1997: by 2023 we’ll have flying cars
2024: “are interdimensional child-eating vampires turning the planets gay?” i ask, my brain smoothened to perfection by internet brainworms
If you’re against AI compensating creators, you’re against ads, and you’re against paywalls, you’re basically demanding free labor. Quality content isn’t a charity—if you’re too fucking cheap to fucking pay for it, maybe you don’t fucking deserve it.
If you’re pro AI tools, and also anti-publishers putting content behind a paywall, the technical term for what you are is an utter fucking idiot.
The existence of pronouns implies the existence of budget / midrange nouns. maybe with bad cameras. $1000 cheaper. less colour options.
young people are enjoying things that I don’t enjoy and I am uncomfortable: an op ed
Reddit's Anti-Protest Policy Exposed https://www.joanwestenberg.com/reddits-anti-protest-policy-exposed/
congratulations to Elon Musk for reducing twitters value from $44b to $50 and a coupon for one (1) free hug, redeemable from the corner perv at any Arby’s parking lot
I’m going to start replying to everything like I’m on Hacker News. Unhappy with Congress? Why don’t you just start a new country and write a constitution and secede? It’s not that hard once you know how. Actually, I wrote a microstate in a weekend using Rust.
(giving a motivational speech) You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. And about 98% of the ones you do take. Honestly, you fucking suck at this.
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the cyber truck is what happens when you let a bunch of incels design a vehicle. absolutely No Curves allowed. shameful
If Trump can’t find work as a President he should just learn to code instead of playing the victim
in the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups: dudes who explain Bitcoin to women at parties, and dudes who reply ‘source?’ to obvious jokes on the internet. these are their stories.
Remote Work Was Meant to Reshape the Political and Social Landscape. What Happened? https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-remote-work-revolution-a-promise-unfulfilled/
(me, bursting into a history lecture) THE MOON LANDING WAS FAKED BY ABRAHAM LINCOLN
professor: ma’am this is a class on ancient mesopotamia
me: PRONOUNS