The Hobbit trilogy. It’s hard to understand how Peter Jackson could mess up movie after movie after movie like that.

In my admittedly limited experience, women willing to kiss a guy are still often going to be reluctant to do something that they think might hurt that guy, even if the guy insists otherwise.

the official app doesn’t have a way to save images from comments anymore

Now even the web interface doesn’t make it straightforward to save images. “Open image in new tab” and “Save image as” don’t work.

Temporarily having the body of a woman would let me learn the answers to some interesting prurient questions, but if I had my choice of temporary body then I would definitely pick to be a bird and experience what flying feels like.

(I don’t identify as much with my body as some other people apparently do. It’s the only flesh I have ever been incarnated in so it has a lot of sentimental value but it fundamentally isn’t me. It’s a thing that I have.)

And here I am stuck babysitting an inferior human baby.

The funny thing is that I empathize with the robot here - there’s no point in doing something like drawing a picture yourself if a machine can do it better, faster, and cheaper. Despite that, I insist on driving a car with a manual transmission. Let robots have art, but they’ll never take mechanical linkages from me! Using a lever to control which gears engage with which other gears is what it means to be human.

using the em

That’s how you can know that you’re just a simulation.

You’re never going to get power, limitless power if you’re not even willing to read a few cursed tomes.

Wow, I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised given what I already knew about the history and present-day reality of humanity’s interactions with animals, but I’m still surprised.

It’s notable that on the island your links describe, the entire penguin “industry” and several shipwrecks’ worth of dead sailors were the product of one moderately-successful entrepreneur’s ambitions, that he received widespread condemnation at the time, and that this condemnation was not enough to stop him.

Is that true? It’s in the middle of an unrelated section of the article and has no citation.

Well that’s kind of the point - “elves in the fourth age” would be blank.

Medieval

Potatoes

My suspension of disbelief is ruined completely.

Heck, are there dating sites that work at all anymore? Over a decade ago I had some success with OkCupid but my impression is that ever since swipe apps became a thing, online dating went from bad to terrible for everyone except gay men looking for hookups. Now I might have to go low-tech and ask my grandma to introduce me to her friends’ single granddaughters…

AI would be a good matchmaker between people who were honest, but I think that doesn’t address the main problem with online dating. That problem (at least for heterosexuals) is that there are a lot more men than women participating. I think women don’t like online dating because they get harassed by creeps and they’re worried that even someone who seems nice will turn out to be a creep in real life. Creeps will be willing to lie to a matchmaking AI because they don’t actually care about compatibility and just want the “one weird trick” that gets women to have sex with them.

I think the big challenge now is to create a method of online dating that isn’t a miserable experience for most of its users, but if I had a creative solution for that, I’d be rich.

Other than that, AI friends. That’s the future.

I miss 3E’s sexy mephits.

That and the sign is probably not real too.

Isn’t this a very reasonable rule? I really would prefer that you did not wash your balls in the Baja Blast.

It’s fairly straightforward to give a child no opportunity to lie about the things important to the parents, if the parents put in the effort. They can watch the kid come home right after school and sit in the living room doing homework all evening, and the school will tell them his grades and whether or not he’s behaving well.

Reminds me of “Ninja parade slips through town unnoticed” from the Onion.