emotional incest from my mother

I’m guessing that’s a typo but I’m not sure what you were trying to type O_O

AI generated cat photo :( was going to share this with my poker buddies until I noticed.

The white poker chip inserts are all fucked.

Or many people who don’t like it have already blocked the people who post them frequently

Unfortunate that they used an AI image to represent it though. It’s added another horn to the triceritops

You may be partaking in revenge bedtime procrastination

It’s an old meme format from before AI image generation

EDIT: I’m wrong, it’s actually newer than I remembered (2024)

Cooked Dog / Dog Closing His Eyes

It’s not clear where the image originates from

AI slop photo no pls

This is setting off my AI-slop alarm

• the top two and bottom two are in strikingly similar possess with similar angles and framing
• why are there extra mascara appliers on the right for the top two? (I’ve never used mascara so I might just be ignorant of this)
• each mascara applier tip is slightly different, so it’s not just the same one photoshopped in multiple times

Australian tortoises aren’t tortoises. Australian turtles are commonly mistaken for tortoises (as they sometimes come onto land) and so get incorrectly called that sometimes.

Where did you learn that that’s only an American thing? I don’t live in America. I’d be interested to learn more if you’re right, but I can’t find anything to support your claim

All tortoises are turtles but not all turtles are tortoises

I’ve heard the idea that an addiction becomes an addiction once it starts negatively impacting your life.

i.e. missing scheduled events, getting angry at people when you can’t have it, lying to others about it, etc.

But I am not a licensed anything so hopefully someone else who knows what they’re actually talking about also answers

It’s almost certainly an AI generated image

The workers wear hats. I’m guessing he means one of those

That’s not the same as the post’s photo, though. Did someone redraw it in more detail, or did someone put it through an AI image generator to look like that?

I wouldn’t count ChromeOS as Linux. That’s like counting all Android phones as Linux or something

Oh that makes sense, sorry I misunderstood!

Yep, they/them/theirs is used in the same place as he/him/his or she/her/hers. It/it/its should not be used for people unless someone explicitly says those are their preferred pronouns. “It” is typically used for objects and non-human animals, so it could be seen as rude to refer to a human as “it.” If unsure, use they/them.

Using “they” for a singular person has been used since at least the 14th century, so there’s no need to feel uncomfortable with it. I highly recommend reading the Wikipedia page on Singular they, which touches on its history.

A similar example is “you.” “You” used to be only a plural, with “thou” being the singular, but over time it fell out of fashion and now “you” can be used as singular or plural, like how “they” can be singular or plural.

Singular “they” was criticised by some people hundreds of years after it started being used. But language cannot be prescribed; it is determined by how people use it.

It’s “whet your appetite” in case anyone was interested. But the misspelling is probably part of the meme

I loved the episodes about coin flipping and tying shoes!

Yeah I was reading about the editing guidelines and they have a principle that surprised me at first:

Verifiability, not truth.

Basically, you could edit an article with information you know is true (like your bedrooms or fireplaces), but truth is not the criteria that edits get tested upon. It must be verifiable by a source.

Pretty cool that you didn’t just give up and actually got the local newspaper to interview you! That’s awesome!