@Velveteen I'm sorry, but what in the actual fuck did I miss from being offline for a week? Did I hit my head and get Life On Marsed into an episode of Black fucking Mirror? Most stuff that people say is "just like in Black Mirror" is because Charlie Goddamn Brooker is a hack (affectionate) who just writes stories about the world as it already exists and puts a sheen of Rule of Cool on it. This, though? Jesus fucking christ humans are not viable as a social species. We are clearly a bunch of psychopaths, not just the people torturing the digital ghost of a fly, but the scientists who made it possible. Who the shit looks at the internet as it exists in 2026 and says "yes, lets give these fuckers a brain to torture" jesus bloody nora. I don't even want to think about where this technology will be going in the next decade, but please do not let this overwrought rant distract you from the fact that in 1998, The Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell In A Cell, and plummeted 16 ft through an announcer's table.
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@Velveteen gently guide your thoughts to something relaxing, like the fact that in 1998, The Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell In A Cell, and plummeted 16 ft through an announcer's table
@Velveteen how is going to sleep going, vellington
Yesterday, with 5 hours sleep: "hell yeah I'm gonna *DO STUFF*"
Today, with 11 hours sleep: "I am dying of exhaustion, oh no"
@Velveteen being Big In Japan is a music industry meme, so it doesn't surprise me!
Queen were so popular there that they got a different, better, version of the greatest hits albums
I'm only half joking.
Right now I would like to try the tobacco industry for crimes against humanity.
@Velveteen Success
@Velveteen test failed success
@Velveteen i made betty listen to who's next and she loved it
@Velveteen doctor or the?
@Velveteen a friend of mine is currently spending *so much money* on vinyl because of the ideas pushed by the trend.
apparently it means "you can listen to whole albums and really engage with the music"
bruh, you can listen to albums on streaming?
buy+rip CDs?
yo ho ho?
but no y'all gotta buy big slabs on non-renewable PVC
(i have a record collection, i never listen to it)
@Velveteen they don't actually want to disconnect do they
they want to:
- buy shit (dopamine)
- signal that they're disconnecting (dopamine)
- make social media videos about leaving social media (dopamine)
@Velveteen bless you
@Velveteen fucking hell that's pretty much the market value of my FUCKING HOUSE
@Velveteen my main response to there being 9 billion people is that statistically speaking i do not matter nor exist
@Velveteen i'm reporting you to the activity pub police
see it, say it, meow it
@Velveteen stop suggesting malware ideas vel
@Velveteen a likely story
The easiest way to quit nicotine is to not start in the first place.