Every time this happened to me, it was followed shortly after by sewage backup. It happened because the air in the pipes was forced upwards into the toilet. Might want to take precautions such as move bath mats out of the way, buy a shop vac, etc.

And yet it still makes you feel conflicted about it, like Pomni’s expression at 0:18 of the op clip makes a lot of sense. Just great writing overall

The dinosaurs return from their excursion into outer space and reclaim the earth. It turns out global warming was a planned terraforming scheme all along to restore the planet to their preferred climate. The dinosaurs have a much nicer and more equitable society than we do. Some humans survive, kept in a human preserve in Antarctica, the dinosaurs feed us tasty snacks.

So, how did that turn out? Article is from 2017

It’s too bad there isn’t more active discussion of TADC on Lemmy, the latest episode was really, really good

The petition cites the 2022 decision by the ICM’s organizing body, the International Mathematical Union (IMU), to move the last congress out of Saint Petersburg, Russia, in response to the country’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine earlier that year. The event was moved mostly online, with a small in-person awards ceremony held in Helsinki, Finland.

They cite this as precedent, so could just do the same thing

I think you are correct to identify it as a contradiction, and shouldn’t fight your feelings. For lots of people absence of durable connections inherently just hurts you and you can’t change that by pretending like it doesn’t. How you are treated is experienced as an opinion, and in a real sense it is one. Something that helps to cope with it though is realizing that the opinions about you that society expresses by being such an environment are disingenuous and deluded. So much about the way people think about and treat each other is wrong, both factually and in terms of whether it makes for a good way to live, but even if you can’t ignore it you can object to it through the way you treat yourself and others.

Could also go with accusing them of projecting and rescinding the offer on that basis

Another horrifying potential use of this technology from fiction that hasn’t been mentioned yet: constructs from Murderbot Diaries, purpose built corporate owned cyborgs where half their brain is organic and the other half is a DRM saturated computer.

The Windup Girl is also relevant.

Lots of stuff would change dramatically if mass producing organisms derived from humans becomes possible.

Would make sense except they have different clothes and get grey hair

IMO the official salary should be high enough that a non-rich person can live comfortably and have a secure future for themselves and their family so they could potentially hold office without being tempted much to do this sort of thing.

If anyone was wondering looks like they are estimating the combined cost of the components to be $12,905.34, with the servo motor and lidar being the most expensive parts.

It’s ironic that a lot of the work in this study was done by ChatGPT, basically judging itself on how much of an enabler of schizophrenic delusions it is:

https://github.com/jlcmoore/llm-delusions-annotations

model=“openai/gpt-5.1-2025-11-13”,

If his services are affordable and it isn’t homeopathy I will forgive Dr. Mario his crimes

Seems like it would be really useful as an excuse to be able to tell people that you can’t or didn’t get their calls because your phone won’t let you, and as evidence show them that your phone is a weird shape

Lyons became so distressed when ICE agents couldn’t locate a migrant on their target list after a ride along with top administration officials

Probably doesn’t think about that

Maybe in some ways it’s better, but being pushed to spend 4+ hours a night on homework and encouraged to think it would be the end of the world if you get a bad grade on an exam really sucks.

I sent an email a few weeks ago, hopefully they’re at least noticing that people are aware of these laws as a potential problem.

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/good_luck_have_fun_dont_die

Probably one of these