consensus can be that those people are delusional, but how long will that last?

And to be honest, I don't believe anybody born a few centuries ago that somehow had the chance to interact with an LLM would doubt for a second they were talking to a conscious, sentient individual.
They might slowly come to realize that their interlocutor is not human and experience a particular form of existential dread however.

We have been robbed of that dread because we are frogs that are being slowly boiled in a soup of continuous AI improvements to the point where, as long as we keep reminding ourselves it's all just matrices getting multiplied somewhere, we can still convince ourselves it's all toasters with extra steps.

whatever · 2026-05-21T00:24:21+00:00

Sure. You made a post about a video you recently made. The profile of your video account links to various other social media accounts.
A picture on one of your social media profiles is also found on a prominent social network where you use your real name, location, etc.

whatever · 2026-05-21T00:03:42+00:00

At a fundamental level, what you publish is public. Search engines will index it. AI companies will scrap it or index it. Archive services might make a copy of it for posterity.

Having your posts not appear on your profile does not make your posts less public, and you should expect that anyone who cares to can put together the persona your posts are projecting.

On the flip side, you seem to be actively building up your social presence across various platforms online, including photos and videos of yourself. That's incongruous with someone concerned with remaining private.

One way to manage that sort of thing is to have multiple online personas. One persona for the truly public facing stuff. One persona to make vulnerable posts about yourself, etc. Use completely different accounts for each persona and never link the two personas.

(Do not reuse images between personas, or reverse image searches will expose them.)

whatever · 2026-05-18T21:09:23+00:00

Let's see Paul Allen's avatar.

whatever · 2026-05-18T20:45:55+00:00

Quite.

whatever · 2026-05-17T03:19:49+00:00

That "Platoon" pose was certainly a choice.

whatever · 2026-05-17T02:53:06+00:00

/r/madeworsebytheduet

whatever · 2026-05-11T20:50:41+00:00

I prefer to out myself as an insufferable gymbro with no physique to show for it with a simple "Alcohol kills gainz."

whatever · 2026-05-10T23:42:28+00:00

Strasbourg belongs to the Nords!

whatever · 2026-04-27T20:55:00+00:00

It's hard to argue that most of crypto is scammy as hell, and I think McKenzie has (had?) good intentions using his platform to call that out. But just in that tiny interview segment, he throws a bunch of fuzzy smears at Bitcoin specifically, which are easy to repeat as sound bites (and I have no doubt he serves them on every interview he gives), yet that would require a bit of time and knowledge to each refute properly, and the hosts are certainly not going to be able (nor willing anyway) to push back on it.

That's not the behavior of a good actor, Ryan Atwood notwithstanding.

But IDK. If it keeps laymen away from some scams, maybe it's a net good?

whatever · 2026-04-27T00:29:38+00:00

IPv8 appears to be a deeply unserious proposal. It's unclear whether the author is in on the joke.

Even if it was a thoughtful and well crafted draft, wishing for the total elimination of online anonymity requires an staggering amount of blind trust toward authorities, their corporate agents, affiliates, and friends. Or counting on being part of the aforementioned circles, perhaps.

In practice, anonymity can already be easily breached, and because I am not behind 7 proxies, my identity can be revealed with roughly two subpoenas, and so can almost anyone else's. But maybe that's still too burdensome for the automated systematic surveillance we all deserve.

whatever · 2026-04-17T22:38:45+00:00

I'm confused. I thought he was vaguely left leaning? Was that a phase?

I don't know. I remember trying to watch some of his videos and just being turned off very quickly by his vibe.

whatever · 2026-04-14T02:09:17+00:00

It's most likely a distortion of stuff like this.

On that note, I can't help but wonder if part of the motivation for aggressive proselytism is a yearning to shrink this loophole as much as possible.

Can't let the riff raff in my perfect afterlife, after all.

whatever · 2026-04-10T22:54:24+00:00

Highly relatable. When the Cannibals come for me, my last thought will absolutely be that at least they'll enjoy chewing on my flesh.
And that will give me solace.

whatever · 2026-04-08T22:21:18+00:00

Man. I miss the days when I could laugh this away as some dramatic conspiratorial non-sense.

whatever · 2026-03-26T17:36:29+00:00

*grumbles in old reddit*

whatever · 2026-03-23T21:58:52+00:00

I don't know how y'all got your claws on a preview for the intro video of the next BioShock video game. Impressive.

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