My parents didn’t smoke but that’s literally how I knew the babysitter was gone and my parents were home from a night out.

YES!

It’s a quirky pretentious thing that they take pride in. It’s not Ohio State University. It’s THE Ohio State University

Fair point. I wonder what the weather is like up there on those high horses

If you’re from the Midwest and don’t call it THE Ohio State University you’ve immediately lost my trust. And I didn’t even go there.

Mine tried to hide in the cabinet above the sink. His guilty ass was displayed prominently on their website for years!

They decided ERIC was the best one to spin this?

Yup. These are expert scientists with their hands up in the air explaining how this shit is exponentially hitting the fan.

This is an inflection point. The fire alarms are blaring.

They should get every penny of funding available to deal with this.

Artificial Intelligence at this stage is Artificial Ignorance. It’s not ready to be unleashed onto anyone who blindly trusts anything they read.

Back in Black!

Go fuck yourself, Vlad.

The entire city of Detroit is about to ask “The fuck you doing fuckin’ with our big ass ship?”

Also Billie Joe: Openly bisexual since 1995. Love the one you’re with. That’s literally the only thing that matters.

StumbleUpon was my jam. I could procrastinate my homework for HOURS with that toolbar!

The temptation to explore felt real. Not like clickbait.

It was that wonderful time on the internet where you got the chance to enrich your knowledge without having an algorithm force stuff on you because it thinks it knows what you like.

I love being surprised and love learning new things. The algorithms, AI, and SEO have stripped all of that curiosity and discovery away.

A friend of mine also did Peace Corps work there. She had to pretend she was married to someone in an adjacent village to deter getting kidnapped and forced into marriage.

A more lighthearted (but scary at the time) moment was when a bat peed into her eye while she was using the outhouse. No diseases, thankfully. She’s been back in the US now for a number of years and loved the work she did while she was over there.

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And heavy petting for everyone.

It’s necessary. I agree. Admins exist for a reason and serve a purpose. But when you get into a “Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?” debate it becomes a topic that needs to be addressed. I don’t have enough expertise to give an answer to such an existential question so I’ll have to leave it to anyone else to hash it out from here.

Definitely a baby step in the correct direction.

I want an internet where admins don’t control the world. Where moderators don’t become megalomaniacs that get to control the way submissions and comments get banned without reason.

I want a place where someone’s passion for their unique hobby doesn’t get stripped away by corporate interests, exploitative third parties, and ad agencies.

I know it might be a pipe dream but I’ll keep trying to fight for what I believe.