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pro-AI in the sense of "they taught a bread scanning computer to recognize cancer cells" etc etc

against AI in the sense of "we stole artwork from hundreds to thousands of artists, didn't credit them and didn't financially compensate them"

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Question: If you could choose only one, what would it be?

Options:

Freeze time long enough for you to rest/catch up on things/get your shit together any time you need to.

Bring a loved one back.

See five years into the future, but just once.

Go back to before the moment you made That mistake.

Meet your soulmate tomorrow.

Get a second chance to apologize properly.

Send a message/word of advice to your past self.

Benevolent curse: if you see a dog (any dog, but it must be in real life) on a Friday morning, your weekend will be excellent.

Wake up in a new life in which you're your parents/guardian's best friend, with your memories intact.

The ability to hear other people's thoughts for 24 hours.

#parenting would be so much easier #put myself in time out whenever things start getting stressful and come back after having a good think

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4yo: actually, my dad work for nike

Me: my dad works for dinosaur

4yo: (very skeptic but doesn't have the words to call me out) tell me what... is the... dinosaurs name😑

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Escalator alligators sharing a moment in time.

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"I would kill for you. I would die for you" would you take a break for me? Would you sit down and rest? For a day, a week, a year? Would you let others take care of your needs for me? Would you let yourself be held for me? By me?

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Hans Neumann Colour Woodcut ‘Letzte Sonnenstrahlen’ 1908.

(via eBay)

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this seems self-centered you know “stereotypical American bs” but I’m curious

#dangit I actually have done 11 #I clicked too fast

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I always thought it was like an exaggeration when horse people would talk about how silly it was for anyone to think that riding a horse does not require any particular level of skill or balance or anything, or even that they "drive themselves" (???) but just the tags on the reblogs of that "can you ride a bike and/or horse" post from me alone are demonstrating how overconfident some people are in their (often entirely theoretical!) ability to stay on an alive and moving animal with a will of its own.

#city people are all so stupid #I want to see them “just sit” on blackjack

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The most popular browsers in different countries in 2012 and 2022.

by @theworldmaps_

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Trouble with Tribbles

Struggle with Spots

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by odwyer_sio9

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All the weird misinterpretations and revisions of Russian history aside, Anastasia is one of my favourite movies because its plot structure is so fucking weird

It’s a period piece romance. That’s cool, that’s all well and good, except that on the sidelines there’s an undead warlock who’s trying so hard to kill the protagonist, but all in ways that the protagonist either doesn’t notice or doesn’t accept as supernatural

And it isn’t a twist! The audience knows about the warlock! The warlock has a villain song! The warlock is one of the principal characters! But the protagonist spends 95% of the movie completely unaware of the warlock, and just spends the entirety of the movie doing period piece romance things while being repeatedly inconvenienced by the warlock until the climax, when the protagonist has to very suddenly

Acknowledge the existence of the warlock

Acknowledge the existence of the supernatural

See some real-ass goddamn magic

Kill the warlock

I have never seen a movie with a plot structure like this before, and I don’t think I’ll see one like it ever again. It’s like an adaptation of Pride and Prejudice that turns Lady Catherine into a vampire who’s just repeatedly trying to drink Lizzy’s blood, but Lizzy doesn’t even notice until the climax whereupon she stuffs Lady Catherine’s mouth with garlic and cuts off her head (an adaptation I would kill to see, by the way). There are two completely different genres playing out at the same time, and one of them is trying to kill the other

Anyways that’s why the stage musical is bad, thank you and good night