Trump playing Quantum Multidimensional Parcheesi.

Every kid who owned this set tried to take it into the bathtub and realized immediately that it did not float 😅

Wow, I owned that exact set as a kid.

Stings a bit knowing I could have sold it for a down payment on a house 30 years later.

AI wasn’t the NFT killer, right click > saveas killed it at the very moment of conception.

Digital scarcity is a complete joke.

tried to unlock my tragic backstory

No wait, tell the locksmith to come back.

They don’t just want the machines to create the art and music for us, they want them to consume it for us too, so that we’ll have more time to slave away at our jobs.

I bought a custom sectional sofa for way too much money to shove into a too-small room.

I think my thought process at the time was that I would have a place to relax and also a spot for guests if I had them over for entertainment, but it took up so much space that it was more of a hindrance and I very rarely had people over and when I did they didn’t want to be packed into a small spare bedroom that I used as a computer room.

Couldn’t sell it either. Had to pay junk removal to take it away.

Violates the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and therefore not legal, but when has that ever stopped this fucking braindead administration?

Long before Trump was in politics, the thing most people knew him for was not his business acumen, but that he was essentially the physical avatar of avarice and greed and everything wrong with capitalism. He was not an aspirational role model, he was a caricature of the negative stereotypes embodied by the average American businessmen, everything dialed up to 11, including his contempt for the common laborer.

He was well hated before getting into politics, and it had nothing to do with his political opinions at the time.

Oh fuck, I forgot that’s what you’re supposed to say!

FSM, please forgive me for my apostasy.

Al’dente 🙏

Nah, your posts are good. Fuck the haters. I don’t even bother to look at usernames 90% of the time but I recognized a few of the posts you’ve made over the past few days in lemmy shitpost and they are genuinely good.

His family says they really like me, but they’d never accept me as his wife since I’m not Arab

Who is saying this to you? Are they saying it, or is he saying it?

Because if his family says that they really like you but they are not willing to accept you as part of their family if one of their own desires it, then no matter how good they think their reasons may be, they don’t actually like you. They are just making excuses.

And if he’s the one saying it and you’ve never received any kind of verbal confirmation from, say, his siblings or parents about the topic, I would be highly suspicious of his motives.

I think that this is a larger discussion that has to happen with your boyfriend. Telling him how playing second fiddle to another woman would make you feel might give him some much needed perspective. If he’s not willing to budge on the traditional marriage, you have a choice to make - you can continue to be with him and reap the benefits of the relationship, but you are going to accept that eventually he’s going to push you into a situation that you cannot tolerate (being a mistress, essentially) and you are going to end up with nobody and all the time and years of your life that you can never get back spent cultivating the failed relationship will be lost.

On the other hand, there is a nonzero chance that he might change his mind. Maybe money isn’t as important to him as your love and affection for him is. Maybe he will mature a little more and recognize the importance of keeping someone he knows he cares about close, rather than taking a chance on someone else who just happens to be of the same race. But that’s a lot of “maybes” and “what ifs”.

Personally, I would draw a line in the sand. Like a savvy gambler, you have to know when to quit while you’re behind, because losing the relationship will no doubt be hard for you emotionally, but you know what’s worse? Losing the relationship anyway after trying for years to salvage it and then realizing that you wasted that time of your life chasing someone who didn’t value you instead of hitting the dating scene right away. If you straight up tell him that you want to be his #1 and only wife, and he rejects that, you should leave him. Stick with him for the sex and the company if you want, but don’t hesitate to put yourself back on the market, and take time to start emotionally distancing yourself from him.

They won’t.

Someone with better aim this time, I hope.

I think it’s fine if people believe in ghosts and spiritual stuff. My wife believes in ghosts, genuinely and fervently. I don’t really care to battle her on this because regardless of what she believes and what I believe we ultimately end up doing the same thing in the end - nothing. I think it’s a bit childish, but it’s no more or less unreasonable than faith in a god or a higher power and people will fight you over that.

I think the delineating factor is how much belief in ghosts or the supernatural play into your decision making and your worldview.

If a person believes ghosts are real, but never really act on that belief, it’s harmless.

if a person believes ghosts are real and alter their behavior in meaningful ways as a result, it’s maladaptive.

For example, say you hear a creaking noise in the middle of the night that startles you awake. Person A, Person B and Person C each check to ensure there’s no intruder in the house and determine that all the doors and windows are still locked and there are no signs of forced entry.

Person A comes to the conclusion that it was just the sound of the wood joists expanding or contracting as the temperature fluctuates and goes back to bed.

Person B comes to the conclusion that the sound could have only been produced by a ghost and therefore their house must be haunted, and so they call an emergency priest to come exorcise the house with holy water and they stay up all night clutching charms and wards to fend off spirits.

Person C comes to the conclusion that the sound could have only been produced by a ghost, says a quick (10 second) prayer for protection/guidance for the lost spirit and then goes back to sleep.

You can see how Person A and Person C have conflicting views about the origin of the sound, one which relates to scientific explanations for real phenomena and the other that delves into spirituality and faith to explain it. Regardless, they are both able to resume their normal behaviors (sleeping) afterward, while Person B shares the same view of the origin of the sound as person C, but their view is extremely disruptive and illogical. Their belief in ghosts requires them to take extreme measures to feel protected against them, but there is no evidence that anything bad would have happened as a result if they had chosen to do nothing instead. Nor would there have been a guarantee that something bad would not have happened anyway if they did all of the “proper” things to remain safe from ghosts.

It would get struck down by the courts, make its way to the Supreme Court, and then who the fuck knows.

The Trump admin ghouls understand this logistical red tape, know if will not pass muster and time it so that they achieve maximum compliance in a short window of time.

This emergency executive order is going to get thrown down mid to late October, and by the time the courts can churn it through the appeals system, the election in November will have already happened. Oops, looks like all of Trump’s cronies and sycophants won, too late to go back now - we already swore them in!

Neither does The Matrix, but it’s still firmly planted in the realm of science fiction.

Iceberg gang stay frosty.

Yeah, because the AI will look at everything with cold logic and rationality and come to the conclusion that even though the best chance of survival is for everyone to keep their fingers off the button, all it takes is for one actor to do it for the whole system of mutually assured destruction to collapse into nuclear armageddon, in which case the best chance of survival is to be the first one to launch your nukes and take out all your enemies capabilities to retaliate.

A human being who isn’t psychotic can clearly see that the resulting survival and new world order would not be particularly a pleasant one to live in. The AI doesn’t care about its own comfort, though, so it will see this as the best outcome that minimizes variables.

This is why AI should never be allowed to make decisions.