There are fewer better poster children for shitty automation than self-checkout. I have literally never, as in not one single time, successfully completed a checkout at a self-service station in a grocery store without having to call a human employee over. And it’s not because I’m an idiot. Or not entirely, anyway.…

Counter-point: Self-checkout (when properly configured and working) is the best.

On the one hand, I’m really sick of the AIphobia.

Please don’t tell the CYOA folks about the Fighting Fantasy books.

I’m pretty sure they would find House of Hell, Blood of the Zombies and Deathtrap Dungeon to be dark and objectionable, too.

The best thing about AOC is that she shows another kind of politician is possible. For decades we have been told that we only have a choice between your average evil republican and your run of the mill spineless democrat. After a lifetime eating thin gruel, we look over to the other table and see they have steak. Why…

And hilariously it’s just been making her more famous and powerful. Had they done nothing, she’d just be another first-year House member, without much power among Dems. But thanks to
conservatives, she's got some real power.

Ah, the Giuliani Defense.

Step 1: “My client committed no crime.”
Step 2: “What my client did was not a crime.”
Step 3: “Who among us hasn’t committed a crime?” 

I think Sorry to Bother You deserves to be on the list if only for its political commentary and probably my favorite plot twist of the year.

Three Arrows did a video that shows how YT’s algorithm pushed for Alt-Right and White Supremacist content

I told you Pluto would get its revenge!

Every day is a private wine and cheese party in my room. 

None of this surprises me. This is the country that, because of some hysterical national outcry about dumb kids cracking each other in the head or something, once banned any and all all footage of nunchucks from cinema and TV, leading to, among other atrocities, an utterly butchered version of Enter the Dragon. You…

I hate to be that guy but this is just stupid.

What about actors who have facial scars, are they not allowed to play villains any more? Seems, um, face-ist to me? (Not that I actually care, obviously, I just wanted to make that terrible joke).

As such, the BFI will no longer provide funding to films that slap facial scars on their mustache-twirling baddies...

This seems kind of dumb. Nobody actually sees actual people with facial scars on the street and automatically assumes that they’re evil henchmen. In movies it’s the combination of scars/actor performance/character doing bad things that makes us think of evil henchmen.

Namaste, brah.

are people not allowed to have private conversations in a private discord? and how did this woman gain access to said private discord? yes what they said was messed up, but lets not pretend that 99.9% of people dont say shit thats messed up when they think no one is listening.

This is bullshit. It’s a private discord. Is private speech and thought not acceptable anymore?