Carnelian

And there’s a million and one different reasons why the context behind a piece causes someone to dislike it even if they initially liked it. It works the other way too, if you like something and you find out it had a cool story behind it, lots of people will like it even more.

“I fish the least digested looking bits of corn from the shit pile” is just not a good story lol

I’m gonna go against the grain here and recommend 7-zip

Why hang out somewhere you wish didn’t exist?

So instead of engaging in your many ai-powered hobbies you choose to hang out in a boring place to criticize the boring discussion topics of boring people?

Just took a quick look at your comment history because this one gave me deja vu.

I don’t think you’re a bot or anything, but I’m intrigued. Genuinely, what’s your motivation? If you’re so satisfied and confident with AI why not just go and enjoy the many fulfilling hobbies and the rewarding technical job that you brag about? If I had invested in google early on like you claim this situation is identical to, I’d be super chilled out about it instead of preemptively gloating and proclaiming that I was “obviously correct”.

It’s been a remarkable thing to be threatened, for years now, to be “left behind” by people who never seem to be able to leave. Really, why not just go? What’s holding you back? Is your super useful weather app not raking in enough money? Can’t you easily make like ten apps a day? Nobody’s ever been able to explain to me where all this supposed “obvious” usefulness is actually being applied. You all just appear to be totally stuck in the mud

The speculative value has gone back up again since coffeezilla’s vid, but it’s still a very wide range

Insane story. Great time to get into it as updates are happening rapidly.

A used lego reseller (not directly affiliated with the lego corporation) named Bricks and Minifigs stole $200,000 from a dying elderly man.

A youtuber named Reckless Ben got involved to try and help the family out. But the CEO of BAM called the police on him and lied to the police repeatedly, saying Ben was threatening to hurt him and threatening to burn the store down. He called police in Ben’s home state pretending to be Ben and made false bomb threats. He broke his own window and said Ben hired a sniper to try and assassinate him. This is barely the half of it. Ended up getting him arrested multiple times.

All on camera and 100% proven false, but the crazy thing is the CEO is Mormon, along with the entire police department (BAM is in Utah, which is essentially controlled by a Mormon mafia). So in all the bodycam footage released (that they were illegally withholding, but has all come out now) it’s completely plain as day that they’re all actively conspiring together to cover for their fellow Mormons.

Anyway, as part of their attempt to lock this innocent kid in jail for the rest of his life over literally nothing, they sent a legal order to Patreon demanding they shut down Ben’s page. To which the CEO of patreon publicly responded “we’re keeping his page up. If you don’t like it, sue us.”

Explain like I’m 5 elephants in a trenchcoat