Didn’t say that the concept of absurdist G-Mod stuff is new, it’s that the singular specific “skibidi toilet” thing is new.

There’s some difference.

So you have the slang that’s akin to “Rad”. Words used with sincerity to communicate. “Rizz” and “Sus” fall into this category and seem pretty ‘mundane’, shortening Charisma and Suspicious.

Skibidi is a bit different. It’s more like that generations “Wazzzzzzzuuuuuuuup?” It’s something they themselves consider “just stupid to say”.

Nah, it’s definitely a Gen-Alpha/Z meme. Millenials were more Badgers and Mushrooms sort of memes.

Yes, G-Mod is the medium for this, but this specific thing is new.

And Michael Bay I guess felt he must outshine the emoji movie…

Yep because as everyone knows the biggest time consumer associated with raising children is the conception. After those few minutes, you never need time for the children ever again.

I’d say it’s more people who are repeatedly told they are smart can be very stupid.

Many of then might even be “smart”, but the important part is having unwarranted confidence.

Complicating things is that society rewards confidence way more than it rewards competence. If I’m honest about a lack of competence in a certain area but someone else lies during the interview, good chance they are going to get the job over me.

The reality is that everyone can be very very stupid, and so long as each and every one of us is willing to accept and recognize our weakness we aren’t as likely to be assholes.

“Some stay dry and others feel the pain”

Hmm, still unclear…

Well, that’s the thing with the AI generated images. On top of looking generally ‘off’, they aren’t very good at making sense.

Hmm, did it look different from original? Wonder if I messed up and uploaded the wrong thing…

I can’t see the left ones and the top right is a bit hard for me to see. The bottom right for me is more legible in my first picture.

For those who want to see what at least protonopia might see:

And for those color blind people that might want a shifted perspective:

The time is coming for the most involved “go fuck yourself” ever.

We don’t have to abolish the word ‘Obese’ to avoid ‘hateful’. This started with someone being offended at the mere word ‘Obese’ and elevating it to a racial slur, then a comment saying a lot (likely the vast majority) of obese people can improve their situation.

We shouldn’t be mocking and laughing at someone because they are fat, or harping endlessly on it, but it’s sufficiently bad that when my doctor saw me being obese, he never directly said anything, just said things like “make sure to eat plenty of vegetables” and “being active really helps people be fit”. When Rebel Wilson decided to lose weight, people acted like she somehow betrayed obese people, that she abandoned her role as a model of body positivity.

The pendulum has swung too far to the point where people get too offended at the plain statement of being obese means health issues.

Not him, but I found my will to lose weight when a close family member was told their liver was failing and they had a few months to live, due to cirrhosis from their obesity. I knew I was on a similar trajectory and my bloodwork showed a hit to my liver function.

Good news is that my relative also found the will to get healthy and their liver improved more than the doctors thought could happen and so we both are doing much better. I’m even under 25 BMI now after losing 40 lbs. Also amazing to be able to move around like I used to as a teenager again.

As to how, not very helpful but just using that fear to drive willpower to just suck it up and eat less and exercise even when I really want to be doing something else. It means to some extent just living with usually being a little hungry and almost never filling full for me. Changed the food for less calorie dense stuff and avoiding refined sugars of course, but still have to reduce food intake.

I think there’s a danger in oversimplifying.

On the one end, some people do have a hard time or maybe even actually impossible time to fight their obesity.

On the other end, a lot of people are dismissive of trying to lose weight and hide behind “body positivity” and “obese people can’t help it” when they could really get a lot of results if they actually took it seriously. A relative of mine has been obese for decades, even as the diabetes came on the general take away they had was “apply medicine, keep living how I like”. Then when their liver started failing due to the fat and got the prognosis that they were probably going to die in a matter of months, they found the motivation to lose 40 pounds, in the goal of extending their life a little. Now they have what is, by all appearances, a healthy liver again. They also have much better mobility, reduced joint pain, blood sugar that doesn’t need medication anymore. Though they are still stuck with a lot of the damage already done, losing weight has been a great boon to their life, and something they always had dismissed as being something other people could do but they were just stuck that way.

Note they mentioned rail as the desired alternative, rather than cars.

Damn, standing exactly 10m away from someone and not moving is my power move.

My company was developing a product they branded with a “CP” abbreviation. I told then to, you know, not do that, but our marketing said they already internally committed and I was making a deal over nothing.

Fortunately the product concept was also dumb and failed miserably before anyone in the industry could point it out.

I also am amazed that IBM branded a whole product line as “SurePOS”.