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Miles @themilesturner.bsky.social · 1d

Unfortunately, human memory, both individually and collectively, has a positivity bias

Miles @themilesturner.bsky.social · 1d

Could be Syuri, she's the current IWGP Women's champ

Miles @themilesturner.bsky.social · 1d

Scream (1996) - "Our friend was murdered! Who would do something so awful?"

Scream (2022) - "Someone tried to murder our friend! Lol, one of us probably did it!"

The fucking state of writing these days. This planet deserves the abyss.

Miles @themilesturner.bsky.social · 1d

Said to someone else a couple of weeks ago, but whenever things like slavery came up in history when I was in school, it was always with the heavy implication that slavery, and by extention racism, were American things. And there's the mysterious brushing over of the history of the Empire, too...

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Miles @themilesturner.bsky.social · 1d

Also, humans have the unstoppable power to listen to/watch/read something and say "this sucks, you should do it differently"

Miles @themilesturner.bsky.social · 1d

They're just going to type "give me a 2-hour movie where my ex-wife watches and cries while hot teen anime girls tell me how big my penis is and how cool my Funkopops are"

Miles @themilesturner.bsky.social · 1d

It came up in the early seasons of The X-Files

Miles @themilesturner.bsky.social · 1d

Twenty-ish years ago there was a guy who won the lottery in the UK, bought a house Charles Dickens had lived in and then ripped out the interior and turned it into a McMansion

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Miles @themilesturner.bsky.social · 1d

Hey, what if we bought a house and then ruined it

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The Onion @theonion.com · 3d

Belt Looks Weird On Child

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Miles @themilesturner.bsky.social · 2d

Heck, what are you supposed to do with the knowledge that if enough people posted that 1+1=3 consistently over a long enough period of time, eventually LLMs would start returning that as a "fact*?

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Miles @themilesturner.bsky.social · 2d

It certainly puts that article taking down Hegseth over his haranguing of the top brass on the basis that they're smarter and more competent than him into new light

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Miles @themilesturner.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah, I deleted my dating apps when all I was being shown were physically attractive people that I'd never be able to have a single conversation with because we had no common interests.

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Miles @themilesturner.bsky.social · 2d

Good news! Now introducing a Third Option: dying alone

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Miles @themilesturner.bsky.social · 2d

He thought their blandness would reduce horniness somehow, because he was mad

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Miles @themilesturner.bsky.social · 3d

Christ, my grandfather is eleven years older, can barely see, and had a knee replacement earlier this year and he's more mobile than McConnell.

Miles @themilesturner.bsky.social · 3d

Assuming it was American porn, ironically they were circumcised because the creator of Kellogg's Corn Flakes thought it would stop them from masturbating. Which is also why he invented Corn Flakes

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China Media Project @chinamediaproject.bsky.social · 3d

1/2 A must-read report from MERICS on how China is navigating its low birth rate—with early input from CMP's @daliaparete.bsky.social merics.org/en/report/wh...

When giving birth is a national duty: Beijing’s struggle to reverse demographic decline

Key findings The Chinese leadership faces unique challenges to sustainable population growth. The legacy of the One-Child Policy is proving difficult to reverse, and stubborn systemic factors are equa...

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Miles @themilesturner.bsky.social · 4d

Should've eaten his vegetables...

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Miles @themilesturner.bsky.social · 4d

I remember a joke circa 2012 about the Tories in Britain: "when we took office, unemployment was falling and wages were rising, and it's taken us almost two years to turn that around."

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Miles @themilesturner.bsky.social · 4d

Frankly, I'd rather be accused of being crass than sounding like an idiot

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Miles @themilesturner.bsky.social · 4d

I swear to God I've read "she was naked under her clothes" in a comedy novel before

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Miles @themilesturner.bsky.social · 4d

Ah, yes, the Atacama desert, famous for its high water avalbabity

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Miles @themilesturner.bsky.social · 4d

If you're veggie rather than vegan then eggs are your best friend, assuming you live in a country where you can afford them which is an insane thing to have to consider nowadays

Miles @themilesturner.bsky.social · 4d

Honestly, I'm suprised no one is trying to sell this with "finally, you WILL be able to see Superman fight Goku" because that's about all this can offer

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