No worries … If you are a minority, person of colour, follow a religion other than American Christian Nationalism, female, identify with some other sexuality than being straight … the new government that America just elected basically see you as nothing but a pebble.

Anyone under the age of 60 … and as a person of colour, I hate to say it but … a white male

Elect a bunch of socially minded white male leaders for a few terms and then you can move on to a progressive modern leader like a woman of colour

We haven’t jumped into the future yet … everyone still acts like deranged cavemen so don’t hope for dramatic changes to happen like eliminating racism to take place in the space of a hundred years.

lol … classic GIMP … this is becoming the best part of a terrible day

GIMP 3.0 has kinda sorta maybe been released but they’re still working on it

lol … this will be one for the memory books

American loses their minds … for the 100th time … on the same day as GIMP 3.0 was released

MIGA

Make Image-manipulation Great Again

Fellow Canadian here and I don’t like being overly harsh with my criticisms … but I’m with you on this.

Tonight I feel like eating 413 chicken nuggets

My jaw dropped … off my face … and onto the flooooooooooooooooooooooaaaaaaaaaa

I’ve always wanted to try a pu pu platter. My wife kept saying it was a dumb idea and for years we never ordered it. My local Chinese restaurant advertised a ‘Flaming Pu Pu Platter’ and I never cared what it would have tasted like, I just wanted to say I ordered it.

I finally decided on just ordering it one day and I told my wife I didn’t care, I’m getting it.

The lady who owned the place then told me that they got rid of it a year before because no one ordered it any more.

Greatest disappointment in my life :(

I’ve never been able to find a ‘Flaming Pu Pu Platter’ again.

Like I said … it’s all a hallucination.

I joke about this with my old friends who grew up in the 60s and 70s and tell me their wild stories of doing drugs marijuana, LSD, MDMA, and whatever else they had.

I tell them they’re still there and the trip hasn’t ended yet and they’ll wake up soon. I’m an illusion, this is all in your mind … you’ve been hallucinating the past 40 years.

Where is this restaurant and how do I book a table?

The water looks a bit too hot … and acidic

It’s not so much that it’s AI generated … it’s also AI influenced.

I know so many professional office workers who once wrote some of the most boring sometimes stupid emails because they didn’t know how to write or get their message across or constantly miscommunicated things because they worded things wrong … now all of a sudden they’ve become professional writers and all their emails look like auto generated messages.

I’m guessing that many writers also take the AI shortcut. They get a bunch of content generated from an AI than just rewrite it for themselves. Some content i see is lazily edited and some is heavily. But I get the feeling that just about everyone is using it because it’s an easy way to get a bunch of work done without having to think too much.

A great shitpost about pee … beautifully done … now I gotta go pee … by myself … with no one holding my pee pee … so they don’t do a helicopter while I pee

You are partly right … but if you sign up to a service to some of these dumb apps, they will redirect you to different sources to verify a purchase (whether it is legitimate or not). At the time, I was having a bunch of silly fun with my nieces and nephews fooling around with a new phone and finding new apps to play with. I think I got too carried away and wanted to get something to work without being careful enough.

The fun part was in finding some dumb face filter app that turned my big brown brooding middle aged male Indigenous face into a beautiful petite Asian princess that could talk and chat with my nieces and nephews. That was an expensive bit of fun that I paid for later.

Don’t feel bad about it.

About three years ago I got a call from my credit card company asking me if I had booked a first class flight from New York to Milan for $2,000 and reserved a five star hotel in Italy for $1,000 a night, plus a few other hundred dollar charges of other things.

I have travelled overseas before but I’m a budget traveller and I wouldn’t spend money like that … plus my travelling days were basically over anyway … plus I don’t live, work or go near New York city, I’m in northern Ontario, Canada!

I cancelled the card immediately and started looking back on what I had done that led to this. The only thing I could point to was that about a month or two before, I had been playing around with a bunch of phone apps and a few Chinese face filter apps I had experimented with and had signed up to trial subscriptions without knowing it which gave my credit card information through Google Play. I’m very careful with my credit card and apply every security feature that is given but that one slip up gave me away. I now layer Google play purchases behind Pay Pal tagged to a limited Credit Card to just that account and with all security, two factor authentication I can apply on everything.

As security minded as all this can be, all security professionals agree that the weakest link to any secure system are the fallible humans (and I’m one of them) who operate this stuff.

When the light flickers …

1% Electrical Issues
59% Demons
40% Nuclear war has started

Did you try turning the book on, then off again?

People don’t realize that cooking oil, olive oil, any food oil no matter how many times you think you cooked it or reheated it does go bad, especially if you just leave it sitting in the open air for days or weeks.