I WANT to believe this but I’ve seen too many elephant videos that turned out to be just elephants trained to do a quirky thing for tourists and there’s someone off camera subtly directing them.

his own charity (this is wealth preservation tactic used by ultra rich).

I’ve never understood how this is supposed to work. If his money goes into the charity, it’s not his anymore. Seriously, someone please explain?

Depends on what “right to exist” means here.

I think it’s a bit concerning that AI has given us a gut reaction to suspect anything slightly unusual to be non-human generated.

My first thought was indeed Blinding Lights.

Because of the general culture and mindset. Haven’t found that anywhere else. That mindset also means they’re going to get a whole lot of poison in their datasets.

Hello everybody all around the world! Wanna join this super duper awesome fun thing? Only if you’re in the US though!

(Not that I’d want to)

Mine doesn’t get it either and, uh… it’s soooooo easy and obvious that I don’t know how to explain. Yeah.

He’s also actively picking fights with supporters of trans and non-binary people, such as recently David Tennant of all people.

“This person conducts themselves with a confidence that usually comes with physical traits typically considered desirable.”

Oh come on, really? Is the problem ultrarich people? Or is the problem poor people who won’t eat those ultrarich people?

Just maybe avoid watching it in a way that the creator profits from.

I like that too and I don’t understand why people are so very fundamentally against having stuff recommended to them based on what they’re already following.

Why is that surprising? How large was that pizza?

Productive is not what I’d call what I do but anyway: I don’t follow things that make me miserable or even just “people”. My feeds are full of all kinds of fun stuff, like my fandoms or science or art. So I don’t ever “doom scroll”, really, but read about what other people thought about that newest episode or some new thought they had about an ancient episode or general fan squealing about a ship or the newest weird findings about spinosaurus or ‘look at these new photos Perseverance has taken’ or ‘look at this detail in this awesome painting’ or ‘this is how to improve this aspect in your drawings’.

Yes I am on tumblr. Yes I am on tumblr too much.

The only opinion that matters here is your partner’s.

Hah, Neil Gaiman mentioned this recently when someone made him aware of certain unauthorised changes in the German translation of Good Omens. It’s fucking embarrassing.

Friends don’t let friends read Discworld or Good Omens in German.

Frozen peas. That’s what you feed ducks.

You complain a lot about a thing you couldn’t care less about.